This is my porch. Today while I was taking a nap someone broke into the upstairs apartment and stole two TV’s, a Playstation, etc. The house is a double and I live in the lower half. They broke in my climbing on the deck that you see. I was napping in the bedroom straight back from the door. In other words, they put a ladder up to the deck and carried out TV’s etc. while I napped below them. I did hear noise but didn’t look until they were pulling out of the driveway.
Chilling poolside.
My “guard dog” didn’t bark either. At first I was mad at myself for not looking out and/or checking what was going on sooner. My neighbor said I was much safer because I didn’t look or go outside. This happened about 2:00 pm in broad daylight.
The police spent at least an hour checking with neighbors and getting finger prints. I was glad they took it seriously.
I hope you’re all staying cool. Have a great weekend, Tree 🙂
Oh my — I’m glad you’re safe.
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Thanks!
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Mezz is right — I think if they go through all that work they must have been targeting your upstairs neighbors and it’s just good you didn’t interfere.
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I’m glad you’re safe too. Just as well your “guard dog” stayed quiet – you are better off for not having disturbed the intruders.
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After thinking about it I agree. It would have been bad to interrupt them and being in the middle of the day I wouldn’t have hesitated.
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Omg what a scare thank God you are safe Hope they can catch them and recover your things really sorry you went through this
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I saw and gave a description of the panel van. The neighbor across the street has three security cameras so the police have asked them to provide the tapes.
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What a horrible experience. I always think it is not so much about the stuff that was stolen – but about the fact that somebody invaded your privacy. Glad that you are safe!
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I didn’t even get anything stolen – the scary part was that I was home when it happened. I could have very easily gone outside to see who was making noise.
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That’s exactly what I mean – it’s not about the financial loss. It’s about losing the feeling of security.
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OH how scary! I WAS robbed – years ago. The last day of school, I was only there 4 hours and I got home, someone had popped my front door and took my laptop and my jug of spare change. They left my son’s Playstation and all of his games. Go figure. They also got my neighbor – stole the spare change and stole an elderly laptop he didn’t use anymore. Actually sat down and PLAYED on his game cube but left it – and their lunch trash – in the floor. They also left the rifle in the closet. Sheesh.
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Any robbery is scary! It was interesting the police checked the whole house before they would let my neighbor go back inside. I’m assuming that is protocol. In your case it would have been very important. I had seen the guys drive away so I was pretty confident they were gone. Did you freak out at the front door being open?
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I was completely weirded out. I KNEW I shut it and locked it. I’m glad my son was away at camp when it happened. When the police saw it was ‘just’ my laptop they even knew which kids it was – they had a history and the judge would continually smack their wrists and hand them back over to their parents. Soooo disgusting.
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Terrible! And very frightening. I wonder why so many people want to steal Playstations…
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I’m so glad I didn’t have my nosy glasses on 😉
I’m just guessing but I assume the Playstations sell well and they are small and valuable.
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I hope they catch the culprits!
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The important thing is that you are safe and were blissfully asleep. I think it’s obvious they knew there was better swag upstairs. Hope the police investigate known contacts of the upstairs neighbors. These crimes are hard to solve unless they are part of a pattern.
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Thanks! They have a shot at catching them because the guy across the street has a camera that shows our driveway. He wasn’t home when the police came but he’s agreed to show it to the them. I think it was someone either my neighbor or her adult daughter knew. My son has his weightlifting equipment outside for the summer. Easily worth $1,000 but they didn’t touch it.
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How scary! Knowing a crime was in progress so close to you and you were unaware is unsettling. I know the feeling. Last week we saw helicopters and a SWAT team at a property 1/2 mile from my house- turned out there was a man holed up there keeping a woman hostage for who knows how long (the property was a closed former exotic animal rescue) and nobody in the neighborhood knew anyone was still on the property! Glad you are ok, and I bet your watchdog would have let you know if they were breaking into your house. It’s probably better that he didn’t alert you to the robbery in progress upstairs, I agree.
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It is very unsettling! We had a similar SWAT team experience in my old neighborhood. They had our street shut down as well as all surrounding homes evacuated. It too was a hostage situation. I had never noticed the neighbors involved before the drama and they disappeared immediately after.
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That would be a kind of hard thing to “live down,” I think.
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When something like this happens I’m always bothered that some sense of self preservation didn’t warn me. Though, in this case, perhaps that sense was what lulled you back sleep?
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My landlord used to rent out the garage (it’s huge.) He’s had some renters that were too loud IMO. He is no longer renting it out but my napping brain forgot and dismissed the noise as someone using the garage. If I wasn’t going to call the police, going back to sleep was the best case scenario 😉
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What a frightening experience! I’m glad you’re safe.
it happened to my parents years ago while they were in the garden during the afternoon. Just a few things stolen but I remember how they felt (scared) knowing they were here…….
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Oh no, how scary!! The nerve of these people! Just glad you’re OK… Did the neighbor’s camera reveal anything?
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