Woman watches home invasion on webcam

[NashVegas]

When Thomas decided to pull up the feed of her house Wednesday morning, she couldn't believe what she saw. There was someone inside her home, someone she didn't know. Thomas picked up the phone and called 911.

"I'm watching my home on live monitor, and there is a black man in my house, and he is robbing it," she told the dispatcher. The woman on the other end of the call asked Thomas where she was, and Thomas replied, "I'm in Fort Lauderdale, at my work."

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According to the Boynton Beach Police, Williams and Morales entered the house through a pet door. As the 911 dispatcher was calling police to the scene, Thomas stayed on the line, giving a play-by-play of what she was seeing.

"He's in my house. I am seeing him walk around my house. He's in my bedroom right now," she said. The bedroom cannot be seen in the video, but the door from the living room into the bedroom is visible.

Thomas watched as the men wandered through her home, taking valuables such as her TV and Wii gaming console.

"This is unbelievable," she told the 911 dispatcher. "The cat is freaking out. The dogs are hiding."

One of the burglars took a bag of shredded cheese from the refrigerator and could be seen on the video stuffing it in his mouth. None of them noticed the small camera that resembles an air freshener.




http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/10/webcam.home.invasion/index.html?iref=mpstoryview#cnnSTCText

[druidity33]

1. they came through the pet door?

How big was her dog?

or, how small is that guy?


:)

[Ian David]

3. Golden Retreivers need a big door. n/t

[Ian David]

2. See prior thread: "There's a black man in my house!"

"There's a black man in my house!" Anyone else catch that woman on Good Morning (White) America?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5426708

[NashVegas]

4. Yeah, That Was Interesting

As you can see from the pic, he more resembles a caucafari.

[pnwmom]

5. There were two men. The one she was referring to -- the one who showed up

first -- was an African American man with short hair. Here's footage from the web cam itself:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/10/webcam.home.invasion/

[druidity33]

7. What's this caucafari?

It sounds denigrating. Caucasian Rastafarian? I think i just answered my own question...

I've been a white man with dreadlocks, but never Rasta... i guess i wouldn't have been offended. Then again, i've got real thick skin. And everyone in Britain called our kind "crusties", so maybe that's not so endearing a term either.


still, it doesn't feel right...

:shrug:

[NashVegas]

9. It Came Into Usage

Around the time Counting Crows came to prominence.

[trumad]

6. Youtube of the black dude home invading...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10216518-71.html

[NashVegas]

8. Geez, They're Kids

Whatever racial prejudices she had were probably reinforced, unfortunately.

And she really should have had louder, meaner, dogs.

[Ian David]

10. The cat put up a good fight. n/t

[LisaL]

11. Article lists them as 19 and 20. When exactly do people stop being

kids nowdays? At 50?
:eyes:

[NashVegas]

12. When You Get Old Enough

30 will look like a kid.

:)

[barbtries]

13. lol

you got that right. these days when i watch pro sports i'm struck by how young the players are...they're just kids! did they used to be more grown up? nah, i'm getting old.

[Karenina]

14. They say you're getting old

when the cops start looking like kids! :rofl:

I live at a crowd control hub for the soccer stadium and run their gauntlet when my errands take precedence. For big games they're shipped in from quite a distance (complete w/riot gear and bellige Hunden. May I have perchance gotten that last bit right.) They look like my kids. Sometimes I see a face I have to engage in conversation. (Tante K.'s flirt mode kicks into full gear.) It's always been enjoyable cuz once you get to be a cranky o' lady, you can say whatever you want. The Kids Are Alright.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj3M55XR-o0

[Blue Diadem]

15. She should have had louder meaner dogs? He had a crowbar.

They're not kids at that age. They're old enough to know right from wrong. Considering there was a crowbar in one young man's hand at the beginning, it looks like he could have easily used that if an animal or person for that matter became unruly.