'Inside Edition' crew gets robbed while reporting on San Francisco Bay Area crime By Nicole Darrah | Fox News An "Inside Edition" crew who baited "smash and grab" thieves to reported on robberies in California's San Francisco Bay Area were the victims of a true robbery, and had thousands of dollars worth of equipment stolen. (YouTube/Inside Edition) An "Inside Edition" crew who baited "smash and grab" thieves in California's San Francisco Bay Area were the victims of a true robbery — resulting in the loss of thousands of dollars worth of equipment. In an effort to report on rampant robberies in the area, "Inside Edition" employees filmed themselves planting GPS trackers inside items that were placed in a car parked in an area well-known for theft. The trackers were placed inside of a $250 speaker and a purse just before reporter Lisa Guerrero explains "for [their] last trick," they also placed video cameras throughout the car in the event the products get stolen. Sure enough, two people were soon spotted robbing the vehicle. A man was seen in the segment smashing open the car's back window, pulling out the handbag and throwing it to a woman sitting nearby before removing the speaker. According to a man whose surveillance footage caught the incident, he said "it all lasted maybe 20 seconds." The "Inside Edition" crew then tracked down the speaker and confronted the duo as they walked into a train station. "You've got my speaker right there, you just broke into our car," Guerrero says, telling the man they've "got it on camera." While the man tries to shy away from the cameraperson, and, at one point even pushing the camera down, the reporter informs him "five million people are going to see [him] steal that." Refusing to give it back, the man says he's going to call his mother — an offer Guerrero encourages. "Inside Edition" said the man eventually left the speaker, and they later moved on to track the stolen purse, which was found in a garbage can. While the crew was interviewing the man captured on camera in the initial theft, their actual crew car was broken into via the "smash and grab" method, leaving "thousands of dollars worth of equipment" stolen. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, more than 31,000 people reported "smash and grab" robberies in the city in 2017 alone. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/1...eporting-on-san-francisco-bay-area-crime.html
Two of my relatives from the Philippines got their rental cars smashed and grabbed in SF. Its a shithole with good chowder.
In Summer 1990, my girlfriend and I worked in Southern California, and on weekends stayed at RV parks in our Volkswagen Westphalia pop-top camper van. On one trip, we took the Alcatraz tour, street parking someplace like the Embarcadero or Fisherman's Wharf. The island tour was hours long, the stories were about attempted escapes, and tourists rooted for the prisoners of decades earlier. After the tourist ferry back, we found a hole in the VW's side window. We had nothing of value, just food and sleeping bags, so he took only a couple of cheap things I've forgotten that were on the front seat. We didn't waste time finding a payphone and calling police, didn't even consider it. With a half-taped piece of leaky cardboard instead of a window for a couple more days in the cold Bay Area, it was cold sleeping in unheated RV parks, driving distances to tourist spots, and the long freeway drive home. The irony was that this happened during the Alcatraz tour.
I have done it maybe 6 years ago and enjoyed it. A nice way to spend 1/2 a day (including all travel and boat ride etc...). FWIW - I found a visit to the Yuma territorial prison just as interesting. It is not a must have thing to do imho, but definitely a nice thing to do.
yeah i guess there is one tour company that actually goes on the island. Planning to go to SF Dec 14-16th to get a Christmas vibe.
Honestly, if you like hiking, Angel Island is just as nice if not nicer - as a way to spend some time on an island in the bay area.
ehh, not much into hiking. probably shit weather too, who knows. hoping its not gonna rain (although everything is cancellable as of right now at least so if it looks shitty I'll cancel it a week before) I heard the Nutcracker there is pretty epic, but its like $180 a ticket. blah
Anyone ever go to that TikiBar at the Fairmont? Thinking of doing that after seeing Bourdain go there.
Definitely. I saw it 28 years ago, about 28 years after the prison had closed in the early 60s. So how could the tour have possibly changed? reunion of prisoners and guards http://theweek.com/speedreads/792488/former-alcatraz-guards-inmates-hold-last-reunion-rock Colin Kaepernick visits http://www.ktvu.com/news/colin-kaepernick-celebrates-unthanksgiving-day-on-alcatraz-island
Did the Alcatraz tour in high school. It was awesome. Want to take kids next time I’m down there for a Warriors game
