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My girlfriend was making dinner tonight, 21:15, saw two guys walk up to our garage and start fiddling with the lock.
She pushed the window open and asked what they were doing - they said they were either meeting a friend, or getting something from a friends garage and that it was number 16. Ours is number 6.
I should have called the police then and there, but I couldn't quite believe that they were thieves.
This was A Mistake.
They went round the corner, waited a couple of minutes then came back and, as my girlfriend shouted at them and I ran down the stairs, opened the combination padlock, hoisted the door up, grabbed my girlfriends bike and did a runner. They were gone by the time I got down there - I ran round the block but they'd gone.
I called the police, they came, we got the manager of the freehold out of his flat and reviewed the CCTV - both cameras that overlook the garages had been turned on their mounts so they just covered blank fields of view (mainly wall).
So! The new garage doors need to include security as a key requirement. Although, in this case they appeared to know what the combination was, which is concerning.