Fwd: REMINDER: Mont. Blvd. planting SAT.

[jonathan winston]

Just passing this along...

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From: Sunnyside Conservatory <sunnysidec...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:54 PM
Subject: REMINDER: Mont. Blvd. planting SAT.
To: in...@sunnysideconservatory.org
Cc: sunnysidec...@gmail.com

Dear Friends and Neighbors:

 

When we come together to do something for our neighborhood,

 we do it BIG and we do it very well.

 

REMINDER:

Next SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20

we will be installing over 200 plants

into the Monterey Blvd. median in front of the Sunnyside Conservatory.

(Compare that to only 75 planted last Spring –

we hope to fill-in as much of the remaining block as possible!) 

 

Many hands working together will make this work go quickly.

 

Hot beverages and yummy snacks will be set-up starting at 8:00 AM. 

Planting is scheduled to begin at 9:00 AM. 

Anyone able to come a little early to help place plants before we start digging is greatly appreciated.

 

Join us for the FUN and for Community Beautification.

 

Need more information?  Write or call:

334-3601, sunnysidec...@gmail.com

Visit:  www.sunnysideconservatory.org

 

THANKS,

Friends of Sunnyside Conservatory

 

[cyb...@aol.com]

Last night my purse was stolen from my unlocked car.
(I know. Very stupid.)

The police came and after I told them what happened, they said that this has been happening in our neighborhood.   Everyone please make sure your cars are locked!
Oh, and don't trust me with your valuables!
: )

[Steve Robles]

el sucko. sorry to hear it.

i've also had to learn this lesson the hard way. "they" will break into your car for ANYthing. and "they" have an almost supernatural ability to detect purses - my friend once had hers taken from her car when i lived on lansdale in sherwood heights. she parked for less than five minutes in broad daylight, and bam.

to their credit, sfpd traced the culprits. to the 200 block of hearst. heh. turns out some little thugs were running an identity theft operation.

harumph.

steve

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[Ellen Wall]

Even with the door locked, it is not good to leave a visible valuable. Welcome to being human. Ellen

>>> <cyb...@aol.com> 2/17/2010 8:45 AM >>>

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[cyb...@aol.com]

I keep assuming that my purse in my car should be safe in this neighborhood.  When I get out of the van and I'm carrying two grocery bags, my son's homework, my cell phone, school tour brochures, three envelopes of BoxTops, and balancing my keys on my nose, I usually leave my purse for the next trip of stuff to take in to the house.
We keep getting reminded to be more aware every time I have to go out and paint over the graffiti on our fence.
And I was the one who didn't want my kids walking around after dark! 
To their credit, the police did come quickly.

[Amber]

I have worked a lot with neighborhood watch and the thing they always
say is to prevent crime. There is no such thing as a safe
neighborhood and if a potential thief sees an easy opportunity, he or
she will take it.

This means do not leave anything valuable in plain site. This
includes purses, GPS, money, important documents, your cell phone or
any technology, and in neighborhoods with a high population of
homeless-coats and restaurant left overs. I often run back to my car
to grab my cell phone worried that I am going to get robbed in the
best community.

SF has a whole page on tips: http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?page=1596

I have never met a person whose car was broken into when they had
nothing visible to steal. I have met lots of people who left
something out (usually a GPS) and it stolen.

On Feb 17, 3:26 pm, cybe...@aol.com wrote:
>  I keep assuming that my purse in my car should be safe in this neighborhood.  When I get out of the van and I'm carrying two grocery bags, my son's homework, my cell phone, school tour brochures, three envelopes of BoxTops, and balancing my keys on my nose, I usually leave my purse for the next trip of stuff to take in to the house.
> We keep getting reminded to be more aware every time I have to go out and paint over the graffiti on our fence.
> And I was the one who didn't want my kids walking around after dark!  
> To their credit, the police did come quickly.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ellen Wall <ew...@ccsf.edu>
> To: cybe...@aol.com; sunny...@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Wed, Feb 17, 2010 3:01 pm
> Subject: Re: [sunnyside-sf] Warning about neighborhood thefts
>
> Even with the door locked, it is not good to leave a visible valuable. Welcome
> to being human. Ellen
>

> >>> <cybe...@aol.com> 2/17/2010 8:45 AM >>>

> Last night my purse was stolen from my unlocked car.
> (I know. Very stupid.)
>
> The police came and after I told them what happened, they said that this has
> been happening in our neighborhood.   Everyone please make sure your cars are
> locked!
> Oh, and don't trust me with your valuables!
> : )
>
> =
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[cyb...@aol.com]

About 25 years ago I lived in East Palo Alto and had a VERY beat-up 1963 Chevy Impala.   Thieves tried to break into it almost weekly, even though the only thing to steal was the 8-track player in the dash.  (I still have the Clash's "London Calling" on 8-track if anyone wants to make a copy...)     I was tempted to leave all the doors unlocked after a while with a note on the window, "come on in and browse. There's nothing here you'd want."    Unless they were OCD and had a habit of collecting discarded Big Mac wrappers.  That's about the only thing they would have found in my car at the time.

[Ellen Wall]

I used to leave my ragtop unlocked just so people wouldn't cut it to get into the car. The car went unscathed for years until stolen from an upper middle class suburban neighborhood. Is Sunnyside is getting to be too wealthy? Ellen

>>> <cyb...@aol.com> 2/18/2010 3:35 PM >>>

[Eileen Olicker]

Take your purse in on the first trip-not the second.  You can afford to lose a bag of groceries much more easily than your purse.

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[Eileen Olicker]

My sister lives in Fairfield, Iowa and leaves her keys in her ignition so she won't have trouble finding her keys.  If I remember correctly, her car was stolen once but was found a few blocks away.  She's lived there many years.  It's a very small town with a meditation university and regular town people. (Maharishi University)

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[cyb...@aol.com]

Is Sunnyside getting to be too wealthy?   Only if you consider that some residents hold their best high heel shoes together with electrical tape to be too wealthy.  Only if you don't consider peanut butter/jelly to be an "and/or" option for lunch.  If only SOME of your kids are wearing hand-me-downs from same-sex siblings.
   Okay, enough of my version of Jeff Foxworthy jokes.   You might live in Sunnyside if....
(By the way, I come from a long line of hillbillies.  Do not confuse us with rednecks)

[Adrienne Johnson]

The car break in issue has been around for years.  Our truck was broken into 3 times in one month when we first came to the neighborhood.  It got to the point where we didn't lock the doors in hopes that they would just open the door instead of break the glass.

I think that we have all just become accustomed to it being pretty quiet around here and the opportunistic cheats have caught on to this area being an easy target.

Take everything out of your car.  Try to park in front of your home (easier said than done sometimes) so that your neighbors recognize your car.  Don't do what I do and leave your car in one spot, moving it only for street cleaning.  Lock what you can not take in the trunk.

As to too wealthy.... does fixing your best heals with peanut butter make you too wealthy : )?

[Ellen Wall]

I'd never confuse hillbillies with rednecks, being one myself. Hillbillies are way sophisticated. Peanut butter? Electrical tape? Shoes? Wow, really upscale. Ellen

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[cyb...@aol.com]

Last night my middle boy (age 15) was walking along Edna toward Flood street and some kids in a car pulled up beside him and pretended to be asking for directions to draw him closer to the car.  Then they asked "what do you have in your pockets?"  and took his iPhone (that he used his own money to buy) and $5.  He heard one of them say, "let's get the gun", but that may have just been bluffing by them to intimidate him.       When he got home, he made a police report.  
Just when you think it's safe to let kids walk by themselves again....

[Richard G.]

What time did this occur?

I get the SpotCrime alerts, and there was a robbery listed for last night at 11:05 pm

http://spotcrime.com/crimealert/9262632-4798bcc880d464eb2cc3e65cf25fa278

A good lesson to always be alert, both kids & adults.

~Richard

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM, <cyb...@aol.com> wrote:

Last night my middle boy (age 15) was walking along Edna toward Flood street and some kids in a car pulled up beside him and pretended to be asking for directions to draw him closer to the car.  Then they asked "what do you have in your pockets?"  and took his iPhone (that he used his own money to buy) and $5.  He heard one of them say, "let's get the gun", but that may have just been bluffing by them to intimidate him.       When he got home, he made a police report.  
Just when you think it's safe to let kids walk by themselves again....

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[cyb...@aol.com]

That's probably the one.  It occurred right about 10:30, but he didn't get home and decide to call the police until about 11.  We live in the 600 block of Edna, but the theft happened over on the other side of Monterey. 

[Richard G.]

Here is the report from Ingleside Station SFPD Captain Lazaar's newsletter:

"11:05 pm          Edna/Forester                 Robbery w/Force
Officers Anderson and Ferronato contacted a robbery victim who stated that
he knew one of his assailants.  The victim, a juvenile, was approached by a
group of African American males, one of which was known to the victim as a
prior classmate.  The suspect threw eggs at the victim then told him that
they had a gun and demanded his property.  The victim gave them what he
had, five dollars and an iPhone, for fear of his well-being.  The suspects
then drove away.  Other officers searched the suspects’ residential area
for the suspects and the vehicle to no avail.  Report number 100238375"

[cyb...@aol.com]

Yep, that's what my middle boy described as happening.  He said that at first, the "perps" harrassed him at that corner pizza place, then later they threw eggs at him and the other details described in the police report.   He was able to identify one of them from looking through his middle school (!) yearbook.    I'm very proud of him to have made a police report, but a little worried that they could obtain info about him and us, including our address, from his iPhone if they had intention to retaliate for the report, but I'm told that since he has a password lock on it, that they can't get any info from it.