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Post by Rant Casey on Dec 8, 2007 16:47:02 GMT -5
Well, I think the actual term for this is Burgled, but whatever. My friend Steve and I went to hang with our friend Tim last night. He lives a couple towns north of me, so we don't get to see him that much and anytime we he is free to hang out we take it.
We drive up there and head to his house. We park and go inside. After hanging out for a couple hours we get ready to leave only to find that the drivers side window had been busted out of Steve's car. The people that did this got in, stole his MP3 player which was one from his girlfriend, my Zune and all the change in the console.
We called the cops and Tim nearly had to threaten the dispatcher to get her to send someone out. After filing the police report we get in the car and head home, freezing our asses off the whole way home.
His insurance will hopefully replace the stuff, but he has to pay a $500 deductible before they will do anything, which strikes me as stupid considering he has never had to call his insurance company for anything.
I'm sorry for the long post, I just needed to vent a little.
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Post by Codesters on Dec 8, 2007 16:50:59 GMT -5
ahhh Im sorry Rant, hopefully your luck will turn.  |
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Post by Flyrfn144 on Dec 8, 2007 16:53:04 GMT -5
That sucks. Hope you get everything back, sucks about the deductible though.
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Post by xtremefate on Dec 8, 2007 17:03:41 GMT -5
That sucks, But look on the bright side, Atleast none of you guys got hurt or the robbers didn't hotwire the car and take off.
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Post by The Sam Kinnison Corps on Dec 8, 2007 17:28:33 GMT -5
I think I know who did it:  Robble robble. |
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Dec 8, 2007 17:52:29 GMT -5
Car break ins happen, and if the cops are anything like they are around here, you can kiss your stuff goodbye, because they won't do dick about it.
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Post by Blair on Dec 8, 2007 18:23:52 GMT -5
Deductibles are very common with insurance.
but think to yourself, which is cheaper, paying the $500 deductible(and risk the insurance going up - yep, there is a good chance it will), or replacing the goods out of pocket.
it sucks, and sorry to hear it happened...
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Post by Does that make me bad? on Dec 8, 2007 18:59:30 GMT -5
Thats been happening alot around northville ny
Kids just broke into my friend car and stole her money which she just cashed her paycheck in.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2007 20:47:14 GMT -5
Deductibles are very common with insurance. but think to yourself, which is cheaper, paying the $500 deductible(and risk the insurance going up - yep, there is a good chance it will), or replacing the goods out of pocket. it sucks, and sorry to hear it happened... I would definitely just buy a new ipod. You're right, it's probably better in the end. You don't want your (friend's) insurance going up. |
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Dec 8, 2007 22:25:42 GMT -5
Deductibles are almost universal with insurance. Not having a deductible at all would be very unusually. Also, the technical term for the crime is a larceny. A burglary only happens at a building of some sort (residence, business, shed, garage, etc....).
It's also not surprising on the police response. Here officers don't normally respond at all and a case is made over the phone. There's normally no evidence to collect so it's generally pointless to send an officer to make a report.
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Post by jmars on Dec 9, 2007 1:24:17 GMT -5
My car got robbed once, but in a kind of funny way. We went into Wal-Mart, came back and I saw my third-door window smashed, a huge-ass rock inside the car. A bag full of school project supplies was missing since that's all we had in the car.. I guess they were diciding to do something with their life  |
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Post by No Brokeback on Dec 9, 2007 1:40:53 GMT -5
Thats happened to my friend many times.
Now he just leaves his car unlocked (so they can enter easily), takes his cd player, and puts whatever is unimportant in the trunk....problem solved so far.
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Post by CBT on Dec 9, 2007 2:55:54 GMT -5
For the name, this was hardly a rant... than again, I've got a horrible reputation when it comes to rants.
Anyways, sorry about your luck. It took a second or two to reflect why you were freezing cold.... DRIVER'S SIDE WINDOW BUSTED OUT... It's really petty that people would go to such a trouble but such is life.
At least it was replaceable stuff, but I can imagine how frustrating it is to have to pay for sh~t you had no part in losing or destroying.
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Post by Mark on Dec 9, 2007 2:59:17 GMT -5
You'll get your money back if you have insurance but it will be less than what you paid for that was stolen.
break ins are a common thing and not much can be done about it
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Post by inrogers29 on Dec 9, 2007 2:59:49 GMT -5
That sucks, mine as well just replace the stuff instead of trying to get your insurance company to do anything about it.
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Post by Rant Casey on Dec 9, 2007 3:05:39 GMT -5
Well some good news came today, we tracked down a replacement window for next to nothing, it will be put in the car by the end of Sunday night.
As for the other stuff, we are just going to skip the insurance company BS, there is no need for his payments to go up so I could get the stuff replaced. Plus replacing the stolen stuff would be around $100 cheaper than paying the deductible.
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Post by ● kaneisdaman ● on Dec 9, 2007 3:32:23 GMT -5
Ok well at least some things are working out ok. At least the window will be fixed.
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Post by uzerx on Dec 9, 2007 4:05:47 GMT -5
At least it wasn't anything you couldn't replace.
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Dec 9, 2007 4:07:28 GMT -5
I wouldn't have bothered contacting the insurance company in the first place. I've got some cash set aside just for situations like this.
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Post by PsychoDriver on Dec 9, 2007 7:29:16 GMT -5
Well at least you can replace what was stolen, it has got to be frustrating knowing that there was nothing you could do about it.
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I dont know good luck 
