A friend sent me this email and I am sending it on ...

Wednesday, I approached my truck from the passenger side to place my
computer bag (aka my man purse) in the front passenger seat.

As I reached to open the door I noticed there was a hole right under my
door handle.

My first thought was, "someone has shot my truck !"

I began to think about it and inspect it a little closer and the "light" slowly
began to come on.

I phoned my friend who owns a body shop and asked if he had any vehicles
with damage to the doors that looked like a bullet hole.

"Yes, I see it all the time. Thieves have a punch and place it right under the
door handle, knock a hole through, reach in and unlock it, just as if they
have a key. No alarms, broken glass, or anything.

I then placed a call to my insurance agent and explained it to him. I was
puzzled that they left my GPS and all other belongings. Here is where it gets
scary !

"Oh no, he said, they want the break-in to be so subtle that you don't even
realize it. They look at your GPS to see where "home" is. Now, they know what
you drive, go to your home, and if your vehicle isn't there they assume you
aren't and break into your home."

He said they will even leave a purse or wallet and only take one or two credit
cards. By the time you realize there has been a theft, they may have already had
a couple of days or more to use them.

(I didn't realize my situation for two full days!)

They even give you the courtesy of re-locking your doors for you.

Periodically, walk around your car, especially after you park in a in a shopping
center or other large parking area.

Report thefts immediately....your bank w/missing check numbers, your credit
card agencies, police, and insurance companies, etc.

( Below is picture of what the hole looks like )

www.snopes.com/crime/w...handle.asp

Interesting background on the background of SNOPES. I have wondered at times, the reliability of the “Standard of Truth” …. Especially during the last elections! It reveals to me that if it is on the ‘net’, it is best to be skeptical.
For the past few years www.snopes.com has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the ‘tell-all final word’ on any comment, claim and email.

But for several years people tried to find out who exactly was behind snopes.com. Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it – kinda makes you wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and wife team – that’s right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It’s just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby.

David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the website about 13 years ago – and they have no formal background or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation? The reason for the questions – or skepticisms – is a result of snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong. Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the ‘true’ bottom of various issues.

It has been learned the Mikkelson’s are very Democratic (party) and extremely liberal. As we all now know from this presidential election, liberals have a purpose agenda to discredit anything that appears to be conservative. There has been much criticism lately over the internet with people pointing out the Mikkelson’s liberalism revealing itself in their website findings. Gee, what a shock?

So, I say this now to everyone who goes to www.snopes.com to get what they think to be the bottom line facts…‘proceed with caution.’ Take what it says at face value and nothing more. Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link to and read the sources for yourself. Plus, you can always google a subject and do the research yourself. It now seems apparent that’s all the Mikkelson’s do

Sorry Oldgoat, your heart is in the right place, but Snopes has been vetted and praised by both sides of the aisle. They are pretty much spot on, no matter the topic. Liberal or not...let's not confuse the facts.

Because they are liberal does not mean they are wrong.

I dunno about the limited theft portion of the story...but that method of car entry has been around as long as I can remember. Could thieves be as subtle as this? Of course they could, but they generally aren;t. If nothing else its good fodder for the sheeple to at least make them aware that bad things sometimes happen, even at the mall.

Dude... do you EVER have an original thought? www.google.com/search?...=firefox-a

The original purpose for this post was to show a different way at least to some of breaking into cars. And in your case not to use Scopes as the final say for everything.

And Jody unless your still 15, have a skateboard and currently living in your parents basement, lose the DUDE crap.

CATFIGHT!!