Thieves took advantage of the construction chaos around CBC Vancouver Monday night and broke in, stealing a notebook computer, cash, and some personal items.
This week, the Vancouver edition of CBC News at Six is doing a feature on residential property crime. The irony of the break-in, which shared the same traits as a home B&E, isn’t lost on executive producer Wayne Williams.
“We’re not talking about a real organized criminal activity,” Williams said. “It’s smash-and-grab kind of stuff and then in and out pretty quickly.”
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Not sure about out in Vancouver, but theft in Toronto has been a real problem the six years I’ve worked there.
Personally, I’ve had a laptop stolen. At least once a month I’d hear of someone else getting their stuff stolen.
And let’s not even mention the bicycle situation.
You know, there are so many negative China stories. Let me tell you a positive one that relates to property theft.
I was in the outskirts of Shanghai last fall and decided to take rail into Shanghai. I would bet there was 20,000 bicycles at the rail station. Not a single one was locked up! They were all very neatly organized awaiting their owners return from work that night. It was amazing to see. I no longer live in Vancouver but when I did I learned to not even leave an empty pop can in my vehicle because the window would be broken just to get the 5c can! Insane!
@Laker — of course they weren’t locked up, all the locks are still in Vancouver and Toronto…
When I lived in Vancouver my car was broken into repeatedly and stolen once. The worst break-in was for four tall boy beer cans. In a locked underground parking garage.
That’s part of the reason I moved back to Ontario, actually, I was just tired of having my car beaten up for its lunch money.
Sounds like they took advantage of the fact that people on our side of the building leave the door propped open when they go out for cigarettes.
Are we Canadians such theives?
It seems that some of us are.
I left a $30 map book in a control room where I work, it disappeared. Now I carry my purse with me wherever I go, and I hide any personal items I leave at work. I don’t have an explanation as to where the book went, but my iPod is not going anywhere if I can help it.