Robberies

PTM has had a rough patch lately.  This summer, the building has been robbed five times in the last thirteen days.  The most recent robbery was last Saturday; however, before this summer PTM had only been robbed three times in the past six years.  It is the same thing every time—someone shoots out the playground and office door windows with a BB gun—then steals whatever he, or she, can find in the office.  After the second robbery, Chan replaced the locks along with the windows for a second time.  The third break-in occurred over the following weekend, but this time nothing was taken.  Not to mention the windows on the bus door were also shot out. The locks were changed once again.  This time, Chan had the wonderful idea of writing a note to the thief, or thieves, in an attempt to slow the perpetrator(s) down in order for the alarm system to alert the police more quickly.  Above is the picture of the note and Chan did really leave the empty cash box sitting outside the door, but the robber(s) still broke into the office.  Once again nothing was taken.  Thankfully, there have been no break-ins this week which is excellent considering the cost of replacing the windows. Yesterday, a few of the exterior doors’ windows were painted over with some type of hardening mix, and today the rest will have the same thing done.  Hopefully this will be a solution to the problem and no more robberies will occur.