QUOTE(Feern @ Jan 16 2008, 07:48 PM)

Inside job. It was someone you know, probably a friend. Who would know that you have all that shit?
For sure man, I did it all the time. If it was a normal house robbery they would of cashed out on your mothers shit (rings, necklaces and shit) and probably anything else of value. Check pawn shops and gamestops/eb games for your shit. Check a few of the closest ones, if you have something with the serial number you could even get your shit back and/or get the dude arrested big time.
Seriously, inside job.
Well, I'm pretty sure I know who did it. There's a house on the corner of the street where all the teenage gangstas hang out. You can count on 3-4 baggy-clothed guys standing around out there at any given time. A couple of the guys that hang out down there are our neighbors. Their soccer ball (lol Mexicans) always ends up in our backyard somehow. They could have noticed the window during one of their retrievals and told the others. Then you just have to wait for an opportune time. When I left, there were only a couple of guys at that house, but I know they saw me. I live on a cul-de-sac, so there's only one road in and out. It's impossible to avoid being seen.
That house I'm talking about is on the same side of the street as me and 4 houses down. Both our next-door neighbor in that direction and the guy one house further down than that both had a board removed from each of their fences that was there the previous day (big boards, mind you. Removing one would definitely be enough for a fairly thin person to squeeze through). The guy from the third house down has a chain-link fence that's short and easily hopped. It's pretty obvious that they left the corner house and cut through back yards to get to and from my house. Of course, we didn't know about any of this until the police had already left. Not that this information would get the police fired up to get my stuff back, so it probably doesn't matter
So, Feern, you are kind of right. The people who did it aren't strangers exactly. We have to drive past them every day just to get off my street. In fact, a couple of them live next door to us. Not friends, especially now, but not strangers.
As for the valuables, I've come to the conclusion that the thieves are either retarded or I got home too soon for them to get everything they wanted. My mom has two laptops (overkill, yes) for work that wouldn't have been hard to find. There's the Wii that they knocked to the floor instead of stolen. My MP3 player was sitting in the open. A more thorough search of my parents' room would have netted them a .357 Magnum. Then there's the jewelry, which wasn't even touched. Still, if they had to make a snap decision about what to take, there's no excuse for getting my ancient PS2 instead of the Wii. So I'm going with retarded, I guess.
Oh, and we have a security system now. I guess it can't stop someone from kicking the door in and grabbing all he can in the 30 seconds before the alarm starts blaring, but I'd say it's better than before.