I was burglarized while off camping for a week. While enjoying the beautiful beaches of the Florida panhandle I was hit. The Tv's and stuff like that are easy enough to replace but the heirloom jewelry and antique .38 special police service revolver of my grandfather were priceless to me. There was someone staying at my house during the time but had went out on an errand for less than an hour. I had no photos of the jewelry so little chance any will be recovered but the serial number of the gun is in the hands of the police. Hopefully it will turn up. Just a reminder to all to document your belongings if they're irreplaceable. The police were thorough in collecting evidence so they may be identified at some point. Loss will be close to $9k.

Bummer dude. You can rule out your houseguest as an accomplice? I'd visit the local pawnshops asap.Good reminder to at least take photos of your stuff.

Sorry to hear. Many of us have more than guns in heavy gun safes.

A safe may be in my future along with video survellience. At home party is an occupant and immediate family so no chance of involvement. The smashed French doors would also rule that out.

2oldman wrote:Bummer dude. You can rule out your houseguest as an accomplice? I'd visit the local pawnshops asap.Good reminder to at least take photos of your stuff.Just what I was thinking. Op, not to accuse the person that was staying there but too often it is someone close to you who is involved. Maybe not your house guest but someone who knows them. So some random person who just happened to drive by and luckily hit just when that person was gone from the house? I have seen it many times and just dont buy it.Edit for the heck of it: this is why I mention it:We were just married, bil and his buddy stop over at my house and I got some money from the kitchen cupboard. Probably only had a couple hundred dollars stashed there. We all left and went to bil apartment. His buddy left early. By the time we got home door had been kicked in and the rest of the money from under that plate in that cupboard was gone. Please!I used to drive a certain road on my way to work and see police tape all around one house on my way home. On the news that night they said the home owner, his wife and his parents had all been bludgeoned in their sleep. In the end it ended up being a grandsons crack head friend who had visited the house with the grandson. Grandson had boasted of how gramps kept large sums of money on hand. Last house we sold 3 years ago Detroit suburbs. Neighbor behind me comes over and asks if I had seen anyone around that day. I said no we just got home from work. He had been broke into and tv's computers taken during an hour window while wife took daughter down the street to dance lesson. New dirt bags had moved in across the street and didn't work. They had all day to watch who was coming and going from his house. When we used our current house as a summer place we kept noticing large amounts of plants disappearing from our yard. We had an extra vehicle stored there. Neighbor was constantly wanting to chit chat about how long we were staying etc. Wife decided to stay for a week by herself so I headed home on a Sunday afternoon. A couple hours later wife calls me and said she must have surprised 2 neighbor women who were at the edge of our property with a shovel in hand when my wife stepped out the door. They dropped the shovel and turned around and split. Security cameras all over now.Sorry to seem cynical to some folks but as they say, the world is very small in some ways. This often times isn't some crime syndicate from the Detroit ghetto that drove 250 miles past some random house in the woods and just happens to pop in and start digging up thousands of dollars worth of plants. It's the freaking people next door who you had kept their driveway mowed etc because they didn't have a tractor. I know where I'd place my bet.

Sorry to hear thatwe got to Brandon Oregon and 3 days later my home alarm goes off.in Stockton police will not respond unless verified. after 2nd alarm was triggered they were notified. 3 1/2 hrs later another alarm. this was police. Only broken windows no entry. Time to get out of Stockton.

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CavemanCharlie
Explorer III
Aug 14, 2016
I've been thinking about this. Someone mentioned checking at the local pawn shops.

In my area local pawn shop owners and the police work together. To sell or pawn something at a pawn shop you have to provide photo ID. They then write down, or in some places, scan the ID info. Once a week the local pawn shop owners give the serial numbers from everything that came into the store to the police.

(You do have the serial number and a picture of all your stuff right !! ?? If not you should. Get a picture of the serial numbers too.)

So around here if the stolen stuff shows up a a pawn shop it would be found by the police and the culprit found out.

Maybe some of this theft problem; that so many of you seem to have; is not just because of the thieves but, also part of a bigger problem with both the pawn shop owners and even the local police that have not done a good job of community policing.

If you want these sorts of things to stop maybe we all need to be more proactive and everyone needs to work together to make things better for all.

Sorry if I didn't explain that very well. But, as I said the police and local store owners all work together in may area.
bbaker2001
Explorer
Aug 17, 2016
well finally had to get home to CA. Bandon 64 degrees Ca. 104 degrees
we saw the front window my neighbors boarded up for us. went to back and saw where they had taken off window and saw the rock they were ready to use. we wondered why they did not finish the job when we looked at the alarm time. my wife puts all her plants on deck and we have one heck of a rain forest of water that come on. 8:00 alarm goes off, and that is when the rain forest comes on for 15 min. they definitely were getting soaked until they left.
to bad I cant set a motion sensor to turn on water
westend
Explorer
Aug 17, 2016
to bad I cant set a motion sensor to turn on water
You certainly can do this but it might catch you or your pets in a shower. A motion sensor is just a switch that is closed when it senses motion.
lots2seeinmyrv
Explorer
Aug 17, 2016
MitchF150 wrote:
Here is my security camara footage of 2 idiots trying to break into my house while my wife was home and watching it all on the monitor... She called 911 as soon as she saw the pair come back around the corner of the house and the cops came soon enough to scare them off..

vid cam attempted breakin

These cams have caught a lot of weird instances, since we monitor them when we are in the family room and watching TV (the monitor is just a 21" comp screen on the floor next to the TV..

Anyway, draw your own conclusions on the use of security cams..

It doesn't matter what kind of neighborhood you live in... These scum bags are out there and if I ever catch them myself... Well, it'll probably be a "news at 11" breaking news story... ;)

Mitch

Wow...scary. Going to keep my back door locked when home alone. Glad your wife is ok and they did not get in.

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