Thief Compliments Victim in Hand-Written Note

By John Farrier in Everything Else on Jul 20, 2009 at 7:58 pm

Matt Neary of Fargo, North Dakota found that a thief had stolen CDs and his wallet out of his truck — but he did leave a pleasant note complimenting Neary’s taste in music:

You have amazing taste in music.
Don’t worry about your credit cards and diver’s license — I know I can’t use them…after tonight, at least.

Seriously though
Lock your car in the future

Link (local news video) via Nothing To Do With Arbroath

Tags: compliments, Matt Neary, thief

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Kalel
Jul 20th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
This is the work of that fiend, Moriarty!
Woogie
Jul 20th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Police around my way are getting very annoyed with people who leave their houses and cars unlocked, then expect the police to find their stuff.

If you left your car unlocked and had stuff stolen, well you shouldn’t be such an idiot then should you.
Mouserz
Jul 20th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Haha if they didn’t lock the doors then they deserved it.
SenorMysterioso
Jul 20th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
This makes me smile… Not sure I’d have the same reaction if I was the victim but for now Im enjoying the thief that uses emoticons
Josh
Jul 20th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Most thief’s will ignore a car if it is locked. Leaving it unlocked will just make their job easy.
SenorMysterioso
Jul 20th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Why would you ever leave your wallet in the car?
Mytake
Jul 20th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Very gentlemanly and Arsene Lupin-like on the part of the thief, but that guy who got stolen was a schmuck for leaving his car open with his wallet inside. Anyway, I don’t care if they both like B.B. King, I just hope the thief gets caught, you can’t blame the victim even when the victim is that clueless.
Johnny Cat
Jul 20th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Makes me wonder about leaving my car unlocked in my garage, knowing there’s ways to crack a garage door opener.
SenorMysterioso
Jul 20th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
A friend told me he sometimes leaves his wallet in his car when he goes to the gym or pool rather than putting it in a locker.

Just drive down the street and push your own remote and you’ll open a few garages.

I always lock my car but I dont think I have anything in there to steal. If I do, it’s buried under soda cans and other miscellaneous trash.
Nubie
Jul 21st, 2009 at 12:23 am
It’s not wise to leave your wallet in your car, just bring your wallet with you. It’s CC and ID cards in there.
VonSkippy
Jul 21st, 2009 at 1:13 am
@SenorMysterioso
“Just drive down the street and push your own remote and you’ll open a few garages.”

Do you live in Mayberry?

Any Garage Door Opener built in the last 18 years uses an digitally encoded signal (i.e. a rolling code), and not just s specific frequency like they did in the stone age.
SenorMysterioso
Jul 21st, 2009 at 2:34 am
How many garages on the average street are that new? You’ll still open a few doors with the old remotes.
Skipweasel
Jul 21st, 2009 at 6:00 am
I cut a hole in the floor of the boot (trunk in ths US) and welded a metal cash-box flush with the floor. It’s hard to get at from underneath as the towbar bracket is in the way and from above you a) can’t see it ‘cos it’s under the carpet and b) it’s locked.
Very handy for foreign travel when you have passports with you but don’t want to leave them in a tent or take them onto the beach or carry them round medieval towns.
Takes the SatNav, too.
Why don’t car makers provide a sercure locker?
Athon
Jul 21st, 2009 at 6:32 am
So, none of you have made a mistake before?

I had this happen. A friend grabbed something out of my car. The lock had been broken in the past, and if you didn’t close the door properly, the lock would half pop up again.

Somebody broke in and took the only thing they could find – a single cd. They left a similar note, stating I ‘should really lock my car properly’.

Smug bastard got his. Working next door to a school, I hazarded a guess it was a student. Sure enough, the handwriting was recognized, the kid got ratted, and I got my cd back.
Amish
Jul 21st, 2009 at 11:52 am
Yeah it’s the guys fault for not locking his car door.

Just like it’s a womans fault when she gets raped because she’s too stupid to wear a chastity belt.
jenjen
Jul 21st, 2009 at 1:30 pm
It’s completely the criminal’s fault for robbing you. Completely. But at the same time, how hard is it to lock your door? It always baffles me when I hear about the endless burglaries in my neighborhood where the guy entered through an unlocked door. Why would you leave your house unlocked? We used to do it during the day when I was a little kid because we were always running in and out of the house and we were NOT trustworthy with keys. But otherwise, why? It’s a five second thing and can make such a huge difference to your security.
star4589
Jul 21st, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Don’t trust anybody.

i like how the theif left a note though…
J2
Aug 10th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
The thief is the buddy-crashing-in-on-his-stuff
that he never met!

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