My mechanic called me this morning, indicating that the gates were left open last night. I said, "No they weren't. John locked the gate while I watched" Upon closer inspection, it was found that our Honda welder and our 4x4 Kawasaki ATV were gone. THIEVES!
Now it really goes bad. From my house, I try to log onto our surveillance system. Oh no! BOTH computers were off-line at 4:45am. That means the phone lines were cut!
Not only were the phone lines cut, but they cut the cable to one of the cameras. Not that it made any difference, because I had negligently left the video system off the day before. Bummer. No video of my equipment being stolen.
Now it really goes downhill...I have a cellular phone backup to prevent theives from cutting the phone lines. It wasn't working! I called the security company and raised hell, but they said there was nothing they could do. (this was at 11:00 am). Yet...they called me at 2:00 pm to report the system was reporting a front hall motion alarm...while I am calmly sitting at my desk waiting for the police. I asked her how that could be happening, since the phone lines were still cut and the cellular backup wasn't working this morning when we got robbed. It seems that despite not being able to respond to my call on a weekend, the security company tweaked some setting, and now the cellular backup is working. After the cat is out of the bag, of course. Don't you know some ignorant bastard decided to flip a switch and reduce their liability for the balance of the weekend.
THEN...there is a wreck outside my shop. Some dam-fool idiot runs a red light, and scares another dam-fool idiot driving a UHaul truck into running off the road and hitting one of my employee's parked truck. The two moving vehicles never hit each other, and the stupid woman driving the UHaul didn't even hit her brakes until she was 50' past hitting my guy's pickup. How do I know? Because I had turned the video system back on. She did the whole thing in slow motion, at about 15 miles per hour. It took her about 100' before she ever hit the brakes. The offending driver stopped in the intersection, and calmly drove away. But I have it ALL on the video!
Incidental notes: the phone company (AT&T!) won't come to my business to fix the phones until tuesday.(It was Saturday morning when I called them) (I will read them the riot act tomorrow.) In the meanwhile, I have fixed the wires myself, despite the fact that my phone system was only using 4 little wires out of about 20 in the line that came into my building. It didn't help that there were about 8 identical white wires and two identical blues. Yep. That's right. My two phone lines were hooked up using one of the blues and just one of the white wires. Hey! The red and green wires were easy!
I have everything working now but one camera, but I still don't have my missing equipment.
Now it really goes bad. From my house, I try to log onto our surveillance system. Oh no! BOTH computers were off-line at 4:45am. That means the phone lines were cut!
Not only were the phone lines cut, but they cut the cable to one of the cameras. Not that it made any difference, because I had negligently left the video system off the day before. Bummer. No video of my equipment being stolen.
Now it really goes downhill...I have a cellular phone backup to prevent theives from cutting the phone lines. It wasn't working! I called the security company and raised hell, but they said there was nothing they could do. (this was at 11:00 am). Yet...they called me at 2:00 pm to report the system was reporting a front hall motion alarm...while I am calmly sitting at my desk waiting for the police. I asked her how that could be happening, since the phone lines were still cut and the cellular backup wasn't working this morning when we got robbed. It seems that despite not being able to respond to my call on a weekend, the security company tweaked some setting, and now the cellular backup is working. After the cat is out of the bag, of course. Don't you know some ignorant bastard decided to flip a switch and reduce their liability for the balance of the weekend.
THEN...there is a wreck outside my shop. Some dam-fool idiot runs a red light, and scares another dam-fool idiot driving a UHaul truck into running off the road and hitting one of my employee's parked truck. The two moving vehicles never hit each other, and the stupid woman driving the UHaul didn't even hit her brakes until she was 50' past hitting my guy's pickup. How do I know? Because I had turned the video system back on. She did the whole thing in slow motion, at about 15 miles per hour. It took her about 100' before she ever hit the brakes. The offending driver stopped in the intersection, and calmly drove away. But I have it ALL on the video!
Incidental notes: the phone company (AT&T!) won't come to my business to fix the phones until tuesday.(It was Saturday morning when I called them) (I will read them the riot act tomorrow.) In the meanwhile, I have fixed the wires myself, despite the fact that my phone system was only using 4 little wires out of about 20 in the line that came into my building. It didn't help that there were about 8 identical white wires and two identical blues. Yep. That's right. My two phone lines were hooked up using one of the blues and just one of the white wires. Hey! The red and green wires were easy!
I have everything working now but one camera, but I still don't have my missing equipment.
Go play the lotto tonight, cause it's gotta be all uphill from here. 
I told my insurance lady that I had to come down on my prices like everyone except insurance, so they need to re-think their market, I have never had a claim. The only safe job is insurance and bankers government bails them out:rant:
