Markus’ Blog

From what it looks like, there has been an attempted break and enter one apartment over, today.

When I got home from work, our next door neighbor was outside her condo talking to another tenant or owner (I don’t know if he owns or not). I learned pretty quickly that apparently her lock was busted and that she was unable to open her entrance door even after she had unlocked it. She has some kind of deadbolt or something that they suspected may have ended up jamming the door. Either that or the lock’s just toast. Somebody sure went to work on it.

After talking for a few more minutes, I went to take care of the hungry kitty, and Brigette looked up the phone numbers of our strata council president and the non-emergency number of the Vancouver Police Department (without access to a phone book or computer you’re kind of helpless).

Then I went back outside and took a few pictures. One never knows what good that may do later.

The entrance door in question.

Seen from the top.

The busted lock close up.

Of course we all went and checked out the other doors on our floor. No damage was visible on any other door. Also, we don’t know at this point if anybody managed to get inside that apartment or if they gave up or got scared away.

All in all, it doesn’t make one feel too secure. We’re actually in a pretty good neighborhood and I haven’t heard about break ins in our area, so the whole incident came a bit as a shock.

What sucks for the owner of the condo is that she is stuck outside her own apartment, doesn’t know what went on inside (if anything), and all of that happened on a Friday night after work.

Update

She’s back in her apartment as of 8:30pm or so. The locksmith had a hard time getting the lock open. Apparently the would-be thieves tried to pry the lock open, but it jammed, so they couldn’t get in. He was still out there hammering at 9:30pm, trying to fix the damage.