PITTSBURGH — Denise Kamon’s back window of her Ford Explorer is now covered with a black garbage bag after thieves shattered her window with a crowbar, taking anything and everything.
“I was completely devastated,” Denise Kamon tells Channel 11. “I just got this car, made one car payment on it.”
She was at a comedy show Saturday night at PPG Paints Arena and when she got back to her car at the Bluff’s Parking Lot a few blocks away, she discovered the damage.
“I called 911 and they said, ‘Don’t move the car, stay where you are,’” Kamon said. “They said ‘Don’t move; if you feel like you’re in danger, call 911 again.’”
So she waited.
“I called 911 again 20 minutes later, and said, ‘When is somebody coming?’ They’re like, ‘We put you on the will call list.’ I was like, ‘What is a will call list?’ They said, ‘They didn’t feel like they were in danger, so they’ll call you.’”
Kamon said she’s not the only one. Channel 11 went out to the parking lot and found five more piles of shattered glass from car windows.
Kamon says she waited nearly two hours for a call back - she was already home and likely the thieves were too.
“This is ridiculous,” Kamon added. “You should be able to go to an event and not worry about your stuff getting busted into and nobody there to help you get justice.”
Pittsburgh Police say their Telephone Reporting Unit handles non-emergency calls, including property damage, minor theft, and harassment.
But Kamon says thieves wielding crowbars should be considered an emergency, especially if somebody walks up on them committing a crime.
“If people are afraid of getting caught or getting seen, they’ll hurt you too, so they don’t get in trouble,” Kamon tells Channel 11.
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