Last fall we forgot & left the garage door open overnight, and in the morning I found the RX-8's car door slightly open, as well as the Legacy's car door not quite closed fully. Turned out that someone came into the garage & stole a palm pc, my V1 and an XM radio from the RX8, as well as some new clothes from Macy's that I was returning (and the receipt was in the bag - what a fool I was).
I had serial numbers for the electronics so I filed a police report. In the process of hunting around for where I might look to find my items (like on craigslist or a pawn shop) I came across a craigslist posting from someone else who also had their V1 stolen. I posted a 'looking for' ad there too, and was contacted by another woman who had her laptop stolen out of her car - similar to me, she forgot & left her car door unlocked, and came out in the morning to find it sitting open. In her process of looking she spotted a plastic garbage bag at a development site near her home, with a cord sticking out of it, and found some other person's tape player & headphones, and a partially empty wallet in it. In her report to the police, she learned that there was a burglary ring in operation, where someone(s) would go through a neighborhood trying car doors, when they found one open they'd grab whatever looked valuable, probably threw it into a plastic garbage bag, and then leave without closing the door.
The police ended up finding and returning one of my items which turned up at a pawn shop; and the detective told me they busted the person who had pawned it.
Scott, if you have serial numbers for anything, even if you don't think it can be recovered you might file a police report anyway - if for nothing else, then to keep these burglars from pawning your stuff and getting away with it.
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