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Kitchen Table Kibitzing ~ 9.24.23 ~ Krime [1]
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Date: 2023-09-25
I stopped reading Nextdoor, you know that kind of community blog, generally full of a bunch of whackos. I couldn’t take the fear it generated. Posts like:
“Someone knocked at my door at 8pm tonight.” “Grey car just drove around the block twice.” ”4 kids walking down the street in an unruly manner, loud, not staying on the sidewalk, wearing hoodies.”
I had to stop reading it because I was becoming fearful. Every once in a while though, I pop in just to see what the crazies are up to. Lately they seem to be having a problem with car break ins. They catch them with their doorbell cameras.
I wouldn’t exactly call these break ins, its people leaving their cars unlocked and having things stolen out of them. Growing up I was taught not to leave a kleenex in sight because if a criminal wanted to blow his nose, he’d break into your car.
That was real breaking in, smashing the window and grabbing stuff. My Mazda RX7 was broken into while I was out dancing one night. In those days, I just tied my car key to my shoe and everything else stayed in the car.
Very, very dumb. Among other things my passport was stolen, and I had to buy a new windshield for my car. That cost $200, the same as my deductible.
Nowadays, my car is parked in a very safe place, my driveway, which is behind a fence with a gate, and many dogs.
Another crime my city is seeing is US postal mailboxes being stolen. People break into them or tie rope around them and drag them off. A woman at the post office was telling me about this the other day. I couldn’t fathom why anyone would break into a mailbox.
The woman told me that they steal cards and letters with money in them. Really? What century do these people live in? Who mails cash?
The woman went on a long rant about what should happen to these “hoodie wearing thieves to deter them from crime.”
I don’t have a lot of patience for that kind of talk and told her I thought poverty was the problem. I told her the minimum wage needs to be $30 and a CEO’s pay can’t be 300 times what an employees is.
I talked about how a guaranteed income has been proven to reduce crime. I said that Aristotle once wrote, “Poverty is the parent of crime,”.
I had been getting my mail out of my po box, opening it and putting the envelopes in the recycle bin while I talked. I was done with that and with talking to her so left while her mouth was still hanging open.
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