Indeed it is! A few nights ago the robbers broke into two local businesses too. The hardest issue there is in preparing for a possible break in is that we don't know who these individuals are; it could be someone related to me! It makes it more complicated if members of your own extended family are the ones robbing you, individuals that have been inside your house, know where you work, what vehicles you drive, etc. A few months ago an aunt of mine stole a car part of ours and pawned it off, and a cousin of mine was caught stealing someone's gas. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if at least one member of my family is involved in these robberies. And people wonder why it is I don't want a family of my own…?

We live in a mobile home on a acre of land with an electric fence. A benefit we have now is that everyone knows I am not working and am home a lot. (People know I have Asperger's Syndrome and am unemployed, so everyone thinks I am here 24/7, and I usually am.) Since nobody knows where I am or what I am doing, it is difficult for the robbers to know if I am home or not, unlike the homes they have targeted now. (One is a miner in northern Canada, so he is away for weeks at a time, and another went on vacation, for example.) However, if both vehicles are gone, it would mean both my mother and I are away from the house .

We have loud dogs but one is a chihuahua and the other is a bassid hound. If anything I worry for my dogs' safety if robbers were to break in! Yeah, pleasant thought that is, walking into my house and finding out someone kicked or killed my chihuahua :O. (Hound is my mom's dog.)

My mother said robberies happen at night mostly? Is this true? She says that robbers wouldn't come during the day because the front of our trailer is open and that, since we live on a relatively busy road, that someone would notice suspicious vehicles on our driveway. Apparently, a suspicious vehicle drove into a house who's owner is at the hospital for caner treatment, and when someone went to check it out, the vehicle sped off in a high speed pursuit.

Nobody in our household is gone for extended periods of time. I would say there is no more than a 3 or 4 hour window of nobody being here any given day. My mother either works from 6:30 AM to 2:45 PM or 2:45 PM to 9:30 PM. Only on the odd day am I out later than 7:00 PM.

It's can be worrying .