by Will Stanton » Thu May 06, 2021 8:13 pm
An unmarked entirely inconspicuous Ford Transit was parked on Maldon High Street, left overnight -- nothing even remotely interesting or noteworthy about that.
Inside the van, however, Will and anyone who was concerned about the recent string of unremarkable break-ins would be waiting. The van was filled with high-tech monitoring equipment, police scanners, wired connections to the burglar systems on the local street, a posse of college students who like to punch things, and enough coffee and sugary snacks to keep a bull elephant on it's toes for weeks -- this wasn't Will's first rodeo.
With nothing to do at the moment but wait, Will had his feet on the dash, as he kept one eye on the alarm monitoring systems. There was no guarantee that another break-in would happen tonight, but some statistical modeling and some good old fashioned guess work had tonight as likely as anything else, and he was going to be ready for it.
((open))