re: Isn't It Lovely When People Break Into Your Home?

Or, you know, and actual alarm system.

I am near Bham and we have had a few break-ins in the neighborhood. Each incident revealed it was someone who did not have an alarm and was without a dog. Get one or the other or both. The 3rd item to consider is a handful of motion detector solar lights and a Hi intensity security light to leave on each night. Thieves hate a lighted house and will move on to somewhere else.
Your thief may have been someone who knows you and knew what you had there. Check local pawn shops by calling each one to describe your items taken.
Good luck.

Agree on the dogs, we have three. Why hasn't someone invented a motion activated sound system that has crazy dog barking!!! Anyone want to make some $$?

Curious how would a gun have helped in this situation? It would likely have ended up stolen as well.

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PurpleandGold Motown

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Be careful for about the next three weeks. I got broke into a few years back. Got ADT at the time. The rep told us if there is a repeat break-in it usually happens within the first three weeks. He said the biggest deterrent to a burglar, one of those security system signs you stick up in your yard. Just dob't put it close to the road. Someone will steal it from you.

Sorry to hear. The worst part, for me at least, is what is does to your psyche.

I used to leave the doors unlocked if I was just going to be quick, never once thought about being robbed, used to leave my shite all over the house...

Then I was broken in to twice in two different houses, and now I can't go ANYWHERE (and I'm talking even to the grocery store at 2 PM) without thinking at least once about getting robbed. I have two cameras in my house and an alarm that I use when I leave to go anywhere. The worst is when I'm going out of town for a few days...

Anyway, hopefully you get over it better than I do. An alarm could help...mine is so obscenely loud when it goes off that I can't imagine anyone even trying to do a quick grab, but who knows.

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When I lived in an apartment and someone broke in, the insurance adjuster asked me a few times about how much cash I had in the apartment. I had a big change jar but he wanted to know if I kept a few $100 bills in my sock drawer or wherever. I kept saying "no" and he said that I was the first person he's ever taken a claim from who didn't have a cash stash.

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What he meant was you were the first honest person he had taken a claim from.

He even gave you a few opportunities it sounds.

He would be feel even more vulnerable upon realizing someone had taken his gun as well.

Time for you to get a Mastiff