Is Relocating to Hawaii Doable . . . - General Tiki

V VanTiki Member Hawaii Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 1046	V VanTiki Posted posted on Mon, Oct 2, 2006 11:39 AM On 2006-10-01 13:28, WenikiTiki wrote: But pretty much if you stick to basic rules you won't get robbed. Don't leave ANYTHING visible in your car. Don't leave your stuff laying unattended on the beach. Tie the car key to your swim suit if you must, but leave the camera and wallet in the hotel room or locked up in your glove box. Do this at your house or hotel, not in the parking lot. If you want to go on a cool hike, or snorkeling anything away from your car for awhile where it is sort of deserted see if you can bring along a friend to sit in a lawn chair by the car. This advice is all good. Never had our car broken into in Hawaii (but we had two break-ins in froofy Santa Monica - in our Driveway!) - but that is because we follow the above rules. Our cars are devoid of all stuff whenever we park anywhere. If we are heading to the beach or hiking, I take the cash and a credit card out of my wallet and put it in my bathing suit pocket (leaving the wallet at home). I also take the car key off of the keyring and leave the rest of the keys at home. It all goes swimming with me - and just about every shop near the beach is used to taking wet money :) On hikes we don't leave someone with the car - we just make sure that you can easily see the car is totally empty. Often we will put the back seats down on our hatchback to let folks peer into the empty trunk. A few years ago I did a hike with some friends at the Pali Highway Hairpin turn. Thieves broke into my friends car, and to get into the trunk they actually shredded their way through the back seats! A total mess - ant the worst part was their was nothing in the trunk in the first place! As far as home robbery - we did have problems when I was a kid - but once we got a dog our house was left alone. Also, the neighborhood really banded together to fight crime, and that helped a lot. I live on a cul-de-sac now, and most of my neighbors are retired, so crime is nil as anytime a car pulls down the street someone checks it out :)

On 2006-10-01 13:28, WenikiTiki wrote:
But pretty much if you stick to basic rules you won't get robbed. Don't leave ANYTHING visible in your car. Don't leave your stuff laying unattended on the beach. Tie the car key to your swim suit if you must, but leave the camera and wallet in the hotel room or locked up in your glove box. Do this at your house or hotel, not in the parking lot. If you want to go on a cool hike, or snorkeling anything away from your car for awhile where it is sort of deserted see if you can bring along a friend to sit in a lawn chair by the car.

This advice is all good. Never had our car broken into in Hawaii (but we had two break-ins in froofy Santa Monica - in our Driveway!) - but that is because we follow the above rules. Our cars are devoid of all stuff whenever we park anywhere. If we are heading to the beach or hiking, I take the cash and a credit card out of my wallet and put it in my bathing suit pocket (leaving the wallet at home). I also take the car key off of the keyring and leave the rest of the keys at home. It all goes swimming with me - and just about every shop near the beach is used to taking wet money :)

On hikes we don't leave someone with the car - we just make sure that you can easily see the car is totally empty. Often we will put the back seats down on our hatchback to let folks peer into the empty trunk. A few years ago I did a hike with some friends at the Pali Highway Hairpin turn. Thieves broke into my friends car, and to get into the trunk they actually shredded their way through the back seats! A total mess - ant the worst part was their was nothing in the trunk in the first place!
As far as home robbery - we did have problems when I was a kid - but once we got a dog our house was left alone. Also, the neighborhood really banded together to fight crime, and that helped a lot. I live on a cul-de-sac now, and most of my neighbors are retired, so crime is nil as anytime a car pulls down the street someone checks it out :)

Post #258428 by VanTiki on Mon, Oct 2, 2006 11:39 AM