Dalton, GA - Vehicle Burglary, Collectors Targeted By Theives

Not just with coin or stamp collectors. A friend purchased new range and fridge from one brand name store. Items were strapped in the back of her pickup. She went to a box box depot to pick up a couple other things. Security video (grainy and useless) showed another pickup pull behind her truck, two guys get out, slash the strapping. Slide the range into their pickup and lost control of the fridge which toppled to the ground. In full afternoon daylight. They drove off as if nothing had happened with a new range.

It appears that virtually every victim is culpable then, eh Conder? You'd make a good lawyer for the defense, methinks.

The victim was scantily clad, walking on an unlit street in a bad part of town, etc., so naturally she invited the rape, the mugging. The guy's garage door was left open, his lawn mower was unattended, the UPS guy left the package on his porch, so it's his fault that stuff was taken. They should have known the guy next door was a sex offender ... listed on the registry, he is. It's the parents' fault they didn't tell the kid to avoid the neighbor. The coin dealer should have used the drive-thru ... Where does it end?

How can anyone be expected to cover all the bases, be on the defensive, 24/7. Sure, there are steps we can take to be lower the possibility of being victimized. However, failing to do something surely doesn't make a victim culpable in a crime.