Probably witches.

I get calls and and a hangup after I pick up the phone to answer it. I wonder if it's a burglar checking to see if anybody is home, before committing a burglary in my home.

I hear that measles vaccines can prevent these sorts of rashes.

Many Asian and Indian households are presumed to own lots of gold jewelry and keep it at home. An Asian friend of mine in Cupertino had all her gold jewelry taken in a home burglary. (There have also been home invasions targeting Asian households, looking to take expensive jewelry and cash kept at home.)

must be a well organized crime ring, it looks. If so many robberies have occurred and no one has any clue or any video footage shows that some sophisticated group is doing this unless the owners themselves are stealing it and trying to claim insurance compensation so that they can buy more jewelery. and that would be a grand scam.

BTW, to 'vkmo vkmo', how do the robbers know the phone #s (both landline and mobile) of the homes they rob?

Please lock your homes and automobiles. By leaving your stuff unprotected, you are putting a big bullseye target on your neighborhood as "easy pickings." The crooks will come back for more and maybe tell their friends!

These robberies reminded me of this NYT story: Web Link

Yes, except...
there were no guns
they only struck when people were not at home
the victims were not all Indian-American
the timing is not right after the holiday

But other than that, it seems just like the NYT story

smitten, my land-line phone number is listed in the phone book. The calls and hangups are occurring on my land-line and not on cellphone. I don't know about the homes where robbery occurred. Does anybody know if the calls-followed-by-hangup phone numbers (if listed) should be given to the police??

Just a note, looks like the this area is right next to the High school.

So the moral of the story is, crime happens everywhere.

Actually "Hmm", the burglaries have been all over MV and Los Altos.

The majority have been Asian and S. Asian homes, for the reasons "SP Phil" states. Not all, so clearly we all have to be vigilant and look out for our neighbors.

Btw "Smitten", the internet is rich with info. The daily calls to land lines - with no one on the other ends, seems to have started right around the time of these incidents, for many neighbors. Maybe it's coincidence, but maybe not.

Be wary of solicitors who DO NOT have a permit to go to door to door. We've seen lots of this activity during strange hours and over the weekend. Call the police right away so they can look into it. We all have to do our part.

Another thing I do to secure my home property, bolt the side gates from inside [then harder to enter and exit the rear of house] and 'stick jamb' the easy-to-pry older sliding glass doors.

The new houses may have attracted some unwanted attention too. The older houses are modest, but the new ones give the neighborhood a new bourgeois look. The upside is that property values got a bump, the downside is the burglars think they hit pay dirt.

Two vehicles have been observed in conduction with this story and are thought to be involved. A Grey four door Lexus, older model vehicle and a Beige pick-up truck, newer model. Good condition. License numbers not yet observed.

There was another attempt on Wednesday evening on Tryna Dr. around 7:15pm. Alarm sounded and suspect, wearing black, fled in Lexus before police arrived. Nothing taken. House was dark and occupants are vacationing.

Maybe the burglars finally caught on that the MVPD is too busy staking out 4 way stops/running pedestrian safety sting operations/having seat belt law campaigns/etc to be bothered with something unprofitable. That's really more of a neighborhood watch kind of thing anyway. "call us if you see anything... we'll be there as soon as we can. right now we have more important things to do. but don't take any action yourself, that's a job for us PROFESSIONALS"

@Steve, "Maybe the burglars finally caught on that the MVPD is too busy staking out 4 way stops/running pedestrian safety sting operations/having seat belt law campaigns/etc to be bothered with something unprofitable."

Can you please list the dates of these programs you expertly brought up and if they are currently ongoing? It may shed more light on your post.

Thank you StopTheTrolls. I haven't seen MVPD stalking out 4-way stops, and I stop at those all the time! Maybe these commenters are being stalked by police because they are as reckless as with their driving as they are with their flippant remarks.

Vkmo - you might be right. I am getting hang up calls. A lot from a Gilroy number that is suddenly out of service when I call it back.

>Can you please list the dates of these programs you expertly brought up and if they are currently ongoing? It may shed more light on your post.

> Maybe these commenters are being stalked by police because they are as reckless as with their driving as they are with their flippant remarks.

MVPD makes a point of posting many--but not all- of their traffic code 5s on their facebook page.

Steve - Web Link

Most recent MVPD fund raiser I saw was on Middlefield, ahead of the PG&E work in the center divide. 25MPH construction zone starts well ahead of the actual work... cars pulled over en masse. "Traffic Fines Doubled in Construction Zones"
Cha-ching! bonuses all around, boys!

The old chief would actually respond to emails. He even made the appropriate sergeant call people up to talk to them about issues brought up to him. Don't know about the new one. But it's worth a shot to send your concerns.

Steve, how many of those people pulled over were driving over the posted speed limit in a a GAS PIPELINE construction zone? I bet all of them. How dare MVPD keep people safe by actually ticketing those who would otherwise cause the rest of us harm. Shocking!

Personally, I hope the offenders were also late for whatever they think they needed to speed to. Glad they'll spend time in traffic school and/or see their insurance rates go up.
Don't blame the enforcement arm of the traffic division for doing what we pay them to do, blame the offenders. Oh, and quit speeding around. It sucks.

The mandate of the PD is to apprehend criminals after they've commited a crime. Prevention and defense from crime is up to you.

Apparently, the mandate of the MVPD is to raise as much revenue a possible. Thank god they're doing something important, instead of wasting their time patrolling residential neighborhoods!