We have waves of vehicle break ins in my small town. Sometimes 12-18 year old delinquents, or the usual bunch of small town drunks, drug addicts/dealers. Usually they just hit unlocked cars as so many people here leave cars unlocked. The one time they got me they stole change and a portable satellite radio and left a $ 200 shot timer behind-probably did not know what it was. I called the next day and the sat radio was permanently disabled.

Some guys on my old street were watching a ball game and heard someone going through their cars in the driveway. The beat him pretty bad before calling the cops. Cops are so tired of the guy, he's probably arrested 5-10+ times a year, that they refused to charge the guys who beat the thief up.