Today when I came home from work I realized our house had been broken into. Luckily no one was home at the time. The police were fairly quick to respond so that was good (as I stood out on the side walk trembling because I didn't know if anyone was still in the house). Unfortunately Craig's phone was on silent so he didn't get my frantic phone calls until he was done work.
As you can see below the invaders pried open our back door (looks like a crowbar was used) and this completely wrecked the door. The wood splintered and the door is almost in half. They also pried open the dead bolt to get into our kitchen and this made a big mess. Not sure how we will fix the wall there.
By the time the police asked all their questions and CSI investigated for fingerprints it was too late to go and buy a new door. We had some dead bolts in the closet so Craig put one on so that we can at least shut the door until tomorrow when Craig can replace it with something made of metal so that I can sleep at night.
The two doors that were "secured" with dead bolts. I didn't know it would be this easy to break in.
Not much was taken. Craig had several hundred dollars worth of loonies that was taken and they may have stolen some of Craig's coin collection (but he isn't sure). They also stole a pillow case (to hold their loot) and almost all of Craig's PS3 games. Luckily the ones we play the most weren't in the cupboard so we didn't lose those. It is possible other things are missing and we haven't noticed yet.
Empty shelf that used to be full of games.
They emptied out the contents of our bed side tables and made a big mess.
This type of home invasion is not common in this neighborhood and when I was talking to police dispatch the person mentioned that another home invasion was reported earlier a block away. Hopefully we will be able to make the house more secure so that we don't have to deal with this stress again!
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