Your story brings back bad memories for me. Growing up, my dad was a pharmacist that owned the corner drugstore. This is before the CVS' Walgreens" and RiteAids put the little guys out of business. Every time the alarm went off in the middle of the night, my dad would wake me up and we'd go to the store. Most of the time, the thieves would break a window and try to pry open the narcotics closet. Many a night was spent waiting for the service to board up the windows.Vol Texan wrote:Time to bump this thread from earlier this year.
We were awoken to a call this morning around 6:00 am from the alarm company. The motion sensor in my wife’s store had triggered, and the police were on the way.
I dressed, armed, and left for the store. I got there in time to meet HPD. We entered together, and I turned off the wailing alarm to the smell of freshly cut metal.
Three holes through the roof / one through the back wall/ and several large cut marks on the side of her safe were all we found. Nothing stolen: not the flat screens, nor the PC, nor any of the (only silver) product in the display cases. The safe holds the high dollar stuff, and it earned its hefty price tag many times over last night - they had several cuts through the side, but never penetrated the composite filler to reach the inner wall.
We have contractors in the store today erecting temporary fixes, and they will be doing the proper repairs during the week. Looks like I’m sleeping in the afternoons, and spending the nights in the store this week until we get all the repairs completed and a new safe installed.
Not the best way to celebrate the Christmas shopping season at a little jewelry shop, but things could have been a lot worse. Overall, we are blessed that it is only repair work needed, and that we didn’t lose our inventory only two weeks out from Christmas.
Any Houston forum members want to have an impromptu meetup - come on into the Heights and visit overnight! But do be sure to PM me (and receive a response) first - I’d hate to engage in any unnecessary target practice
I'm glad that you and wife are alright. That is what counts the most!!