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Car Break Ins

On Saturday evening I was parked in Power Road and my car was broken into and they broke the front and back window. In order to not set the alarms off.I accept full responsibility and I should not have left things in my car.It was literally a gift bag that I hid on the floor and my coat that I had left on the back seat as I was hot as I was driving.After speaking to a family friend who also lives in Chiswick he witnessed two cars that had broken into.The moral of the story is these people are ruthless and brutal. I literally lost £3.5k in the space of an hour, not to mention the inconvenience of having to wait until 3am for a company to secure my car temporarily.Please learn from me and do not leave anything in your cars.LoveB xx

Bridget Adade ● 3d7 Comments

Usually a small number of them doing a lot of cars.For a couple of years I've constantly asked the local police to use a "bait car", but there is no publicity they have!? No doubt they will blame a lack of numbers.

Nick Jenkins ● 7h

Flawed logic in my view. If they don't have an NFC device they just break the window and look.I saw one a couple of weeks ago in Bourne place using a torch to look through the drivers side window of a range rover. He wasn't bothered that I saw him. He said 'Alright grandad?'Cheeky shit!He was just looking but I have seen them break windows right in front of me there

david ward ● 12h

You may be right Janice although what I haven't been able to confirm is if thieves can use NFC devices to confirm there is a credit or debit card in a car. I still think it is possible that they narrow down their targets by doing this or using bluetooth to confirm there is something worth stealing inside and therefore my decades long practice of leaving bags in my car is not foolhardy as long as there are no cards or devices in them.

Mark Evans ● 1d

Bourne Place is another hotspot. Council/police have now fitted CCTV there and a warning sign. It's had no effect because there are still piles of broken glass appearing there. They wear hoodies and masks so the CCTV achieves nothing.I advise anyone parking there not to leave anything in their car and to roll back the boot cover so thieves can see there is nothing in there.

david ward ● 2d

That's how it is now sadly, Mark E was trying to tell me only specialist thieves will break into cars.....wrong Mark.

Janice Evans ● 2d

Last week, I stopped to tell a couple who were parking up (in the early evening) on an otherwise deserted Dolman Road that it was a hotspot (not in a good way) and perhaps they should consider parking somewhere else. Not sure if she misunderstood me, but the driver told me to mind my own business and she would park where she wanted to.45 minutes later and her rear window had been smashed (not by me). Another had been done in Belmont Road. You can't have anything nice. Scrotes will break a window to check if you have anything worth stealing. They don't care if you have an alarm or even if someone's watching. For the record, this was happening (at least in Dolman) long before the police station closed.

Gordon McDonald ● 3d

Thank you, I tried to explain a couple of weeks back that they will break into a car for anything left on seats or on view and to check before you leave your car.

Janice Evans ● 3d