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saint_monkeyso... they came in to our house this friday and took some of our stuff. kids, i guess, looking for things to steal and sell quick. not a lot of things, just our cds (every last one of them, except for 5 or so that were scattered around the house) and our dvd player and our vcr. they left a lot of things, which makes us think they were interrupted. one of my friends thinks that since they have succeeded once, and seen all our stuff, that they will be back for more.
they came in through our bedroom window, which had a 5 inch chink in our armor (our sliding windows and doors have 2 inch diameter dowels in thier tracks, making them unopenable, even by a gorilla, but the one in the bedroom was a few inches short, so that we could open the window on hot summer nights.) It was just enough for an intrepid thief to sneak an arm in, and with a short flexible dowel rod pulled from my own herb garden, dislodge the dowel in the window. a new, longer dowel has made that impossible now.
one of the real kickers is the fact that they entered via our patio door. we had it padlocked at one time, which made it an impassible 6 foot barrier blocking quick access and exit, plus anything you are hauling would have to be tossed or handed over in the middle of your quick escape. But the landlord and the cable folks (whose cable access port is in our patio) hassled us every month until we took the padlock off. (without it we are at the mercy of a cheesy door lock, like you might find on an interior bathroom or bedroom.) i can't help but think that the lock alone would have made us less of a target, had it been in place. But we've got it on the door now. The cable folks can suffer, unless they want to buy us another DVD player.
they came in through our bedroom window, which had a 5 inch chink in our armor (our sliding windows and doors have 2 inch diameter dowels in thier tracks, making them unopenable, even by a gorilla, but the one in the bedroom was a few inches short, so that we could open the window on hot summer nights.) It was just enough for an intrepid thief to sneak an arm in, and with a short flexible dowel rod pulled from my own herb garden, dislodge the dowel in the window. a new, longer dowel has made that impossible now.
one of the real kickers is the fact that they entered via our patio door. we had it padlocked at one time, which made it an impassible 6 foot barrier blocking quick access and exit, plus anything you are hauling would have to be tossed or handed over in the middle of your quick escape. But the landlord and the cable folks (whose cable access port is in our patio) hassled us every month until we took the padlock off. (without it we are at the mercy of a cheesy door lock, like you might find on an interior bathroom or bedroom.) i can't help but think that the lock alone would have made us less of a target, had it been in place. But we've got it on the door now. The cable folks can suffer, unless they want to buy us another DVD player.
