Oh dear, another reason for my mother to fret, and just days before Mother’s Day, no less. This note went out yesterday to concerned neighbors:
[M and N] on the corner of 43 and Sunnyside were burgled last night between midnight and 3:AM. They used a key that was hidden near the door and took money, keys, etc and his pickup truck. [M] may have interrupted them when he got up around 3. If you have an alarm , it might be a good idea to have it on when you sleep. We were burgled while we were sleeping about 16 years ago and have used the alarm most of the time since. I heard of another burglary while victims were sleeping in the Green Lake area recently.
Mom, my Mother’s Day present to you will be to let you tell me I ought to buy a burglar alarm without sighing loudly into the phone.
Keep a key “hidden” near your door? No alarm system can make up for that bad idea.