I am so, so pi*&ed! (Warning – kind of long post but I need to vent.)
I came home from work Monday to find my dog locked in our attached garage.
I thought, this is odd, maybe my husband forgot to lock her in her room (which is very pluch and comfortable by the way) in the lower level of the house. I let her out for a pee, pulled the car in the garage and went in the house. When I got in, I thought, this is odd – Jeff left the entry closet door open. (We are kind of anal folk – things have their places in our house.) So, I headed down the stairs to turn off her light and radio and tidy up the room a bit. On my way down the stairs, I thought – gosh, it is really cold and I smell fresh air.
I rounded the corner and the basement door was open. My first reaction was – what the heck? Then I saw the window right next to the door – smashed to pieces – glass was every where. Then I saw the two computer desks – stuff pulled off the shelves and laying all over the place. Lights were on all over and closet doors opened. Her room – which also houses our gun collection was open. By that time I had called 911 and they told me to not touch anything. As I was reporting the crime I went back upstairs and looked at the bedroom. Drawers pulled out, clothes strewn all over – the closet had clothes pulled off the shelves and all the boxes and items on the floor was in a jumbled mess. I thought, no – this only happens in movies – not here! The dispatcher told me to leave the house. I had also called my husband and left a frantic message on his work machine and when he called me back yelled at me for walking through the house – I didn’t think about the fact that someone may still be there.
The local PD came and did a walk through – then a detective came and collected some evidence. Would you believe that they took a V8 jusice can from the fridge, drank some and then left the can on my piano? Dumb.
But here is where things stop making sense… We have 3 very current laptops – 2 in plain view – not taken. I have some very expensive jewelry pieces in my jewelry box as well as on a ring tree in one of the drawers they rummaged through – no piece of jewelry was taken. All of our medications (none prescription) are in the linen closet – not touched. They were able to locate the gun safe keys and opened 3 of the 4 doors – left all the high powered long rifle stuff – even an AR15 and a collectable Beretta Over & Under. So – what did they take? My 80GB iPod, Sony Cyber-shot camera, Beretta 3032 Tomcat (my favorite pistol!), Walther P22 with laser sight and my Nintendo DS. And you want to know the crowning glory? I had my Sims2 game in the Nintendo and I was at a pretty good spot – all that work is down the tubes.
I was SO thankful that Tara (dog) was not harmed. Someone had the decency to lock her in the garage where she would be safe. I think I would have been beside myself if she would have been harmed or missing. (No kids, so she is my kid.)
Tuesday was spent making repairs to a door that they tried to force through as well as boarding a window up. We felt so paranoid, neither me nor my husband wanted the house unattended. I wondered what they would come for next.
Wednesday – at 6:30pm – the door bell rings. There are 2 county cops in our driveway. There was another break-in that am – the guys actually used my gun. And – they were able to aprehend one person. He confessed to our break-in, told us the location of our other hand gun and gave them names of 5 other guys – which hopefully was the name of the others involvd in our break-in. As of Friday am, they actually had 4 of the 5 arrested! Can you believe it? I actually have faith in our local PD now. 2 of the guys were local – aged 19 and 20 and the other 2 were minors. Sick. I am thinking drug money based on what they took.
It still creeps me out. Jeff and I are continually looking at what we can do to make our house more thief unfriendly. We have beefed up our doors, are looking at security systems and are pondering what to do with the lower level windows (one of the other windows had a screen ripped off, but it looked like they dcided that wasn’t the best way in).
I am sad to say that I think we will see a lot more of this happening with the economy.
I came home from work Monday to find my dog locked in our attached garage.
I thought, this is odd, maybe my husband forgot to lock her in her room (which is very pluch and comfortable by the way) in the lower level of the house. I let her out for a pee, pulled the car in the garage and went in the house. When I got in, I thought, this is odd – Jeff left the entry closet door open. (We are kind of anal folk – things have their places in our house.) So, I headed down the stairs to turn off her light and radio and tidy up the room a bit. On my way down the stairs, I thought – gosh, it is really cold and I smell fresh air.I rounded the corner and the basement door was open. My first reaction was – what the heck? Then I saw the window right next to the door – smashed to pieces – glass was every where. Then I saw the two computer desks – stuff pulled off the shelves and laying all over the place. Lights were on all over and closet doors opened. Her room – which also houses our gun collection was open. By that time I had called 911 and they told me to not touch anything. As I was reporting the crime I went back upstairs and looked at the bedroom. Drawers pulled out, clothes strewn all over – the closet had clothes pulled off the shelves and all the boxes and items on the floor was in a jumbled mess. I thought, no – this only happens in movies – not here! The dispatcher told me to leave the house. I had also called my husband and left a frantic message on his work machine and when he called me back yelled at me for walking through the house – I didn’t think about the fact that someone may still be there.
The local PD came and did a walk through – then a detective came and collected some evidence. Would you believe that they took a V8 jusice can from the fridge, drank some and then left the can on my piano? Dumb.
But here is where things stop making sense… We have 3 very current laptops – 2 in plain view – not taken. I have some very expensive jewelry pieces in my jewelry box as well as on a ring tree in one of the drawers they rummaged through – no piece of jewelry was taken. All of our medications (none prescription) are in the linen closet – not touched. They were able to locate the gun safe keys and opened 3 of the 4 doors – left all the high powered long rifle stuff – even an AR15 and a collectable Beretta Over & Under. So – what did they take? My 80GB iPod, Sony Cyber-shot camera, Beretta 3032 Tomcat (my favorite pistol!), Walther P22 with laser sight and my Nintendo DS. And you want to know the crowning glory? I had my Sims2 game in the Nintendo and I was at a pretty good spot – all that work is down the tubes.
I was SO thankful that Tara (dog) was not harmed. Someone had the decency to lock her in the garage where she would be safe. I think I would have been beside myself if she would have been harmed or missing. (No kids, so she is my kid.)
Tuesday was spent making repairs to a door that they tried to force through as well as boarding a window up. We felt so paranoid, neither me nor my husband wanted the house unattended. I wondered what they would come for next.
Wednesday – at 6:30pm – the door bell rings. There are 2 county cops in our driveway. There was another break-in that am – the guys actually used my gun. And – they were able to aprehend one person. He confessed to our break-in, told us the location of our other hand gun and gave them names of 5 other guys – which hopefully was the name of the others involvd in our break-in. As of Friday am, they actually had 4 of the 5 arrested! Can you believe it? I actually have faith in our local PD now. 2 of the guys were local – aged 19 and 20 and the other 2 were minors. Sick. I am thinking drug money based on what they took.
It still creeps me out. Jeff and I are continually looking at what we can do to make our house more thief unfriendly. We have beefed up our doors, are looking at security systems and are pondering what to do with the lower level windows (one of the other windows had a screen ripped off, but it looked like they dcided that wasn’t the best way in).
I am sad to say that I think we will see a lot more of this happening with the economy.
