Chris's Random Ramblings
On Friday evening the police forensic people came around and got some really good fingerprints off the window area. In fact they mentioned that the only way they would have got better prints was if the person turned up at a police station to get printed. So if he's in the system already they should be able to get him, though I'm guessing that most of our stuff would have been sold off over the weekend :-(
Spent yesterday chasing up serial numbers and receipts for stuff which got stolen. I'm now definitely a believer in registering products as the manufacturers we did ring were quite happy to give us the serial numbers, and in some cases registering those serial numbers as products which are stolen. I tend to keep boxes of things we buy a lot longer than Kelly would like, but in this case its turned out quite useful as proof of ownership for the insurance company as well as for serial numbers. It is a bit of pity that there is no facility for items such as ipods or ps3s which connect to servers, for ip addresses to be tracked as they'd probably find a lot of stolen electronics that way.
It turns out that the thieves managed to steal about 2 suitcases worth of our stuff. We didn't realise until the next day, but they must have packed our stuff into our suitcases before taking it away. Both of our iPods disappeared as well so we're a bit music-less at the moment. For some strange reason they stole 3 power drills (we had 4 because when Kelly moved in we both had one corded and one cordless drill each) which in terms of $/kg is not particularly good - but perhaps it helps them get into the next house. In general they just took the small but valuable things like my gps (too bad it can't phone home!). Also both our digital cameras so it makes it a bit harder to take photos of boxes etc for the insurance company.
Think I am close to having the record for the shortest time period for ownership of a PS3. Had pre-ordered it from JB Hi-Fi and picked it up at midnight last night. Got home this afternoon from work to discover that someone had broken in the back window of our house and the PS3 missing :-( Have a few other things such as a camera and tv remote (but they forgot the special charger, so won't be using that for long!).
The guy even tried to climb back into the house in the window while I was on the phone to the police. Kelly scared him off (she can get pretty scary!) and the police sent some cars around pretty quickly, but didn't manage to get him. Luckily the cats are all safe, but obviously they're not very good guard cats - one was hiding under the bed, the other went out the window into the garden and I suspect that the other probably tried to cuddle up to the thief.
So if you're looking at second-hand PS3s in the Canberra area please check the serial number. If its:
P-27430417-A
S01-4856686-T... then its actually mine, and I'd appreciate it if you report it to the police ;-)
Oh, and not that I actually got to play any games for very long, but Resistance: Fall of Man is rather cool!