Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The Robbery

Our home was robbed. I guess with all the time we are on the road we should feel lucky that it never happened before but that is just making excuses for a horrible experience. Once we were rear ended by a logging truck in Mexico and given all the times we rode the motorcycles in Mexico and other 3rd world places, we were lucky it never happened before or since. But still it did not make it a pleasant experience.

But what makes this worse is that someone had to know we were going to be gone and when and how long because you don’t break open a door to a home with two cars parked in the drive way. There was only two entities, Cox Communication, that knew when we going away and knows where we live. Anyone else been robbed while away that told someone other than friends? Tell us and let's see if there is a nexus.

We should all feel free to get on the bike and take off and not worry that while we are away that the house is being robbed. So now we have joined fortress America and have the alarm, the lights and the attitude that we had for so long refused to accept as part of modern life.

So we have been caught up with getting alarms, canceling credit cards, dealing with insurance companies, getting the door, made in 1926, repaired and even hiring a PI. And what did they get? Old electronics and costume jewelry. Things that cannot be sold because who wants a 10 year old dell laptop or a brooch for holding on a Bulgarian folk dress? Even the new tivo and Iphone are useless since they can and are now shut down from use. More on th reality of this later.

But for Sue the brooch has meaning, just like all the other items in her jewelry box that were taken, they have meaning because she did use the on ethnic clothing when she was younger and did all the folk dancing from these areas of the Balkans and eastern Europe.

Police see home breakins as victimless crimes. That is cold. You people that know how angry Sue gets when another competitor steals one of her design ideas, well you can imagine what stealing her jewelry that made up her life or that of her grandmother is doing to her.

For those who live in the San Diego area, here is what we know. we are looking for two Hispanic guys in a silver SUV. That they are in the El Cajon and Lemon Grove area or in Balboa Blvd area because that is where they used credit cards. At gas stations that have been of no help. More on that later. If you can make copies of the pictures and give them out to everyone you know, every person, shop, restaurant, bar that you go into that would help us. They can call a special number we setup if you find anything 619 591-8773. maybe a $10,000 bounty on the identity of the robbers, proof and location as well as the return of the jewelry is what we should offer.

I know that a lot of you have had motorcycles stolen or your homes broken into. If this works, maybe we can start to work together to get stuff back and stop these people from doing it again.
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