Jasaan's police investigators take
photos of the window that the burglar
crashed through.(Title taken from the anonymous comment left here.)
At 3:30 this morning, our local burglar came back for a third helping of our mobile phone collection. He only got Susan's broken and worthless mobile phone in the living room before sneaking back up to the TV room to make his exit via the small opening he had made by removing a couple of slats from the jalousie window where an air conditioner used to be.
Puppy Tyson went to Ednil, who was lying on the couch in the living room, and grabbed her hair in his teeth and pulled. She didn't wake up. Tyson then went to Susan and grabbed her hair in his teeth and pulled. Then he ran upstairs where the burglar had gone and started barking from the top of the stairs.
Susan woke up and noticed that her phone was missing and went upstairs to investigate. She opened the door to the TV room and came face to face with the burglar, who responded with a punch to Susan's stomach (she was okay but shaken up), and then a headfirst dive, smashing through the remaining panes of the jalousie window to land flat on his back on the tiles of the balcony outside. The crash woke me up, but by the time I had some pants on, there was nothing I could do... the burglar was off the property and gone into the night.
Three big burly police guys came with their machine guns, but couldn't do much except look at the broken glass, shine some flashlights around the neighborhood... and stay a respectful distance away from Tyson, who was now giving them the best junior-grade dog menacing act he could.
My little guy switched it on last night. I can't wait until that little hellion is 80 pounds and has a bark that sounds like a cannon. (Neither can our mobile phones wait for that matter.)
Oh my goodness. I can see why you want Tyson loose and not in your room. That's awful. Tell Tyson I'm proud of him, and take some more pictures of our hero. Tell Susan and Ednil to be very careful. Is there something you can do to protect them?
ReplyDeleteMom
Is there something more I can do to protect them?
ReplyDeleteYes: Keep feeding Tyson so that he grows up to be huge... and take him to the dentist regularly so that his teeth grow to be sharp and strong.
Also, we did put a temporary board over the window today... with screws deep into the cement. So that method of entry is now closed. We're going to get a metal grate to more permanently close the window opening as well.
How about a security system? Would that work? Yes, I know - Tyson's your security system. But how about a REAL one?
ReplyDeleteMom
An alarm system wouldn't really work.
ReplyDeleteMotion detectors outside the house would go off every time a cat walked past the house... which is once every 2 or 3 minutes. Our house would look like a disco with all of the lights flashing on and off.
Motion detectors inside the house would go off every time one of the girls sleeping on the couch rolled over or Tyson walked around.
A "real" security system... wiring all of the windows and doors... would require thousands of dollars and probably replacing several of the doors as well.
Cameras: Well, unless the guy walked right up to the camera and said "cheese", all we would see is a skinny short guy with black hair dressed in jeans and a T-shirt.
I was thinking about putting in some New York Burglar Alarms: Pieces of plywood with a few dozen nails punched through them placed underneath each window through which a burglar might enter. That is probably the best bet.