I went to a car park in the middle of Manchester last weekend and went through the barrier, parked the car, looked on the ground and saw about 100 piles of car window glass
, but it's definitely not just in the cities.
A few years ago, whilst I was surveying Cumbria I met a lot of people who lived and work in the middle of nowhere and many of them had their cars and property broken into at least 3 or 4 times a year.
It's not all bad news though - last year I was in the middle of stockport in a big area of greenspace/nature reserve and heard a motorbike whizz across the fields with a couple of young lads without helmets on the back. Apparently, they'd just broken into a car in the car park and were making their getaway. They hadn't got more than a few hundred metres away before a police helicopter lifted up from behind some nearby trees (like Airwolf
) and chased them to the river. A police motorbike turned up a few minutes later, followed by a some more on mountainbikes and even more in cars - Busted!