I live on the 4600 block of Osage and this happened last year. A salesmen went door-to-door trying to sell alarms - very generic uniform, generic information, etc. Most of us have alarms already and he didn't give out a lot of information when pressured for specifics, business card, etc. It was almost like he was casing houses as he asked what type of system we had and pressing for details (we gave none). Around the same time that he was in the neighborhood there also seemed to be the same thing that is going on now - unscrewed lights, windows that have been messed with and so on. A few of us essentially tried to give him the message that we all have alarms that we are happy with and to bug off. I also remember actually getting a card or company name and looking it up on the web. Seemed like a legitimate company (at least on line) but of course I don't remember the name. If anyone comes across the sales guy again, I suggest getting info. Perhaps we can contact the main company to find out more.
Leila Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 06:28:30 -0700 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PFSNI] Further re. last night's attempted break-in To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] CC: I'm sure this is just paranoia, but the 3 days before all this happened there was an overly friendly door-to-door alarm salesman, who gushed about how "special" our house was (it's just like everyone else's on the block), and how he had a "special" budget for houses like ours to give away just two alarms on our block. He asked about our alarm system (I pointed to the dog), and didn't leave a card, which I thought was odd. He was very quick to size up our storm windows, and I saw him at Tom's house a few hours later. I wouldn't think anything of it, but these all seem like nuisance/halfhearted attempts to break in, at least compared to what happened last summer. I'm not sure whether I'm suggesting he was trying to stir up business or target houses, but I thought it would worth mentioning given the rash of incidents. From: Edda Katz <[email protected]> To: Thomas Naff <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, May 5, 2010 9:25:47 PM Subject: Re: [PFSNI] Further re. last night's attempted break-in Thank you, Tom, for adding the details about the floodlights. I live on 47th St. between Osage and Larchwood and had what I now see was a similar, also unsuccessful, break-in attempt, most likely on Tuesday night. Two high floodlights at the rear of the house had been partially unscrewed to disable them, a high storm window at the side of the house, not easily visible from the street, had been removed, and there are large handprints on two other storm windows, suggesting that someone tried to raise them from the outside. I’ve reported the incident to the police. Perhaps they’ll step up patrols if there are numerous similar incidents in close proximity. Edda Katz On 5/5/10 12:23 AM, "Thomas Naff" <[email protected]> wrote: Among the responses I received regarding the attempted break-in at our house last night were two that reported similar attempts to their homes and a third that may have been another effort. I would like to add two other bits of relevant information. The first is that whoever the culprit(s) was, before he broke the glass in our rear door, he managed to disable the two rear floodlights and the three front ones. In order to unscrew the front ones, he had to be at least 6' or over and have had long arms (I can't believe he walked around with a ladder). He also undid the security motion-activated light of our immediate neighbors Terrilyn and Ezra. The second piece of information is that Clare Powell, who lives on Osage across the alley from us, was awakened sometime between two or three in the morning and saw someone turning into our driveway. He was standing in a dark place and she had only a glimpse of him, but was able to described him as being between 5'11" and 6"2", between 160 — 180 lbs, wearing, jeans, white sneakers, and a grey T-shirt. She was unable to see his face. She's going to pass this information on to the police. Thanks for your many responses. I hope you'll pass along any of the information I've given you among other neighbors. Tom Naff _______________________________________________ This message came to you by way of the Penn-FSNI mailing list: [email protected] To manage your subscription, visit this web page: https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/penn-fsni _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2
