Irritating stuff
Sep. 25th, 2006 12:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoArrived at work this morning to three squad cars in the lot along with everyone else's. We were supposed to have a staff meeting. But someone broke into the building Sunday or overnight last night. They broke out a tiny 18-inch square window at the back of Local History and climbed in that way, apparently.
I'm convinced it was a former part time employee or someone who knew one, because they knew where to cut the power to the alarm system, and got to that within the 90 seconds before the alarm would have summoned police. They also removed the videotape from the security camera system and took it with them. Cash (bills only) was removed from the drawer at the desk. That's fine money mostly and was probably $50, hardly worth the trouble these days. They missed the larger cash drop in the director's office, but knew which one of my drawers to go through looking for MP3 players. They dumped it all out but apparently took nothing. Looking for iPods I bet, and there are none of those. They apparently intended to take a large LCD monitor, but didn't get out the door with it. It was on the floor just inside the back door. I'm guessing they went out and the door locked behind them, and they didn't want to climb in over the broken glass again.
Things actually taken: The cash mentioned above, two digital cameras worth about $300 each, and an LCD video projector that cost $2600 new. Oddly, no other computer stuff was taken, nor any of the valuable artwork or rare books. Given the small window used for entrance, the apparent inside knowledge, and the lack of awareness of items of real value, I suspect local teenagers. The police were thorough, took lots of photos and dusted for fingerprints in the obvious places, but I'll bet we never catch anyone.
In other sensational news, the local paper reports that one of our creepier library users has been arrested for possession of illegal child porn.
I'm convinced it was a former part time employee or someone who knew one, because they knew where to cut the power to the alarm system, and got to that within the 90 seconds before the alarm would have summoned police. They also removed the videotape from the security camera system and took it with them. Cash (bills only) was removed from the drawer at the desk. That's fine money mostly and was probably $50, hardly worth the trouble these days. They missed the larger cash drop in the director's office, but knew which one of my drawers to go through looking for MP3 players. They dumped it all out but apparently took nothing. Looking for iPods I bet, and there are none of those. They apparently intended to take a large LCD monitor, but didn't get out the door with it. It was on the floor just inside the back door. I'm guessing they went out and the door locked behind them, and they didn't want to climb in over the broken glass again.
Things actually taken: The cash mentioned above, two digital cameras worth about $300 each, and an LCD video projector that cost $2600 new. Oddly, no other computer stuff was taken, nor any of the valuable artwork or rare books. Given the small window used for entrance, the apparent inside knowledge, and the lack of awareness of items of real value, I suspect local teenagers. The police were thorough, took lots of photos and dusted for fingerprints in the obvious places, but I'll bet we never catch anyone.
In other sensational news, the local paper reports that one of our creepier library users has been arrested for possession of illegal child porn.
