mikeofaustin
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Yep, school is out for the summer, and yet again this summer, our neighborhood is having problems. In the last two weeks, 3 cars has been broken into on my street alone, and there are only 3 houses on my street. 2 this Saturday, and 1 the week before. My vehicles have been o.k., but I'll talk to both of my neighbors tomorrow to get some more information. Also, I noticed that the streetlight is out. Perhaps a BB-gun? I'll investigate tomorrow and report back.
If anyone can remember, I had a problem with 'doorbell ditchers' last year when school was out. But, I also had my trucks contents scattered on my driveway the next morning after witnessing a couple of teens the previous night hanging 'out late' on my street. I can only draw conclusions, especially when I pulled my car over a couple of blocks down the road, over a few years earlier, and confronting the same teen for steeling solar powered yard lights from someones house. This 'teen' was spending the night at the house two houses away with friends before my trucks contents were spilled. There are only a very few (probably 2) teens that live in my neighborhood. The other kids are in middle school and do the 'doorbell ditching' thing. But, I know who everyone is. I have my targets, albeit just assumptions at this point.
I have the 'automatic doorbell' proximity alarm on my front door and it's great for letting me know when UPS is walking up the sidewalk, but if I point it at the street, it'll go off at every car going buy. I was thinking of some kind of break beam alarm, for when they walk up my driveway, or something like that. I just don't know. I need some outside ideas. After I make it, I'll give it to my neighbors in hopes that we'll catch the little scums, drag them into the creek and ___________ (or at least call the cops via citizens arrest). There is no excuse for breaking into cars. Kids or not! O.k., maybe, if they are really young, and you can go the the dad and tell him what they've been doing. But older kids need to know better.
For anyone that's interested, my GF was leaving today and was approached by my neighbor and told her about two 'residential' break in's off my street. That's was got my interested to look online at the local crime states from the police department. I don't see any residential break in's in the report, but did see the 'vehicle' break ins. I'll talk to him tomorrow too. My 'hood' is a very quiet neighborhood where there is NO crime. I suspect that it's just the kids breaking into vehicles looks for anything of value. A 'real' crook would hit bigger targets. My opinion anyway.
Yes, always drama.
If anyone can remember, I had a problem with 'doorbell ditchers' last year when school was out. But, I also had my trucks contents scattered on my driveway the next morning after witnessing a couple of teens the previous night hanging 'out late' on my street. I can only draw conclusions, especially when I pulled my car over a couple of blocks down the road, over a few years earlier, and confronting the same teen for steeling solar powered yard lights from someones house. This 'teen' was spending the night at the house two houses away with friends before my trucks contents were spilled. There are only a very few (probably 2) teens that live in my neighborhood. The other kids are in middle school and do the 'doorbell ditching' thing. But, I know who everyone is. I have my targets, albeit just assumptions at this point.
I have the 'automatic doorbell' proximity alarm on my front door and it's great for letting me know when UPS is walking up the sidewalk, but if I point it at the street, it'll go off at every car going buy. I was thinking of some kind of break beam alarm, for when they walk up my driveway, or something like that. I just don't know. I need some outside ideas. After I make it, I'll give it to my neighbors in hopes that we'll catch the little scums, drag them into the creek and ___________ (or at least call the cops via citizens arrest). There is no excuse for breaking into cars. Kids or not! O.k., maybe, if they are really young, and you can go the the dad and tell him what they've been doing. But older kids need to know better.
For anyone that's interested, my GF was leaving today and was approached by my neighbor and told her about two 'residential' break in's off my street. That's was got my interested to look online at the local crime states from the police department. I don't see any residential break in's in the report, but did see the 'vehicle' break ins. I'll talk to him tomorrow too. My 'hood' is a very quiet neighborhood where there is NO crime. I suspect that it's just the kids breaking into vehicles looks for anything of value. A 'real' crook would hit bigger targets. My opinion anyway.
Yes, always drama.
![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
I have no idea how old I was, maybe 14, and it was definitely much more a case of being bored than being thieves. It might even have been a crime of opportunity because we walked by a car and seen a big dark bag in the back, and the ideas went crazy what could be in there. So the curiousity getting the best of us we tried the door and it was open, and grabbed the bag and took off. About a block away was a park, and it was there we were going to check out our haul hoping for dozens of cassette tapes, or who knows what else. Much to our dissapointment it was a doctor's bag completely loaded with his tools of the trade, and had obviously been left how it was in case he had to leave in a hurry. (Here many doctors are on call for emergencies) Anyway, I was stupid enough to grab the bag, but not so stupid to not put it back, and that's exacty what we did..... of course after listening to our heartbeats for a while. 
Damn I'd love to be in that kind of condition again.
...Do some recon, bait em in with a trap and subdue the scoundrels.
