Since the summer, my building has had periodic, episodic of break-ins and graffiti. After enough occurrences, we decided to suck it up, financial-wise, and install surveillance cameras (and change out all the locks).
After nearly a month without incident, we thought we were safe, so took our car to have the rear window repaired. Our car guy gave us a loaner car (mid 90's Honda Accord). We were supposed to pick up our car last weekend, but then my back went out, so we didn't make the trek out to the suburbs. Tuesday morning, at 10:50 AM, some jerk smashed in the back window of the loaner car (which of course, had absolutely nothing in it to steal).
We haven't yet been able to extract a good screenshot of our perpetrator, and we didn't think of installing a camera in the garage, so we only have video of him entering, and leaving via a side alley. The weirdest thing is that he appears to have a key. [Update: upon closer inspection, he has a small metal item, and pops open the lock. Hands are too high to use the key] We are a small building, there aren't many residents, so are still befuddled about this aspect. We had to change all the keys again, this time, restricting access so that Waste Management, ComEd meter-readers, etc. no longer have access to as many doors.
Still, what a freaking pain in the neck.
The movie is below (quicktime), if you are curious.
