Burglarized

[crazycanuck]

What a bunch of ********** &&&&&&&&'s.

I sure hope you can feel safe in your own home again.

Take care

c

[Velobambina]

Veronica--Sorry to hear about what happened to you and Thom. Hopefully, the cops will be able to catch these jerks.

[7rider]

Omigod. The NERVE of some people!!!
That sux majorly.
I'm just glad no one was home or hurt during the event. Stuff can be replaced. A sense of security and safety..that one will be tougher.
Best to you both. Remember....not everyone is evil. There are a lot of really good people out there. Keep the faith.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Poor Veronica!! That's is so nasty. I'm so sorry!!!

I do think it's good though that they didn't take any bikes. Shows you how stupid they were. Walmart??--that's where they went to shop afterwards??? Guess they were low on cigarettes and Mountain Dew.

I hope you get to feeling secure soon.

[SheFly]

So sorry, V! That's a terrible thing to have happen at any time of year, let alone just before a big birthday and Christmas. As others have said, please let us know if there is anything that we can do!

Wishing you peace and calm....

SheFly

[sbctwin]

Been there...twice. Our home has been totally ransacked twice. Each time, they totally wrecked the inside of the house. Police said they are looking for guns, drugs and money....known of which we have. They opened every drawer and emptied it. They through all our clothes on the floor. The file cabinet contents scattered everywhere. They took phones, crucifixes, TV's, dishes, sewing machine, pottery, paintings, jewelry...the most ridiculously small things, even a fireproof safe....but thankfully, my pets were ok. It was a mess. After the first time, we put bars on certain windows...after the second time, we had an alarm system installed. I feel much better with the alarm system. It saved us when our house was broken into for a third time. The thieves only made out with a small radio. The alarm was sounding when the police arrived. No robbers, but the house wasn't ransacked. I can empathize with you...I am so sorry this has happened to you. We now keep important papers/passports at a safety deposit box at a bank. We keep a detailed list of serial numbers in the safety deposit box. I carry what little jewelry I have now with me everywhere, so I still don't feel "very safe". It has been 2.5 yrs since the third breakin, 6 years since the last major incident...I still don't feel altogether "safe".

[indysteel]

Veronica, that is just awful. I was burglarized when I was in college, and the thought of people walking around my house like that bothered me for a long time. I'm glad no one was hurt and that the cats are okay. I have cats, too, and they're the main reason that I have an alarm on my house.

Be sure to take steps to protect yourself from identity theft since they have your passports. You might check with the credit bureaus about putting an alert on your credit report.

Hang in there,

Kate

[Veronica]

Thanks you guys. I am not going to let this make me afraid. This is my house.

They took so much paperwork. That worries me. I slept fitfully. The cat spent much time on my chest. She's deaf so she probably slept through the whole thing.

People around the corner had their dog poisoned so they could be burglarized last week. It's morbid, but I'm glad we lost our dog to natural causes.

Sh"i"t happens. But they ransacked a closet and unearthed my nutcracker that I couldn't find. And I found the DMV bill that had fallen behind my desk.

Something bad will happen to them - they'll die a nasty death from drugs or get shot in a turf war - a painful stomach wound. And we're going to live into our nineties, riding our bikes, being madly in love until we die.

So we move forward.

V.

[Bad JuJu]

Oh that just sucks. Especially now.

When I was in college, my apartment was robbed while my roommate and I were away on a break between semesters. They broke a window to get in and only took some silver dollars, a cooler, and a radio--left bikes, stereo, jewelry. Must've been kids, and not very bright kids at that. Still, it was frightening, and we never felt quite safe there again.

I'm hoping for a good outcome for you from this--sending positive thoughts in your direction.

[Nanci]

V, I am so sorry. It took me at least a year to get over when someone just _tried_ to get into our house. I felt so helpless- but didn't feel like doing the one thing that the cops said would do the most to prevent a reoccurance- get a dog. But I did put sticks in the windows to hold them down, get automatic outdoor lights so it's not dark out there, get a motion sensor for both sides of the house so if someone approaches it- a doorbell goes off- and you can hear it outside- so they would hopefully think it was alerting someone at home. I used to leave a radio on all the time that you could hear from the back door. I got alarms (motion sensors) inside that we set every time we leave. I told both neighbors about it, and we all watch out for each other's houses. I put a human target dummy in the bedroom window that is shot to cr*p so they know there is a shotgun user in the home. I have lights that go off and on at reasonable times- and we have one or two or even three spare vehicles parked in the yard at any one time. I especially think the squad car is a good deterrent. I started carrying my laptop with me, and all my little cameras and iPods and all that every time I left my house.

But still- it takes a while for the fear and feeling of violation to go away even a little, and they didn't even get _in_ my house. I am so sorry for you...

Nanci

[Pedal Wench]

So sorry, V.

[Tater]

Aww, V.! Sorry this happened to you and Thom. But you are right, karma will catch up to them for what they did and I hope it really bites them in the a$$. Keeping you and T. in my thoughts...

[Triskeliongirl]

Something bad will happen to them - they'll die a nasty death from drugs or get shot in a turf war - a painful stomach wound. And we're going to live into our nineties, riding our bikes, being madly in love until we die.

So we move forward.

V.

This is exactly the attitude you have to have. I remember how violated I felt when my precious custom bike with custom orthopoedic crank set was stolen. All I could think of it was gonna give someone hip pain to ride the bike with the dropped pedal, but they probably just pulled off my $1700 custom crank set and threw it in a trash dumpster. But, as you said life goes on. Be glad no one was physically hurt, and they didn't take (or damage) the bikes. As for computer stuff, you can't go back but when you get a new computer, buy two external hard drives, one that you keep at work and one at home, and a neat little program called InSync that lets you keep them all synced together. That way you have backups in two locations, since other **** can happen too like fires, or even just bad unrecoverable disk crashes. I lock my bikes inside my house to a weight bench just in case. A LBS here was broken into last weekend, and they took off with the owners custom $15,000bike! When I first saw your message all I could think about was Legolos, but I am glad to hear that she is safe. But I do agree with the poster that with the nature of what they took my biggest concern would be identity theft, so I would consult with someone that knows a lot about that. Again, so sooory that this happened to you.

[Trekhawk]

Oh no V thats terrible news. Glad to hear that you and Thom are safe and sound and that the pets are fine.

Sending huge hugs your way.

[GLC1968]

Wow, V...that totally sucks. I'm so sorry!

I hope you regain your home 'peace' again soon.