Lock your vehicles
February 21st, 2008
One of my co-workers had her car stolen from the parking lot at work yesterday. Its a bit unnerving — I’ve known, obviously, that this is not the safest area in the city since I interned here in 2005. But a couple things first ran into my mind when she came back in and called the police:
- Two of our pastors live within a 10-block radius of the office. One of them has two small children.
- The church building I work in has a number of social service agencies within it, and along with the church, serves countless people in the community. Where any of those people in danger in the parking lot yesterday?
- Only a block away is another congregation, with similar reach and mission in the neighborhood. Not far away are two others. What are their experiences?
- I leave stuff in my car all the time. It could have been me.
Just take this as a public service announcement: please, please lock your vehicles. Don’t leave things in plain sight — better yet, take them inside with you. (On that last part, don’t expect to find any of my regular myriad electronic gadgetry left in my car unattended for a while…)
But even with the best precautions, no one is immune. All that was in my co-workers car, essentially, was a big mess of sheet music. Wonder what that goes for on the street. Say Bubba, buck-twenty for that Handel?
