My car got broken into!

So a couple weeks ago I was in Troy, hanging out with my brother, and I got back to my car, and the door was slightly ajar, but I thought, maybe I just didn't close it all the way when I got out, since I had a lot of stuff in my hands. Anyway, so I got on the expressway, and then I noticed a light in the back of my van was on, I reached to turn it off and realized, there was no way I could have turned this light on. I have not been in the back of my van for at least a week, and I can reach it from the front, I have to crawl into the back to turn it off. Anyway, I realized my car had been broken into, and when I got home I called my brother about it.

The next day he made a police report, so they would keep an eye on the neighborhood. The whole way home I was trying to think of anything ofg value in my car they might have stolen, but I couldn't think of anything. I watch CSI shows too, and I thought about how they do fingerprinting, so I was trying to figure out how to turn off the light and check the glovebox without messing up the fingerprints, but then decided since I had nothing of value, and I don't think anything was stolen, they wouldn't do forensics on my car or anything like that. However, yesterday I saw my brother, and he was telling me about the report he made and the officer asked him if I was planning on bringing the car back to Troy to do forensics, he said no, he just wanted to make sure the police knew about it. But it amazed me that they would do forensics, even though there was nothing stolen.

I think 10 years ago they probably never would have done that, but now that forensics is all over TV it has helped them out a lot. I don't know. my cool story about my car being broken into. not that it's cool, I freak out about leaving ANYTHING in my car now, but better to be safe than sorry.