Second time in just a few months...

by Paul , Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 06:58 (1 day, 13 hours, 59 min. ago)

Had a call from the alarm company... this time multiple sensors went off, indicating it wasn´t just a lizard or other creepy crawly setting off the system. Sure enough, when I got to the church meeting place there was a hole in the roof and marks along the wall. The miscreant learned from last time. Last time he went down from the stub of a wall to the ground and the alarm went off immediately. This time he walked along the rollup door system to the partial wall around the sound room, hopped onto the desk and THEN the alarm went off. This time the cameras caught him, but not very clearly. Last time he grabbed the camera system TV off the wall and ran. This time he grabbed my personal electric guitar and skedaddled, but we got a lot of his actions inside the hall which showed he knew his way around this time. He even turned the light on in the mens' room to give a bit of illumination. In and out in about 5 minutes, not counting the time on the roof to rip a hole through the fiber/cement tiles. To add a bit to my disgust - I'd just put a nice set of new strings on the guitar and had it set up for a nice sound. If he'd grabbed it LAST week it'd have had the old strings on it. There's a reason so many businesses in the area have concertina wire around the roof. He sure messed up my week, it's amazing what all goes into fixing a simple hole in a fiber/cement roof.