Our neighbor's house was broken into last evening around 9:30pm. We were watching TV and we heard a noise, but living in the city you hear noises all the time. DH did get up to look out back, but we have a fence and he didn't see anything in our immediate back yard. About 20 minutes later I checked Facebook and someone in a local neighborhood group said they saw two guys going up our alley with their arms full of electronics. So, I made DH go back out into the alley to look. I went out and I went around the fence to look in our neighbor's back area (she has a parking pad, no fence) and her door was hanging open and the lights were out. I went around the front to knock on her door and saw her basement light was on, which is unusual. Of course she wasn't home (the car wasn't in the parking pad). We called 911. When the police were there they said they were in her house for a while and they cleaned her out. We never heard a thing after that initial noise. I am just gutted for her. Apparently she's away (thankfully, so her dog wasn't there when this happened) and no one has her phone number, so she's going to come back from vacation with a boarded up back door and a mess in her house. This is basically my worst nightmare every time we go on vacation. They don't want her to go into the house and touch anything as they're hoping to get prints. We think that the people were probably scoping out her property all day and they saw her packing her car to go away.
