2nd Break-in !!

The thieves got in again ! Despite my boosted security !

The rest of the comics stored in the cellar were suddenly missing. That includes ALL the Sonics, ALL my Hulks, and a few other issues. The pillage took place in the first week of December. I checked a few days earlier, and all were there. Now ...

It seems that with the exception of reprint paperbacks, no comics are left in the cellar. They saw no value in, or had no interest in reprints. Upstairs in the rec room (formerly my old bedroom before my mother died) comics remain.. but,somehow, despite locks the thieves got into the cellar. Home invasion ? Are they watching during the day, as I go out to shop or keep doctor's apppointments ?

I suspect a certain party, but I have only circumstantial evidence -and to confront these people with no proof, would cause trouble. I never met these joes, and their neglect of their own property ...The police can be informed, but they'd not like the neglect to the back door...

One more incentive to move and put the house up on the market, but first I must canvass the apartments for costs,etc.

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Added:	7 years, 4 months ago 08 Dec 2016 16:39 CET

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ZoePapillon

7 years, 4 months ago

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why don't you case their place, and when they're gone, break in and steal your stuff back.

Well...don't immediately put it back, because they'll call the cops on you, and the cops will find the stuff, and think you stole it etc...

But if you could break in, get your stuff, find a safe place to stash it that can't be traced back to you and store it there for like a week or so, it will work out, ie: you steal it back and stash it safely, cops come over and check the place, they don't find anything, the other party gives up because they can't call again "hey we broke in to prove this guy has our stuff" isn't exactly an allibi lol.

EmmetEarwax

7 years, 4 months ago

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Edited 7 years, 4 months ago by Owner

I'm calling the police and naming the suspects. I also boosted the security further by:
(1) Moving a heavy chest of drawers in front of the back door, with boxes of rocks, etc. atop.
(2) Changed the combination of the garage opener.

I figure they are neighbors who were watching me for times I would go out shopping or seeing the doctor. I am paranoic at my age.

Some years ago, my upstate summer home was burglarized. Comics and many other things were stolen, and 11 fires were set, probably in attempts to burn the house down ! The neighbor spotted the front door standing open, and a back window smashed. My deductions: at least 2 were involved, they were kids (comics stolen), and they came at night or late evening( all the candles used up). They effected an entry through the broken window. I still wonder how one explained the nasty cut he got on his hand from the broken window. (blood here and there).

My mother never felt right about the place since, and when my father died in 2003, she put the house up for sale.

moyomongoose

7 years, 4 months ago

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Edited 7 years, 4 months ago by Owner

From experiences I've had during the years I lived in Florida, a thief that returns for more stuff is most likely a crackhead stealing for his next visit to the crackman...That might be what's going on.

In Florida, I had stuff stolen for 14 days straight before I caught him. And it wasn't a big clean-out all at once.
Day 1, four power tools were stolen.
Day 2, it was some extension cords and a 6 foot step ladder.
Day 3, it was a bicycle.
Day 4, a weed-eater.
One of those days it was a wheelbarrow.
Another day it was a chainsaw, and so on...It called "milking", and others had told me that is the way someone addicted to crack operates.
There was even stuff stolen that wasn't worth a crap, like a pair of limb loppers with a broken handle.
I caught him on day 14 with two of my shovels...After I kicked him twice, once in the ass and once in the side of the leg, he never came back...In the neighborhood I lived in at the time, it would have done no good to call the cops. They would have told me like they told everyone else, "There's nothing we can do about it".

And they won't take what they stole to a pawnshop. Most anyone who had been on crack for any length of time are jobless, homeless, and lack any form of ID needed to do business with a pawnshop.
What they do instead is take what they stole into the neighborhoods, then hang out in places like in front of convenient stores or in laundromats and sell it to the locals.
I've seen a few try to sell stuff that way, like one I saw who sold a stolen camcorder near a tire shop one day (camcorders and VCRs were still the thing in use back in 1993)...
He approaches, "YO...Wanna by a camera...Just gimme $50...Look, man. Looka this".
Other person, "I ain't got 50".
Crackhead, "How 'bout 25 then?"
Other person, "I don't know if that damn thing even works, man...I give ya 5 though".
Crackhead, "Shiiiiiiiit...gimme mo than that".
Another bystander offers, "I go 10...It's all I got".
Him and the crackhead haggles between $10 and $20 for a minute, then agree on $15...The camcorder is sold for $15.

With $15, plus money he got for some other stolen stuff, he sees the crackman...After he comes back down from his fix, which don't take long, he's off to steal more stuff...With someone that addicted, it is a continual, nonstop, never ending cycle...And somehow, they always remember the list of places they got in their head to go back to so they can steal more stuff (places that are "pegged").

I later found out the one who stole stuff from me for 14 days had kicked down the back door of a condemned house on the street behind where I lived back then, and was living in that abandoned house, and watching when everyone comes and goes.
I knew some folks at the tire shop who knew his family, and they said he stole from his parents so bad his own daddy kicked him out on the streets.
He was about 36 then, but the s-o-b looked like he was about in his late 60s.

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