My son Aaron came home from school today to find the front door open just a crack. He peered in and saw that our dining room window had been broken. He called 911 and called me at work. We had been robbed.
Aaron waited for the police to show and led them thru the house. No one was there but he could see that they had been thru some of the rooms. I called Rob who unfortunately being a cop himself could not leave work but I ran out of my temp job like a flash! I called Brianne who headed over to be with Aaron and texted Nicole to come straight home.
The police officer was dusting for prints when I got home and told me it was okay to look around to see what was missing. Aaron said they trashed my bedroom so I headed upstairs. Every drawer in the bedroom was emptied on the floor and I could see immediately that our large gun safe was gone as was one smaller safe from the closet. Curiously the smallest hand gun safe was just sitting there where they must have dropped it.
On further inspection we discovered that Rob's and my mp3 players were gone as was Nicole's ipod and camera. They took 2 broken cell phones and some foreign change that Aaron had. They took the wii but not the wii fit board, guess they got enough exercise carrying the gun safes which weighed a ton! I found all my jewelry (not that I had much) just tossed on the bedroom floor. I'm not sure what else might be missing.
The kids helped me clean up, there was glass from the window spread about 20 feet into the house. We found the rock they threw too.
There have been a lot of burglaries happening in the area lately. Is it the economy or maybe I just live in what I thought was a nice safe neighborhood, not a poor area, just comfortably middle class.
It could have been worse. Both my younger kids almost didn't go to school today as they are both nursing colds. I shudder to think what could have happened if they, especially Nicole, had been home. It could have been much worse.
Ironically I am taking my first grade Girl Scouts to tour the Police Station tonight. Some fun!
oh man, that is scary.. i'm; sorry... the gun safe thing terrifies me!
ReplyDeleteOh,wow, that sucks! I am so sorry. What an invasion. I am glad your kiddos where not home. Thieves really piss me off!
ReplyDeleteOMGosh I hate being broke into, I'm sad to say the last 3 places I've lived it's happen :(. I hope they catch the little turds (yes I had a worse word here, but I'm trying to be pg).
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother lives in Auburn also and was broke into 2 weeks ago, while she was at a funeral. Sad to say a sign of the times .. :(. Hope you're all doing well. Thinking of you!
that sucks real bad. robbers business is really
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