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From Yakima Sheriff Department -- car burglars work in teams, using address
from vehicle registration to tell accomplice(s) that car owner is currently
away from address on registration, leaving home/apartment more vunerable to
burglary.
Kevin Lucas
at home in
Yakima County, WA
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On January 15, 2022 6:52:14 AM
dgrainger at birdsbydave.com wrote:
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What the perps do is take those documents to one of those Pay Day loan
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places and pledge your car as collateral. There is usually not very much
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money involved so the Pay Day loan place doesn't even look at the
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vehicle, just the paper. Remember, in WA, unlike most states, we are
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required to sign and date those documents, and are required to put them
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in the car. That makes it possible for a thief to steal the whole car
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and transfer it to a private party buyer.
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I think WA is foolish to do it this way
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On 2022-01-14 20:19, dan&erika wrote:
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Jon--Be sure to check if they took your car registration. I am not
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exactly sure what they do with it. Also, they may steal garage door
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openers if they know your address from the registration.
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dan
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 9:54 AM Jon. Anderson and Marty Chaney
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<festuca at comcast.net> wrote:
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Just a note that a group of Birders' vehicles were vandalized and
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prowled in broad daylight at the parking lot of the North Mason
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Schools' Mary E. Theler Early Learning Center in Belfair. This is
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the main access for the Theler Wetlands nature trails, and the
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bi-monthly bird walks hosted by John Riegsecker and Faye McAdams
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Hands.
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Apparently, these Vandals (a terrible adjective for these
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low-lives: the epithet derives from the nice peoples of antiquity .
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. . just because they sacked Rome in 455 A.D.) were after spare
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change and possibly personal identification papers - insurance and
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registration, etc. - rather than stuff they could pawn. A few
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people had optics and other items in the vehicle that were not
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taken.
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My passenger side window was broken out and the glove boxes rifled
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through. I keep no money, not even change, in my car, so didn't
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suffer any theft. But the perpetrators caused thousands of
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dollars' worth of damage to 9 vehicles for likely less than $10
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worth of "take".
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In my area, the parking lots at Nisqually Refuge get hit
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periodically as well.
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Just a reminder for us to not leave valuables in our cars while
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birding, and to ensure our car alarm is activated. Or, as one of
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our company did - leave a large dog in the front seat!
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Safe Birding, all -
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Jon. Anderson
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OlyWA
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festuca at comcast dot net
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https://jonsperegrination.blogspot.com/
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Dan or Erika Tallman
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Olympia, Washington
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danerika at gmail.com
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that require new clothes ...."-;H. D. Thoreau
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