2 fridays in a row, broken window dammit!

[joneschick]

some asshole is targeting my house! Last week it was on the front of the house, this morning the back door. What do they have against my leaded glass? If they were going to break in, why didn't they come in???? My daughter found the broken glass when she got up---no one around. So between the time I left for work (8:10) and 9:15. Dammit!

[hedgehog]

1. You'll love this story

When my kids got big enough to bike to the store, I kept a kitty on the counter so they could get money from there. We got home from church one day and the kitty was empty. We figured we'd been robbed and we pretty much knew who did it, so we got a dead bolt for the door. (Up until then, all we had was the original door locks which opened with the skeleton key that you could buy by the handful at the hardware store downtown so we pretty much didn't bother locking the door.) Now the "glass" in this door was a big sheet of Plexiglas. About a week later, the kids came home from school and found that the genius who'd robbed us the first time had come back and tried to break in by melting a hole in the Plexiglas so he could reach through and unlock the door. Clearly, he'd burned the back of his hand in doing so or had been otherwise disturbed and had taken off without entering. The best part is that there was a full length window right next to the door that he could have easily popped open if he'd had thought of it!

[joneschick]

2. yeah, definitely not Mensa material at work.

if this moran shows up next Friday, um, well, it will be a different arrangement. It's just so damn aggravating and getting costly. I reported to the police today but not the insurance. I kinda don't want my insurance to get the idea that I'm subject to chronic vandalism. grrr

[hedgehog]

3. My brother worked a public defender right out of law school

He said the common denominator of all the guilty parties was that they were just plain dumb. Of course, right from the get go, they assumed they would never get caught!