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Anonymous wrote:This is wild. Sounds like they knocked on the door and left the baby on the porch.

Glad it ended well. Wonder if the car will be torched on the PG border.

This is a really heartwarming turn of events. They did the right thing.

It's a rollercoaster of a story. They did do the right thing. Still feel horrified by the mom. some witnesses commented that she took her time smelling all the candles at La Labo, ran out clutching one when she saw her car was gone, and then came back in to talk to the Police there.

What witnesses? Do you have a link (l googled but didn’t find). Her behavior sounds too crazy to be true.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t people get ahold of their teens. Curfew curfew curfew

Good luck fixing the thousands of poor, broken, single parent households in DC that can’t or won’t control their sons

Also, good luck reversing the current trend of people being told they aren’t accountable for their own behavior and politicians siding with the perpetrators of crime over the victims.

It’s a bold new era of “social justice” and oddly enough it’s causing a spike in crime.

Sad but true.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the conversation with your husband and in-laws like when you return home after having left your baby in a car that gets stolen??

+1,000

The car jackets did the right thing. But the onus is solely on the mother. Fortunately, they even left a note to help her out.

Imagine the carjacker writing that note and soothing the baby “You’re ok, they’ll take care of you. I’m sorry your mama is an idiot.”

I know we aren’t supposed to have any sympathy for car jackers - though, in this case these seem to be some version of shoplifters except with an idling unsecured car. But I am glad to know they have some level of morality. There are woods a few blocks from where they dropped the baby and it was 35 degrees and or less last night. Instead they chose a well lit house and knocked to notify the occupants. I’m not saying they deserve a medal just glad that this crime and neglect didn’t turn out so much worse.

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Anonymous wrote:She is probably from a low crime country and this is a misunderstanding of "how things work" in scummy crime ridden DC. In England people used to leave a row of babies in prams outside the waitrose while they shopped, sunning themselves and getting their vitamin D. I'm sure it's cultural. I'm also loving how we (you) are basically all focused on the "rape victims clothing" right now. Someone stealing cars on M street is a bold move, and car theft is bound to result in mayhem and death at some point. I was almost massacred stepping into the street in Georgetown the other day when a car took the corner Grand Theft Auto style, probably driving away from a crime or stolen. This is squarely on the perps.
But sure--call for her head. Maybe they'll take the baby away and give it to the DC child welfare system so it can grow up to be a car jacker.

+1000000
American low expectations

My family is European and I'm born and raised DC (Georgetown even, not far from this spot - read I was raised with money and privilege).

It is obnoxious how many people move here and act like the rules don't apply to them. Some of these rules are things like parking; or having to file for a permit to do home repairs to common sense rules (don't leave your car running on M St with your baby inside); your condo is not a nightclub and people have jobs and families; don't speed through a school zone and yes the city has school zones.

The car jackers shouldn't have stolen the car; they aren't animals and made sure the baby was safe which is more than I can say for the mother.

You don't let your kid swim in a pool without someone watching them even if they can swim; even if they have floaties. This is common sense. You wear a seat belt even if you are a great driver.

Common sense not so common.

BTW BIL pissed that he got a parking ticket in DC years back. He thought he wouldn't because he was driving a rental. Yeah - its obnoxious.

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Anonymous wrote:This city can't gentrify fast enough.

Lmao. It’s going the other way. Bring on the death spiral. The voters here asked for it.

+1 DC was gentrifying 10-15 years ago, now …

And anyway, wasn’t this in Georgetown? It’s always been a nice area. To have your car stolen during peak commuting hours, barely after dark, is really bad.

Degentrification also known as vibrance

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Anonymous wrote:This city can't gentrify fast enough.

Lmao. It’s going the other way. Bring on the death spiral. The voters here asked for it.

+1 DC was gentrifying 10-15 years ago, now …

And anyway, wasn’t this in Georgetown? It’s always been a nice area. To have your car stolen during peak commuting hours, barely after dark, is really bad.

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Anonymous wrote:The baby was left in the car seat on a street in SE but the car is still missing. Curious about where/with who?

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/4-month-old-girl-found-after-being-taken-in-georgetown-car-theft/3508529/

Thank goodness she is safe.

I hope these guys get charged with kidnapping and child abuse, and get put away for a long time.

Sounds like these guys are on the loose joyriding in the jeep? At our councilmembers safety walk the USAO representative told us they can't charge carjackers cos when four sets of prints are found they don't know who the jacker was.. COMPLETE IMPUNITY and zero solutions offered.

Hope you told them what utter bullshit this was! 4sets of fingerprints? Arrest and charge them all, unless there is a reason for that fingerprint in the car. Are these people STUPID?

I’m a former prosecutor so I will take a crack at explaining why it is difficult to charge someone with carjacking based on fingerprints alone. When a car gets jacked by say several people who are masked and wearing generic dark clothing, the lookout for the suspects is obviously weak and the victim won’t be able to make an ID of people that did the carjacking. Then say the car is recovered the next day abandoned. The vehicle is printed and you get some hits off the prints. All you can prove is that the people whose prints were in the vehicle had been inside it at some point. You cannot prove that those people jacked the vehicle. You also can’t prove that they went joyriding in it after it was jacked because it was jacked with a key, so there wasn’t anything that would indicate to a passenger in the vehicle that the car was stolen. If, say the jackers weren’t masked and the victims got a look at the suspects, you can definitely put the people whose prints were found inside the car in photo arrays and show them to the victims and maybe they ID the jackers.

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Anonymous wrote:Car does not turn off due to fob and car distance. I know people who drove far away from the fob making it to their destination. It's only once the car is turned off it's off.

This is a standard safety feature in most cars for obvious reasons. Very few cars/models have that loophole that once ignition has been turned on it will continue even after the fob is out of range until the ignition is turned back on. I don't know when your friends who drove far away did this or what kind of car they drove but this is the extreme exception.

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Anonymous wrote:Car does not turn off due to fob and car distance. I know people who drove far away from the fob making it to their destination. It's only once the car is turned off it's off.

This is a standard safety feature in most cars for obvious reasons. Very few cars/models have that loophole that once ignition has been turned on it will continue even after the fob is out of range until the ignition is turned back on. I don't know when your friends who drove far away did this or what kind of car they drove but this is the extreme exception.

Anonymous wrote:Car does not turn off due to fob and car distance. I know people who drove far away from the fob making it to their destination. It's only once the car is turned off it's off.

Yes it does. I drove my DH to the metro and kept his car, except he had the fob in his pocket. Car turned off 1 mile away. Not sure how far the people you know drove, but without the fob cars definitely eventually turn off. This is why the police advise people to keep the fob on their person while pumping gas, vs leaving inside the car (like in the cup holder); because thieves either overpower the owner pumping gas and get in on the driver side OR slide in on the passenger side, lock the doors, climb over to the drive side and drive away (bye bye car).

Anonymous wrote:She is probably from a low crime country and this is a misunderstanding of "how things work" in scummy crime ridden DC. In England people used to leave a row of babies in prams outside the waitrose while they shopped, sunning themselves and getting their vitamin D. I'm sure it's cultural. I'm also loving how we (you) are basically all focused on the "rape victims clothing" right now. Someone stealing cars on M street is a bold move, and car theft is bound to result in mayhem and death at some point. I was almost massacred stepping into the street in Georgetown the other day when a car took the corner Grand Theft Auto style, probably driving away from a crime or stolen. This is squarely on the perps.
But sure--call for her head. Maybe they'll take the baby away and give it to the DC child welfare system so it can grow up to be a car jacker.

+1000000
American low expectations

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is wild. Sounds like they knocked on the door and left the baby on the porch.

Glad it ended well. Wonder if the car will be torched on the PG border.

This is a really heartwarming turn of events. They did the right thing.

Tiny violin orchestra hits crescendo

Car does not turn off due to fob and car distance. I know people who drove far away from the fob making it to their destination. It's only once the car is turned off it's off.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t people get ahold of their teens. Curfew curfew curfew

This happened at 6 pm? No curfew is going to fix this.

5pm. What do they contribute to society? If they aren’t working or in an after school activity they can be inside by nightfall. This roaming about aimlessly and stealing has to stop

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Anonymous wrote:I hate it here.

I do too. I have been here almost all of my adult life, decades. I thought some floor would be put in the situation.

I just saw DC is now #2 city for stolen cars (separate from carjackings).

Ours was stolen a few years back. MPD response is nonexistent/underwhelming. We don't charge anyone who does get caught. So I guess... of course it is?