Do you live in an urban area? Is it easy to get to the porch?
We live right off the beach just south of the railroad tracks. We live one street from a nice neighborhood between our house and the beach (our street is so-so with rentals and some dirtbaggish people on it), but just north of the tracks is a predominantly “Democrat” neighborhood (one that votes 97 percent for Obama) with steady crime.
Oh, and yes, it’s easy to get to our porch. It’s not quite but almost a wrap-around type of porch, and the bag of charcoal would have been visible from the street. We don’t really have anywhere to store things, like a shed, so it’s hard not to have things visible on the porch. We’re pretty bummed. It’s been a long time since we were stolen from.