2006-10-18

Thieves

There are very few things I think should be illegal. Breaking into someone else's vehicle to steal their stereo equipment IS ONE OF THEM.

I was sitting in my living room at about 3:30 AM working on a robot (I'm nuts) when I heard a car alarm go off. I kinda got up, you will have to guess if I grabbed my gun, and I slowly headed out the door to see what was up (I expected a false alarm). Just as I opened the door I heard tires squealing and a car driving off. I checked everything out and didn't see anything. I was about to go inside but I heard a sound coming from my car that sounded like water (???). So I examined the situation further and realized that the sound was actually this:


The sound was actually shattered glass from the driver's side window crackling as it settled while it lay on the ground. I checked out the rest of the car.


I have my alarm set to very "not sensitive" since I ride a loud sportbike and didn't want it setting off my alarm every morning. But I was amazed that it took them throwing my woofer into the rear window from the inside of the car to set off the alarm.

The police took a while to respond but apparently there was another break-in in the neighborhood that night. And if you imagined that I took my gun out there with me, then you can also assume that the police were very good about it and didn't really care. (TPD is cool!)

Anyway, the thieves ran and didn't take anything. State Farm repaired the windows the next day!