How Amazon Helps Thieves Break Into Your Car
How Amazon Helps Thieves Break Into Your Car
For just around $50.00, individuals can purchase a two-in-one, car-door lock pick “decoder” that can grant users entry to locked doors and trunks “within 3 minutes,” the product description boasts.
An ambitious criminal can also purchase a blank key fob and key programmer, which would allow him to easily and inconspicuously steal the car. On the item page for the SODIAL(R) 2014 CK-100 Auto Key Programmer, Amazon neatly bundles the item with a blank key fob for Honda Accords (for 2003-2007 models only) for the low price of $120.67 — shipping is free with Amazon Prime.
Of course, one could argue that if an individual is desperate enough, he can simply break a window and gain access to a car — no one would expect Amazon to stop selling baseball bats or crowbars.
Yet for a company so devoted to not offending anyone’s sensibilities, it seems rather odd for it to have dozens of pages of tools for would-be criminals.
As The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf wrote in 2016, San Francisco saw more than 258,999 car break-ins in 2015 — a stunning 77 percent increase from 2010. That number went up to more than 30,000 in 2017.
If Amazon won’t sell gun-shaped phone cases because some Democratic politicians refer to them as “ticking time bombs,” one would think they’d stop potentially abetting actual crimes.
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