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Thieves!

After reading Matt’s comment on the last post I realized I never told you about my car getting broken into.

Last Thursday night I grabbed my car like any other day from work and noticed my ashtray lid was open and closed it thinking nothing of it.

Friday morning I go outside and find a nice dent in my car door. Some moron must have ran into with a bike or something. Also, my trunk was open mysteriously so I chalked (sp?) that up to me pulling the latch the night before and forgetting about it.

On our way to Toronto last weekend, we were in Kingston and I was searching for my iTrip (iPod accessory). I could not find this thing and I knew it was in the car! Then I looked in the ashtray and realized that all my spare change was gone.

Then it dawned on me.

My car must have been broken into!

It wasn’t apparent at first because nothing else was stolen. There were CDs in the sunvisor and a cellphone in the middle console. One would think some of these things would be stolen.

Then a few days later Krista’s Dad tells her that he hopes my ownership papers weren’t stolen also. I never thought about that and sure enough, they are nowhere to be found (but they left the insurance papers – a sure sign that I will be a victim of identity theft for the next fifty years as the Ottawa Police told me when I phoned them up!)

So there you have it. I suppose I’m one of the lucky ones in that nothing of real substantial value was nabbed although I’m hoping the theft of the ownership papers won’t come to haunt me in the future.

iplaying: Gossamer – The Smashing Pumpkins (2007-05-28 – Landgraaf, Pinkpop Festival)

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Some Advice: Vehicle Ownership

Here’s some handy advice to those who don’t want to be a victim of fraud.

Don’t leave your vehicle ownership papers in some easy to find place within your vehicle.

If so, thieves may steal it and use the information within it to do Lord knows what.

The Ottawa Police were mentioning how they could potentially use the information to get credit cards/bank account information in your name or Lord knows what else.

At first, I thought about carrying it in my wallet (which is a fine idea) but I’ve moved onto the more inventive solutions – I’ll hide it with my car jack in the trunk! No thief will think of checking there (unless they are reading this right now!).

I recommend that if you do keep your ownership paper in an easy to find place within your vehicle, do yourself a favour and hide it somewhere a little harder for anyone to discover!

iplaying: Pretty Pretty Star – Billy Corgan (The Future Embrace)