posted 07-31-2005 06:35 PM         

Damage is NOT too severe…mostly malicious mischief. Ripped screens off some windows, and tore up all the vents in ceiling, one completely. Bathroom got the worst...

But it couldda been worse. No broken windows. No rips in couch/chair/table seating. Fridge & stove look ok. Still has gas containers, furniture, appliances, bed, etc.

Looks like they got in & were smoking up on the bed…lots of cigarettes & matches. Probably making love too—if women were involved. Otherwise it could have been much, much worse. I had to climb up on the roof to cover one vent they ripped whole assembly/handle/screen off—so it should
be ok when it rains…there was just a lil water on the floor under that HOLE where vent was. Easily dried with a towel.

RV was still locked tight. Had to use key in two locks to open. Tires ok, vehicle tag ok. Weird, huh! I think they squeezed in the vent hole that assy was completely demolished--ahhh, to be that thin again. (humor)

Doesn’t appear that anything was stolen, but I ain’t been inside it in almost 2 years, so hard to remember everything THAT WAS or IS IN IT. Not a good feeling being vandalized! Actually I guess malicious mischief is a better word!

Any of [you] had houses, cars, RV's broken into, before?

posted 07-31-2005 07:07 PM         

...lived in Taiwan....our house was broken into and ransacked...they must have been interrupted, because everything was left in the middle of the living room floor...mostly they would steal your dogs to eat them...ya kinda needed a watchdog for your watchdog...

posted 07-31-2005 07:39 PM         

My apartment in college was broken into over Thanksgiving break. I returned on Saturday as I was flying to Denver for a job interview to find the mess. They took almost everything. The left my monogramed sweater. I guess the initials would have been tough to unload ??? They made themselves breakfast and left the mess for me to clean up. They even took my interview suit.

The landlord came over and did a crappy job fixing the door jam. When my girlfriend at the time (wife now) returned to town and drove by, the door had been kicked in again. I guess they kicked it in, realized that it had been "fixed" and ran.

When I got to Denver, my brother took me to a tailor that had Saturday hours and they made me a suit. Didn't get a job offer. Needless to say I was a little preocupied over the whole robbery situation.

In the end, it all worked out. I move to Phoenix 2 months later. I simply drove out in my car because almost everything I owned had been turned into insurance cash. Made moving cross country much simpler.

posted 07-31-2005 07:44 PM         

I've had 2 motorcycles stolen, years ago, as well. The first from in front of Red Lobster at lunch time while I was inside having coffee w/my wife's boss (I still think HE was involved). The 2nd from my back patio at an apartment complex in the middle of the night--a neighbor girl & her brother were involved...but I could never prove it.

The 1st bike was found 2 weeks later in a ditch out in Southern California (from Bama to Cally); the 2nd was never recovered (to my knowledge).

posted 07-31-2005 10:46 PM         

A few years ago, a lady who works for my mom in an inner-city school had her cell phone stolen right out of her desk in the classroom (she had accidently left the drawer unlocked). Cops were called, they said that there wasn't really much they could do. So, the lady gets the idea--why not just call the cell phone? She calls, and a kid answers. She immediately tells them "you've won a prize, all i need is your address." The person on the other end gives their name and address.

The name is immediately recognized as an 8 year old from her class. The cops and her drive to the house, and confront the parent (dad, of course, is nowhere to be found). Mom says that the kid told her that he found the cell phone on the playground, and she figured that it wouldn't be a problem if he kept it. After telling the story of it being stolen out of the desk, mom didn't really care.

It jsut goes to show...some people shouldn't reproduce.

A P.S...two nights ago, a guy from the Mustang board i am on (I have a 2005 GT) had his car vandalized in the parking lot of a lot mini-golf course. Apparently some kids in a VW decided to take a golf club to it for no reason--they drove by afterwards and laughed out the window. Cops said that there wasn't much they could do without a witness--and of course NO ONE saw anything.

1. Side panel window smashed to steal a $10 Sony radio. Which was installed so that no one will try to break in to steal a crappy radio..go figure

posted 08-01-2005 12:19 AM         

I was going to South Carolina to visit my sister and we stopped in Knoxville, TN for the night.

It was late and I was tired. I had most all my tools, 35mm camera with several lens & flash, easter presents for sister and her family, wifes wool coat, Carlee's rabbit coat and my leather coat that I had left in the car that night.

I had a radar detector on the dash and I think I forgot to turn it off so the red power light was on.

The next morning I go out to put stuff in the car and things didn't look right.

That is when I noticed that the glove box door was open. They had broke into the car thru the drivers door and pulled the glass out at the top by about 1". When I started looking to see what all they took they got everything out of the car. It took me a long time to realize just what all they got. But since we were traveling we had some fruit in the car, kleenex box that I had put my sunglasses in.

THEY STOLE THE APPLES AND THE BOX OF KLEENEX, I hope them basta*ds choked to death on the apples

Now we are 1/2 way there so we continue on. It started to rain so I stopped at a rest area and tried to get the window to go back in place, only to have it shatter. So now we stop at the next exit to get plastic and duct tape. I don't remember how many miles we had to go but plastic over the window is not a pleasant sound for hundreds of miles.

Once we got there I tried to find a window, only to have no luck. So not to have to drive back with the plastic on the window my brother in law had some orange plexiglass. We cut it to fit the opening and duct taped it in.

It is a helpless feeling when you get violated by some thief. My daughter talked about it for years how her rabbit coat got stolen.

On the way home I had to crawl out the passenger side since the plexiglass was taped it the top and door. We were within 25 miles from home and I got stopped by the police in a small town. He came up wanting me to roll the window down. I could not roll the window down or open the door. I had to crawl out the passenger side and ask to use his flashlight to look thru the glove box since they had when thru it. i'm not sure if the registration was even in it. After explaining what had happened he let me go......I think he thought I had suffered enough for one weekend.

No insurance and that that time lost most material things that was important to me. We were not hurt so I can be thankful for that. BUT I do not leave anything of value in a vehicle that can be seen

The tool my dad made for me was a punch about 2 1/2' long made from a torsion bar. I would like to stick it all the way up the guy's a** that stole it.

posted 08-03-2005 02:17 PM         

Another time I was in Richmond, VA at a motel and someone broke my passenger side window, damaged the door and interior. They only took the handset for a cell phone. Cell phones were not portable at that time. Several hundred dollars damage to the Tahoe.