Turns out one of our neighbors had their home broken into last night.
This is the 2nd break-in I've heard about in our area within the last 2 weeks . . . not good at all.
Last night, I went outside for a smoke around 10 or so . . . just in time to see a car trying to turn the corner at my house and heard a sickening crunching sound. The car backed up and continued on the main road instead. Just after, one of our neighbors came through with his huge SUV and hit the object . . . didn't damage his Expedition but whatever it was got the shaft, so to speak.
My mom came out of the house and I had already went out to the ramp to see if I could get a better view of what was out there. Needless to say, with the street being dark somewhat and the street light at the corner lost inside Mama Maple tree, I could only make out a large flat dark object.
Mom got in her chair as our next door neighbor who lives on the other corner came out to see what all the noise was about. Both of them got out to the road and discovered a large flat screen tv.
Well, what was left of it anyways. The screen is busted and the plastic housing seriously cracked.
They drug it to the curb near our fence and left it there for the time being to see if anyone came by to claim it. If not, we were going to move it to the other side of our driveway where our trash is picked up and call the sanitation department to come pick it up with the regular trash collection on Thursday . . .
Flash forward to about 15 minutes ago . . .
Mom stuck her head in the bedroom while I was online and said she'd found out where the tv came from. Turned out, the new family that had moved in just a couple of weeks ago around the corner had came home last night to find their home broken into and their flat screen tv gone, along with their son's Playstation system.
Apparently a window was open, so they're surmising that whomever broke in came in through a window and opened the front door that way to get the tv and Playstation out. Either the burglar panicked or turned the corner too fast, but the tv fell from the back of their truck and it landed screen down in the street.
They think they know who did this . . . a "friend" with a small pickup that helped them move into their home. They'll get hold of one of our neighbors to help get the tv moved back to their house (we have a guy next street over who has a moving truck.)
I only hope they filed a police report . . . turns out they're making payments on the tv (it came from a Rent-To-Own store) and they'll have to have one in order to not be held liable for damages. . .
Makes us even gladder we had a security system installed in our home, which was a week ago last Friday after we heard about the other break-in.
Turns out a week ago Wednesday a sales rep from one of the biggest home security companies (blue/white logo . . . we'll call them XYZ) came by and talked with Mom while I was at work. He had a great special on installation going, so Mom decided to jump on it. It was installed that Friday, only the control panel was replaced and they were able to use the sensors and hook up into the old panel from our previous system (we had one installed via another company but we had to have it it turned off a few years ago b/c of less money coming in after Mom got sick.)
We've got two pendants (one for Mom and one for my brother) that works like the Life Alert . . . in case of medical emergency press the button and tell them what's happening and they'll send help. There's also 2 remotes for the keychains, but we keep one on the desk in the living room for when I wake up in the middle of the night and can't sleep and want to go outside for a smoke . . .
Otherwise, it works like the old system did, with some new bells and whistles . . . we have a 2way feature that allows us to communicate directly with the monitoring center from anywhere inside the house in case of emergency. We can have the option to have it connected directly to both the local police and fire departments as well (not sure if Mom chose that option or not. She never said.)
But I know the damn thing is loud as hell . . . as I accidentally found out last Monday morning when apparently I didn't press the button long enough on the remote to turn off the alarm before going outside with my coffee . . .
I think I broke a record for house-flying trying to get to the backdoor to get the alarm turned off . . .but least the cops didn't show up . . . I'd have had to make another pot of coffee.
Anyone else having issues with burglars in their areas?
This is the 2nd break-in I've heard about in our area within the last 2 weeks . . . not good at all.
Last night, I went outside for a smoke around 10 or so . . . just in time to see a car trying to turn the corner at my house and heard a sickening crunching sound. The car backed up and continued on the main road instead. Just after, one of our neighbors came through with his huge SUV and hit the object . . . didn't damage his Expedition but whatever it was got the shaft, so to speak.
My mom came out of the house and I had already went out to the ramp to see if I could get a better view of what was out there. Needless to say, with the street being dark somewhat and the street light at the corner lost inside Mama Maple tree, I could only make out a large flat dark object.
Mom got in her chair as our next door neighbor who lives on the other corner came out to see what all the noise was about. Both of them got out to the road and discovered a large flat screen tv.
Well, what was left of it anyways. The screen is busted and the plastic housing seriously cracked.
They drug it to the curb near our fence and left it there for the time being to see if anyone came by to claim it. If not, we were going to move it to the other side of our driveway where our trash is picked up and call the sanitation department to come pick it up with the regular trash collection on Thursday . . .
Flash forward to about 15 minutes ago . . .
Mom stuck her head in the bedroom while I was online and said she'd found out where the tv came from. Turned out, the new family that had moved in just a couple of weeks ago around the corner had came home last night to find their home broken into and their flat screen tv gone, along with their son's Playstation system.
Apparently a window was open, so they're surmising that whomever broke in came in through a window and opened the front door that way to get the tv and Playstation out. Either the burglar panicked or turned the corner too fast, but the tv fell from the back of their truck and it landed screen down in the street.
They think they know who did this . . . a "friend" with a small pickup that helped them move into their home. They'll get hold of one of our neighbors to help get the tv moved back to their house (we have a guy next street over who has a moving truck.)
I only hope they filed a police report . . . turns out they're making payments on the tv (it came from a Rent-To-Own store) and they'll have to have one in order to not be held liable for damages. . .
Makes us even gladder we had a security system installed in our home, which was a week ago last Friday after we heard about the other break-in.
Turns out a week ago Wednesday a sales rep from one of the biggest home security companies (blue/white logo . . . we'll call them XYZ) came by and talked with Mom while I was at work. He had a great special on installation going, so Mom decided to jump on it. It was installed that Friday, only the control panel was replaced and they were able to use the sensors and hook up into the old panel from our previous system (we had one installed via another company but we had to have it it turned off a few years ago b/c of less money coming in after Mom got sick.)
We've got two pendants (one for Mom and one for my brother) that works like the Life Alert . . . in case of medical emergency press the button and tell them what's happening and they'll send help. There's also 2 remotes for the keychains, but we keep one on the desk in the living room for when I wake up in the middle of the night and can't sleep and want to go outside for a smoke . . .
Otherwise, it works like the old system did, with some new bells and whistles . . . we have a 2way feature that allows us to communicate directly with the monitoring center from anywhere inside the house in case of emergency. We can have the option to have it connected directly to both the local police and fire departments as well (not sure if Mom chose that option or not. She never said.)
But I know the damn thing is loud as hell . . . as I accidentally found out last Monday morning when apparently I didn't press the button long enough on the remote to turn off the alarm before going outside with my coffee . . .
I think I broke a record for house-flying trying to get to the backdoor to get the alarm turned off . . .but least the cops didn't show up . . . I'd have had to make another pot of coffee.
Anyone else having issues with burglars in their areas?
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