Reply #4: Yes - its happened more often than i care to think.

[amber dog democrat]

I have had my house broken into twice, no three times. The last time i was home when it happened. It had to be drug orientated and i feel my old neighborhood had something to do with it.

These fools would steal a broken Betamax deck, my guitar tuner and my microwave, but leave my Martin D-35 sitting on a stand in plain view in the living room.

I agree this i s very creepy. Sometimes even with a deadbolt locked thugs will force entry.
When I was broken into the last time, ( I moved 6 years ago from this part of Austin ) , I awoke to chase a person out of my house at 3:00 AM. I don't know what I was thinking beyond needing to get control of the situation. There was not much time to decide what to do.... but I have taken to locking my car and house. There was a time when i did not feel the need to.

I few years before that I noticed how some one was tampering with the front door know a little after midnight one night.. I very quietly went to the closet to fetch my mini-14. While it was unloaded I did make a most satisfying Clacka-Clack ! sound as i pulled back bolt and lit it fly, as if I was chambering a round.

That person disapeared.

I agre you are being violated when people do things like this. I wish you the chance to press charges if this person is caught.