Smash N' Grab On Highland Ave

[shaxxon.livejournal.com]

Apparently there was a Smash N'Grab in front of my place somewhere between 6pm and 10pm on Highland Ave. I'm about 6 houses down from the Kickass Cupcakes.

The person's car had a guest 3-day guest pass on it. I was in the living room awhile between 8:30pm-10pm and didn't hear anything outside, then my neighbor knocked on our door to ask if we saw anything. Since I didn't hear any loud breaking of glass, I'm guessing it happened around 6:00pm-8pm or so.

I remember a bunch of posts about people's cars getting broken into during the winter. Just a friendly reminder to tell your guests parking on Highland Ave to remove their valuables from the car.

Comments

[cityofbeige.livejournal.com]

This is quite true. The reason is the tempered safety glass is designed to break it into a gazillion pieces on heavy impact, instead of large shards. This is so that you get minor lacerations instead of life threatening deep gouges if you get into an accident. The smaller pieces make a quieter sound as there is no shearing in one direction for a long distance. Shattering safety glass sounds more like a handful of small marbles landing on concrete.

I lived in an apartment that had tempered glass for the back porch in the kitchen. One minute it was fine, several minutes later, it was completely shattered and I didn't hear a thing even though I was in the room above the kitchen.

[shaxxon.livejournal.com]

Yikes. I didn't even realize that. Well, at least I don't feel so bad that I didn't hear anything.

[ron_newman]

What shattered it?

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

that's a drag.

my car got a window bashed right there last year. Didn't have anything worth stealing in the car so I assume it was purely a 'Smash No Grab.' The only oddity was that it was a window on the street-side so I speculated it was someone on a bike (but who knows)