abbydaddy
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Hello Porchenburgers,
I wanted to share that I was burglarized this past weekend. Unfortunately they made off with tens of thousands of dollars worth of stuff (the problem with collecting things that can be seen as portable wealth, is that people can port your stuff away). The big dollar items were mostly firearms, and the ATF is investigating, so I am holding on to hope for recovery. Especially since we found out that we missed the fine print in our insurance that lost/stolen firearms reimbursement is capped at $3,000 (which covers 10-15% of replacement cost). But the Porch relevant part of the burglary is that they stole my swords and four of my knives. None of the swords are particularly valuable, they were just wall hangers. The knives they took are harder to replace though. Please pardon the non-traditional character of most of them, I just wanted to as folks to keep an eye out if they see them up for sale anywhere.
Be safe out there. And here's a reminder to try to limit knowledge of where you keep your portable wealth. They had to break into the back door of my garage, into a lockbox, and then into my gun cabinet. I/the police/the ATF all figure that someone had to know where my stuff was to pull off the burglary. We've been remodeling our house, and there have been a lot of crews working over the last several months. As far as I know, only one crew ever saw me actually take a firearm into the garage. But it feels like that may have been one too many. But maybe it was someone else poking around. Maybe someone said something to a druggy friend. Who knows? It will make it hard to trust folks in the future.
I've already upgraded my physical security, and will be doing more going forward. But you can only make yourself so hard of a target. Anonymity is the best defense, and I clearly was not as anonymous as I had thought.
I wanted to share that I was burglarized this past weekend. Unfortunately they made off with tens of thousands of dollars worth of stuff (the problem with collecting things that can be seen as portable wealth, is that people can port your stuff away). The big dollar items were mostly firearms, and the ATF is investigating, so I am holding on to hope for recovery. Especially since we found out that we missed the fine print in our insurance that lost/stolen firearms reimbursement is capped at $3,000 (which covers 10-15% of replacement cost). But the Porch relevant part of the burglary is that they stole my swords and four of my knives. None of the swords are particularly valuable, they were just wall hangers. The knives they took are harder to replace though. Please pardon the non-traditional character of most of them, I just wanted to as folks to keep an eye out if they see them up for sale anywhere.

Be safe out there. And here's a reminder to try to limit knowledge of where you keep your portable wealth. They had to break into the back door of my garage, into a lockbox, and then into my gun cabinet. I/the police/the ATF all figure that someone had to know where my stuff was to pull off the burglary. We've been remodeling our house, and there have been a lot of crews working over the last several months. As far as I know, only one crew ever saw me actually take a firearm into the garage. But it feels like that may have been one too many. But maybe it was someone else poking around. Maybe someone said something to a druggy friend. Who knows? It will make it hard to trust folks in the future.
I've already upgraded my physical security, and will be doing more going forward. But you can only make yourself so hard of a target. Anonymity is the best defense, and I clearly was not as anonymous as I had thought.