Valuables shouldn’t be left in the car

Published 4:50 pm Tuesday, December 4, 2007

In regard to the Monday letter writer who found it necessary to editorialize his complaint with the Sheriff’s Office because he could not get a deputy to respond to his home in Lake Stevens when his son’s car was prowled: What would he expect if the deputy did respond? Maybe notify the department’s Medium so that they could come out, put their hand on the steering wheel and get a visual image of the car prowler? Or, maybe take DNA samples of the air and send it off to Quantico Virginia so that the FBI can identify the culprit?

In reality, there is nothing the Sheriff’s Office can do except complete a written report. How about taking responsibility for your own actions? A novel concept, I know. You leave items in your car, especially prescription drugs — shows a lack of responsibility plain and simple. So let’s blame the Sheriffs Office. After all, why weren’t they parked in your driveway all night preventing the car prowl? What next? They weren’t watching when someone stole your neighbor’s car when it was warming up in the driveway?

Casey Zinter