Thieves *love *quiet neighborhoods.
Sorry about your bad experience, no one deserves to be invaded in this manner, but hopefully you have learned the fallacy of this kind of logic. Just because you live in a “quiet neighborhood” doesn’t make you immune to thievery or crime. B&E is typically a crime of convenience; these guys probably tried all of your neighbors’ doors and robbed you because it was easy. Had your doors all been locked they would have just moved on.
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Holy shit! This is something I’ve always been terrified of having happen to me, from when I was a kid.
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Check your spare/extra keys. Are any missing?
May I recommend now keeping keys and wallets/purses in the bedroom? We have always kept our keys and wallets on the dresser in the bedroom
God-fucking-damnit. I hope the bastards are caught, and their balls lit afire.
Wasn’t it you who noticed someone lurking/casing your place a few months ago? I think I’d be looking into an alarm system about now. My neighbor has one that doesn’t connect to a service, it just blares loudly when house sitters forget the combination (I only did it once). If you guys aren’t home, they can still easily kick a door in, esp. one not visible from the street. So sorry to hear about this!
ALL of ourkeys are missing, that’s what our problem is today. We have to have the Corvette towed to the dealer to be re-keyed. Then we’ll go to home depot and get new dead bolts.
aruvqan, we will now.
needscoffee, yes :smack: I’d forgotten that. I do lock all the doors when I’m home alone and we lock up when we leave. Hubby just didn’t think anyone would be so brazen as to come in when he’s home.
I guess when one is desperate enough…
The other thing is our house and the door they came in are right out in the open, easily visable from the street and our neighbors’ houses.
I’m amazed that whatever they were doing was enough to knock a picture off the wall. They must have known you were home.
When I get a new door lock, I’m buying one of the push-button ones. They’re really convenient.
Well, we just got back from a frustrating trip. We rented a car, because we can’t get the 'Vette re-keyed until tomorrow. We went to DMV to get my driver’s license replaced. There were at least 75 people ahaead of me. We left, I’ll wait until our new debit cards arrive and do it online.
Then we went to the neighborhood where hubby’s wallet was found.
Voila! we found 
My glasses, crushed without lenses. 
my grocery club card, the one from my key ring, and :mad: the owner’s manual from the truck. We talked to someone who lives there, but they never saw the truck.
Damn, picunurse! That sucks! Glad no one was hurt, though. Possessions can be replaced, people cannot. I know that sounds cliched and all, but there it is!
Be careful about those. They’re the easiest to pick, and they’re the most likely to cause you to lock yourself out.
The most secure is the kind that takes a key on both sides.
I just had my garage broken into. They cut the wires on the motion-activated flood lights and jimmied the door.
What they took amounted to about $700. What they left behind was worth thousands, and completely untraceable.
Must’ve been kids. The tools alone were worth more than the stuff they took. Hell, the fishing tackle/boxes/rods/reels were worth more.
The sheriff deputies are pretty sure they know who is doing it, and they’re watching them.
God damned bastards. At least they didn’t get in the house.
That would freak me out.
But not nearly as much as it would freak them out if I was there when they broke in.
I wish you the best, Pic.
Wait a minute…they broke into you house at 7:15 in the morning? When it’s light out? And people aren’t deeply asleep, but in the process of waking up? And within 30 minutes not only had they dumped the wallet but the person who found it had called you? That is just amazing! So glad you are both alright, but who in the heck breaks into a home at that time?
What did they take, then?
I knew a guy who had his entire keyring full of keys stolen. Off of his nightstand. While he was lying there sleeping. :eek:
Yes, it was light out, around 7:15am The call came at 8:30. If it had been during the night, we have motion activated lights in the driveway and garage. I think that would scare people away, since you’d be clearly visible from the street.
Why they chose that time of the day, your guess is as good as mine.
A friend of mine got cleaned out a few months ago.
He hadn’t armed his security system because his cleaning lady drops by that day of the week. Whoever broke in got away with all his electronics, including a huge flat screen and his laptop and desktop. They took all of his very expensive suits and shoes, a leather Shiatsu massage chair, and some of his power tools. They also got away with the contents of a small safe in his closet. It had about $3000 in cash, three one ounce gold coins, and a medallion his grandfather had brought over from the old country as a child. Oh and a pistol. The safe was one of those crappy fire safes that are really nothing more than a thin outer shell of metal over insulation. They broke into it using a hammer and screwdriver to make a square pattern of holes in the top. The worst part of all this is that the thieves used an old van in my friend’s garage to haul all the stuff away. He had gutted the thing and put a cot in it for overnight stays out of town. It was such a piece of crap that he just left the keys in the glove box.
My friend had installed a security camera over the garage a month earlier to try and catch some kids that were spray painting crap on his garage door. About 15 minutes before the cleaning lady pulls up that ugly freakin’ van leaves the garage. The van was found abandoned a couple miles away completely empty. I can just imagine the joy the thieves must have felt when they found the keys to that damn van.
We got new keys for the 'Vette today…$300.01 :eek: No sign of the truck.
I hate the feeling of being a victim. I hate the fact that the victimization continues after the crime. Someone does a BAD thing and I get punished. I hate the fact that the shotgun that was locked in it’s case, in the closet is now loaded in the bedroom. It scares me as much as the thought of the thieves coming back. It makes hubby feel he has some control. I’ll get him to put it away in a day or two.
Yes, I’m feeling sorry for myself. Yes, I’m angry. I guess I’m right on track, grieving the loss.
I’ll shut up and go to bed now.
I’m so sorry. I had my car broken into. That was violation enough. It’s gotta be 100x worse in the home + all that was taken!