Really good police work.

[smoothshooter]

I live in a really safe neighborhood. Nevertheless, when I built my house and all the walls were open I decided to install a security system. Did it myself. Signs in the windows, etc. Never had a problem.

Nobody knows I have guns, or anything else in the house for that matter. When we go on vacation we don't tell anyone we are gone. The house has auto lights and such.

My buddy lives in the last house on a dead end street. Woods thereafter. I kept telling him he needs an alarm. Nah, too much trouble. When they go away the wife announces everything on farcebook. Once he came home and the side door was broken and half his guns and lots of other stuff was gone.

Now, he has a security system. But I don't know if the wife still talks...

People’s obsession with publicizing everything about their personal lives on FB baffles me.
My wife and I look at it from time to time ( not daily ) to see what the grandkids are up to, but that’s it. We never post anything. Grandkids are pretty good about about not getting carried away with FB.
Wish I could say the same thing about their mother.
Some people will stop off at a Dairy Queen and while they are there will post a dozen pictures and even more comments about who they are there with, and how good the ice cream is. They appear to spend more time posting.
WHO CARES!! Does anybody really need all that information about a mundane activity like that.
Rant over. Feeling a little better now.
My wife works for a big law firm and says when they take on a new lawsuit the VERY FIRST thing they do is check out Facebook posts of the parties involved to see what they can dig up.
It’s stunning what people will post about themselves and what they’ve been up to that incriminates themselves.

 

[Racer X]

So, out on bond? Nothing to say that won't get me in trouble. But I bet they will be doing a really long stretch now......

 

[smoothshooter]

Paraphrasing from the OP, He came home to see his front door kicked in, and LE took an hour to respond. I saw no discussion about the OP doing anything in the interim . . .

Sometimes it’s best to stay away from the house. Especially if the OP had no gun.

 

[Pete99004]

I'm glad to hear you and your family are ok, and the offenders have been caught. I hope you will be able to recover all of your belongings.

For me, the most distressing part of your original post was this: "The bad guys had a long rap sheet and two of them were out on bond" This IS the problem IMHO. Why were they out on bond if they have a long rap sheet? Why aren't they serving time for the other offenses? I believe that the judges who allow these people back out into society should be held accountable. Perhaps then, they would take these trouble makers seriously. Sounds to me like you were lucky that you were not at home. Who knows what these low life's might have done to you had you been home.

Just my opinion.

But I am pleased that you and your family are OK. Probably feeling sick to your stomach, but are OK.

Best to you!

Pete99004

 

[pittpa]

I like a monitored security system, but even an unmonitored one can still alert you instantaneously if your house is broken into and they’re not expensive. At least you don’t get surprised when you get home,possibly by somebody in your house with your gun. Cheap Wyze cameras can allow you to remote monitor and they even have the ability to track a person around the room automatically. The devices may also encourage somebody not to spend too much time in the house. Some of them are going to go, in regardless and look in the bedroom for Guns and the medicine cabinets and the kitchen for pills. They will be in and out in minutes.