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!!!

Sorry to hear about it!  Sounds like an amateur hit (or they weren't sure how long you'd be gone and rushed things).  Hope the recovery is smooth!
 
At least they didn't get unreplaceable items like what happened to Dave and I'm assuming that all becan was left intact or else there would be a hot chase on right now!
 
Getting that security system is definitely a good idea since these asshats now know what you have.
 
 

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.

I'm so sorry, Beagle. I hope you can get compensation for your stuff, and I hope the low life punks get caught.

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

Sorry to hear about your loss. I almost always record the serials but I have found those are pretty much useless. Of the things that I have had stolen, in which I had the serials, there has never been anything recovered nor anyone prosecuted. The cops even acted like they were wasting their time taking them down. I was getting sighs and eye rolls as I gave them the serials.
 
Unless they 'move you out' kinda like they did with bit, I find it strange what they decide to take. I'm guessing they just try to take what they can carry and easily sell. I have been broken into a couple of times. The TV and monitors were always gone. The CD's and DVD's were wiped out. But then the stuff they took doesn't make much sense. Once I had my main lighting console out (64ch 2 scene NSI memory controller worth about $3k) but luckily(?) they took a crappy 16ch controller, that I got from ebay, that had knobs missing and looked like hell from years of road rash. <shrugs>

That sucks raw eggs Reece.

Hi,
 
Goodness ... this is getting scary, and crazy.

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.

The cops who showed up seemed genuinely interested in me having serial numbers so they could turn them into the system which pawn shops here have to report the equipment to.  also, pawn shops here require picture ID for pawning anything.
 
they also took pictures of shoe prints in the dirt on the back porch and in the house where the perp was.  (looks like a single person in the house - could have been one waiting in the car.
 
I've already gotten a call back from a police officer asking if there was anything I needed to add to the report.
 
SO FAR they seem interested in catching them.
 
problem tho I only have a serial number for 1 of the 3 big ticket items they took.
 
and I have a $1700 deductible.  ouch.