If a couple of them get shot in the act, I bet the crime rate goes down in the area!!! The more dead they are, the less future crime.
My neighbor had his snowblower and about $600 in tools stolen 2 nights ago. We live in a new development on the SW side of town. I have a high school class mate I stay in touch with that is a carpenter; he is strictly just framing houses right now in the same area and he says tool theft is through the roof. He said things you wouldn’t think twice about leavening at a job site 3-4 years ago will be gone over night if you don’t take them home or lock them in a trailer. I guess even materials are being stolen, he said one night someone took a whole pallet of 2x4s. The material only was worth around $500 but the money it cost in time and having a workforce at the job site waiting around for another delivery doubled what the material was worth. There was a trailer backed up to a house with a lift parked in front a few months back and the thieves actually cut a hole in the roof of the trailer with a saw and stole everything that would fit out of the roof.
My neighbor’s garage was broken into by wedging something under his third stall door and using a cheater bar to lift up on the garage until it sheared the pin on the garage door lift. The design of both his house and mind make it impossible to see your 3rd stall from inside the house, and the kitchen is backed up against the 3rd stall so hearing it from your bedroom at night is impossible. I wonder if someone was scouting the area and knew he had a nice tool box and snowblower…or why they picked his house and not mine. I have a garage full of about $4000 in tools, 3 dirt bikes, a snowmobile, bikes, snowboards, new mower, nice vehicles….ect. I do have a security system though with signs that are posted, which he doesn’t have. I didn’t have a motion detector in the garage but picked up one last night and got it installed when I got home.
One thing my buddy mentioned that got me thinking is the builders got together and hired a security company to patrol the area they were building homes in. Before that since building was slow, they took an employee and had them stay in one of the homes overnight to keep a watch. When that was done, there was no theft and no reports of seeing anyone suspicious, but all the builders were aware of the security. As soon as they stopped doing it, theft picked back up again. That makes me believe what is happening in my area might involved someone in the construction industry. They know when people are on site, they are familiar with homes in the area, and they know that we maybe see 1 patrol car a night drive by.
