If someone is stealing my car or property outside of my house I will respond with Upgrading whatever was taken. It is cheaper to replace property as opposed to paying a lawyer to defend you.
Once or even a couple times. Once your property is known to be a good source of free loot in a low income area with a lot of thieves that changes. After all if you live in such an area you probably don't have much money to spare.
The guy I posted about earlier lost his system many times. Even getting one of those systems where the front panel comes off when you leave the vehicle. Even that was stolen. He finally just went without a radio in the vehicle until he moved from the high crime area.
If you make a decent living and live below your means, it is an easier option to eat the loss and replace items. Most of those living in high crime low income neighborhoods have a low income. Replacing or upgrading things of value may be rare.
Thier options are often limited to simply doing without those things which are progressively stolen, or stopping the theft.
And that 27 lb subwoofer could be replaced with an insurance claim.
Most insurance policies have deductibles. So a lot of low value thefts still hit the person for the deductible each time, and thier insurance also will go way up if they have a lot of claims.
If you live in a suburb with the occasional theft it is much easier than the low income area with multiple thefts per night.
To me it appears he used poor judgment. I was not there.
His decision to make the statement he did was certainly a poor decision.
The truth is that in very low income areas with high crime a group of thieves can get away with almost anything until someone illegally stops them. Like when they break into another thug's car and he comes out and attacks them.
The thieves are often juveniles, and if caught face very little if any time. They are unlikely to ever reimburse the victim even if caught and it is court ordered. People making no money don't reimburse you.
They normally flee the scene before police arrive, and will attack anyone who tries to detain a member of the group.
If one is caught, they get out a short time later, and either they or thier group continues to steal as it is often a lifestyle in such low income areas.
In high crime areas police take a long time to report to such petty crimes when there is robberies and other violent crime happening on a busy Friday or Saturday night. They also won't devote much to investigating the incident, it is very low priority.
So it often takes many incidents before they are apprehended the first time.
So a group of several strong young youths can steal whatever they want with impunity in such areas, until they run across another thug or someone who simply loses it.
In this case it appears to be one of the two.
