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Subject: Re: [OT] Toronto police urge car owners to make things easy for car
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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:58:19 -0400
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On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 21:28:40 -0700
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

> In article <20240313234633.00004310@example.com>,
>  Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > Car theft is rampant in Toronto these days. It's gotten so bad that
> > thieves are using crowbars and similar tools to break into people's
> > homes so that they can access the keys to the vehicles they are
> > trying to steal.  
> 
> Oh, that would be sweet. My only conundrum would be whether to use
> the 9mm or the .357. (The shotgun would make too much of a mess.)

I'm pretty sure we haven't been allowed to own handguns in many years
now. I think there may be an exception for target shooters though so we
may be about to see a huge upswing in people joining shooting clubs....

I think we can still own shotguns though so it will be interesting to
see if there is a major surge in shotgun purchases. If that happens, I
expect that to be followed by some very high profile arrests of
homeowners who use them to defend their cars and prosecutions by
judicial activists to "send a message" that they highly disapprove of
people shooting other people to protect their property.
> > 
> > The TPS (Toronto Police Service) is on the job! After due
> > consideration, they've come up with a plan: make it easy for
> > thieves to get your keys so that you don't get hurt by
> > home-invading thieves!! They're literally giving out this advice at
> > public meetings. And Torontonians are following this advice by
> > putting up signs at their doors telling thieves that their house
> > doors are unlocked and the keys are right by the door!!!
> > 
> > https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/03/toronto-police-car-theft/  
> 
> That's a society that has given up. It no longer actually *is* a
> society anymore.
> 
Bingo!!

> > It was only a few weeks ago that I saw a senior police official warn
> > Mayor Olivia Chow that the police *MUST* be given the increase they
> > were demanding in the budget or else there would be major cuts in
> > service. Chow gave them the increase despite an already large tax
> > increase that was going to anger a lot of voters. It also came just
> > a few weeks after Trudeau convened an emergency summit on car theft
> > and spouted his usual blather about how his government would step
> > up and solve the problem.
> > 
> > I can hardly imagine the TPS giving LESS service than what they are
> > now offering.  
> 
> Every time you write TPS, I think of Ron Livingston and his TPS
> reports from OFFICE SPACE.
> 
> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy5c9tJYyQI&pp=ygUYb2ZmaWNlIHNwYWNlIHRwcyBy
> ZXBvcnRz
> 
> > This is the same police force that only a few weeks ago gave
> > pro-Palestinian demonstrators that were illegally blocking a major
> > road and intimidating a nearby Jewish neighbourhood coffee and
> > doughnuts rather than enforcing the law. 
> > 
> > It's becoming clear whose side the police are on in Toronto (and in
> > the UK but that's a different rant) and that's the criminals.  
> 
> We have it a little different here in L.A. The cops are still firmly
> on the side of the public but they're prohibited from enforcing most
> of the penal code by the politicians. And if they buck the system and
> make arrests anyway, it doesn't do any good because the D.A. refuses
> to prosecute, and if by some miracle your criminal gets arrested,
> charged, and convicted, and sentenced, the state will come around in
> short order and let him out of prison after barely serving 1/5 of his
> sentence. 
> 
> > I hope all the car thieves are happy with how the police have made
> > their job easier.  
> 
> The cops might have made it easier but their challenge would just be 
> starting if they tried to break into my house for my car keys.
> 
> > I'm expecting burglars to also send their heartfelt
> > thanks to the police since it should now be considerably easier to
> > get into people's houses to steal their belongings. Maybe the
> > rapists who now find it trivial to enter homes and have their way
> > with the occupants will also send a fruit basket to the police.  
> 
> Maybe the home owners should just accuse the car thief of making a 
> racial slur while he was ransacking their home for the car keys.
> That'd get him life in prison, right?
> 
If the slur was made online, yeah, that could be a life sentence. Not
sure if they've got a statute for that if uttered live. But that could
easily get you sent to the Human Rights Tribunals which can't order
jail time but can levy large fines.

> > I know Americans will be dumbfounded by this and not understand why
> > we don't do the obvious thing and buy guns to defend what's ours
> > but we've let Trudeau make it so much harder to get a gun than it
> > already was that it's almost unthinkable now.  
> 
> Y'all should put your car keys in a bear trap designed as a key 
> organizer. When the thief reaches in for the key, SNAP!

I like that idea but it might not go over really well if one of your
clumsier family members inadvertently triggered it and lost a hand....

I'm thinking of an audio deterrent: anyone approaching the door gets to
hear a recording of a shotgun being racked. Of course, that assumes the
visitor isn't wearing ear buds or whatnot and actually knows what a
shotgun being racked sounds like. (I've only heard that sound in
movies, never in real life.) 

Of course the real solution to the problem is putting in more sensible
politicians and judges and purging the police of the people who think
the solution to crime is encouraging more of it. 



-- 
Rhino