In college I could not afford a car - so I rode a motorcycle... or I should say motorcycles... They kept getting stolen. I'd taken to having a heavy chain and hardened lock and chaining it between the frame and wheel... One of them was recovered, stripped, with the chain and lock still attaching the frame and wheel. (I guess they were lifting them into a truck to steal them.)
I had my car broken into 3 times - breaking the window, stealing cd's etc. All during the 80's and early 90's.
The biggest (from a financial POV) was having a licensed contractor try to shake us down - then abandon the job... He then refused to cooperate (pay his share) of the arbitration... He'd collected way more than work delivered (he'd been less than up front about what was completed - we had to unravel after the fact.) The state made him pay us (some) of our financial loss - but he stopped making payments. We lost over $100k even with his payments.... He broke contracting laws and business code laws but isn't considered a criminal for some reason... The only repercussion was he lost his contractors license...
I had my car broken into 3 times - breaking the window, stealing cd's etc. All during the 80's and early 90's.
The biggest (from a financial POV) was having a licensed contractor try to shake us down - then abandon the job... He then refused to cooperate (pay his share) of the arbitration... He'd collected way more than work delivered (he'd been less than up front about what was completed - we had to unravel after the fact.) The state made him pay us (some) of our financial loss - but he stopped making payments. We lost over $100k even with his payments.... He broke contracting laws and business code laws but isn't considered a criminal for some reason... The only repercussion was he lost his contractors license...