Family Pulls Son From College in California After Their Car is Robbed While Moving Him Into Dorm
“three thousand dollars in a bag my husband put under the seat with three passports, social security cards, and my son’s high school diploma and birth certificate”
These folks were moving their son into a dorm, and thieves smashed the windows of their rental car and took pretty much everything. This happened in Oakland, of course.
FOX News reports:
Florida family pulls teen from California college after losing thousands in ‘bipping’ car robbery
A Florida family is no longer sending their teen to a California college after their car was “bipped” when they moved their son into his dorm on Saturday, costing them thousands of dollars in lost belongings and important personal documents.
Rhomel Crossman had just graduated from a Florida high school and was slated to attend Lincoln University in downtown Oakland this fall — but after his family was robbed, they told KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco they intend to rescind his enrollment.
“In Oakland, California, you just gotta be careful,” Crossman’s mother, Nerissa Murray Watson, told the outlet. “Everything is totally gone.”
Crossman’s family flew to Oakland on Saturday and rented a car with Thrifty, the mother said. After registering their son, the family left their rental car parked a block away from Lincoln University on the corner of 15th and Franklin Street to pick up food at a Jamaican restaurant nearby.
When they returned 15 minutes later, the windows of the rented white Nissan Rogue were broken and their five suitcases stolen.
Among their contents were “three thousand dollars in a bag my husband put under the seat with three passports, social security cards, and my son’s high school diploma and birth certificate,” Watson said.
The family also lost a sleep apnea machine that they said they’d left in the car, per KTVU.
“Bipping” is a slang term that comes from the police language “burglary in progress” and refers to smash-and-grab robberies from unattended cars, according to the San Francisco Standard. Thieves commonly use a “bipping hammer,” a small, easily concealed tool used to easily and quietly break car windows without much force.
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Dial 911 and leave message at the tone, the police have been defunded.
BLM is smiling.
I’d like to by sympathetic but did they not see any news of what they were sending their kid into? No responsible parent would drop any kid near that place.
Now, this family can get a grip on reality. They’ll insist that their son spend the next few years constructively — not wastefully:
If he becomes fluent in Spanish or Portuguese then he can attend college in Argentina or Brazil. They’ll save a shit-ton of money, and their son will have far better career prospects five years from now.
I’ve seen this done.
It isn’t complicated.
Idk why more don’t do it.
I wouldn’t recommend Brazil at the moment. Their son could probably attend University of Florida and emerge debt free in 4 years.
Meanwhile in other news:
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Send him to trade school so he can learn something useful… and make a bunch of money. A college degree is not a guarantee of success.
You doubt me? Read the LI item on the UC Berkeley arsonist who was arrested last week.
Fwiw I agree – but I’d still argue that a year or two or three investment to achieve level B2 or C1 fluency will pay handsome dividends late on – in any trade, in any profession. Plus, it greatly expands one’s romantic options : )
(Not every 18-year-old is emotionally grown-up enough to handle trade school just saying)
Oakland? Where have they been these last years. It was never going to be safe.
a 100% no noooo
a 200% college free ride to oakland wouldnt be worth it
unless the student was taking firearms training and could legally carry