Just amazing what these idiots do...
After having mine broken into and getting the alarm installed. It was tripped a few times late at night/ early morning. When I say tripped, The shock sensor picked up that someone was messing with it. The alarm chirps a few times and sends an alert to the remote and my phone.
Looking out the closest window, I did catch one individual running away one time. But by the time I got out side I am not sure which way he went or were he was hiding.
In another neighborhood a few blocks away maybe a month later, I was helping a friend load a car onto a trailer around 10PM when a homeless dude walked right passed us and was attempting to burglarize cars down the street. I yelled at him when he tried to break the glass on another car the a friend of mine owned. Then I called the cops. Fortunate for him that I was not Carrying. He had a weapon in his hand when he came back by us. Shortly after that the first officer came around the corner while I was still on the phone with dispatch. I gave him a brief heads up and the dude turned towards the officer with the weapon still in his hand and started coming towards him. Fortunately a second officer arrived just about that time. Long story short He was not obeying there commands. I yelled at him to Obey the officers commands and drop the weapon. That's when he turned around and started walking away. As he did the 2 officers swarmed him and tackled him. Naturally he resisted but they were able to subdue him and get the weapon out of his hands. I believe it was piece of pipe. He was belligerent talking about how he was going to sue everyone. Clearly under the influence of something. After Getting his real name he had a rap sheet a mile long and was currently on probation. After booking him into the car and looking around the scene, they found his bag with tools and drug paraphernalia.
Same friend also had one of his Duramax stolen form the neighborhood in broad day light. Fortunately he was working from home and when he called it in, it wasn't missing long. They got serval hits from traffic cams and license plate readers. The cops actually pulled up on the vehicle while the guy was unloading it. He got the convertor off it but the Sawzall was still in the truck when my buddy got it back. the don't know where the convertor went. He went back to the area where it was recovered and literally across the street they guy had his property with his name on it sitting in plane site. We called the cops out, the guy tried to deny it at first and then said that they guy was unloading stuff from the stolen vehicle and he didn't know what to do with it. So he caught a charge for receiving stolen property.
This wasn't a big issue until Covid. Sadly all the cops can do right now is catch and release.
After having mine broken into and getting the alarm installed. It was tripped a few times late at night/ early morning. When I say tripped, The shock sensor picked up that someone was messing with it. The alarm chirps a few times and sends an alert to the remote and my phone.
Looking out the closest window, I did catch one individual running away one time. But by the time I got out side I am not sure which way he went or were he was hiding.
In another neighborhood a few blocks away maybe a month later, I was helping a friend load a car onto a trailer around 10PM when a homeless dude walked right passed us and was attempting to burglarize cars down the street. I yelled at him when he tried to break the glass on another car the a friend of mine owned. Then I called the cops. Fortunate for him that I was not Carrying. He had a weapon in his hand when he came back by us. Shortly after that the first officer came around the corner while I was still on the phone with dispatch. I gave him a brief heads up and the dude turned towards the officer with the weapon still in his hand and started coming towards him. Fortunately a second officer arrived just about that time. Long story short He was not obeying there commands. I yelled at him to Obey the officers commands and drop the weapon. That's when he turned around and started walking away. As he did the 2 officers swarmed him and tackled him. Naturally he resisted but they were able to subdue him and get the weapon out of his hands. I believe it was piece of pipe. He was belligerent talking about how he was going to sue everyone. Clearly under the influence of something. After Getting his real name he had a rap sheet a mile long and was currently on probation. After booking him into the car and looking around the scene, they found his bag with tools and drug paraphernalia.
Same friend also had one of his Duramax stolen form the neighborhood in broad day light. Fortunately he was working from home and when he called it in, it wasn't missing long. They got serval hits from traffic cams and license plate readers. The cops actually pulled up on the vehicle while the guy was unloading it. He got the convertor off it but the Sawzall was still in the truck when my buddy got it back. the don't know where the convertor went. He went back to the area where it was recovered and literally across the street they guy had his property with his name on it sitting in plane site. We called the cops out, the guy tried to deny it at first and then said that they guy was unloading stuff from the stolen vehicle and he didn't know what to do with it. So he caught a charge for receiving stolen property.
This wasn't a big issue until Covid. Sadly all the cops can do right now is catch and release.
