Over the past 6 years I have almost daily parked the truck in unmonitored Park & Ride parking lots throughout NE Houston and in random surface lots downtown, sometimes even overnight. On Wednesday morning I had to do a continuing education test, and parked the truck in the Greenspoint area for 3 hours. So, either my luck ran out, or Greenspoint really is that bad. My radio had been stolen when I got back to the truck. This occurred sometime between 7:30 and 10:30 in the morning near a busy street, so it is not like it would have been easy.
However, I must say that whoever pulled this off was a very courteous professional. They left my jacket, bag, and even the pocket change I keep in the cup holder untouched. This being the 2nd time the radio has been stolen, and also considering the other theft incidences with the truck (4 stolen hubcap covers in Dallas, and 1 stolen tail light assembly in Kingwood), I can honestly say I was most impressed by how tidy and undamaged everything was left this time.
Now, having said that, I can say that whoever did this, while having skills, is a real DOLT. Dude, you took an 8 year old radio that only worked about 2/3 of time anyway. You see, the connections on the removable face plate were wearing out, so frequently whenever buttons were pushed nothing would happen. Try fencing that, genius! LOL
I will mostly miss having a clock and the pirated copy of Jay Z's most recent CD that was in the CD player. Which leaves me wondering if this was irony, karma, coincidence....
I'm surprised your company sends you to Greenspoint, aka Gunspoint, without armored transport...We recently had our Tribute broken into. They stole the 10 year old radar detector, but since John had hardwired it to the battery, they had to cut the power cord. They left the radio, the GPS (which was in the console, and all the dollar coins I kept in there for the tolls. Unfortunately they broke a window to get in, so that was the only real expense. Anyways, sorry about that. It sucks.
ReplyDeleteThat sucks. If it was karma, then it's a miracle Jeremy or I haven't been hit by a bus while slipping on a banana peel while being struck by lightening.
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