{"id":434225,"date":"2026-08-16T02:15:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T02:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434225\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T02:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T02:15:04","slug":"the-mysterious-case-of-glen-parks-most-polite-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434225\/","title":{"rendered":"The mysterious case of Glen Park\u2019s most polite thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published Aug. 15, 2026at6:00am<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">It started like any other morning in Glen Park, a charming, often foggy, village near the city\u2019s southern border. But when Alex Hao approached her car, she noticed a door was ajar. Then she spotted the contents of her glove box strewn across the front seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Two pairs of sunglasses \u2014\u00a0the only items that had been in the vehicle \u2014 were gone from the center console.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Hao might have assumed that she or her husband had forgotten to lock the car had she not just seen a YouTube video laying out precisely this new flavor of crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Goodbye, smash-and-grab. Hello, hack-and-nab. The altogether less messy technique allows tech-savvy thieves to spend a few hundred dollars to build a tool to get inside a car with nearly no fuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Aug. 15, 2026at6:00am It started like any other morning in Glen Park, a charming, often foggy, village&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[172436,723,7925,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-434225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-bipping","tag-crime","tag-glen-park","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}