Saturday, May 5, 2007

cops and robbers

Well, robbers at least.

Someone broke into the fabric store on Thursday night/Friday morning. They broke a lower window off to the side - it's fairly well hidden behing garbage cans and the other stores all close before us.

We usually leave the registers open to show that all we have in them is some coins, but I had counted one down while the store was still open and had shut it so random people walking by couldn't just grab it, so the burglar(s) forced that register drawer and broke it..... and got only change.

They forced and broke the door to the office, but couldn't get into the safe. They forced and didn't break the door to the district office, but they don't have any money in there.

No sewing machines or anything else big ticket appears to be missing - we had coincidentally been told to survey our machines Thursday and I had done it that evening.

Basically, they got away with a bout $15 and damaged a window and the latch on a door, then left through the back door.

From what I was told, the police didn't get much in the way of fingerprints. Or rather, they got zillions of partial prints from all the people who have handled the doors and the boxes and so on. And how seriously are the police going to take it?

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