human
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So, yesterday I was out running errands with my friend and her daughter and since we were on the side of town where my storage unit is, I decided on the spur of the moment to go and check on it since I hadn't been over there for a couple of months. No sooner had I gotten out of the car than the lady from the office came up to me and asked if I had a unit in that particular building and when I replied that I did, she told me I couldn't go in because they'd had a break-in and the police were on their way.
Sure enough, my unit was one that had been forced open. It's jammed full of my late father's toy collection and a few other odds and ends, including some antique car parts. They got most of the car parts and a few of the toys (die cast scale car models of recent manufacture) and they dropped a box of cast iron toy soldiers on the floor in the hallway.
The consensus is it could have been an inside job because they managed to stay out of view from any of the security cameras and deflected one camera away from the back door of the building my unit is in. The police didn't manage to get any fingerprints but the perpetrator apparently cut themselves either on the fence they cut through or on one of the roll-up door they forced because there were drops of blood on the floor. The crime scene tech said that was potentially better than fingerprints.
As I was leaving, the lady handed me a new padlock for my storage unit and I got to thinking about it later on that I should retrieve the one that was on the damaged door since it's keyed the same as another one I have so I went back over there earlier today and the maintenance guy and the office lady were standing in front of my unit, having just finished repairing the door and she handed me the keys to yet another lock she'd just installed. Those disc-shaped padlocks must cost them next to nothing for them to be so generous with them. I looked down at my feet and saw my old lock, still attached to the mangled latch mechanism, and unlocked it and slipped it into my pocket as well.
Even though the thieves got away with several hundred dollars' worth of my stuff, I can't get too worked up about it since there's just such a massive amount of it. The one thing it points up is that it's high time I had an auction to get rid of that stuff.
Sure enough, my unit was one that had been forced open. It's jammed full of my late father's toy collection and a few other odds and ends, including some antique car parts. They got most of the car parts and a few of the toys (die cast scale car models of recent manufacture) and they dropped a box of cast iron toy soldiers on the floor in the hallway.
The consensus is it could have been an inside job because they managed to stay out of view from any of the security cameras and deflected one camera away from the back door of the building my unit is in. The police didn't manage to get any fingerprints but the perpetrator apparently cut themselves either on the fence they cut through or on one of the roll-up door they forced because there were drops of blood on the floor. The crime scene tech said that was potentially better than fingerprints.
As I was leaving, the lady handed me a new padlock for my storage unit and I got to thinking about it later on that I should retrieve the one that was on the damaged door since it's keyed the same as another one I have so I went back over there earlier today and the maintenance guy and the office lady were standing in front of my unit, having just finished repairing the door and she handed me the keys to yet another lock she'd just installed. Those disc-shaped padlocks must cost them next to nothing for them to be so generous with them. I looked down at my feet and saw my old lock, still attached to the mangled latch mechanism, and unlocked it and slipped it into my pocket as well.
Even though the thieves got away with several hundred dollars' worth of my stuff, I can't get too worked up about it since there's just such a massive amount of it. The one thing it points up is that it's high time I had an auction to get rid of that stuff.