Three posts in one day!?
Right after posting the last ramble about an old server, my roommate IM’d me to ask if I left the garage door open when I left; I didn’t. In fact, I wait for the door to fully close before I pull away because the door from the house into the garage is usually unlocked – so, no, I didn’t leave it open.
A few minutes later he IMs to tell me someone broke into his truck, which he has to park on the street because it won’t fit in the garage, and cleaned it out – including the garage remote – which explains the door being open…
Fortunately we have this insanely bright LED workshop light in the garage that also happens to be on a motion sensor. I’m guessing as soon as the thieves tripped the motion detector and were blinded by the shop lights they decided to not clean out the thousands of dollars in tools.
So, police report done, insurance claim made, and garage opener reset we continue on.
Unfortunately this is the third “you live in the third world now” incident in almost as many days:
Thursday the HOA mass-mailed the community to remind everyone to keep their garage doors closed because some homeless guy was sleeping in someone’s open garage.
Friday we had the nearby fire, which I’m told was caused by a homeless camp out in the woods and their cook fire.
And last night the truck was broken into and cleaned out. The contents are probably in a pawnshop by now…
Now, I live in a pretty nice area full of half-million dollar or more homes, and for the last few years the place has been really nice – but apparently things have changed. I wonder what that could be in response to?
Rhetorical question, don’t bother answering.
Might be getting on to a time where I need something other than hunting rifles…
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