Have you ever been robbed, or had a break-in?

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A friend texted me today. She lives in a suburb of Indianapolis. I've been to her home; it's a nice home in a nice neighborhood. But last night, she heard a noise and got up and heard a car screech away. The side window of her car was completely smashed. There was nothing in the car to steal but her jacket, so they took that. She always parks in her garage, but she didn't park there last night, because her husband is remodeling one of their bathrooms. He had some flooring and tile, etc. delivered that day and stacked in the garage, so she couldn't park in her usual spot. My friend felt invaded, and sad. She thought their neighborhood was safe as nothing had ever happened. Hopefully, it isn't something that will happen again, but of course, one never knows. I guess I have been lucky, not anything terrible has happened in the way of being robbed or my property damaged. I was robbed at gunpoint once. It was a late evening, I managed a restaurant at the time. Almost closing time, and only a very few people left inside. I was helping the cashier catch up on her work, when 2 men came in, approached us, and pulled guns. They wanted our money. One handed me a bag to put the money in. I gave him everything, down to the change. There was several thousand dollars in the till. I thought they would run out...we were shaking and it was so stressful and I was truly struggling to stay calm. The one with the money said, I know you have a big cooler or a freezer, take me there. So what do we do, I mean...they have guns. The walk in freezer was stuffed full of foods as we had a delivery that day. The cooler, not so full. He made me, the cashier, and the remaining kitchen staff all go in the cooler and he locked us in. We didn't hear anything after that. We were there in the cold dark for about an hour? Just guessing on that. The police showed up and found the building unlocked after closing time, lights all on, cars outside. We heard them, even before they discovered us in the cooler and got us out of there. We were all very cold, but we were not hurt--just still terrified. We found out from the police later that these two robbed a gas station later that same night and were caught. They locked the gas station employee in the beer cooler. One place that I lived, my garage was broken into once, and an attempt was made to hot wire my car. They had no success. I think I was very lucky in both instances, for sure. Have you been robbed? How did you feel if it happened to you?