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ThePinkGoose
In Your Hands
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Nunya
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Lock Your Sheds/Garages
DH and I came home last night and he wanted to give our grass the final cut before the winter and blow some leaves.
Turns out, we were robbed!!!  People S*CK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They stole our leafblower, weedwacker, all the "good" fishing poles and other miscellaneous stuff.
I'm so angry. We're racking our brains thinking who would have done this. We called some sprinkler guy from the Pennysaver to turn off our sprinklers while we weren't home. Also, we have a guy that is hard up and not working who usually does yard work for us, he knows what's in there. I hate thinking this way but it's leaf season and the guy needs cash so my first thought was him.
Anyway, we stupidly left it unlocked a few times. Lesson learned!!!!!!
Just a PSA to advise - Lock your doors! 
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Posted 11/2/11 7:43 AM  |
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ny55angel
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Re: Lock Your Sheds/Garages
Ugh !!! That's horrible !! Sorry to hear this happened to you and DH. 
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| Posted 11/2/11 8:59 AM |
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MsSissy
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Re: Lock Your Sheds/Garages
people s u c k
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| Posted 11/2/11 9:04 AM |
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LittleDiva
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Re: Lock Your Sheds/Garages
do you have a fence? bc i feel like it would have to be someone who knew you had a shed back there and it was unlocked.
bc the odds of someone going into every backyard and seeing if there is a shed and if its locked seems like too much work.
i just told my husband about this and were going to start locking ours bc we always leave it open and tell everyone who works on our yard/pool that its open and to just go in when they do work!
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| Posted 11/2/11 9:22 AM |
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GoldenRod
10 years on LIF!
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Shawn
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Re: Lock Your Sheds/Garages
Posted by LittleDiva
do you have a fence? bc i feel like it would have to be someone who knew you had a shed back there and it was unlocked.
bc the odds of someone going into every backyard and seeing if there is a shed and if its locked seems like too much work.
i just told my husband about this and were going to start locking ours bc we always leave it open and tell everyone who works on our yard/pool that its open and to just go in when they do work!
Google maps will give a pretty good idea of who in the neighborhood has a shed. I would think that most people would leave it unlocked, so it probably wouldn't be that difficult to just check the pre-selected yards for open sheds. Odds are pretty good of finding an unlocked one.
I always lock my shed door. It's a double-cylinder, so even if they break the door window, they can't unlock the door from inside.
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| Posted 11/2/11 9:45 AM |
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JDubs
different, not less
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Re: Lock Your Sheds/Garages
wow so sorry that happened to you!!
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| Posted 11/2/11 10:35 AM |
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MockingJay
Ring out the old...
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Ring in the new!
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Re: Lock Your Sheds/Garages
Oh man that S UCKS! I usually laugh at DH for being so paranoid and locking all his crap but hearing your story I can appreciate it more. I'm really sorry this happened to you guys.
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| Posted 11/2/11 1:57 PM |
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lucamon
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Samantha
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Re: Lock Your Sheds/Garages
I'm sorry this happened to you. This economy brings out the worst in people. I forgot to lock my car door one night (or maybe my 16month old unlocked it by accident cuz he likes to play with the remote) and someone stole the GPS out of my center console. I know it was taken from my driveway too. I remember getting into my car the next morning and the seat was pulled way back.  DH's convertor was taken out and left on the passenger seat. So I thought to myself, DH messed with my car again last night. He sometimes plays with the stereo, syncs his iphone with the bluetooth, etc. If he sat in it he'd pull the seat back all the way cuz he's 6'-5".
So fast forward a couple weeks. We had to go to a wedding. DH's said map it out on the GPS. It was then that I realize it was gone! I'm so mad. DH said file a police report anyways even though it's been a few weeks. The chances of us getting it back is next to none but at least the police will tighten up the patrol in the area and make sure our neighbors don't get robbed.
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| Posted 11/2/11 2:44 PM |
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jerrysgirl
I love my hot dog!!
Member since 6/06 5357 total posts
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E & J
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Re: Lock Your Sheds/Garages
my cousins shed was broken into. they think the gardeners took it, because they only took the lawn mower and other lawn care tools and not the snow blower.
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| Posted 11/2/11 3:42 PM |
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ItsTime2011
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Re: Lock Your Sheds/Garages
Yea, people do suck. We had some metal stuff stolen out of our backyard and we know who did it. They did it to scrap it. DH told me to just let it go, but we have so little as it is, to have stuff stolen from us just made me feel so violated. I will remind DH to lock the shed today.
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| Posted 11/2/11 4:00 PM |
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ali120206
2 Boys
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Re: Lock Your Sheds/Garages
This is happening a lot in my friends neighborhood in MD - a white van drives around the development disguising itself as a work truck and taking things out of people's sheds.
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| Posted 11/2/11 4:25 PM |
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Jennifer
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Re: Lock Your Sheds/Garages
People are horrible!
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| Posted 11/2/11 4:37 PM |
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fdnywife
Mommy of 3 and 4 rescues
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Re: Lock Your Sheds/Garages
Oh yeah, absolutely. not only do we lok out garage but we lock our fences to get to the garage in the backyard.
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| Posted 11/2/11 7:11 PM |
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Tah-wee-ZAH
Kisses
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Re: Lock Your Sheds/Garages
We've always locked the shed and garage... I have a father who grew up in a bad neighborhood... he drilled it in me...
I even remember a combo lock on my parent's shed in 1973
but until this thread I didn't think of locking the gate of my fence... will be doing that pronto!
Not condoning it at all but three years into this economy and many people are growing very desperate... I'm really sorry this happened to you.
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| Posted 11/2/11 7:51 PM |
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ThePinkGoose
In Your Hands
Member since 8/08 4706 total posts
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Nunya
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Re: Lock Your Sheds/Garages
Thank you, everyone! I want to slap both myself and DH for having the "it will never happen" mentality. Well, lesson learned, it happens and quite often from what i'm hearing.
Ughghgh so frustrating!! 
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| Posted 11/3/11 8:48 AM |
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