Burglary at Blythe's- guns taken

[HoughMade]

UPDATE: Guns taken in burglary at Blythe's Sporting Goods in Valparaiso | Crime and Courts | nwitimes.com

 

[Ericpwp]

 

[indiucky]

Six years...Twice the alarm went off but both ended up being false...(Which is good because I beat the law here by about 2 minutes...)

I spend a lot of time knocking on wood.....

 

[Thor]

Valpo...becoming Gary East...too bad really.

 

[HoughMade]

Actually, Gary east is taken:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Station,_Indiana

We prefer to think of ourselves as "Gary's armorer" .

 

[Mark 1911]

Thieves are the lowest of the low. Hope they catch them soon.

 

[indiucky]

Thieves are the lowest of the low. Hope they catch them soon.

Second only to vandals...At least a thief get's something out of his crime...A vandal just destroys for the sake of destruction....

IMHO

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Love the Griffith store. Only been to Valpo once.

 

[renauldo]

You probably know: Griffith Blythes has been robbed 3 times since the 1st of the year. All robberies occurred 3-5 AM.

 

[223 Gunner]

You probably know: Griffith Blythes has been robbed 3 times since the 1st of the year. All robberies occurred 3-5 AM.

I am assuming you mean burglarized 3 times.

 

[Thor]

Actually, Gary east is taken:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Station,_Indiana

We prefer to think of ourselves as "Gary's armorer" .

Maybe they're just expanding their political boundaries? Gary's armorer probably works though. Hope they catch the thieves before they have a chance to distribute (probably too late though).

 

[Excalibur]

I wonder what was actually taken and you think a store with so many guns like Blythe's would invest in more heavy duty doors.

 

[KLB]

I wonder what was actually taken and you think a store with so many guns like Blythe's would invest in more heavy duty doors.

Kind of what I was thinking. It isn't like they can drive a car into this one to get in.

 

[4651feeder]

I wonder what was actually taken and you think a store with so many guns like Blythe's would invest in more heavy duty doors.

Pretty much what I was thinking after reading the story. Interior security gates behind the doors and storm shutters on the windows for after hours. Worked in a radio/television store decades ago on the wrong side of the tracks. The owner installed thick lexan panels in place of glass on vulnerable areas of the building. On those mornings spent picking up the prior evening's thrown broken bricks and cinder blocks, one just couldn't help but chuckle some.

 

[KLB]

Pretty much what I was thinking after reading the story. Interior security gates behind the doors and storm shutters on the windows for after hours. Worked in a radio/television store decades ago on the wrong side of the tracks. The owner install thick lexan panels in place of glass on vulnerable areas of the building. On those mornings spent picking up the prior evening's thrown broken bricks and cinder blocks, one just couldn't help but chuckle some.

There are no windows. The gun shop is upstairs there. The doors in the picture are for an entry way that leads to stores on the left, right, and then up the stairs to the gun shop. There are more doors at the top of the stairs.

 

[HoughMade]

There are no windows. The gun shop is upstairs there. The doors in the picture are for an entry way that leads to stores on the left, right, and then up the stairs to the gun shop. There are more doors at the top of the stairs.

My wallet knows this to be 100% accurate.

 

[HoughMade]

[video=youtube;9oqYN7KBt7w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oqYN7KBt7w[/video]

 

[Ericpwp]

Time-lapse? That was the outside door.

 

[HoughMade]

Notice how the one guy was apparently going to steal trophies until the other guy pointed him upstairs.

 

[KLB]

Notice how the one guy was apparently going to steal trophies until the other guy pointed him upstairs.

Yeah. I'm still surprised they did not have better doors at the top of the stairs. It shouldn't be hard to make that entry close to impregnable.