Lock your valuables in your car's trunk and think that it is safe?
Here's the story. In my local paper's readers letters page a driver wrote that she locked more than $100 of groceries in her car's trunk before going into the liquor store in the same car park. She was away for less than 15 minutes when she found that her car's door lock was damaged beyond repair and her groceries in the trunk stolen.
The warning here is that it is no longer safe to lock things in the car trunk, especially items like laptop computers and your Christmas shopping.
Breaking the car lock is simple enough and my take on this is to find or make a high strength steel T bar which has a flat blade that will jam right into the door lock. One twist and the lock is wrecked. Then it is relatively simple to pop the trunk's lock from the inside trunk latch unlock lever. No one who is not next to the thief to see the act will ever notice anything amiss.
Its a sad commentary on the modern world but its a fact of life. The warning signs in many car parking lots to car owners to be observant for car thieves says everything.