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                                   THE B & E SPECIALIST

Education is really not a be-all end-all solution for every problem.

It doesn't get much stranger than this: A California doctor trying to break into her "on again, off again" boyfriend's home snuck down the chimney and got stuck there, where she died. Dr. Jacquelyn Kotarac, 49, wasn't found for three days. Kotarac had tried to get into the home of her boyfriend, William Moodie, 58, with a shovel, and then climbed a ladder to the roof, where she slid feet first into the chimney. Meanwhile, Moodie slipped away unnoticed from another door, because he was hoping "to avoid confrontation." Moodie's housekeeper noticed a strange smell and fluids leaking from the chimney; she and her son looked in and found Kotarac's body trapped about 2 feet above the opening to the fireplace. Kotarac's cause of death hasn't been determined, and though police don't suspect foul play, they are looking into the event as suspicious.

Read it at Associated Press

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/09/02/lovesick-doctor-suffocates-in-lovers-chimney/

From time to time, people get strange ideas in their heads. I have noticed this fact over the years.

Their ultimate purpose may be readily discernible following some seeming serendipitous event; following a proper investigation, of course.

But how some people wish to effect their ultimate purposes may, at first look, seem absurd.

Now there are things that we must assume here even after we have read the AP wire as well as the squib at Yahoo.

First of all we must assume that Dr. Kotarac, our victim here, had a high school degree.

I mean doctors need preparation and study before going about their appointed rounds.

And in order to get to college one must attain either a high school diploma or a GED.

At any rate, you can bet some testing was involved.

Second, we must assume that Jacquelyn went to college. One needs a four year degree in order to be accepted by even the most moderate medical school.

Usually the curriculum for those four years is called: Premed.

There would be classes in biology, anatomy, and chemistry as well as other important sciences. In this day and age I imagine there would be a number of business classes. I mean, eventually the young intern just out of medical school would need some business tools in order to pay back a quarter of a million dollars in student loans.

Anyway, following a four year premed curriculum, the individual must spend another four years in Medical School.

So, after 20 years of schooling this programmed individual must spend time 'in residency'. That is because of the necessity of 'specializing' in some particular area of medicine.

The better the specialization, the less time it will take to pay back those loans while meeting the economic ramifications of the doctor's first divorce.

As they are no doubt taught by their peers during their premed years,  doctors are better off divorcing their spouses prior to attaining the level of specialist.

The less the income and the more the debt; the smaller the divorce settlement; so it is written.

Anyway, it is only natural that following 23 or more years of education and training, some basic fundamentals might have been forgotten along the way. Sometimes we need to 'relearn' certain basics just to survive as human beings.

Getting back to basics; what would be the best way of entering a building?

Well, doors are always good. I mean doors are known as accesses and egresses in the parlance of an architect.

But what if there are locks present on these accesses and egresses? And what if the actor does not have a proper key to attain proper access?

Windows are sometimes used by the less educated felon. The window might be locked of course. Knowing this, a lowly burglar might carry a tool of some kind with him in order to attain access to a residence. For instance the burglar might carry a lead pipe type of instrument for example so he could break the window.

A lot of middle school drop outs will use this 'lead pipe type of approach' in order to smash the window, thereby gaining access to a building.

If the windows are particularly difficult to break due to being double pained and bullet proof, a practiced felon might make use of a structure that is attached to the residence which he intends to enter; like a garage.

A lot of garage doors use a remote key system so that if one had a 'garage door opener' with the proper frequency, one might fool the garage door system into granting the felon access.

Another approach to entry of a residence might involve tunneling. I have seen this approach used in films by felons attempting to enter banking institutions and such.

The scheme would involve digging a tunnel from a hidden location in the direction of the building one wishes to access.

I recently viewed two versions of The Counte of Monte Christo by Alexander Dumas. In both films tunneling was used by inmates in an attempt to gain egress from a penal institution.

Tunneling has its drawbacks. In both versions of the movie, one of the protagonists died due to the tunnel 'caving in'; an unfortunate hazard involved in any tunneling project.

Dr. Kotarac took a rather strange approach in attempting to gain access to her old friend's residence.

Evidently she was attempting to tunnel into her old lover's residence from the roof of the structure. I come to this conclusion based upon the fact that her choice for a burglary tool was a shovel.

Now this 'roof tunneling' is not a normal modus operandi for the true expert in B & E.

There are many different types of shovels, but very few of them are really that good on roofs.

And if the good doctor had signed up for just one class in Architecture during her 8 year stint at University, she might have had the opportunity to discover that some preset ideas concerning chimneys are just plain false.

Santa Claus could never gain access to living rooms across this great nation through modern day chimneys.

Dampers, raincaps, liners, professional equipment, and all sorts of contraptions can be found in today's chimneys; thereby blocking overweight bearded creatures from entering private residences.

http://www.homesaver.com/

I mean if one were going to attempt to gain access to a building through a chimney, it might be better to a least have the full schematics of the mechanism first. Preparation can mean everything.

In my research on this subject, I found that a good B & E expert should always have a back-up plan.

What if something went wrong?

For instance, it might be fruitful to carry a communication device of some sort; like a mobile phone or a twitter device of some sort.

You could even preprogram a message of some sort like:

HELP ME or

HELP ME I HAVE FALLEN INTO A CHIMNEY

Education is of the utmost importance.

In conclusion, I feel it is best to stick to your particular field of expertise and endeavor; but in this day and age over-specialization can have its drawbacks...

The end.