Mostly Harmless

Well, at least the alarm went off eventually, thus preserving my stereo equipment.

If you were wondering, you get about 1/2 a bucket worth of glass from the back window of a WRX wagon.

I’m waiting for the cops, currently. Someone else right around the corner from me had her car hit too so the cops have been here once today already. No alarm in her car though since The Perp had time to destroy her dash to get to her stereo. She said that every neighbor she’d talked to this morning had had their car broken into while living here. This would be my third time, but the first time nothing has successfully been stolen. (There’s always tomorrow, I suppose, but the subwoofer will be in the apartment.)

Not the brightest bulb, this guy, because he was trying to pry the front door window frame to break in. My car doesn’t have a frame around the windows… which makes it much easier to get in, in fact — which would be the reason for the alarm. Some people don’t notice alarm stickers or blinking red lights, but I guess the actual alarm wakes them up.

If I had some fricken lasers I’d set up a perimeter around the car. Sometimes I think it’s a shame that booby trapping is illegal.

Update - 9/13/05: So, first of all, you can’t get that rear window without ordering it from the Subaru dealer, which took days and days. I was driving around with plastic in place of the back window for a week (I did a lovely job though, it handled highway speeds and was rained on plenty, without incident). Second of all, it costs $1,000. My price: $0.00. Tomorrow I get an estimate on the damage around the driver’s door & the prior hail damage. Pretty much guaranteed to be out $500 + 20% of the cost of a rental car. (The $500 is my $250 deductible twice, once for the hail and once for the vandalism.)

I’ve had a week to think about security system upgrades. I may yet be able to include some frickin’ lasers, along with a motion detector, camera, and bucket of UV dye. I think I’m going to pass on the smoke screen in the car, because by the time the perp has broken in the damage is done. Why can’t these bozos learn how to use a slim jim or something and not cause thousands of dollars of extraneous damage?