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I'm almost 70 and in that many years I have only had one crime against me. My bicycle was stolen on the first day of college. I grew up in small towns is probably the reason and in my professional career have lived in Omaha, Seattle and Honolulu. Just lucky I guess.
I have had my share of car break-ins, no house break-in but my Wife, girlfriend at the time, had her Apartment broke in, they took everything they could pawn, even her vacuum cleaner. Back in the 80's I left a radar detector on my car windshield, they broke a door window to get it, ended costing more to fix the window then what the radar detector was worth.
Had our work truck broke into while 4 of us, our crew, was eating lunch, the parking lot was for 4 restaurants so it was big. An off duty cop watched them do it, it took 1 minute to pop the door look and another minute to grab all our tool bags and my GPS. The officer got the license plate of the thief and later they told me the thief had a long rap sheet and that they were not going to pursue, just use our Ins. to replace the tools, problem was we were Contractors, no Ins., so the company we had a contract for replaced our tools. What was crazy is Dallas had a no pursuit policy so the cops could not chase them down.
My big loss was some tools my Dad gave me when I was a teenager that was special to me, older tools are the best...Never break like the new cheap tools now a days.
Had our work truck broke into while 4 of us, our crew, was eating lunch, the parking lot was for 4 restaurants so it was big. An off duty cop watched them do it, it took 1 minute to pop the door look and another minute to grab all our tool bags and my GPS. The officer got the license plate of the thief and later they told me the thief had a long rap sheet and that they were not going to pursue, just use our Ins. to replace the tools, problem was we were Contractors, no Ins., so the company we had a contract for replaced our tools. What was crazy is Dallas had a no pursuit policy so the cops could not chase them down.
My big loss was some tools my Dad gave me when I was a teenager that was special to me, older tools are the best...Never break like the new cheap tools now a days.
It really pisses me of when they say get your insurance to replace your stuff. Insurance NEVER gives you enough to replace your stuff. There is the deductible. There is a maximum amount per item. Then they only give you 'actual cash value at the time of loss'. Right, like I was about to sell that stuff in a garage sale. No, now I have to buy new stuff at a higher price. My latest burglary was my Class A motorhome while stored at the storage yard. Lost about $2500 worth of stuff, based on original cost. To replace that stuff is about $3200 since prices have increased. But the insurance is going to be about $257, though it is not final yet.
In my lifetime: In Boston my father's car stolen from driveway when I was about 14. Around the same time some guy tried to break in through the cellar door, but our dog scared him off. When I was in grad school in Milwaukee had someone break into our apartment, also had some bike parts taken off my 10-speed at school. In New Orleans we had our front door kicked in and stuff stolen. Also had our car window broken to gain access to my kid's toys in the back seat. In Spring TX (north of Houston) we had our house broken into the day we bought it. Nothing taken since we had yet to move in. And then this burglary of the motorhome.
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We had a burglary during the day while we were at work back in 2016. They came through a back glass door off the master bathroom avoiding the alarm. Went straight to the bedside tables and got our bedside guns. A P229 and a S&W 642. Think it may have been neighbor kids but this is before, and what prompted me, to get cameras.
They never left the master bedroom or the motion detector would have got 'em. They were rumaging around in the closet when I came home early. As I entered the front door the dog was doing his usual yipping wanting to go out so I went straight to the back door opposite the master bedroom and let him out. I hadnt been in the bedroom so nothing seemed out of sorts. Dog hears a noise and we both head over to the other side of the back yard and I see a leg going over the fence. Well the screened in pool is between me and them and I really didnt know what had happened at the moment, thought it might be neighbor kid getting his basketball, until we went back inside and I went to the bedroom and saw the drawers on the bedside tables open.
They never left the master bedroom or the motion detector would have got 'em. They were rumaging around in the closet when I came home early. As I entered the front door the dog was doing his usual yipping wanting to go out so I went straight to the back door opposite the master bedroom and let him out. I hadnt been in the bedroom so nothing seemed out of sorts. Dog hears a noise and we both head over to the other side of the back yard and I see a leg going over the fence. Well the screened in pool is between me and them and I really didnt know what had happened at the moment, thought it might be neighbor kid getting his basketball, until we went back inside and I went to the bedroom and saw the drawers on the bedside tables open.
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Wow forgot about the time, I musta been 10-12? We came home from an overnight family trip to find the house ransacked. I mean tore shit up. My folks were devastated. We were living in the North Hills area suburb of Pittsburgh. Unbeknown to me at the time, we lived a normal middle class lifestyle but my folks were working their ass off to keep afloat.
My brother has lived in Ajo AZ for quite some time. Nice little town about 30miles from the Mexican border. That little town has a lot of house and car burglaries. Both from meth heads and from illegals even though the town has a lot of border patrol agents there.
He has had tires taken off his camper trailer while parked in his driveway. He has had his home broken into a few times while he was away.
House breaks go like this:
They notice that your car is not there at night. They throw a rock though your window. They liked the big window in the living room since it can be seen from the road. If no one fixes it or covers it the next day, they know you are gone and then kick in the door. He had come back from visiting his son in FL and NH a few times to find this done to him. After the first time he loaded everything of value in the trailer and took it with him.
The last time this happened it was apparent that they were living in the house for several days. Did not take much as there was not much to take. But had eaten most of the food and left dirty dishes behind. Slept on the beds. Left dirty clothes behind and drug paraphernalia also.
He has had tires taken off his camper trailer while parked in his driveway. He has had his home broken into a few times while he was away.
House breaks go like this:
They notice that your car is not there at night. They throw a rock though your window. They liked the big window in the living room since it can be seen from the road. If no one fixes it or covers it the next day, they know you are gone and then kick in the door. He had come back from visiting his son in FL and NH a few times to find this done to him. After the first time he loaded everything of value in the trailer and took it with him.
The last time this happened it was apparent that they were living in the house for several days. Did not take much as there was not much to take. But had eaten most of the food and left dirty dishes behind. Slept on the beds. Left dirty clothes behind and drug paraphernalia also.
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100% the reason why I got into security cameras was numerous transgressions against my loved ones and myself ..
The big one that really pushed me here, was the drug den adjacent to us .. and the criminal riff raff ..
lol .. never would I have imagined that I would put such effort into this forum thanks to criminal / delinquent elements of society .. and this was before all the pandemic related BLM "mostly peaceful" demonstrations.
I think we have all been transgressed enough ..
The big one that really pushed me here, was the drug den adjacent to us .. and the criminal riff raff ..
lol .. never would I have imagined that I would put such effort into this forum thanks to criminal / delinquent elements of society .. and this was before all the pandemic related BLM "mostly peaceful" demonstrations.
I think we have all been transgressed enough ..
The rock throwing reminds me of when they would come door to door selling magazines, lived in a neighborhood that we found out later they were just thieves casing what you had inside. I have to admit I let a few of the good-looking ones in to give their spill, I was single at that time. That same neighborhood was getting bad, in the middle of the night had a street walker knock on the door asking if I was alone and needed company. I ran her off but later I was told that some burglaries had happened in the neighborhood, a woman got them to open the door while guys around the corner would rush in.
I know I shared this story before about a truck/trailer of lawn workers would pull up to a house, one would start mowing while they others would go in the back yard, they would come out with black bags, of your house belongings, and load them up on their trailer. This is what we found out was happening when we moved from our other crime infested neighborhood to our new neighborhood.
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man!
the burglars always took from us, and never did our lawn .. I had to do it with a manual as a kid!
" .. I know I shared this story before about a truck/trailer of lawn workers would pull up to a house, one would start mowing while they others would go in the back yard, they would come out with black bags, of your house belongings, and load them up on their trailer. "
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'A SHOT OF WHISKEY' - In the old west a .45 cartridge for a six-gun cost 12 cents, so did a glass of whiskey. If a cowhand was low on cash, he would often give the bartender a cartridge in exchange for a drink. This became known as a "shot" of whiskey.
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Guess that explains the "I only loaded 5 shots" for safety reasons to the supervisor ..
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Apparently she doesn't know shit about Texans. But she does now! Ha, ha.
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Texas gun culture of having firearms 'inside suits, boots, bras' shocks reporter
A new report from the Washington Post detailed just how much Texans love guns, claiming that gun ownership "has grown" despite the "state’s increased numbers of mass killings."
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