So my little town has pretty much been safe for the most part - we've had issues with bored teenage kids roaming around and doing stupid kid stuff, but no major vandalism or theft.
Then two nights ago, we heard the alarm-chime for the detached garage door at around 3AM (well the wife did - I was sound asleep and frankly ashamed of my whole response time). Now at the time, i was under the impression that the local PD closed down after 11pm and calls were routed to the county after that - so I figured on no response time or a very delayed one (no offense to the county, but they're suffering from the same budget cuts so they probably had one or two guys and there was a good chance they could have been all the way across the country). I found out the next morning that they have since changed that and are patrolling all night.
So I stumbled out of bed, threw on some shorts and grabbed the M&P (just in case) and went to go investigate. My wife told me that she saw a kid walking quickly down the alley way toward the south, so I figured I was just going to go find the evidence of theft/vandalism or whatever.
Garage door was open but I couldn't find anything was immediately missing (and I also realized how messy my garage is and how difficult that makes inventory post-theft). I stayed up the rest of the night - not really hoping to catch someone, but out of just worry that they would come back.
I also found that one of my small gas-cans was in the alley behind the garage along with someone else's gas-can - so that was at least part of the target.
I live across the street from the local PD, so I went over and visited with the on-duty officer for a bit the next morning and gave him the other gas can. I didn't bother writing a report but told him the time, gave a description of the fleeing kid, and direction he was headed and asked if he would sort of keep an eye on the area at night.
Fast forward two more nights and we awake to 3 of my daughter's (brand new) tires slashed. I just got through filling out the police report. This sucks - we pulled the kids out of school over a year and a half ago, so we don't even really have much contact with anyone around here anymore and we're moving up toward Bixby in like 3 months.
We've always been pretty nice to everyone around here (including all manner of kids that come over to play with ours, or just happen to be roaming around and wander up randomly to play). We don't have anything super nice and the house was built in the 1930s and is far from extravagant (that was one of the reasons we chose to build/move rather than renovate). Just sucks.
Serious questions:
We got the tires (literally 2 weeks ago) from Wal-Mart and paid for road-hazard. Is this the type of thing that is normally covered (I'm guessing I'm screwed there - plus I've heard I can turn it into my Home-Owners insurance, but with the way policies are in OK right now I don't know that I want to do that and the deductible was probably around the cost of 3 new tires)?
I've always heard that you can't patch a side-wall - is that true as well?
Then two nights ago, we heard the alarm-chime for the detached garage door at around 3AM (well the wife did - I was sound asleep and frankly ashamed of my whole response time). Now at the time, i was under the impression that the local PD closed down after 11pm and calls were routed to the county after that - so I figured on no response time or a very delayed one (no offense to the county, but they're suffering from the same budget cuts so they probably had one or two guys and there was a good chance they could have been all the way across the country). I found out the next morning that they have since changed that and are patrolling all night.
So I stumbled out of bed, threw on some shorts and grabbed the M&P (just in case) and went to go investigate. My wife told me that she saw a kid walking quickly down the alley way toward the south, so I figured I was just going to go find the evidence of theft/vandalism or whatever.
Garage door was open but I couldn't find anything was immediately missing (and I also realized how messy my garage is and how difficult that makes inventory post-theft). I stayed up the rest of the night - not really hoping to catch someone, but out of just worry that they would come back.
I also found that one of my small gas-cans was in the alley behind the garage along with someone else's gas-can - so that was at least part of the target.
I live across the street from the local PD, so I went over and visited with the on-duty officer for a bit the next morning and gave him the other gas can. I didn't bother writing a report but told him the time, gave a description of the fleeing kid, and direction he was headed and asked if he would sort of keep an eye on the area at night.
Fast forward two more nights and we awake to 3 of my daughter's (brand new) tires slashed. I just got through filling out the police report. This sucks - we pulled the kids out of school over a year and a half ago, so we don't even really have much contact with anyone around here anymore and we're moving up toward Bixby in like 3 months.
We've always been pretty nice to everyone around here (including all manner of kids that come over to play with ours, or just happen to be roaming around and wander up randomly to play). We don't have anything super nice and the house was built in the 1930s and is far from extravagant (that was one of the reasons we chose to build/move rather than renovate). Just sucks.
Serious questions:
We got the tires (literally 2 weeks ago) from Wal-Mart and paid for road-hazard. Is this the type of thing that is normally covered (I'm guessing I'm screwed there - plus I've heard I can turn it into my Home-Owners insurance, but with the way policies are in OK right now I don't know that I want to do that and the deductible was probably around the cost of 3 new tires)?
I've always heard that you can't patch a side-wall - is that true as well?
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