Should I call the police if a valet stole 160 bucks from my car?

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SoOCOwner said:
blackacre-seeker said:
You don't say, I'm lucky I don't own anything expensive :)

The reason the money wasn't in my wallet b/c when I made the withdrawal from the ATM, I was rushing home, so I just put the wad in the glove box and then completely forgot about it until yesterday because I had a crazy week at work. Yesterday I remembered about my stash and got all excited, looked inside, and boom-most of it gone...

The irony is that I never have more than 20 bucks of cash, but I decided to control my spending and pay cash when buying groceries instead of a credit card. Talk about getting off to a rough start :) Another thing that is very ironic that I'm pretty paranoid, so I always lock it, and give just the key to the valets. That time though I was in such a hurry I even gave him my whole set of keys including my house key. Now I'm starting to worry that he made a copy of my keys as well and is going to pay me a visit or "refer this case" to one of his criminals buddies...

I think I'll call the restaurant tomorrow and see what they say, and then perhaps call the police afterwards.

I'll keep you posted on how it goes...
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Well, Blackacre these things happen. Read the article, it may make you feel better. $160.00 is no small amount, but at least you didn't do something this foolish:

Thieves steal $500,000 worth of jewelry from unlocked car
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Gated community does give people a false sense of security. But I heard truly professional thiefs can be in/out of your house, while you are in it, for less than 10 minutes. They know how to disconnect the security alarm and such.
 
Gated community does give people a false sense of security. But I heard truly professional thiefs can be in/out of your house, while you are in it, for less than 10 minutes. They know how to disconnect the security alarm and such.
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Yup - totally agree.
 
We live in a gated community. Most of the crimes are committed by the spoiled teenage residents who seemingly have nothing better to do with their time. Even when they are caught red-handed, some of the parents defend their children. It's really sad.
 
That whole "$500,000 stolen jewelry" story sounds way too fishy. Why leave the safe in the car for 10 days? You can't just write yourself a note "take jewelry to appraiser"? Besides, I would think an appraiser would come to you, rather than carting around a half million dollars in jewelry. I think it's either insurance fraud, or maybe the husband sold it while the wife was in Europe. Any ideas, Troop?
 
centralcoastobserver said:
That whole "$500,000 stolen jewelry" story sounds way too fishy. Why leave the safe in the car for 10 days? You can't just write yourself a note "take jewelry to appraiser"? Besides, I would think an appraiser would come to you, rather than carting around a half million dollars in jewelry. I think it's either insurance fraud, or maybe the husband sold it while the wife was in Europe. Any ideas, Troop?
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The woman does look like one of those "desperate housewifes", but the insurance only pays $85K.
 
WestparkRenter said:
centralcoastobserver said:
That whole "$500,000 stolen jewelry" story sounds way too fishy. Why leave the safe in the car for 10 days? You can't just write yourself a note "take jewelry to appraiser"? Besides, I would think an appraiser would come to you, rather than carting around a half million dollars in jewelry. I think it's either insurance fraud, or maybe the husband sold it while the wife was in Europe. Any ideas, Troop?
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. . . but the insurance only pays $85K.
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$85k is a lot of money.

They could have her jewelry hidden someplace and claim that it was all stolen.

I remember this happening a lot in the 80's.

I wonder if the kids had anything to do with it, or their friends.
 
CalGal said:
WestparkRenter said:
centralcoastobserver said:
That whole "$500,000 stolen jewelry" story sounds way too fishy. Why leave the safe in the car for 10 days? You can't just write yourself a note "take jewelry to appraiser"? Besides, I would think an appraiser would come to you, rather than carting around a half million dollars in jewelry. I think it's either insurance fraud, or maybe the husband sold it while the wife was in Europe. Any ideas, Troop?
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. . . but the insurance only pays $85K.
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$85k is a lot of money.

They could have her jewelry hidden someplace and claim that it was all stolen.

I remember this happening a lot in the 80's.

I wonder if the kids had anything to do with it, or their friends.
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Did any of you find it strange how the article does a plug for her business? I wonder if this is some kind of P.R. stunt she's attempting. I think they should take a metal-detector to her backyard.
 
WestparkRenter said:
centralcoastobserver said:
That whole "$500,000 stolen jewelry" story sounds way too fishy. Why leave the safe in the car for 10 days? You can't just write yourself a note "take jewelry to appraiser"? Besides, I would think an appraiser would come to you, rather than carting around a half million dollars in jewelry. I think it's either insurance fraud, or maybe the husband sold it while the wife was in Europe. Any ideas, Troop?
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The woman does look like one of those "desperate housewifes", but the insurance only pays $85K.
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The poor woman has had so much Botox, you can't even tell when she's crying in that video.
 
CalGal said:
WestparkRenter said:
centralcoastobserver said:
That whole "$500,000 stolen jewelry" story sounds way too fishy. Why leave the safe in the car for 10 days? You can't just write yourself a note "take jewelry to appraiser"? Besides, I would think an appraiser would come to you, rather than carting around a half million dollars in jewelry. I think it's either insurance fraud, or maybe the husband sold it while the wife was in Europe. Any ideas, Troop?
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. . . but the insurance only pays $85K.
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$85k is a lot of money.

They could have her jewelry hidden someplace and claim that it was all stolen.

I remember this happening a lot in the 80's.

I wonder if the kids had anything to do with it, or their friends.
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Yes but the value of the jewelry is $500K.
 
Yes but the value of the jewelry is $500K.
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That's what she is saying.

She's the one who said it was worth $500k.

It was never appraised for $500k.

For all we know, she could only own costume jewelry.
 
Thank you all for your kind words. I'm calling both restaurant and the police tomorrow, just couldn't find a minute to do it today. I wonder if I should stop by an confront the valet as well, just to at least let him know that I know he took my money.

You know what another thing is that is extremely ironic? I gave that valet a tip :)
 
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