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Posted Dec 12th 2007 2:31PM by Ben Greenman
Filed under: Crime, Strange

Police in Conyers, Georgia, may soon be ticketing cars in a holiday spree. But don't worry -- these are good tickets. The yellow slips of paper will be placed on windshields and in windows to remind drivers that visible gift packages may attract thieves.

Conyers Police Chief David Cathcart explains the program:

"If you leave packages in clear view in your car, then you might be providing an opportunity to a thief that can be avoided if you are just a little more carefull. Even if you put your packages in the car and think you're only going to be in another store for a few minutes, you're still at risk because it only takes a moment for someone to take advantage of a situation."

Programs like this rarely get publicity, either because good news doesn't sell or because they're well-intentioned but ridiculous. In this case, the yellow tickets seem nice enough, but wouldn't they just serve as flags for thieves looking for cars with unprotected packages? Do you think this is a good idea or silly?

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1. Sounds like the cops have good intentions. But I would also think they have better things to do than play "nanny state" to people who are too foolish to lock their packages in their trunk.

David S. at 11:11AM on Dec 13th 2007

2. I put things in the passenger compartment of my car because I feel the trunk is no place for things that need to stay clean and free from damage. The trunk is where I keep, the spare tire, tools, bottles of motor oil, transmission fluid and antifreeze. If your trunk is clean (and empty) enough to put everything from dry cleaning to Christmas presents, God bless you! I do try to cover or hide 'high-ticket' items like my laptop, PDA, digital camera MP3 player etc. but must do so in the passenger compartment. If the police really want to help people in this holiday season, they should set-up 'decoy' cars loaded with visible goods and bust those that try to steal them!

Keith J. Mohrhoff at 11:38AM on Dec 13th 2007

3. Thieves need Christmas presents too!!!
Love the sinner, hate the sin!

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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.