my car was vandalized last night on Highland

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

So my car was vandalized last night on Highland - one of the rear windows smashed out with something like a hammer. It looked liked a bullet hole but there was no exit wound... I was parked one door down/same side of the street as the music store that was ripped off a few weeks ago. Hot corner? Bust stop (hmm... I meant bus stop but bust stop is kind of cute). Do vandals take the bus? The window was on the street/driver's side. No entry and nothing else damaged.

It's annoying, of course but I have insurance. I think what bothers me more is the big chill of that sort of stuff around here. Guess I crank up my street sense. Along with calling the traffic dept. to make more sweeps of my street (one over from Highland) to ticket the non-permit cars, the park n' riders and the long term storage cars. It's grown a lot worse lately - I see people come by in the morning, dump their cars and head for the T, often with luggage. One car was parked in front of my house for 5 days.

Let them park on Highland... ;-)

(oh - while I was discovering my busted window, there was a herd (gaggle?) of police in front of Magpie/the hair place next to it. Don't know what was going down but they were there for quite a while - long enough for me to walk to my insurance office, phone in a report and return).

Comments

[dougo.livejournal.com]

For 1-hour parking zones, they put chalk on the tire. I don't know if that works for 48-hour durations, though.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

That makes sense - I never saw any signs of chalked tires in the residential areas (though I saw plenty of cars ticketed for parking in those zones w/o a Somerville sticker).

[joylewis.livejournal.com]

The parking people told me that they note the directions of the tire stems on cars in residential areas if they think they haven't been moved in 48 hrs.