Open garage doors are an opening for thieves. Police tell KTUL.com during the summer, if your treasures aren't bolted down they could disappear. That's what happened in one Broken Arrow neighborhood. A lawn man was doing his job, mowing yards and talking to customers but it wasn't just the grass being cut, it seems thieves wanted their cut too.
"I came back running and it was too late they already got it," says Jairo Hernandez.
Hernandez lost most of his lawn business equipment. A zero turn mower, commercial push mower, and a weed eater were taken and he didn't see it coming.
"We were mowing in the back and one of my guys came in that corner and we saw a white truck and black trailer everyone started pulling my zero turn out," says Hernandez.
Hernandez is now out ten thousand dollars. He's inclined to quit but some of his customers talked him into moving forward.
"We have these unsavory characters who wonder in periodically and decided to help themselves to the tools of the others, which is just wrong," says customer, Tom Jacobs.
The Broken Arrow Police Department says unfortunately they see this all the time.
"We find that thieves are opportunistic this time of year. They will drive around neighborhoods looking for garage doors that are open stuff that is sitting out and about and they will take it," says Sgt. Erik VanHorn, Broken Arrow Police.
Hernandez says he knows he wont get his stuff back but wants to make sure this doesn't happen to any one else. He says he won't cut corners again on safety and has already changed his habits.
"Be careful and watch what you got. Lock everything like what I am doing right now," says Hernandez.
Hernandez did let five of his employees and ten customers go because of getting his equipment stolen.
