Burglary and sexual assault in Woodley Park

[Anonymous]

WJLA reports that this happened at 4:00 am on Saturday. Does anyone know more about this?

[Anonymous]

Someone posted about in the thread about the Fire in Upper NW, as it is nearby.

[Anonymous]

Why the heck didn't she have the doors and windows locked at 4am?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why the heck didn't she have the doors and windows locked at 4am?

I have all the windows on my lower level floors NAILED shut, and painted too. Sometime still broke a basement window last year and gained entry. Because he is a dick, and a thug (yep, chose that word on purpose), and is amoral.

Let's keep the focus on who is in the wrong here, for the remainder of this thread. Big hint to PP: it's not the law-abiding occupant of the home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the heck didn't she have the doors and windows locked at 4am?

I have all the windows on my lower level floors NAILED shut, and painted too. Sometime still broke a basement window last year and gained entry. Because he is a dick, and a thug (yep, chose that word on purpose), and is amoral.

Let's keep the focus on who is in the wrong here, for the remainder of this thread. Big hint to PP: it's not the law-abiding occupant of the home.

Not smart, dude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the heck didn't she have the doors and windows locked at 4am?

I have all the windows on my lower level floors NAILED shut, and painted too. Sometime still broke a basement window last year and gained entry. Because he is a dick, and a thug (yep, chose that word on purpose), and is amoral.

Let's keep the focus on who is in the wrong here, for the remainder of this thread. Big hint to PP: it's not the law-abiding occupant of the home.

Not smart, dude.

How do you know her windows weren't locked.

I completely agree with the second poster that we should not blame the victim, but sometimes it is helpful to know details so that we don't repeat them. Like, I talked to a woman who left the window to her fourth floor fire escape open and someone broke in. I personally would never have done that, but others may have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the heck didn't she have the doors and windows locked at 4am?

I have all the windows on my lower level floors NAILED shut, and painted too. Sometime still broke a basement window last year and gained entry. Because he is a dick, and a thug (yep, chose that word on purpose), and is amoral.

Let's keep the focus on who is in the wrong here, for the remainder of this thread. Big hint to PP: it's not the law-abiding occupant of the home.

Not smart, dude.

How do you know her windows weren't locked.

I completely agree with the second poster that we should not blame the victim, but sometimes it is helpful to know details so that we don't repeat them. Like, I talked to a woman who left the window to her fourth floor fire escape open and someone broke in. I personally would never have done that, but others may have.

I was referring to the bolded being not smart. Why would you permanently nail and paint windows shut? That's an excellent way to die in a fire.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, these neighborhoods are seen as "soft targets" and residents have become fairly negligent to their own safety.

Last week, my FIL's car was rummaged through by a thief. As were the cars of 5 neighbors on the block. This is in a part of Bethesda where houses sell for $1.25-1.75mn. How did the thief gain access? Everyone left their car unlocked so the thief did not attract attention.

Thieves are mobile, especially in the DC area. My guess is that the yuppies buying $900K rowhouses in Columbia Heights, Bloomingdale, and Capitol Hill have wizened up. The thieves are moving on to easier targets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, these neighborhoods are seen as "soft targets" and residents have become fairly negligent to their own safety.

Last week, my FIL's car was rummaged through by a thief. As were the cars of 5 neighbors on the block. This is in a part of Bethesda where houses sell for $1.25-1.75mn. How did the thief gain access? Everyone left their car unlocked so the thief did not attract attention.

Thieves are mobile, especially in the DC area. My guess is that the yuppies buying $900K rowhouses in Columbia Heights, Bloomingdale, and Capitol Hill have wizened up. The thieves are moving on to easier targets.

+1 on the suburbs becoming soft targets for crime. We are seeing a real spike in property crime in great falls over the last few months. Police held a meeting with community members a few weeks ago. I think there was a lively thread on the gf, McLean crime on dcum recently too. Sorry for the victim of the Woodley crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the heck didn't she have the doors and windows locked at 4am?

I have all the windows on my lower level floors NAILED shut, and painted too. Sometime still broke a basement window last year and gained entry. Because he is a dick, and a thug (yep, chose that word on purpose), and is amoral.

Let's keep the focus on who is in the wrong here, for the remainder of this thread. Big hint to PP: it's not the law-abiding occupant of the home.

Not smart, dude.

How do you know her windows weren't locked.

I completely agree with the second poster that we should not blame the victim, but sometimes it is helpful to know details so that we don't repeat them. Like, I talked to a woman who left the window to her fourth floor fire escape open and someone broke in. I personally would never have done that, but others may have.

I was referring to the bolded being not smart. Why would you permanently nail and paint windows shut? That's an excellent way to die in a fire.

don't be stupid. If your life depends on it and the fire is licking at your heels, you break the window (either with an object sitting nearby, or your own fist protected in your shirt that you balled up around your fist. which you always have with you.)

then you climb out, just as if you had gently and politely unlatched the non-painted-shut window and sweetly pushed it open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, these neighborhoods are seen as "soft targets" and residents have become fairly negligent to their own safety.

Last week, my FIL's car was rummaged through by a thief. As were the cars of 5 neighbors on the block. This is in a part of Bethesda where houses sell for $1.25-1.75mn. How did the thief gain access? Everyone left their car unlocked so the thief did not attract attention.

Thieves are mobile, especially in the DC area. My guess is that the yuppies buying $900K rowhouses in Columbia Heights, Bloomingdale, and Capitol Hill have wizened up. The thieves are moving on to easier targets.

+1 on the suburbs becoming soft targets for crime. We are seeing a real spike in property crime in great falls over the last few months. Police held a meeting with community members a few weeks ago. I think there was a lively thread on the gf, McLean crime on dcum recently too. Sorry for the victim of the Woodley crime.

You do know that the row houses of Woodley Park are 14 blocks from Columbia Hts. and also start off around the $1 million mark? Not sure why the city neighborhood of Woodley would be a "softer" target than other rowhouse neighborhoods in NW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why the heck didn't she have the doors and windows locked at 4am?

Didn't you know? "Things like that don't happen in this neighborhood!"

[Anonymous]

This lady needs to seriously re-examine her behavior if she wants to stop being victimized. I vote: her fault.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure why the city neighborhood of Woodley would be a "softer" target than other rowhouse neighborhoods in NW.

Because the residents of Woodley are not expecting it. People in CoHi, Logan, and Dupont have known high levels of street and residential crime for a long time. They are accustomed to it and experienced with it. Places like Woodley, Spring Valley, Tenleytown, Chevy Chase, and Bethesda are largely crime-free and thus the residents are more likely to be complacent. Complacency makes it easy for criminals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why the heck didn't she have the doors and windows locked at 4am?

Didn't you know? "Things like that don't happen in this neighborhood!"

Again....where are you guys reading that her windows and doors were not locked? I haven't seen that anywhere.