... d-a-m thief! garage broaken into; luckey just tools

[DuciD03]

.... I was putting up the Christmas lights last Saturday ... humming some Christmas tunes under my breath ... got; then ran out to do some Christmas errands ... then went to a buddies Christmas due; only slightly indulging in food and cheer ... only to find the next morning a thief got into the garage and cleaned out my toolbox along with a brand new 5000k winch and some other miscellaneous stuff ... looking optimistically at the situation I suppose I got off lightly.  3 duc are sitting in that the garage ... BUT now the thief has had a good look too ... I'm now going crazy... I'm now willing to sell 2 so the thieving f***ers don't get them.  I've replaced some of the easy to buy tools but its the harder to find oversized sockets that hurt the most; oh and the home made steering head 4 pin socket (wasn't that good) ... the Grinch lives.  Sorry just had to vent. 

[Heath]

They did it during the day?  No one saw anything?  That is a lot of stuff to take.

[DuciD03]

They did it during the day?  No one saw anything?  That is a lot of stuff to take.

it might not be totally clear in the above description; but it was sometime between 7pm and 7am; we have a garage in a back lane and they got in the side garage door; is hard to see but from 2 neighbours and only if the were really looking at the side door ...yep 50 b;s at least of tools; unfortunaatly I left an empty napsac in the garage that they used to fill   

[Heath]

Damn sorry about that.  At my old apartment complex the door on our garage faced no one.  I got so paranoid with the recent crime in the area I ended up blocking the door with 2x4's and only using the remote to get in.  Sure enough 2 weeks later someone busted the door jam with a crow bar. Totally mangled the steel door.  My 2x4's, brackets and lag screws going into the studs held steady though.  They finally gave up.

Hopefully they will get caught somewhere else and you can get your tools recovered.

[sbrguy]

weird sounds like the person knew exaclty what to steal as far as hard to get tools, for some reason who would steel a steering head tool or oversized sockets as they probably don't have much use unless you are looking for specifically those tools.

[velocipede]

That sucks...I had the same thing happen this summer, and it's maddening.  Bastards took all my tools, plust two Cannondales, but not my GT1000 (My MTS620 happened to be getting its valves checked, so at least they only knew about one bike).  They even took the original shocks off my GT.  Fortunately insurance covered everything, but still, it's hard not to get angry when jackasses do stuff like this.

[zooom]

sucks to hear about this and sorry it happened to you...MY best advice, if you are at all worried about the bikes is to attach and hasp OR 2 down to the floor from the garage door from the inside and padlock it down...

[Monster Dave]

Out of a similar concern, we put disk locks on our bikes at all times regardless of where they are parked. Sorry to hear your news.

[fastwin]

Out of a similar concern, we put disk locks on our bikes at all times regardless of where they are parked. Sorry to hear your news.

Yep, after my rented storage unit got broken into almost 2 years ago and they tried to steal my bikes my mind set changed radically. I won't bore everyone with the story but it's in a post in Stolen Motorcycles. What saved my bikes were all the 30mm thick On Guard locking cables. One through each wheel on every bike and then one tying them all together nose to tail... kind of a Motorcycle Centipede!! You can't take one because they are all locked together. All my bikes in the home garage are locked the exact same way. I added some screaming Xena disc locks too just for fun.

Now, if my wife will only keep the garage door down when she leaves!!

Really sorry for your loss. I make the beast with two backsing HATE thieves!! I finished walking my dog and I noticed 4 police squad cars parked at a house on the next street over. I asked one of the officers what happened. Home burglary, broad daylight, 10:30 in the morning. Bastards. It can happen to anyone, anywhere, any time. Just hope I'm home if it ever happens to me.

[Howie]

Though it is good the bike4s are intact THIEVES SUCK!

[DuciD03]

thanks for sharring; it's unfortunate that Im not alone; yes its a little odd that just tools were taken; like they new what they wanted; but they also seem tp go through eveything; and just took what they could carry ... left a chainsaw and miter saw .... the really expensive tools were locked away in a chest that they found but didnt attempt to break into ... might have been in a hurry .. don-know...

[J5]

have a look on ebay

you can buy infra red doorbells that are wireless

stick the sensor in the garage and the reciever in your house

you will know if someone goes in your garage

they are cheap as too

[Timmy Tucker]

My house has been broken into 5 times in the last 9 months. I don't currently live in it cause I'm in the middle of remodeling the entire house. So far they've made off with all my appliances, my cast iron tub, my gutters, and my screen doors. All stuff that can be sold for scrap metal, the standard m.o. of the local pillheads. They also ganked one of my cars in broad daylight with my neighbors watching, who didn't even do so much as call the cops.

[fastwin]

The cops actually caught the guy that broke into my neighbors home yesterday morning! The back alley neighbor and his wife saw the guy go into the backyard through an unlocked gate. They knew it wasn't the home owner so they called 911. When all the squad cars arrived the home had been burglarized but the crook was already gone. Come to find out the neighborhood has been patrolled by unmarked cop cars for a while and this crook has been spotted by them casing the area. They would see him and then call in other unmarked cars to tail him so he would not get suspicious that he was being followed. Pretty smart!

By the witness' description they knew it was their suspect. They spanned out and found him with the stolen goods still on him!! I was wondering why there have been so many marked squad cars in the neighborhood lately. They were just putting on a show to scare off the burglar. When it didn't work they still knew who to look for. Heads up call on the neighbor's part and damn good police work all around. These things rarely have happy endings but this one did!

[Monster Dave]

Awesome News!!