Facepalm of the Day
In today’s Delaware Dialog, there is a post by Ginger Gibson that I have two issues with.
- David Hoffman, new to the Chris Coon’s Senate campaign, had his laptop stolen . . . from his car on Concord Pike. Leaving your laptop in your car?! In my humble opinion this makes Hoffman too dumb to work for Coons. Please, please send Hoffman back to DC.
- The headline of the post reads, “Small, wonder, big-city crime” is totally misleading. Big-city crime is now defined as the simple stealing of a halfwit’s laptop? Nah, not even close.
Well, the good news out of all of this is that sans-laptop, Hoffman’s ability to reek moronic havoc on the Coons’ campaign is severely limited.
Tags: Chris Coons, News Journal
Since when is concord pike the city?
I knew a campaign worker who, during the pendency of the election, sold his laptop to a campaign worker of the opposition. With all the candidate’s positions and strategies still on the hard drive. His boss found out about it.
What is the “pendency of the election”?
I too am too stupid to own a laptop I guess, or at least I was.
I had my laptop stolen from my car in my driveway (I live in deep suburbia). It was a rental car from one of those companies that drops the car off at your house. The 2 kids who dropped it off saw me put the laptop into the car in the morning, and when I got back that night I apparently forgot both to bring the laptop in and to lock the car. The next morning the laptop was of course gone.
I learned my lesson though. Last year there was a wave of car break-ins all over NCC, and they got my street. They were mostly targeting GPSs. They got into my (still unlocked) car, and found nothing of value. They even turned up their nose at my little pile of coins in the cupholder.
When you live in DC you get used to maki g sure that nothing is visible inside your car. I’ll be he claims to have lived in DC but reall lived in Chevy Chase.
When you live in ANY urban area you get used to making sure that nothing is visible in your car.
A few years ago the Catholic church close to me got a new priest and he was clearly not used to living in a city. I caught him outside one day where he came over to talk with me a City Councilperson and a City Director about how dangerous it was in the City. His car kept getting broken into and he wanted to do all sorts of construction to have a secure parking space. he gave us a litany of stuff taken from his car — iPods, a GPS unit, a golf bag (I think), valuable stuff — and all were in plain sight. I told him that his problem was not living in the City, it was leaving that stuff in plain view — where is was just as likely to be stolen from the parking lot at the Concord Mall as it was in WCC.
People just seem to think that they get some immunity from crime once they pass outside of the city limits, I think.
iPod, gps unit, gladiator movies, you know…normal stuff.
at the risk of being viewed as a Coons-apologist …
“In my humble opinion this makes Hoffman too dumb to work for Coons. Please, please send Hoffman back to DC.”
Are you jumping to the conclusion that the laptop was in plain sight? I don’t believe that this was stated/addressed in the article. If it was in the trunk, would you have come to the same conclusion?
It seems to me (in my humble opinion), that you may have come to your conclusion on VERY limited/incomplete information.
If you came to your conclusion, partly due to your disappointment that the Coons campaign website is not up to snuff, then I’d have preferred that you shared this. Quite a valid point. The campaign response is 1) the campaign is only 9 weeks old, 2) a good campaign website takes 4-6 weeks to put up (and it is better to get the right site up than to get a bad one up early and be stuck with it for 7 months), and that is AFTER you have hired the person/people to manage the project. We are told that their website will be up by next Monday.
Personally, I see it as a way in which the campaign was able to make lemonade out of lemons, to gain visibility at WNJ despite a pain in the neck circumstance.
Sending Hoffman back to DC is your appeal? Did you mention what he has done in the past (seems worthwhile in forming your action plan)? He worked on Kay Hagan’s successful campaign against Elizabeth Dole. Not bad creds, wouldn’t you say?
Laptops get stolen a lot from trunks. A hard lesson to learn is not to leave your laptop in your car. People I work with have had theirs stolen from their cars enough that I’ll take mine in with me even if I’m stopping at the grocery store.
I’d like to know how the hell to get into a trunk, especially when I’ve locked the keys in the car (the trunk has a door unlocker which does not seem to me to be a well-thought-through convenience).
I think you just pop the lock out of it. I’m sure it’s easier on some models than on others.
Most unlock buttons also unlock the trunk, which is why it’s no more secure there than anyplace else.
Thanks, though, for reminding me why I don’t live in the city — or at Concord Mall, either.
Nemski,
Get out of bed on the wrong side today? You are not usually this mean. David is new in town and I’m sure has a whole lot on his mind just finding his way around and adjusting to the new job. With all that going on it is easy to be forgetful. We’ve all done dumb things in our lives and suffered the consequences. You don’t need to pile on here.
Next we will see Coons claiming to be a communist in emails to supporters.