It's a good news bad news situation.
I'm hoping that brookfield is on this morning so he can perhaps advise, (given his previous job)...
Bad news...
My car was broken into last night... someone bent the door out and pulled up the open door lock pole thingy on the inside...
Good news.
Nothing was taken... and they even left a lighter.
My stereo whilst expensive comes appart, (it's a hard disk MP3 player, and the hard disk is removable...) it was inside the house... and the controls are atached by a cable, but I never got around to properly mounting that... so that was safely hidden up inside the dash board, (out of site out of mind...) besides the controls would be useless without the harddrive part anyway as that part also contains the main player electronics...
Other good news, the (relativly) cheap speakers that I'd intended to install were still in the boot, even though they released the back seats to look in the boot. (as were all the cans of oil and antifreeze and all the other little car bits that I just don't have room to store in the house)
more good news. the (wireless) reomte control for the stereo, My GPS reciever, my multimeter (don't really know why that was in there), my emergency screw drivers, phone charge and all the other little electronic bits were still in the car as well...
literally nothing was taken... just rummaged through.
great news... I have a gas cooker, (without an ignition button so I have to use a lighter to light it... the lighter I use was running out so now I have a new one... (thanks to the dude who broke into my car...).
Now.. I can't say that I'm happy, I mean nodoby should have to start their day standing on the side of the road bending their door back into shape before they can drive to work...
but I can't say that I'm unhappy either... I mean nothing was taken, (either valuable, or not).
I also can't say that I'm really all that surprised... when I moved here and changed my insurance details the insurance premium did go up, because there is more car crime. in fact there is more crime in general. so it's no surprise at all that one day I'd be the victim...
The question is...
Do I report it? and if so who to?...
I know it's not a 999 emergency, so I'd just have to get the local stations number (or drop in on the way home from work). but if nothing was taken, should I put myself out to add a few more numbers to the crime statistics?
second... do I report it to my insurance company? as I said, nothing was taken, so there is no claim, but I'm *fairly* sure that there is a clause that would mean if I reported it that I would loose my no claims bonus, even though I didn't claim. (would it be a non paying claim?).
I think that the worse part is that it rained a little last night and my jeans were a little wet when I got out the car as the seat had gotten a little damp... but that will undoubtably be dry by the time I'm driving home anyway.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I'm hoping that brookfield is on this morning so he can perhaps advise, (given his previous job)...
Bad news...
My car was broken into last night... someone bent the door out and pulled up the open door lock pole thingy on the inside...
Good news.
Nothing was taken... and they even left a lighter.
My stereo whilst expensive comes appart, (it's a hard disk MP3 player, and the hard disk is removable...) it was inside the house... and the controls are atached by a cable, but I never got around to properly mounting that... so that was safely hidden up inside the dash board, (out of site out of mind...) besides the controls would be useless without the harddrive part anyway as that part also contains the main player electronics...
Other good news, the (relativly) cheap speakers that I'd intended to install were still in the boot, even though they released the back seats to look in the boot. (as were all the cans of oil and antifreeze and all the other little car bits that I just don't have room to store in the house)
more good news. the (wireless) reomte control for the stereo, My GPS reciever, my multimeter (don't really know why that was in there), my emergency screw drivers, phone charge and all the other little electronic bits were still in the car as well...
literally nothing was taken... just rummaged through.
great news... I have a gas cooker, (without an ignition button so I have to use a lighter to light it... the lighter I use was running out so now I have a new one... (thanks to the dude who broke into my car...).
Now.. I can't say that I'm happy, I mean nodoby should have to start their day standing on the side of the road bending their door back into shape before they can drive to work...
but I can't say that I'm unhappy either... I mean nothing was taken, (either valuable, or not).
I also can't say that I'm really all that surprised... when I moved here and changed my insurance details the insurance premium did go up, because there is more car crime. in fact there is more crime in general. so it's no surprise at all that one day I'd be the victim...
The question is...
Do I report it? and if so who to?...
I know it's not a 999 emergency, so I'd just have to get the local stations number (or drop in on the way home from work). but if nothing was taken, should I put myself out to add a few more numbers to the crime statistics?
second... do I report it to my insurance company? as I said, nothing was taken, so there is no claim, but I'm *fairly* sure that there is a clause that would mean if I reported it that I would loose my no claims bonus, even though I didn't claim. (would it be a non paying claim?).
I think that the worse part is that it rained a little last night and my jeans were a little wet when I got out the car as the seat had gotten a little damp... but that will undoubtably be dry by the time I'm driving home anyway.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.