Video of thieves smashing car window & taking Camera equipment while stuck in traffic

[ilikegunspdx]

Be aware of ur surroundings/people following u, especially when moving expensive/desirable items like guns. Note how fast it happened and how quickly they were out of range.

This is what creeps me out about homeless and unsavory types at shooting places. I don't mean that you couldn't defend yourself if a homeless person did something, more the fact that u might have to.

Article on it here:

Caught on video: Photographers robbed of $7,000 in gear while stuck in traffic in San Francisco

Last Friday, a pair of real estate photographers captured images near a park in San Francisco. After leaving, a vehicle pulled up behind them in traffic, smashed the back window, and made off with a bag of equipment worth $7,000.

m.dpreview.com

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[HaveGun]

My take away is to not ever go to San Francisco. Or Seattle, or Portland, or any leftist city where criminals are allowed to roam free.

 

[nammac]

My take away is to not ever go to San Francisco. Or Seattle, or Portland, or any leftist city where criminals are allowed to roam free.

Add:

Or where criminals are protected and victims are prosecuted...

 

[cigars]

My take away is to not ever go to San Francisco. Or Seattle, or Portland, or any leftist city where criminals are allowed to roam free.

I don't disagree with you. Though I hate to tell you, the blue virus and its supportive criminal/bum/tweaker element is moving to your city or a city near you. Keep your head on a swivel, dirtbags are everywhere and the Democrats embrace them and encourage them to cause mayhem.

 

[albin25]

It seems that the Big Blue Cities have embraced supplying quality "free-Range Criminals" while also keeping things fresh by keeping the thug production "locally sourced". I'm sure their progressive voters are feeling the improvements over the old style method of caging "factory-grown criminals" that they had to settle for in the past.

Though for some reason, they've continued promoting the ever increasing use of chemicals....it's probably to help increase the thug supply, by enticing more Imported and Free Range Criminals to join their herd/flock.

 

[Old Noob]

My take away is to not ever go to San Francisco. Or Seattle, or Portland, or any leftist city where criminals are allowed to roam free.

+1 but some of us still have to live here!

 

[Yotehunt]

Wow.. What DFs those two are.

 

[JohnnyMac]

It's sick. The more "non-violent / petty" thefts the govt lets people get away with, the more frustrated and angry the law abiding citizens are going to get and when it's all said and done, the law abiding citizen eventually snaps and becomes something they aren't and end up spending the rest of their lives in jail or worse because they finally had enough and took the law into their own hands. It will definitely get worse before it gets better.

 

[HaveGun]

+1 but some of us still have to live here!

And that is sad. My daughter lives in Seattle, but only because the Air Force made her. I will come and visit her on base. My son lives further North in Mountlake Terrace. I won't visit him. He could choose to live somewhere safer.

 

[Yotehunt]

What air base is in Seattle?

 

[ma96782]

You can't shoot them for a property crime so......

Aloha, Mark

PS....

Hopefully, with the aid of Alex's footage, police will be able to track down the criminals. While the thieves may simply be too careless to hide their license plate before committing daytime robbery, the vehicle might not be theirs in the first place. Further, even if police locate the robbers, that doesn't guarantee that Ben and Mahsa will get their gear back.

Well.....wasn't that helpful of the reporter who wrote the story.

Rrrright.......to help the thieves (or their friends) with a "story" to tell the cops should they get questioned.

 

[JedB]

What air base is in Seattle?

Joint Base Lewis-McChord

 

[Yotehunt]

Yeah, that's 8 miles south of Tacoma. Ask me how I know.

 

[HaveGun]

Yeah, that's 8 miles south of Tacoma. Ask me how I know.

To an Eastsider, anything past Snoqualmie is Seattle...

 

[Yotehunt]

To an Eastsider, anything past Snoqualmie is Seattle...

Maybe. I am not from here myself. If I was, would be East too!

 

[DirectDrive]

You can't shoot them for a property crime so......

Aloha, Mark

Ah, c'mon man.
A little birdshot would be some good medicine.

 

[JustSomeGuy]

I'm surprised the victims weren't arrested for inciting theft by having the effrontery to own and transport valuable equipment.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Re the video might help them get arrested... in Seattle and Portland it seems we have now reached the point where it doesn't matter if the criminal is arrested. They will be let go the following day. And that is if there were enough cops to do the arresting. The few cops that remain are not going to put a cold case property crime on the high priority list when they are already too swamped to get to the highest priority stuff.

Here is one example In Seattle where two perps killed 1 and injured 7 others. The two have been arrested 63 times between them. What good does it do to arrest them 63 times & let them go? There is no downside for them to commit the crime and be arrested because they will just be let go.

"...Tolliver has previously been arrested 44 times with 20 convictions, for offenses including unlawful possession of a firearm, theft, malicious mischief, and assault. Tolbert has been arrested 21 times with 15 convictions, including robbery, possession of a stolen vehicle, discharging a firearm in a public place, theft, and harassment.

Police identify 2 suspects in fatal downtown Seattle shooting

Seattle police say one person was killed and seven others were injured in a shooting near Third Avenue and Pine Street around 5 p.m. Wednesday.

www.google.com

 

[nammac]

Re the video might help them get arrested... in Seattle and Portland it seems we have now reached the point where it doesn't matter if the criminal is arrested. They will be let go the following day. And that is if there were enough cops to do the arresting. The few cops that remain are not going to put a cold case property crime on the high priority list when they are already too swamped to get to the highest priority stuff.

Here is one example In Seattle where two perps killed 1 and injured 7 others. The two have been arrested 63 times between them. What good does it do to arrest them 63 times & let them go? There is no downside for them to commit the crime and be arrested because they will just be let go.

"...Tolliver has previously been arrested 44 times with 20 convictions, for offenses including unlawful possession of a firearm, theft, malicious mischief, and assault. Tolbert has been arrested 21 times with 15 convictions, including robbery, possession of a stolen vehicle, discharging a firearm in a public place, theft, and harassment.

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Police identify 2 suspects in fatal downtown Seattle shooting

Seattle police say one person was killed and seven others were injured in a shooting near Third Avenue and Pine Street around 5 p.m. Wednesday.

www.google.com

Two 24 year olds, 65 arrests and 35 convictions between them and they're still on the street to terrorize society... Well at least until an armed citizen takes them out...

 

[DangerDog]

Meh that's what you get for driving a Prius and being an easy target. HAHA XD