Last night, our car almost got stolen or at least, the stuff in the car almost got stolen. We thwarted the robbers with pure dumb luck. It was by the Grace of God that nothing worst had happened.
Last night at 4:21am, I was woken up by my wife saying something is out there. I was exhausted and wasn't thinking straight (we had a birthday party earlier in the evening for our daughter and I went to bed at 3am) and thought it was a racoon or something so I came out with her and walked to where our cars were parked. Because of the party, we'd parked our cars on the street vs. the driveway. We found the the minivan's driver door not latched all the way that prevented the car alarm from rearming. Behind the minivan was my Civic and I thought I saw that the interior light was lit. Realizing how dumb we were (my wife was out with me), I told my wife to get back in and get our daughter. I ran in and got the gun out. This is a Ruger Mark 3 SS 22lr Target, shiny.
My wife was woken with her minivan alarm going off. Thinking that the alarm has been giving us trouble ever since we got the minivan 3 yrs ago (it was one of those alarm that automatically arms itself even if you don't lock the doors--we'd lived in New Jersey and often go to the city before IN and thought that was a good idea), she went downstairs and attempted to shut off the blaring alarm but to no avail. She then went outside and walked towards the minivan and swore she saw a figure crouching by the minivan. She backed her steps into the house, locked the doors and ran upstairs and woke me up.
This morning we found that nothing is missing from both of our cars. I found that the door of my Civic was also unlatched completely but nothing seems to be missing, including an XM radio. We park the cars in our driveway tonight. I got the gun out of the safe and into the drawer next to our bed. I'm not sure why the bad guy didn't get away with the Civic when he already had it. Maybe he can't drive a stick shift. Maybe it was just bored high school kids. This is in a good town in Hamilton County.
Last night at 4:21am, I was woken up by my wife saying something is out there. I was exhausted and wasn't thinking straight (we had a birthday party earlier in the evening for our daughter and I went to bed at 3am) and thought it was a racoon or something so I came out with her and walked to where our cars were parked. Because of the party, we'd parked our cars on the street vs. the driveway. We found the the minivan's driver door not latched all the way that prevented the car alarm from rearming. Behind the minivan was my Civic and I thought I saw that the interior light was lit. Realizing how dumb we were (my wife was out with me), I told my wife to get back in and get our daughter. I ran in and got the gun out. This is a Ruger Mark 3 SS 22lr Target, shiny.
My wife was woken with her minivan alarm going off. Thinking that the alarm has been giving us trouble ever since we got the minivan 3 yrs ago (it was one of those alarm that automatically arms itself even if you don't lock the doors--we'd lived in New Jersey and often go to the city before IN and thought that was a good idea), she went downstairs and attempted to shut off the blaring alarm but to no avail. She then went outside and walked towards the minivan and swore she saw a figure crouching by the minivan. She backed her steps into the house, locked the doors and ran upstairs and woke me up.
This morning we found that nothing is missing from both of our cars. I found that the door of my Civic was also unlatched completely but nothing seems to be missing, including an XM radio. We park the cars in our driveway tonight. I got the gun out of the safe and into the drawer next to our bed. I'm not sure why the bad guy didn't get away with the Civic when he already had it. Maybe he can't drive a stick shift. Maybe it was just bored high school kids. This is in a good town in Hamilton County.