https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/11/25/motor-vehicle-thefts-have-risen-in-the-bay-area-which-is-the-most-stolen-vehicle/

Five years ago, Santa Clara vape store manager Darwin Torda proudly parked his beloved Honda Civic, freshly outfitted with a new set of wheels, in front of his house and locked it. When he walked out the next morning, it was gone, a broken piece of children’s scissors left on the ground the only clue to how thieves might have made off with it.

“They used something like the safety scissors that kindergartners use in elementary school to get into my car through the locking mechanism,” Torda, 28, said. “I’ve lived in Santa Clara my entire life, and that happened right in front of my house, and it’s crazy.”