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mbbored:
This incident happened to me last weekend, and I was hoping somebody could advise as to how I should have handled the situation.

Saturday morning, I got up at 8:30, and took my dog for a quick walk around the block.  When I came to the house that was catti-corner to mine, I saw the car parked in front of their house had its window smashed in, stereo ripped out and glove compartment torn to pieces.  I went to the front door and rang the doorbell.  Soon, a woman came down in her bathrobe and cracked the window of the front room, shouting "What do you want?"  I said that the car in front of her house had been broken into.  She told me that it wasn't her car and to go away, then slammed the window shut.

Should I have just continued walking past the car?  Should I have just called the police?  Or was I right to talk to that woman?

guihong:
I think you should have called the police.  The owner might have been identified, and the car itself might have been stolen.

gui

JeanFromBNA:
Call the police.  They could find out to whom the car was registered, and contact them.

Alida:
Definitely call the police. 

keelhaulrose:
I recently talked to a cousin of mine who is a police officer, and we had a talk kind of like this pertaining to an RV I saw that had a smashed window.
He said that while it is nice to call the non-emergency number, unfortunately there's not a lot the police can do. They can look up who it is registered to, however many police departments are very busy and won't have time to go tell someone that their car is broken into, and where my cousin lives, if the police are called a report has to be filed, and some people don't find it worth it and don't like the hassel.
I have to disagree with the above posters. The person who owns the car will find out about it eventually (unless they've abandoned the car, in which case it doesn't matter) and you should leave it to them to see if they want the police summoned or not.
I'd reccomend differently if you had witnessed the crime itself, however it's probably best you stay out of it.

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