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.