@Nightowlz wrote:
Does not matter if you have a car alarm or anything else. If someone wants to break in your car it's as easy as breaking your window. I'm sorry your purse was stolen but why would you leave it in your car? You won't see anything worth stealing if you look inside my car. I don't keep anything in sight that I don't want stolen. If I was to leave my purse in my car it would be in the trunk. I do that all the time when we travel & stop to eat. I don't want to carry my purse, iPad etc so all those things go in the trunk. We also try to sit some place in the restaurant where we can watch our car while eating.
I do see the dilemma of going into someplace you cannot watch your purse or lock it up, so you feel safer with it in the car. And many cars don't have a trunk, and many that do are easily accessed from the back seat just folding down these days, so the whole, 'lock it in the trunk' thing really isn't that much safer for many, only keeps it out of sight and my send the bad guys to another car if they are only looking to steal the purse, not the car.
If I plan on going someplace that I don't want to or cannot babysit my purse, I've started leaving it at home and taking only what I need with me. And that can be as simple as a drivers license, credit or debit card, and keys. I make sure I am wearing something that I can put them in my pocket and just make do without the other things in my purse, or, if my wallet isn't in my purse, I don't really care if it gets stolen. Nothing else in there worth worrying about.