A Missouri family's rental car was broken into outside an East Oakland fast-food restaurant while they in the Bay Area for a memorial.
"They ran in for three to seven minutes to get three hamburgers and when they came out, the windows were smashed," said Walt Disney, a distant relative of the Mickey Mouse creator.
Cell phone video from a witness shows a young man, in the rain, peeking into the family's rented Chevy Traverse. He had emerged from a white Chevy Malibu parked next to the SUV.right before the family's flight back home.Also stolen were sympathy cards because the family had attended a memorial for Disney’s father-in-law.
"I think it’s fair to call it an epidemic, because that’s what it is. I mean, the car rental people are like ‘OK, another one,'" Disney said.
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