Sunday, January 06, 2008

Adventures are us...

Saturday evening. TV is on. Odi left to build IKEA furniture at Michal's house.


Ron and I watched TV (The fast and the furious), at our master bedroom.

At the final scene, when Vin Diesel passed the train, but hit the truck (i guess they taught it's funny), Ron heard some noise coming from the front door of the house. He went to check, and came back with the answer:" i heard the front door - i guess it was the wind."

While the credits was running, Ron heard more noise from the house. no, it wasn't Malakas. he was (and still is) sleeping on the couch. It was the wind, and some other background noises, which came from Keren's room - The big window was wide open, and the shutter was half way closed, laying on the small garden table from the deck. WE WERE VISITED BY A THIEF!!!!



So we looked around the house, and no-one was found. nothing was taken, tho. Ron's camera was next to the computer, Odi's bag was on the couch (next to the big big scary Malakas), and my bag was on the kitchen table. and the most important thing was left out there - Keren & Ben's beautiful wedding album (maybe that's what they came for...)



We phoned Odi to hurry back (he didn't), but he sent the police (not the band) for us.


To make a long story short (kind'a missed that by now), we were questioned, and on the following morning they came back to take finger prints, which they didn't find ("We're not the CIA, you know"). from our own inspection we discovered that they (2 of them) entered from the avocado growth, and escaped threw there. shoes size 42-43. one of them is overweight.



So, what did we do.....


Ron and Odi measured all the windows, and made pieces of wood so it will block the door. apparently (and Odi knew that before), the original lockers are easy to break, with small strength. Luckily, the panel of the windows we have here have a frame which is the handle to open and close the window. we use the frames, so we can lock both sides of the window from the inside. It took them only half an hour to make them all (17 of them, total length of 18 Meter, AND NO, WE DON'T HAVE THAT IN FEET/INCH/GALLONS/YARD/POUNDS/ROCKS...). On Tuesday the operation will be all over, once Larry paints them all white (not for the deck, this time).





The piece of wood, placed at the panel of the window. Now to get in the thief will have to break the window (DOUBLE GLASSED). Odi says it's easier to go threw the walls.












closeup on the piece of wood. the screw is there so we can open the window if we want to. NO, IT'S NOT SCREWED DOWN TO THE FLOOR.

6 Comments:

At Sun Jan 06, 03:47:00 PM EST, Blogger keren said...

wow, crazy!!!
i guess they heard you in the room and just left without taking anything...
good thing they know nothing about art!!!

it reminds me of when my TA apartment was broken in to a long time ago... when i was sleeping... in my case they did take a couple of credit cards.
SCARY!! thinking that a stranger with bad intentions is walking in your house ... brr...

 
At Sun Jan 06, 04:43:00 PM EST, Blogger bk said...

Wow. I'm glad nobody was hurt, and nothing valuable taken, including the art, like Keren said. I guess that would be harder to climb a fence with.

Did you hear if they hit anyone else in the neighborhood?

Anyways, I'm glad you're OK.

 
At Sun Jan 06, 05:41:00 PM EST, Blogger dadK said...

I'm so glad that you are alright! It would seem that every community is blessed with its own kind of scum. When our clinic was broken into several years ago (they were looking for certain drugs and didn't find them) I remember feeling first, frightened, then violated, and then angry. Never caught them. Made us look for ways to provide more security.

In our house, we too have our sliding door blocked. Nothing as nice as what Odi and Ron built.....just an old baseball bat, but that also doubles as a self-defense tool!

Glad you're O.K.

 
At Sun Jan 06, 05:45:00 PM EST, Blogger Sandy K. said...

Yuck!!!! That's horrible!!! I'll bet Malakas just gave them the evil eye and they ran.

Now that the windows are secured, how about a big yellow (or black or brown) dog to sound the alarm?

 
At Mon Jan 07, 01:40:00 AM EST, Blogger dalia said...

Taking art wasn't such a problem for them, 'cause they cut the fence at the end of the avocado, and got in from there (the olive plantation).

Regarding the dog, just like 6 years ago. We will not do that to Malakas - he is so old, and we don't want to force him adjusting to new partners at his kingdom.

Don't take it so hard, you guys. We think that it was forrin workers, unarmed, who are looking just for small change, and they avoid a face-to-face encounters.
But now, when I go to Nimrodi (the local grossary store) I lock everything. that also will pass with time.....

About the neighbors, we have a big theft scene going on here. When the cops came to our house, they were at another scene not far from here. but there they took alot of things, because the house was empty.

Thank you all for your ampathy.

 
At Thu Jan 10, 04:49:00 PM EST, Blogger Bridgeta said...

you guys, so sorry for this and happy that the damage was really minimal.

All the best and happy new year anyway, Birgit

 

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