According to an article on the Chronical Online written by Steve Fogarty, the Mayor of the city of Lorain, Chase Ritenauer, had his personal vehicle stolen Friday night/Saturday morning. You can read the entire article here.
I'm sorry the mayor had his vehicle stolen. That sucks. What pissed me off was the fact that, according to the article:
Lorain police Lt. Roger Watkins said fingerprints were taken from Ritenauer's vehicle.
"We'll wait and see if they turn up anything," Watkins said.
Ya know . . . about three or four years ago, my garage was broken into and numerous items were stolen. Whoever broke into my garage also tried to get into my car which was parked in the garage but locked. This unknown person(s) left numerous finger prints as well as full hand prints all over my car. I asked for someone to come to take fingerprints as I thought this was going to be an easy case to solve, even for the Lorain PD. The way they broke into my garage, I have a feeling they have done this before. I'll even go out on a limb here and say they already have a record of incarceration for this type of activity.
But, I was told that the Lorain CSI team was too busy to come take fingerprints.
Really?
Too busy.
I guess just being an ordinary tax paying citizen didn't rank me high enough to warrant the CSI team coming over for 10 minutes to get those very obvious prints off of my car.
No one was ever arrested for my break in.
My property was never recovered.
The mayor got his car back undamaged but with a handful of change stolen. By the way, the mayor's car was stolen because he left a key to the ignition hidden, albiet not well, inside of his unlocked car.
My estimated $1,000 worth of equipment was gone from my locked garage after the motion detector flood light was disabled. With a $1,000 deductible on my insurance, it was useless to file a claim with them and I still haven't been able to afford to replace most of them.
Lesson learned? If you're the mayor, who was irresponsible in leaving his vehicle unlocked with a key in it, resources are available to get your pocket change back. If you're a regular tax paying citizen who tried to have security measures in place including locking the door, then the generator, power washer and snow blower weren't worth the CSI team's time.
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Always the same story, frustrating. Some animals are more equal than others.... Must think of Animal Farm. I don't know if today anybody knows this film, but I was deeply impressed by it when I saw it as a small schoolgirl.
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