Originally Posted by
Tummy
I have several webcams monitoring the exterior and some interior rooms in my house. We run Vitamin D software from
http://www.vitamindinc.com/ that emails me whenever there is activity based on rules I setup. It saves the video files to a wireless NAS that I hid in my ceiling so if something happens I can at least review it later. My co-workers call me paranoid.
Our next door neighbor was robbed maybe 7 months ago. The crooks opened their garage door and pulled the van right in. Nobody was home except the dog, a german shepherd, which they beat up with a baseball bat.
I think I would do a lot worse to them than just a baseball bat if I found a dog in that condition, a lot worse.
Originally Posted by gj83
Last week my house was broken into. The robbers made off with
Epson HD projector
Dell desktop
Toshiba Laptop
Dell laptop
several external hard drives
Wii
PS3
Free Linux dist. cd that came with a magazine
They did not, however, take a docking station still in the box, esata cord still in packaging, an esata adapter still in packaging, TV tuner still in packaging, HD webcam which would be worth more than the hard drives.
..mainly they seemed after hard drives which seemed odd to me considering this breakin did not come with a love note from the FBI or anything else like that.
I've been checking Craigslist and ebay, but what other places do people go to sell stolen computers hard drives? The only crimes in my area seem to involve computers and computer accessories and these people seemed to look for particular items since they took my Dell D620 but not my ancient D600. Charlotte Police couldn't be bothered in the slightest to help us.
That does sound targeted because when my folks were victims, the guy was hunting around for the boxes stuff came in to make it easier to sell (My dad woke up and chased him). The police said that if they have the boxes the people buying the stuff are more likely to feel the items aren't nicked. Sorry you got hit in this way and I hope you manage to recover the stuff.