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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Third times a Charm?

Ehh, not so much, at least for the guys trying to steal my dirt bike.

We had just gotten home from watching the Ravens / Steelers game at a friends house. We then proceed to get in bed at around 11pm, as I finally get comfortable the alarm starts going off. I quickly get clothes back on, get a weapon, Get my stream light, have my wife call the cops. I go out and go around the garage to the back.

I then light up the area with my stream light, give the obligitary warning yell of “stop thief”, There are two of them. One guy goes running through the pine trees in the neighbors yard, the other guy dives out of the garage window, and goes running around the front of the garage being pursued by our Australian shepherd. I duck through the pine trees but the guy is no where to be found, he may have been a wee bit motivated in his run out of the area. Of course when I go around the front of the garage the other guy and the dog are no where to be found. The Aussie was not supposed to get out but he shot past me when I opened the door. So I head out to the road looking for the dog, of course about this time the cops turn up.

They take my name and number, next thing I know I have 6 cars in and around my driveway. The next thing they ask me for was a description, this is when I realize that I did not have my glasses on so all I can give them is black clothing and running shoes with reflectors, Doh.

The K9 unit then shows up and they head out after the one who went through the bushes. The police dog ran the cop all the way down to the section 8 housing 2 miles away, so we know where perp #1 came from. As this is all happening I am of course trying to find the Aussie. The Crime Lab truck shows up and the guy takes pictures of my broken glass in the back window. Still no Aussie.

The wife has called our friends (who own one of our dog’s littermates) and they show up and start driving around the neighboring communities looking for the Aussie as we can’t leave yet as the cops may want to speak with us further. Our friends pull up around 12:30 without the Aussie in tow, I then go for a ride with my buddy to see if the Aussie has appeared on the path that the K9 unit took, but there was no Joy. As our friends were getting ready to head home around midnight the Aussie appears across the road. A couple of yells later he is on the front porch none the worse for wear. We were getting a bit concerned about him not showing up, and were ready to go back in the house and wait for him to appear.

So far the three attempts to steal my dirt bike have turned out as thus:
One: Dumb luck they did not have bolt cutters to open the side door of the garage.
Two: I had a wireless infrared alarm installed and was able to scare them off but not able to see them, but had no flashlight so did not see anything.
Three: Wireless alarm went off, Had flashlight but no glasses, so the only description I had was blurry guys under 6 feet tall in black clothing.

I will have to get bars for the insides of the windows now. I have put plywood over all of the windows in the garage until I can have the bars made up when it gets a bit warmer, not what I wanted to do but I had no choice. If the alarm goes off next time I will at least only have to worry about covering the side and front of the garage as the windows will be taken care of for the time being.

I also will be looking into low light video gear for recording into a computer surveillance system.

Fricking hoodrats…

Update:
I installed this to anchor the bike.

Posted by Kirk on 01/20 at 06:14 PM
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