$3,000 to $4,000 worth of Christmas gifts stolen

[left-of-center2012]

University of New Mexico’s basketball player Laneah Bryan left $3,000 to $4,000 worth of Christmas gifts in her car over night,
and when she got up the next day she was shocked to find someone has broken into her car and stolen them.

This happened in here in Albuquerque, NM, which is at or near the top nationally for auto theft, property crimes, etc.

Obviously ‘common sense’ is not a requirement to be a university student or basketball player.

Sad

http://krqe.com/2017/12/25/thief-steals-gifts-from-lobo-basketball-player/

[Thrill]

1. You leave that in your car? And youre shocked it was broken into?

Okay

[Igel]

7. Doesn't this count as victim blaming?

After all, theft is illegal. Nobody asked permission before taking the stuff. If people respected the owner's rights and dignity, there'd have been no theft, and this is just trying to get the bad guy (or gal) off the hook. Obviously the US has a problem with theft culture.


Yeah, it's sarcastic. But completely analogous.

[NCTraveler]

9. No.

It's stupid to leave thousands of dollars worth of items in your car.

I hope the thief is caught and prosecuted.

There is room for both of those statements to exist.

[FSogol]

2. In one of the suburbs next to mine, 20 cars got broken into on the 23rd, with the thieves making

off with all the gifts and stealing one car. One person left house keys in their cars allowing thieves to enter the house for more stuff, and get additional car keys.

https://fcpdnews.wordpress.com/2017/12/23/nearly-20-cases-of-theft-from-vehicles-in-the-west-springfield-district-one-car-stolen-two-burglaries-reported/

The police have been warning people for months not to leave packages in vehicles.

[sarah FAILIN]

3. Does anyone else get that amount of giftage?

3 to 4 k seems really excessive. I feel like we over do it with our kids. I bought my daughter an apple watch and a new nose ring. I felt like I was spoiling her..
She would never leave anything expensive in her car overnight either, even in our own yard out in the country..

[Farmer-Rick]

4. Who spends $3,000 to $4,000 on Christmas gifts when you are in college?

Wow, what do they pay those basketball players? Or does she come from a very well to do family?

[left-of-center2012]

5. "what do they pay those basketball players"

College players are not supposed to be paid.

[Farmer-Rick]

8. Oh, I didn't know. That makes it even weirder.

[dembotoz]

6. no shit. when my kid goes back to college his car will have the entire contents of my pantry and

a tank full of gas from my credit card....