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For what it is worth, I have never had a break in in any of the four cars I have owned since 1980,
all of which have been parked on UCity streets, since I lack a garage.
All three were old used cars and pretty beat up looking.  (One did not start out being that beat up
looking, but was quickly "customized" by bad drivers and worse parkers hitting and scraping it
and some random doses of vandalism, like smashing my hubcaps.)
I assume that it "pays" to have a crappy car.  I had an old rust bucket Toyota that I actually
saw a homeless guy stare at with scorn -- as if he were thinking "I'd never be caught dead driving
a wreck like that!" 
 
So, if you can bear the humiliation of being seen to drive an old heap, you may, like me, be lucky
in conveying the impression that your car window is not worth the trouble of breaking since nothing
of value could possibly be lurking inside.
 
Ann Mayer
4312 Pine
 

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