[silver_pilate]

Last years some punks broke out my passenger side window. However, before they did that, they tried to force the door lock with a screwdriver or something and completely ruined it. They also apparently tried to pry they triangle window loose and also tried prying the door open at the top leaving scratches and a small bent area at the top of the door frame. Now thieves piss me off, but incompetant, idiotic, morons who jack up other stuff while trying to break in really, really piss me off. Once they got in, they stole all they could find.

They took paperwork in the car (insurance stuff), all my tools (Gearwrenches and a hand picked assortment that I used for the Mustang), and my custom built sub/amp box. With that, I had quick disconnects on all the wires for ease of removal at the track, so they all just popped free. However, instead of graciously unpluggin the $70 interconnects, they just cut them. Also, they took my backpack. MY FREAKING BACKPACK!!!! All of the other stuff didn't matter. I had hours and hours of lab work and notes in that bag which were of no use to anyone but me, and that stuff can't get replaced.

Anyway, there were a string of 30 or so breakins just at my appartments and hundreds all over town. I got to where I was sitting up nights with a baseball bat praying the SOB's would come back.

Then, about a year later and one o'clock in the morning, I heard a scream in the parking lot and my nextdoor neighbor comes running up and beats on my door. She said that she saw a guy trying to break into a truck. So I go down there, and of course the guy's gone. However, there was a truck backed into a space with people sitting in it. When I saw them, they took off. By the time we got in the car to chase, we saw the same truck pulling out of the next complex over with the would-be theif in the truck. We chased them out of town and eventually ran them down and copied their plates. They then pulled over to try and force an issue, and we kept going right on passed them. No sense in facing likely armed idiots in the middle of nowhere. Anyway, we reported them to the cops. Don't know that anything was ever done about it.

Oh well. They better pray that I don't find out who broke into my car. If I do, it's go time.

--nathan