A Honda Civic owner in Sacramento, California, met a tragic fate after thieves had stolen all the wheels off his car, right in their own driveway. Reddit user Rascal_life posted their sad situation on r/hondacivic, explaining how they had always parked their car in the garage since buying it 2 years ago. Unfortunately, a family member had suddenly passed, so they offered to store the deceased’s belongings in the garage, leaving them no choice but to park outside.
“They got me…” the defeated car owner wrote in their post. “Moved the car to the driveway for only three weeks before the wheels got jacked,” they explained. Hundreds were shocked to hear that this could happen in Sacramento, of all places. It’s unfortunate, but as one commenter puts it, “Most people in California pretty much live paycheck to paycheck, despite it being the hub for some of the richest people in the world,” resulting in those in poverty turning to thievery.
Another Redditor chimed in, claiming that New York is the same as well. “I had my 2004 civic messed with daily a few years back. They would try to steal the catalytic converter then realize I had a messed-up one with a hole in it and leave it,” they recalled. “Savages and lowlife scum. Car thieves are genuinely the lowest of the low,” they remarked angrily.
OP Believes This Crime Happened Because Local Police Aren’t Doing Their Jobs Properly
A third commenter points out how this sort of shameless neighborhood crime happens in places where police couldn’t care less about the locals, to which Rascal_life agreed 100%. “This as absolutely accurate,” they wrote. “I live in sac county but not sac city. We are are wholly reliant on county sherrifs.”
Luckily, OP reports that the thieves didn’t do any damage to the car besides taking the wheels. In other words, while the culprits were still heartless, they didn’t commit their crime in a barbaric fashion. As one user whimsically puts it, “This kind of courtesy is the modern equivalent of somebody stealing an old lady’s purse and returning the purse and apologizing and saying nothing personal, it’s just a part of the job.”
