Last week was a pretty exciting week for us. On Thursday we saw our baby’s heartbeat, and on Friday we were robbed. We did not find out that we were victims of a crime until Saturday, though. Basically, some thieves went to the carports behind our condo complex on Friday night and smashed my husband’s car window and ripped out his mounted GPS unit.
Here is the really stupid part, the thief or thieves apparently were in such a hurry that they ripped out the adapter and broke the cord. The GPS usually does not have a charge so the unit is basically useless without the adapter. I bet they felt stupid after running to their getaway car and finding out they broke the adapter. Then again, adapters aren’t very expensive so maybe they have a pile of spare parts. It seems that they did not enter the car at all because nothing else was stolen. My hubby had at least a dozen CDs in the car that are worth more than the GPS.
The GPS was a Christmas gift to us from my hubby’s parents and we do not really expect that we will get it back. We reported the incident to the police and an officer swung by. He said that unless we had a serial number of the unit then it is pretty much impossible to identify the unit was ours even if they seized it from the criminals. This makes complete sense, but my husband threw away the box a long time ago so there is no way we can track it. The most annoying thing about this incident is really the broken car window because it left glass all over the floor and inside the car. It took my husband and I an hour just to clean the seats and the floor, and we both got cuts from the glass. My husband said that if he saw the thieves at his car he would have just given them two hundred dollars cash not to break his window because it is a big inconvenience for us.
Now my husband’s car is in the shop waiting for an inspection and repair and he is borrowing my car to go to work. We will probably have to pay an auto insurance deductible for the window repair even though it was a theft and we are not at fault. It really makes me wonder how much money these thieves make from these used devices because the GPS unit that was stolen from us costs $80 new, and it is about 1.5 years old so I estimate it to be worth $15 to $40 dollars just from gadgetry depreciation. Additionally, since the thieves ripped out the adpater they probably need to replace the adapter just to get a buyer. I looked online and the adapter costs around $15 to $20, so if they do buy a new adapter the profit they would get is around $-5 to $20. Is that really worth smashing our car window? I guess I just don’t understand criminals.
Anyway, I’m thankful that my hubby’s car wasn’t stolen and other things weren’t stolen. On a completely unrelated note we found a hummingbird nest on the flower vines on our fence, and there is a super cute baby hummingbird in it. That kind of made the weekend a little brighter.
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