Well, I do live in a small town and when I teach kayaking I'm usually at
a quasi remote location - the last one was at a parking area for
fishermen just outside Seattle near the little town of Fall City.
Ironically my boss is also an officer and I had one of his budies in my
class. Most of my breakins have been in places like that - other than
the one in Hollywood and downtown Seattle! I just don't know why they
pick on my trucks and VW vans and not the newer model cars. I guess I
have neet looking stuff inside they can see - which I try to hide,
but....

What someone is going to do with an extra small set of turnouts/bunker
gear, I don't know.

Andree

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, BenT Syncro wrote:

> I have a solution to both Andree's & Donald's problem. Hire the local
> homeless guy to watch your van. If you let him'her sleep inside, you'd even
> help alleviate the homeless problem.
>  I have several Vanagons parked in various places in San Francisco Bay Area.
> So far none has been broken into. It probably helped that I didn't have any
> fancy sound equipment in the dash. In one car I intentionally left the old
> radio wires hanging out the hole from where the old radio was stolen before
> I bought the van. Works like a charm. Oh yeah, I donate a few bucks to a
> couple of the local homeless guys once in a while. Much cheaper than an
> alarm. Tehy even notify me when the local cops tag me to move my vehicles
> around.
>  Cheers,
> BenT
>

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