Car break ins

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I got some crime statistics I want to share with
you out of DC the week before the Trump federalization
of law enforcement and the week after, according to the
DC Police Union, you may find that you're a bit surprised,
and it's it's wonderful news as far as I'm concerned.
First though, a bit of minutia, if you will. This

(00:24):
is one of those stupid little things I just thought
about today and we ought to fix it. What I
am speaking of is receipts. Receipts as in those things
you get when you buy something at the store and
that comes out of the cash register. Any idea what

(00:44):
I'm going to gripe about on this? You have any
idea you know where I'm going? Any thoughts, any.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Cool looking aptore No, no, no no.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
If you need your receipts, if you keep receipts, tax purposes, deductions,
proof of whatever, these disappearing ink laser paper receipts need
to be outlawed.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Oh they do, kind of just because I've found them
in my drawer, like old receipts and they're just kind
of white with they kind of disappear the ink on.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, you can't read them after, you know, The reason
I say this is because I had a couple in
the in the car that I want to use at
the end of the year, and I can't even tell
you what the numbers are.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Then why are you keeping receipts for like three bodis?

Speaker 1 (01:26):
They're thermals and no, they were a little more than that,
but you know it's thermal paper. It's like the old
nineteen eighties thermofacts paper and uh, and they they fade away.
If you're going to use receipts to prove expenses or
whatever tax deduction and stuff, they should last.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
They you know, you're gonna have to start getting cases
and like put them under certain lighting and temperatures to
make them last longer than a couple of months.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, there should be something some way to know that,
you know, Okay, the print on the papers at least
going to last a year now, you know. Back in
I can find you a big bear receipt from a
mom's grocery trip in nineteen seventy five. I can still
tell you what she bought and what it cost her.
But stuff that I bought two weeks ago, I can't

(02:18):
tell you what's on the receipt, And I just as
silly as it sounds, it just occurred to me today
there really needs to be some uniformity there, especially when
those receipts are something you might be using for an
official government purpose, like filing your taxes.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I could totally see like a mega corporation selling you
things and charging you like an extra seventy five cents
for good receipts.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
There were what do you call them scanners out there,
and I haven't seen. They advertised him for a while
pretty heavily, and then they stopped where you could just
put the receipt through and it would automatically, it would
scan the receipt and automatically take the information from the
receipt and put it in the appropriate folder, so that
you could say, Okay, food expenses, call them up, gas expenses,

(03:06):
call them up, and get your it's a great idea.
I don't know if those just flopped because nobody wanted them.
They were rather expensive. I do recall that, and that's
a great thing. And people go, well, just take a
picture of the receipt. Then you got to sort through
the pictures and put them in the cloud or put
them in a folder on your phone, and then hope

(03:26):
you don't lose your phone or drop it in the
toilet like microw or something like that. It just wouldn't
it be easier just to do it right the first
time instead of coming up with ways to fix the
fact that it wasn't done right the first time. It
can't be that big of a deal. There are other
stores out there, little corner carryouts that are still using

(03:47):
your old style paper with a blue print on it
to show you what you bought, Little mom and pop
pleases that are still doing that. So it can't be
a matter of cost. If they can do it. The
big companies can do it, The big box stores can
do it, the gas stations can do it. And I

(04:08):
know it sounds silly with you know, all the other
things in the world that we have to worry about
to consider to fix too, But but it popped into
my head this afternoon as I pulled those receipts out
and thought, this is stupid. I needed both of these
and now I can't see. There's no numbers on here.
I can see I can barely identify where they are from,

(04:29):
because I guess the heat in the car or whatever
takes the takes the print away. Anyway, that I had
to say that because it was one of those things Washington,
d C. It is on my mind. We were talking
to Brian Steele when I was in here with Mark
earlier about the the seventy five, seventy five cars that

(04:51):
were broken into down in the Grove City area right
on the fringe the northwestern fringe of Grove City, over
there by Central Crossing High School. Nice area. I've had
had friends that live over there. I've sold a couple
of houses in that community. It's a nice community. But yeah,
that would make sense because I mean, if you're going
to break into seventy five cars to steal stuff, you're
not going someplace where everybody drives. You know, a nineteen

(05:13):
eighty four you go. You're going to go someplace where
there are nicer cars that may have nicer stuff worth stealing.
If you're going to take the risk, you want, you
want the bounty, so you know, it's it's not casting
aspersions on that community at all. I love Grove City.
I definitely love Grove City. But seventy five cars and

(05:33):
nobody heard anything. That's what gets me. Car windows were
broken out. You know that this had to be there
had to be at least ten people involved, I would think.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
I mean seventy five cars. Yeah, boom boom boom boo
boom boom, so it has to be at least ten,
less than ten people.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
You wouldn't have time to go through the car to
find out if there's anything to steal. All you could
do is break the window out.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
I mean, if you had seventy five cars lined up
at night down like one road, maybe I could run
with a bat and I hit a window every time,
but you couldn't look for anything. It would take way
more than one or ten people to get anything of
value out of the car.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Right right, And as I said, we had Brian Steele
on I you know, inferred to him, and he didn't
seem to want to disagree. This is about guns. I
really believe it's about guns. One of my cars, the
old Beater that I drive all the time, I leave
it unlocked. There's nothing in there to steal. See, I've
got I've actually got a note in there that says, seriously,
if there was something worth stealing with the car, be unlocked.

(06:37):
Because you know, even now and then, the bad guys
are able to read. But every time somebody gets into
the car, the glove compartment is open. That's how I
know somebody's been in the car. They always go to
the glove compartment. They're looking for a gun. That's exactly
what they're doing because it's something that they can sell.

(06:58):
They know there's a demand for they can get rid
of it quick, make a little money, go buy their drugs.
So guns are what they're looking for. And I keep
discouraging you know, friends, family, anybody that'll listen to me.
If you're one of these people that you know, if
you have a weapon in the car, even if it's
in a gun safe, locked up under a mat, in
the locked glove compartment, in the locked car, whatever, if

(07:21):
they are inclined to believe there's a weapon in there,
some idiot's going to break into your vehicle. So if
you've got the you know, the NRA sticker on the
back window or PNI vega protected by schmidten wesh, you're
just saying, hey, please come break into my car.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
You really are.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
It's the same way I feel about the open carry.
I know it's legal, I know you can do it
in the state of Ohio. I just strongly disagree with
the concept for your personal safety If you're walking around
and you're carrying a weapon out in the open and
somebody wants to jump you while you're pumping gas some night,

(08:00):
what do you think they're going to do. First, They're
going to restrain that arm to make sure you cannot
reach the weapon, and they're going to take that weapon
when it's out in the open like that, you're painting
a target on yourself. Concealed is the way to carry
if you're going to carry, And it doesn't make sense

(08:22):
to advertise to the bad guys because, frankly, here's the problem.
It's not about you being scared of the bad guys.
It's about the bad guys not being scared of anything.
How many times if you're on these community forums on
Facebook or Instagram or next door or whatever, how many
times do you see people posting videos from their security

(08:45):
camera of somebody coming up on their porch and stealing
their furniture or taking lawn equipment, or I've seen people
stealing plants off of porches and they look up, they'll
smile at the camera. It's like they're taking their senior picture.
They will smile at the camera. Why because there's no
repercussions for it. It's not like they're going to jail

(09:09):
or anything. If they happen to get caught by the police,
it's not because they stole your law and furniture. It's
because they got caught doing something else and they ran
them for Warrens and found out they had one. But
the police aren't going to go chase down somebody who
took the petunia basket off your porch. They do have,
you know, a few other things they have to handle,

(09:32):
and these people know that. They know that, so they
fear no repercussions. Therefore they keep doing what they're doing.
And you have a beautiful picture, beautiful video of them
doing it doesn't matter. It absolutely does not matter to them.
I I don't know if I'm mad, sad, or if

(09:56):
I'm just to the point where I'm completely disaffected by it.
But it's one of those things where if I could
wave a wand and fix it, I would. I just
I don't own that particular wand. Just a couple of
nights ago, somebody could going down the street where I live,

(10:17):
and I don't know if they were together or not.
I'm not positive. I watched camera footage there was a
woman that looked like she was probably strung out on something,
and there was a guy following her, probably i'm gonna
say about thirty feet behind. They seemed to be in league.

(10:42):
I mean that thing, you know, that vibe was just
there and she is walking by, and she's walking by vehicles,
she's grabbing door handles. Now, the queen happened to be
sitting on the front porch in the dark, no porch
light on, and saw her come up to my car

(11:09):
and go toward the door handle with the handout and
ask rather abruptly and loudly from the darkness, are you stupid?
I'm sitting here looking at you. And the girl, you know,
staggered on down the road and the guy went behind her,
and they checked no more cars in that block.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
No, because they knew somebody was looking.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Man, that sounds like some drug cartel smuggling drugs in
through a submarine type of operation.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
Just highly advanced. Yeah, it's going on.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
And you know you see people, you know, grown adult
men riding little boy's bicycles while pulling a lawnmower behind them,
or carrying somebody's weed whacker, and you're like, you know,
you just stole that or the guys who drive down
the road riding a bicycle while having another bicycle that
they're holding next to them pulling along with them.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, I saw some because I ride a bike sometimes
around my neighborhood. But I saw something like a meme
that said the only people who ride bikes anymore are
nine year olds and crackheaded men who steal things.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, I mean really, it's and it's an unfortunate thing. Now,
we do have a lot of bike riders in my
neighborhood that are, you know, nice, nice suburban normal people.
What I've noticed about them is there's this this trend
all of a sudden, everybody's on old bikes. Have you
noticed that in your neighborhood?

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah, the old uh.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Though, you know Panama Jackson beach cruisers, that was the name.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah. I don't know if they remake them and people
sell them or.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Some of them are legitimately nineteen sixty five bikes. But
there are, you know, retro bikes out there being made now.
They seem to be very popular.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
I have my BMX bike from nineteen ninety six, but
it's nothing like a nineteen fifty beach cruiser. Those things
are heavy too, aren't they for a bicycle.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know why those are suddenly
popular again, but they are. But you know, the bad
guys are rarely on those. They're usually on, you know,
like I said, the twenty inch kids BMX bike.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
I mean, I see a lot of high schoolers wearing
mullets now too, So no, yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Really yeah, well there's something good coming in. I'm just saying. Anyway,
if you happen to see anybody checking your door handle,
you know, feel free to yell at them. Because it
worked at least for the Queen. Then again, now I
think about it, she is kind of scared.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah, I'm gonna mess with her. I know that much.