They probably broke into the wrong garage -- maybe one of your neighbors
had what they were looking for....... glad your stuff's still there.
At 08:40 AM 10/15/99 -0700, Greg Gowins wrote:
>Hello listers,
>
>I thought I'd share this little incident with y'all. I arrived home from
>work late last night and noticed the garage door was open. I live in an
>apartment complex and we have individual detached garages. I thought this
>was strange, because I hadn't worked on the Sprite in a couple of days, and
>therefore hadn't been in the garage. I investigated, and someone had broken
>in. The doors have a key mechanism to run the opener in case you don't have
>the remote. Someone had pried out the key mechanism and shorted across the
>wires, thus allowing them access to my Sprite, all my tools, by road racing
>bicycle, and all my camping equipment. They must not have been interested
>in any of that, because nothing was missing!!! The key to the Sprite was on
>the bench in the back, all of my tools and equipment (over $2500 worth)
>were all in their roll around Craftsman tool chest, my Tour de France level
>bike was resting against the wall, all of my camping equipment stacked up,
>and none of it was taken!!! I'm considering myself very lucky. In fact,
>I'm running out and buying a lottery ticket right now! I wonder if the guy
>who messed up my SPRITE plates is behind this???<grin> Looks like I dodged
>a bullet this time.
>
>Greg Gowins
>'69 Sprite
>Dublin, CA
>
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