ashleybear

Truthfully, it wouldn't surprise me if it were the workers or one of their buddies. I know that's horrible to say, but it's the world we live in. Additionally, very soon after this attempted break in our neighbors down a block (closer to Travis) had their car broken into around 4 or 5AM but were scared off by their dog barking like mad so didn't get anything but an iPod shuffle, I believe.

Same house, they tried to break in. Pulled the piece of wood off the fence that was holding the gate padlocked (will be reinforcing more soon, but it was fixed) and came home to a wide open gate with the part padlocked lying on the ground. They came in and kicked in the cat/tiny dog door that has been on our house since before the owners before us, but never got into the house or the garage aka the "fortress." (LOL) The cops believe my large dog barking scared them off. I would have liked to see them find themselves stuck in my dog door and hauled off to jail. Nothing was stolen, but still violating. Filed a police report immediately upon returning home and finding it. These people are getting more bold - this happened on a sunny day between 12:45 PM and 6:10 PM, WITH workers working on the home behind us -- building a garage! They can see into our backyard as they build, so one of them had to have seen the robber(s). Anyhow, just wanted people to be aware and be vigilant This was in Woodland Heights near Travis Elementary.

Oh no, they're all $30K millionaires. I think most of them live "by the Galleria," which I believe in many cases is "home at Mommy's." I drive past this a few times a week on my way home/errands/etc., and I hate the butterfly effect on the top level. It SCREAMS "come hang out at me douche bags!" However, it will likely be packed all the time. If it's the same owners as Drake, all their regulars will surely head here during the day, then Drake at night. And the line for Drake is packed at all times, which completely turns me off. I'm not a fan of the see and be seen bars.

Oh, and yes, they left that set of golf clubs. They also left an old TV (that's really not that old) that was sitting out there since we had no place for it inside and were trying to figure out what to do with it (sell it, donate, etc.). They REALLY wanted our tools and lawn equipment. As well as speakers and a stereo tuner or whatever it is. Granted those are both older, from my husbands childhood/teen years, so they're probably not of as much value anymore (then again neither was the bike -- but I can't understand their frame of thought).

I'm not sure who this is that's posting about this, but this actually happened to us. I had been told that people had responded to my thred and were skeptical and was reading my original thread on the woodland heights board and was like, uh, no? Then I thought about this site and checked and voila! It all makes sense. First of all, this didn't happen on a Friday or at night. It was Monday, November 10 between 1:30 PM and 5:30 PM. We have a two car garage, but the way our house sits on our lot it's impossible to get two cars into the garage without taking off side of the house. So, previous owners converted half of the garage into an outdoor room. When they did, they simply framed up the wall and put insulation on the garage side, then of course dry wall on the side where the room was. When the intruders came in, they kicked a hole through the wall: http://images42.fotki.com/v1376/photos/3/3...652/wall-vi.jpg (Sorry it's not a good picture, I took it with my camera phone) They then proceeded to steal all of our tools (which we didn't realize until Saturday), our lawnmower, some hedge clippers, our gas blower and my husbands old Schwinn bike. The bike wasn't a huge loss as it was very old, but we had just paid over $200 to get it tuned, new tires and tubes and new handlebars because they were dryrotted (yeah, it was that sweet of a bike, LOL, but it's the priciple of the matter). During the hurricane, we were completely locked of our garage, so we vowed to put a door in between that room and the garage. When I got home and let the dog out that evening, the door to the back room was open because she ran in there to get of the rain. Thinking that was strange, I flipped on the light and saw the hole. I initially thought perhaps my husband had gotten ambitious the day before and when he walked outside I grilled him. When he had no clue, we checked into the garage and realize what was gone. My husband goes home for lunch every day and leaves around 1:30PM -- I walked in the door at around 5:30PM, so there was a small window for them to do this. Our dog was a smaller puppy at the time, crated in the main house, so there was no way she would have scared them off. The fact that it was storming outside hit the noise quite a bit from the street or anywhere else. That and the house next door is empty and for sale, and the owner on the other side works so wouldn't have been home. And we did fix the problem -- thick plywood all the way down the wall of the garage and a door with a deadbolt. Needless to say, I was wondering why someone wouldn't believe that it happened, especially when I had a picture posted as proof, and now I know why. It's an awfully insane way to get robbed so I can understand how it could seem unbelievable, especially when presented sans the proper facts and visuals.