Well...now I'VE been robbed!

Or actually burgled is a more appropriate term!
 
Guess I did not heed Dave's advice!  I was reading his story as it unfolded and all the crap he had to go through...and all the time thinking "yeah, I need to install security cameras and yeah, I need to record my serial numbers on my equipment..."
 
lazy arse didn't do it tho!
 
we left about 5:30pm to go to a movie (Independence Day Resurrection) and after we got out, we went to meet family in a parking lot on a hill overlooking the city for fireworks.  after the fireworks, we got home about 11pm to notice there were lights on in the house and we didn't think we left lights on in the house!
 
they damaged more than they stole, but it really could have been MUCH worse than it was!  they threw a rock through a back window and literally picked up our 55" TV and just dragged it and all the cords ripping them out of walls and sockets and connections to the DVD player and stereo system - ripping plaster from the ethernet and cable connections!
 
found my DAW on it's side and my monitors laying face down in the hallway where they dragged them and finally dropped them.
 
all of our bedroom drawers were gone through.  they left my 2 class rings (which are worth a little, I would think) and left my Social Security card lying on the floor, didn't even go into my wife's closet where her jewelry is.
 
My acoustic guitar was laying in the living room floor, face down, but otherwise unharmed.
 
but they did steal ONE of my keyboards and left the other 4 alone!  I had one of them in a gig bag standing up in the hallway next to my studio room and they didn't touch it!  it's the one I take to church every week to gig with!  but my 88 key weighted Casio stage piano (cost me $750!) they stole!  they did NOT take my Hammond Organ!!!!  of course it weighs 50 pounds, but they didn't even try!  it's still undisturbed sitting on the keyboard stand in my studio!
 
they stole my vocal mic I've had for years and they don't make any more of them!  Shure KSM-44.  That's probably what I'll miss the most!
 
not sure of anything else - but I had a lot of gear in my studio that they left behind and didn't even touch.  a p-solo preamp, a roland duo-capture, a MOTU MKIII Ultralite, two mackie mixers, a keyboard amp, several rack pieces.
 
didn't touch my camera gear either.  I figure it was probably a kid.  had small shoes the police and I found footprints in the dust on the back porch.
 
Normally we put Scooby in the back yard when we're away and he probably would have barked at them, but since it was 4th of July we put him in his bed and zipped him in.  poor boy was in our bedroom while they were ransacking our drawers in the bedroom and master bath!  but he was unharmed, at least.  if he had been out, they might have hurt him.
 
so they didn't wipe me out like they did Dave (bitflipper) but they still VIOLATED me and still have taken some things which I need for recording.  but it's just stuff!  we're safe and OK.
 
I'll be ordering that security system I've been procrastinating ever since reading about Dave's woes and I'll be recording serial numbers of my more prized keyboards as well as contacting insurance and a glazier tomorrow!!!

Yep...neighborhood punks. Not pros.
 
Everyone needs to have some sort of security system and write down those numbers...... video tape the stuff you have because without it, it's your word against the insurance co.

That's really bad news Beagle. Sorry to hear this. Hopefully the culprit will be discovered. Take care.

That sucks raw eggs Reece.

After reading your post earlier today on FB, I left to run some errands.
When I returned, the screen door was open, and I'm pretty sure I closed it when I left.
My first thought was, "Oh, no! They got me, too".
Thank goodness that wasn't the case. I still don't know why the door was open.
I'm never leaving the house again.

So sorry to hear this. Sounds like sloppy opportunists, and if this is a habit for them I suspect those might be the fraction that actually gets caught.

Bummer dude.  We're planning a trip for next ... some day.  My current plan is to take all hard drives in a fire box.  I don't know what to do with guitars/amps and other big stuff.  I'll make damn sure I have serial numbers and photos before we go for sure.  And maybe I'll update my policy to zero deductible, then change it back when we return.  I think I'll add some surveillance cameras that save to a cloud also.
 
You guys are making me not want to leave home.
 
The good thing is I live in the boonies, have a rep for being armed and dangerous and for having electronic surveillance.  Locals stay away and non-locals aren't likely to stumble upon the place.
 
 
 
 

Sorry about your trouble Beag. I think it's bad everywhere now. I don't leave for long periods of time because the apartments are always being watched to see who comes and goes. Good luck!

Reece - so sorry to hear this - living in Cape Town South Africa for much of the year, one gets very hyper about security - my house has high walls, very powerful electric fence, beams to trigger alarm then security alarms each window and door, plastic bars on each opening window, anti smash film on all non opening windows, cameras  etc oh and guaranteed 2 minute armed response which I think is the biggest deterrent of all - and these guys don't muck around, so can and do shoot if necessary. Even though crime is high, never had an issue personally, so I do think these days one does need to take whatever precautions one can to protect yourself and your possessions
Hope they catch the thieves and you get all you stuff back
Nigel
 

Are you sure you're not in a penitentiary???  Damn... 
 
Well I don't think so - I am let out on occasions, especially if I've been good!!
 
 

craigb

Bajan Blue
...my house has high walls, very powerful electric fence, beams to trigger alarm then security alarms each window and door, plastic bars on each opening window, anti smash film on all non opening windows, cameras  etc oh and guaranteed 2 minute armed response which I think is the biggest deterrent of all - and these guys don't muck around, so can and do shoot if necessary...

Are you sure you're not in a penitentiary???  Damn... 

The irony, isn't it? Because of all the criminals on the streets, honest people are the ones who end up living in "prisons". 
 
Whether it's because they take what's ours or to protect ourselves or to prosecute them and keep them in jail - we ALWAYS pay for those parasites, one way or another. 
 
Reece, man, I'm so sorry for you. I hope they manage to find the scums who did it and your stuff.

Again, locks only keep out honest people. Backup, take pictures, write down SNs... I do have an alarm system though.
I sure am sorry to hear this Reece.
 
Julien

I am so dismayed at all of this, this illicit behavior, what has happened to our country?

Total bummer, ol pal. So sorry.

Sorry to hear this Reece, very distressing I would imagine.