Leaving valuables in the car is like “inviting” thieves to steal

Recently, the clip recorded the scene of a thief breaking the glass of a branded car Toyota Fortuner very easily in the middle of the day, making many viewers bewildered.

Accordingly, the thief approached the side glass, used a small heavy object to throw it hard, causing the glass to shatter. After that, this guy reached in to take a bag from the car and quickly left.

(Video source: Tiktok/Nguyen Tran Duy)

In fact, many “thieves” tend to no longer use somewhat complicated skills such as opening doors, breaking car keys to theft More items that have applied new tricks like the clip above. The use of an object to break glass seemed simple, but it hit the weak point of car glass.

According to many experts in automotive engineering, the glass part of the car is usually very strong, even when a strong force such as using a stick or brick is not necessarily broken. However, it is possible that just using a hard object, with a small cross-section, hitting a point on the surface can cause the whole piece of glass to shatter.

Many cases of broken glass have found small metal pellets the size of a finger with sharp edges or most commonly motorcycle spark plugs in cars. These are the objects that crooks use to throw hard to break the glass and take away valuables inside the car.

Small, heavy and sharp objects like motorcycle spark plugs have become the new crime-fighting tools for thieves. (Illustrated image)

Therefore, experts give advice to car owners to park car In crowded places, easy to see and it is best to park the car in a guarded place, especially at night to avoid unnecessary risks.

In addition, advice for car owners is to immediately quit the habit of leaving valuables in the car such as cash, computers, phones, bags, … because this is not necessarily a safe place. , it is very easy for crooks to peek and destroy, causing both loss of items and damage to the car.

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