Your Thief was most probably scared off before he was able to cart anything
away. But.. Now knows what you have and how easy it is to get to it. I'd
install two things right away. A motion activated light, INSIDE the garage.
And a cheap car alarm hooked up to the door. Thieves hate light and noise.
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Gowins [mailto:cartman@dnai.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 8:40 AM
To: Spridgets List
Subject: Stupid thieves
Hello listers,
I thought I'd share this little incident with y'all. I arrived home from
work late last night and noticed the garage door was open. I live in an
apartment complex and we have individual detached garages. I thought this
was strange, because I hadn't worked on the Sprite in a couple of days, and
therefore hadn't been in the garage. I investigated, and someone had broken
in. The doors have a key mechanism to run the opener in case you don't have
the remote. Someone had pried out the key mechanism and shorted across the
wires, thus allowing them access to my Sprite, all my tools, by road racing
bicycle, and all my camping equipment. They must not have been interested
in any of that, because nothing was missing!!! The key to the Sprite was on
the bench in the back, all of my tools and equipment (over $2500 worth)
were all in their roll around Craftsman tool chest, my Tour de France level
bike was resting against the wall, all of my camping equipment stacked up,
and none of it was taken!!! I'm considering myself very lucky. In fact,
I'm running out and buying a lottery ticket right now! I wonder if the guy
who messed up my SPRITE plates is behind this???<grin> Looks like I dodged
a bullet this time.
Greg Gowins
'69 Sprite
Dublin, CA
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