http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2008/02/26/news/01lead.txt
Two men donning black masks and dark clothing brandished a handgun while stealing several electronic items from a Winona home on Harriet Street on Sunday night, police said.
It's a good thing no one was hurt. Once the intruders are in your home, you lose control over who gets hurt.
According to the police report, officers were called at about 7:50 p.m. to the 400 block of Harriet Street on a report of a robbery. Two men “basically just walked in” and stole two cell phones, two laptops, an Xbox game console and a small amount of marijuana, Bostrack said.
Please, please lock your doors!
And, of course, it wasn't "random".
Although Bostrack stressed the incident is “strongly believed” not to be random, he said, the occupants told police they didn’t know who the suspects were.
What the police don't seem to realize, or at least, don't want to admit, is that very few home invasions are random. These thugs apparently knew there were electronics worth taking. Even if there was no other connection, that keeps it from being considered a random attack.
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