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Just one of those days
Oct. 2nd, 2003 11:10 pmSome of you may have read some of this on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lisaparratt's journal but I need to write about it as a form of release. It's been a shit day!
Yesterday we arrived home from work to find Molly waiting for us saying did we know that someone had tried to get in to the garage. I didn't but the evidence of the bent garage door was clear once pointed out to me. They'd tried to force it. Nothing was taken just the damage to the door so it was bent back and last night I parked my car on the drive in front of the door.
This morning I awoke to find that someone had forced the drivers door. Being a late 90's Volvo they'd done it the only way they could by levering the window frame part of the door forward enough for a (small, child sized?) arm to get in there and release the central locking. I think I may have disturbed them because I heard a car speed of from this quiet corner at about 03:30 this morning whilst heading to the loo. Anyway it's bent enough that it's now weakend and really needs replacing.
These people were obviously incompetant because they'd tried to get in to the boot through the rear arm rest breaking trim ignoring the rear seat release latches or the unlocked boot. The stereo, which has a removable front panel, had not been touched, nor the CDs in the glove box, making me thing they were trying to move the car to get in to the garage and finish off what they were doing the night before. The car has an imobiliser which means the car wont start without me disarming it with my bleeper.
I called the police who, at first, just wanted to give me a crime number. I pointed out the incidents that have happened before (I've written about them in this journal) and so they sent someone out. I was told point blank that they don't bother finger printing cars after crime any more. It seems that as we're insured they're just not interested. It's times like this I wish we could have those anti theft devices the South Africans have, flame throwers under the cars so that when people break in they get their legs burnt.
A bit harsh you may say? I've lived in many places across the country and every car (except my first, a VW Beetle) has been broken in to or stolen. This is despite me never leaving any valuables in the car and having alarms, crook-locks and the like. They don't believe you have removed them and break in to look in the glove box anyway. I'd given up on cars for a while and this is my first after two years. I've only had it six months. I'm cross and angry and despite being a fairly laid back kind of person I want to hurt them.
I want to try and hang on to this one so I've pruned back the bushes in the front of the house, adjusted the security light for more range and I'm now parking the car (complete with new security devices) across the front of the house where it can be easily seen. I've even got my Indycam set up to grab a JPEG image every 12 seconds. This weekend the remainder of the front will be tidied up and a second security light to cover the dark spots installed.
I wasted a whole morning because of some scrotes and it's going to cost me £500 to have the door replaced. Arrggghhh! It was time I didn't really want to take off because of vacations and the like we're a little short staffed in the team at the moment.
The only good thing was that the work I did this afternoon, (a Win32 port of the sockets object abstraction I've been working on) worked straight off once I fixed a couple of compiler errors which means it's now running on Win32, Linux, VxWorks and Cygwin.
lisaparratt's journal but I need to write about it as a form of release. It's been a shit day!Yesterday we arrived home from work to find Molly waiting for us saying did we know that someone had tried to get in to the garage. I didn't but the evidence of the bent garage door was clear once pointed out to me. They'd tried to force it. Nothing was taken just the damage to the door so it was bent back and last night I parked my car on the drive in front of the door.
This morning I awoke to find that someone had forced the drivers door. Being a late 90's Volvo they'd done it the only way they could by levering the window frame part of the door forward enough for a (small, child sized?) arm to get in there and release the central locking. I think I may have disturbed them because I heard a car speed of from this quiet corner at about 03:30 this morning whilst heading to the loo. Anyway it's bent enough that it's now weakend and really needs replacing.
These people were obviously incompetant because they'd tried to get in to the boot through the rear arm rest breaking trim ignoring the rear seat release latches or the unlocked boot. The stereo, which has a removable front panel, had not been touched, nor the CDs in the glove box, making me thing they were trying to move the car to get in to the garage and finish off what they were doing the night before. The car has an imobiliser which means the car wont start without me disarming it with my bleeper.
I called the police who, at first, just wanted to give me a crime number. I pointed out the incidents that have happened before (I've written about them in this journal) and so they sent someone out. I was told point blank that they don't bother finger printing cars after crime any more. It seems that as we're insured they're just not interested. It's times like this I wish we could have those anti theft devices the South Africans have, flame throwers under the cars so that when people break in they get their legs burnt.
A bit harsh you may say? I've lived in many places across the country and every car (except my first, a VW Beetle) has been broken in to or stolen. This is despite me never leaving any valuables in the car and having alarms, crook-locks and the like. They don't believe you have removed them and break in to look in the glove box anyway. I'd given up on cars for a while and this is my first after two years. I've only had it six months. I'm cross and angry and despite being a fairly laid back kind of person I want to hurt them.
I want to try and hang on to this one so I've pruned back the bushes in the front of the house, adjusted the security light for more range and I'm now parking the car (complete with new security devices) across the front of the house where it can be easily seen. I've even got my Indycam set up to grab a JPEG image every 12 seconds. This weekend the remainder of the front will be tidied up and a second security light to cover the dark spots installed.
I wasted a whole morning because of some scrotes and it's going to cost me £500 to have the door replaced. Arrggghhh! It was time I didn't really want to take off because of vacations and the like we're a little short staffed in the team at the moment.
The only good thing was that the work I did this afternoon, (a Win32 port of the sockets object abstraction I've been working on) worked straight off once I fixed a couple of compiler errors which means it's now running on Win32, Linux, VxWorks and Cygwin.