Hmmm....about 4 years ago, my daughter (now 25) transferred from Ann Arbor, Mi. to Mesa, Az. We decided to rent a 15 passanger van...remove the back seats....pack up ALL her belongings (and our suitcases) and make the 3 day drive out there. The first day was long.....second day too! We had stopped at a Red Roof Inn in Albaquerque, N.M., and hoped to get a very early start for that last 12 hours of driving.
During the night, someone broke out the passenger window, unlocked the doors and cleaned out the van! Only a small dresser that happened to be facing the outside wall remained.....that meant just a fraction of my daughters clothes had been left....even our clothes were gone! Keepsakes, collections, and personal items were gone! Getting the police to respond was a real challenge! This happens so often there that they don't even like to come out. The only thing that helped us get thru this horrific experience was the knowledge that we were just random targets. If we had been robbed by someone who KNEW us....that would have been worse.
My daughter recently moved back to Michigan! (Yay!) While living in Mesa, she had her apartment broken in to twice....then her car stolen!........p
