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“Two reasons. It’s only silent if the door is opened in the back. Not if something is broken or someone goes through the front.”
“You mean opened as in having a key?” she asked.
“Yeah,” he said. “They’ve got twenty seconds to put the code in. Then another forty if they messed up so it’s not blowing their eardrums out. The police are alerted after twenty seconds if the person doesn’t override it.”
“How many know how to override it?” she asked.
“Not many,” he said. Just him, his two managers who opened or closed and his grandfather.
He moved into the store and looked around to see if there was anything out of place or missing and there was nothing he could see. He supposed on the bright side it was good and he could still open for business tomorrow.
Though his stock in the back was all but gone at this point.
“It looks as if they tried to take out the security cameras,” the officer said.
“Yeah.” He was looking up at the camera in the back and the monitor that recorded everything. Bottles were thrown at it. There was a lot of rage here. “I’ve got another system no one knows about.”
“What?” she asked. “Why?”
“Let’s just say my father told me to always watch every angle of everything. My grandfather is the only other person who knows there is a second system here. It feeds right to my laptop.” Which of course he left at home in his rush to get here.
“Let us take your statement,” the officer said. “Then we need to see that footage. You’ll need to come up with a list of the damages. I’m sure it’s going to take time looking around here.”
“Not too much,” he said. “I know what was back here and not put up front. It’s easy enough to go through the inventory and get that cost. It doesn’t seem as if much is savable. At least to sell.”
If the bottle wasn’t broken it looked to be dirty.
“Do you want me to go back to your house and get your laptop while you try to figure out the damages here and give your statement?” Mia asked.
“If you don’t mind,” he said, handing over the keys to her.
“I guess it’s a good thing I came. I’ll be back soon.”
He watched Mia walk out. The officer asked him, “Do you know of anyone that would want to do this to you?”
“No,” he said. “Has anyone else in the area had any issues?”
“Burglaries, yes,” the officer said. “But you’re saying you don’t think much was taken?”
“They could have taken liquor for sure and it’d be hard to tell what was taken and what was busted at this point. I’ll know more when my laptop is here.”
He wondered if that was part of it. To have it look more like vandalism than a theft.
The police were taking pictures; he was doing the same. He’d need it for his insurance claim.
When Mia returned, he wanted to start to clean up, but the police had told him not yet. It was frustrating at this point.
“Here,” she said.
“Thanks,” he said, reaching for it. He turned it on and brought up the security systems. First the one everyone knew about. “It’s dark. Their face is turned away from the camera too.”
They all watched as multiple bottles were thrown against the camera until it was knocked down, then did the same with the computer, which was on the floor covered in wine and liquor. Probably hoping to fry it.
“Looks like the show is over,” the officer said. “That was about one minute. The alarms should be going off soon.”
“Yeah. They came right in without even trying to put a code in,” he said.
He couldn’t tell if a key was used or the person was good at picking a lock. The police hadn’t said the lock was busted though.
