Broken into!

[Kneale Brownson]

At 09:13 AM 08/14/2003 -0400, David wrote:
>I trust the owner/manager 100%, but he has gotten two new employees over
>the past few months. The one I have gotten to know and tust, the oterh has
>only been there 2 weeks. I tend to agree that something is "fishy" but I
>don't know that there is anything I can do about it. The officer who took
>the report said there is no sign of a forced entry (no slimjim marks) and
>he said that it looks like it was done by somebody with access to the key.
>Now they thing is the shop leaves keys sitting on the desk and anybody
>could have walked in, grabbed the key and walked out. Am I suspicious of
>the shop? Yes, but I hate feeling this way, they do good work at a good
>price, are convenient and I work with the owners  little sister.

The guy I used to take my cars to parked them out by the alley, which was
the access drive to his shop.  I got into the habit of taking everything
out of the car and putting it into the trunk after having several dollars
worth of change removed from the ashtray a couple times.  I suspect his
kids got into the cars with the keys, which he kept in the garage, but
sometimes he'd forget to lock the doors. Anyway, I'd give him the valet key
to operate the engine and keep the trunk locked.