I now park outside at my current residence (renting top floor in a nice area) but there's no way I'll leave the empeg in at night. I do at work, but that's in an underground garage with badge access, security cameras and security patrols. Plus a few more hundred cars with goodies to steal. In the old office building I used to carry it in all the time. I'll likely start doing this again anyway, even though no thefts have ever been reported in our parking garage.

Last night when out at a dance club, my girlfriend's car was openned and contents stolen. I feel so bad because I was the one who suggested she park in the particular garage. We're not sure if the doors were openned with a slim-jim or if they were accidentally left unlocked (the battery in her remote key-fob hs been acting up). She's pretty sure it was locked when we left however.

Last night we thought the thieves grabbed only her CD folder (containing about 100-120 CDs). This afternoon she realized they also took a bag that had a new Palm Pilot m505, her paper-based agenda for work and much work-related contact information). This was in the back seat somewhere with the CDs. And fron the trunk they took a laptop bag with its contents: a laptop. Work's machine but still a pain in the ass. They left her large gym bag in the trunk and left her car stereo (she had even left the shiny alu face in place that night - not normal for her).

Aside from morals learned, it's all a big pain in the ass because of some opportunists. Looks like now I'll be buying a shiny new Yamaha burner and will be making backups of any of my CDs she wants and backups of the ones she has left and anything else she buys. Glad I hadn't set up my extra empeg in her car. Maybe I can set her up with one of the new Rio portables hen they're released.

Death is too good for thieves. (I don't want to hear any jokes about me backing up my own CDs for her - we won't bot be listening to the same selections at the same time )

Bruno