My house was burglarized... My safe saved the day!!!

be warned, they likely took down all the info on your safe and will be back.

Time to examine the weak points of your home security system and shore them up accordingly.

Glad to hear the safe is ok. Keep in mind that they now know you have one, and may wait for an opportunity to come again.


edit-- Heh! highorder and I posted the same thing at the same time.

Two questions:
1) How'd they get in.
2) What gave it away that you weren't home?

what you should do is when you go some place leave a light hooked up to a timer so it goes on and off at certain times they can be bought at any hardware store

As long as the document safe contents will NOT open you up to ID theft, I guess you made out OK.

Now, aren't you glad you popped for safe???


Glad they didn't get too much of your stuff.

It's too bad we didnt get to end some nasty creeper when we cleared it. j/k. Glad all is well in the big safe. Next time you're gone I'll go over every day and make myself a sandwich.
And play some cs...
j/k

Glad your stuff is safe.

Quite often info about you being gone is relayed by someone who you see from time to time in your neighborhood (i.e. a neighbor). They know your patterns and or are lucky enough to notice when you are walking out the door with a bunch of suitcases and freshly combed hair after a pre-flight shower. They know if you live alone and or have family members who are going with you.

Or someone you told about your trip told someone else who happens to know where you live. Any number of things. Best bet is to do all the timer stuff with the lights AND the TV...my personal favorite is a radio set to an all-talk radio news station which is near the door and turned up just enough to where it sounds like someone is talking inside. It's not so high as to be obvious of its source, nor its intent. You can't quite make out exactly what it is and is only somewhat obvious if you put your ear right up to the door.

Oh, and don't tell anybody who doesn't have to know that you are going on a trip. If you are gone for a while, have a trusty neighbor grab your mail and newspapers (DO NOT suspend your subscription for a short period of time), and last, but not least have them throw a bunch of their garbage in your cans and recycling in your bins and have them roll it out and back in on the appropriate days. Mailmen, newspaper deliverers, and especially garbage men are good sources of information for thieves as to who is on vacation.

Eyesac, I am sure the police are checking but would McDonalds have a video of the guy?

"be warned, they likely took down all the info on your safe and will be back".

+1 to that! Take the appropriate security measures. Be advised next time they may try a home invasion. I hope not! Be safe.

Maybe its time to invest in a 'home camera system' yourself,some are only a few hundred dollars...with a couple of sims that look out and has a blinking LED.Glad you have the guns safe and sound...be on a 2nd lookout...crimes like this are increasing in both Northern and Southern Nevada.

I'm sure, but I'll be honest.. I doubt the police are pulling a tape from McDs. They wouldn't even come out to the house to dust for prints (Bastards).

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Hard earned tax dollars being put to good use!

Was this the cop you called?

Eyesac, I suggest you pm CB900F and a1abdj, both are locksmiths and specialize in safes as well. They should be able to point you in the direction of where you should look as well as how to make sure your safe is secured as best it can to make the most of it. They can also tell you if what you have is suitable for the contents. I'm glad your guns are safe, but you need to be mindful of a second attempt.

Good luck in the future.

That experience sure points out the wisdom of owning a safe.

www.stopthecrime.com pepper spray burglar bomb. One of these hooked to trip when someone breaks loose your documet safe or gun safe is a good thing.

--wally.

You should be pressing the police to pull the CCTV tapes from McDonalds. It is their job to solve crimes and prevent future ones. It would take 5 minutes to match up the time when the card was used to the footage on the tapes and probably get a nice picture of whoever is using the card.

If someone broke into my house and then went to the fast food joint down the street I would be livid if the police refused to look at the CCTV footage. without that footage the perps will most likely never be caught unless they confess.
It is ridiculous that your local police seemingly do not even care at all that your house was broken into.

Most safes in residential burglaries are not touched, unless they are easily carried away. The one that they did carry away was obviously opened in very short order with the non valuable items dumped.

My biggest concern would be that they would come back for the larger safe. Obviously you have so much money that you need a large safe, and non of it was in the small one. I would not only beef up security a bit, but I would also be a lot more observant. The last thing you want is for one of them to be waiting for you to come home so they can point a gun to your head and make you open the other safe.

Chances are low that this situation would play out, but the likelyhood is much greater now that they know there's valuables that they had to leave behind.