Already have that covered via Kythereia, thanks.
In the midst of all this, I have some good news.
I got a notice from the county today. The homeowner’s grant application I filed a couple months ago has been approved. I’ll have a nice check by 7 December.
My experience w/pawn shops/stolen stuff is that as soon as they hear “cops/stolen merchandise” is they immediately claim : that??? :smack: gosh, we sold that yesterday. And that’s for stuff w/serial numbers, let alone virtually untraceable shit like DVD s and such. any chance you did something to them that would personalize them?
'Fraid not. The creep(s) probably sold them to their friends anyway, and word is the one who was spending nights here has pulled a disappearing act. Then again, we got the word from a known liar.
Why would you wait? Compared to the value of your property and the hassle involved if the kid comes back with a copied key, locks are cheap.
The kid can’t open the dead lock, so it’s not a rush job.
There was a little misunderstanding when we taking inventory of what’s left. We still have the PotCs.
Exactly right. And if the known liar’s right, Creep #1 isn’t around at the moment. We’ll ask maintenance keep an eye out for Creep #2’s truck, just in case.
So, Lute, how about an update?
Think so? Have you ever heard of Lock Bumping? I didn’t know about this until a couple of weeks ago when I went to change the locks on my house.
When you do, please tell us the kid was dumb enough to use you as a reference on his job applications.
No word from the cops yet but the insurance will pay out a bit more than half of our estimate to replace the DVDs.
Oh yeah, the maintenance guys have a picture of creep #1 and will have the cops pick him up if they ever see him in the complex. The condo association can’t seem to keep any competent security staff around so they made a deal with the cops back when the last security contract was terminated.
Why so little? I thought homeowners’ policies usually paid out replacement value rather than market value.
Lack of receipts, probably. All the insurance people had to go on was the say-so from a couple of friends.
What’s a homeowner’s grant? I wonder if the give them around here.
Sorry for your loss, but…
LOCK YOUR FUCKING DEADBOLT!
Really, not kidding around at all. ALWAYS lock the deadbolt. Hell, locking knob locks are a joke. Crap, half the houses I unlock I don’t need anything but my state issued ID (yeah Alabama finally got around to licensing locksmiths) or a old credit card.
Deadbolts are not the perfect answer they can be bypassed, but they take a little more work than a dinking locking knob lock.
Once again sorry your stuff went poof. Of course, now people know you got stuff, coming back is a possibility, either them or thier friends they talk to.
Lock the dead bolt, is all I am saying. Make the fuckers work a bit more for it.
Osip
It’s a program run by the county dept. of human services. Any family living in the county and earning up to $77,407 as of their last federal tax return is entitled to either $300 or $600 (plus $75 for each claimed dependent), depending on income and assets.
If he can do that, what good is changing the locks? If he can bump the deadbolt, he can bump the deadbolt and the knob.
This. Probably too late for the OP either way, but if anyone else does find themselves perusing pawn shops and the like for missing valuables, don’t say anything to the pawn shop employees about it. A friend made that mistake, and all trace of the goods had vanished when the police detective got around to checking it out.
They also make pick guns that operate on much the same principle and make standard pin tumbler locks pretty much useless. That said, I really doubt picking tools are used in a significant amount of burglaries.