Beacon Hill burglars, letting themselves out.Remember when home invaders would smash a window, get their loot, and exit through a door, courteously limiting the damage to your home-is-a-castle? Those were the good ol’ days. These days, home burglary’s apparently all about the dramatic exit. Check out this episode, provided by a reader at Beacon Hill Blog (emphasis added):”Our house was burglarized Tuesday some time around mid-day. They appear to have entered through a window we thought was too high from the ground, or even a ladder, to make possible. They took two laptops, and our 32? LCD TV in the living room (probably peeked through front door / window blinds and saw that, motivating the break-in). To top the whole thing off, they then stole my silver ’01 Jeep Cherokee out of the locked garage, ramming it through the closed garage door.”Perhaps unbreakable garage doors are the next step in home security? Sped-up footage of would-be car-thieves frustratedly bouncing the vehicle around a tiny space–like a pinball stuck in a ricochet pattern, set to silent movie music–would make great blooper video fodder.
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