Relentless

The bad guys are just completely relentless, and it's getting rather tiresome. Tonight, for the third time since November, I found myself paying $180 to have a window fixed. It's really getting quite ridiculous. I must have some level of thanks, though, because they didn't get into my house this time.


So what was it that stopped them?

My fancy new alarm?
No. (in fact, they didn't seem to care about the big alarm sticker that was square in the middle of the window they broke)

My walking in on them in-progress?
No.

My big giant imaginary guard dog?
No.


It was the steel freakin' bars my dad put over the windows, drilled into the interior studs with 3 1/2" screws. They broke the window, gave a good swift kick to the bars, saw that it was useless and left. I am extremely thankful of my dad's effort in that regard (and I called him to tell him so, because I gave him such a hard time for wanting to do it in the first place), though I'm still out quite a bit of money for nothing. I didn't even have the police come over because it would have been a waste of their time to come look at my broken window. I've spent an hour and a half cleaning up glass and I'm still not done. There's just tiny pieces of glass EVERYWHERE it would seem. I definitely hate this.

So was it the same folks as before? I don't think so (hopefully because they're still in jail). Completely different M.O. These guys did the whole knock on the front door and since no one answered they must not be home so lets go around back and break-in thing. I know this because of how my screen door was situated when I got home. Definitely not how I left it this morning.

You know, I really don't have time for this right now. I really wish word would get around with them bad guy types that it's just not worth it.