Unwelcome visitors

Before my retirement we were staying in Govt. accommodation. After I retired we shifted to our own house , which we constructed with  great  fervour and  enthusiasm. At that time it was a developing colony. There were very few houses. Construction  activity for several houses was in progress.  After we shifted we were told that at night many unwelcome intruders  had a tendency to visit the households. We too had some nocturnal visits. The very first day after shifting, the music system from my son's car  became the casualty. The next day, accompanied  by  the guardian  of law(police man) the thief came to our house.  We were asked to  recognise our music system from more than a dozen  music systems. The thief had confessed his guilt and  directed  the police personal to all the houses , which he had visited. Perhaps he was a newcomer to the job and was not aware of the tricks of the trade. To cut the long story short, we got back our music system after paying a couple of visits to the court.My son even told the judge that he did not want his music system if he was made to visit the court again.

                              The next visitor came after a month. At midnight my grand daughters  went to the kitchen to take water. They  noticed that a man was sitting on the window sill of the room adjacent to the kitchen. He had lit a candle and was trying to cut the wire  mesh of the window.  The girls  screamed and ran back to their room. The thief must have become out of his wits and disappeared.
                 There was another visit by the robbers. This time they managed to enter the house. They cut open the wire mesh and removed the screws  from the iron grills and entered the Drawing/cum Dining room. This visit was during Diwali  festival. Perhaps the intruders tried to open other rooms , but all bedrooms were bolted from inside and their efforts failed. In the Dining room they found sweets, dry fruits and chocolates and fruits. They sat comfortably on the sofa sets and finished all the eatables! Morning when we got up we were shocked to see the whole area full  of nut shells, empty sweet boxes , peals of bananas and oranges spread all over the floor. Ha,ha ha.It was serious but we all had a heart laugh.
  One more incident and I will be done with. After all these attempts of  robbery we decided to install a security alarm. With all fanfare the security system was installed. The very first  night  the alarm started at  about 1 a.m. All of us got up with a start. We were scared. My son and daughter-in-law  bravely opened the door.There was nothing. we were puzzled. The next night and every night that followed the alarm would go ting ting,ting,ting.  We did not know what to do. Some nights it would ring three or four times. The mystery was soon solved. My children had gone out for a party. When they came home late, they were still on the road, when the alarm started.  Actually its sensor was too sensitive. Any vehicle crossing in front of the house triggered the alarm. The next morning we got it dismantled. Good riddance. We all heaved a sigh of relief!
  We then bought a cute little Labrador puppy and got rid of the nuisance. By this time the colony was fully developed and became quite safe.