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04/28/09
maybe, but casual googling undermines the dramatic tension of the psa alert:
[en.wikipedia.org]
bushwick:[citynoise.org]
[www.nydailynews.com]
the tips are valid, though they seem to amount to: make sure your landlord is being a landlord. and no one cares about stats when they're walking home late at night in the multicultural part of town. But I'd hate to have everyone start clutching purses around me again just because it's summertime ...
04/28/09
Also, thanks for the tip about casual googling however I disagree that it undermines the dramatic tension of the P.S.A. Though crime rates may be falling, it doesn't make all that much different if you are one of the unlucky ones, does it? I doubt the last thought of the 89th homicide victim this year was "Well, sucks for me but last year there were 119 homicides. Crime really IS falling!"
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04/27/09
It's all happening in the good old city of Londinium too. Several of my friends have been burgled recently, which is massively up on, erm, 0 friends being burglarised last year. And some of them live in villages a good half hour's train ride out of London. Little quaint quiet villages where everyone knows each other, and yet. It's the bloody recession, I tells ya.
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No matter how nice the West Village is, Bushwick isn't safe. Same can be said for the whole city, not just the neighborhoods you've deemed worthy of meeting your criteria of 'cheap decent-sized apartment'.
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Still, this made me giggle, because I am an Old:
a mutilated MacBook from my youth
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04/27/09
HIDE YOUR LAPTOP WHEN YOU LEAVE FOR THE DAY. Most petty burglars will not actually root through your crap, they'll just take whatever is out in the open.
Sigh. I miss my old powerbook.
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And people burglarize Manhattan apartments too.
04/28/09
The cops suggested drilling nails into the windows, making it harder to jimmy. Also putting a stick a wood into the top part of the window when it's closed and locked.
Sometimes life sucks.
04/27/09
Watch out for guys posing as service providers. Mrs. Depardoo fell for that one with two guys dressed as Verizon service people, and the guys stole all of my stuff (not hers!). Also, renter's insurance works only if you actually itemize specific valuables.
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We'll always have Chincoteague
04/27/09