So last night, Jason's car was broken into. He found out this morning, when he noticed that his school bag was not in the trunk. He came inside to look for it, but it was not in the house. Luckily, they did not break any windows to get in, but used a "Slim Jim" (a thin piece of metal that be used to jimmy a lock) to break in. Jason had his school bag (with all of his notes, books, calculator) and his gym bag (with clothes, his Zune, and an expensive pair of shoes) in the trunk, and that is all they took. You could tell they had rifled through everything else, but didn't find anything that looked valuable. We called the sheriff, and an officer came to take an inventory of what was stolen. Overall, the value was about $400, so not really enough to take out an insurance claim and justify the higher rates, so we will just have to take the loss. Jason was most upset about his school bag, since it had his notes and assignments from the past semester. However, we had some good luck when somebody turned his school bag into the police station, and everything was intact! The person found the bag a few streets away (it had obviously been dumped) and the officer indicated that there had been more robberies in the neighborhood. We are so lucky to have gotten that stuff back! Otherwise, Jason would have had a really hard time with finals.
In light of what happened to us: don't leave stuff in your car! Even things like school bags can be attractive, since textbooks are super expensive and many people know that you can sell them on online or to bookstores. We definately learned our lesson.
As random note, when we told the officer they had stolen a Zune, he told us that his aunt was selling brand new one for 120 dollars, so we are actually going to buy it (since they are normally 200 dollars) and we figure we can probably trust a cop (especially since he gave us his cell number). Guess we have some luck.
