Casing rarely looks dramatic — it looks like slightly-wrong ordinary behavior, repeated. Trust the pattern, not any single event.
- Repeat slow drive-bys — the same unfamiliar car rolling past at walking speed more than once, especially at odd hours or pausing near your garage.
- Strangers with thin excuses — a knock about lawn service, a "wrong address," someone "looking for their lost dog" whose eyes are on your garage door.
- Photography or lingering — someone photographing your house, or a person idling in a parked car watching the street for long stretches.
- Little tests — a gate found unlatched, a motion light unscrewed, an object left against your fence or door that would show whether anyone moved it.
- Odd interest after a sale listing — a "buyer" who visited once, asked about your schedule and storage, then went quiet.
What to do: write down plates, times, and descriptions, save camera clips, and report it to your police non-emergency line — patterns from multiple neighbors are how police connect burglary crews. Do not confront anyone; nothing in your garage is worth that. Then tighten the target: lights, locked side door, bike anchored and out of window view, and a hidden motion-alert tracker on the machine itself. If they come back anyway, you'll know the moment it moves and can hand police a live location.
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