The Ugly

My Storage Unit Burglarized

Summer of 2004

I had two storage units containing my personal belonging.  I decide to sell some of my belongings.  Unfortunately, as I drove up to my unit I saw a different lock on it.  Someone or somebody used a bolt cutter to cut my lock.  They replaced my lock with theirs, so that the storage manager wouldn’t notice the missing lock.  The thieves were planning on a return trip to empty out the storage unit.  I view this as my fault.  I should have knowing better than to use a cheap lock.  The lock was a Silage a will knowing brand name, but not very burglary proof.  Missing was my tower computer an old 450 Pentium II, a large suitcase, sterling silverware and my toolbox.  I made a trip to my local hardware store and I found a Brink’s round cam lock, which comes in two sizes a 3-inch diameter and a 4-½ inch diameter size.  I purchased two of the smaller locks for my storage unit.  My storage manager said that the Brink’s lock could not be removed with a bolt cutter and that they had to be drilled out to remove them.  A couple of weeks later I purchased the larger lock for my Giant cross-town bicycle, however the draw back is that the larger lock is heavy especially when added to the weight of the steel bike chain.  This weight requires one to wear a backpack for storage when bike ridding.  If the name Brink’s sounds familiar it should be because it belongs to the armor car people.  They got their start in the late 1800’s with their Brink’s detective agency protecting trains against robbers in the US, like the outlaw Jesse James.