I am worried about my HVAC machine

What kind of world do we live in where I cannot even go without worrying about my heating and cooling system? I am going to have a metal cage installed around it, but something has to be done to protect my air conditioning unit

I had a somewhat spine-chilling experience a few afternoons ago. I have always been someone that likes to sleep by my window, it’s just legitimately soothing to me. I have my bed directly aligned with the window. I was sleeping because it was late last night, and it was normal for me to be in bed around this hour. However I woke up to the sounds of something or someone banging metal, and then I heard a big thud and what sounded like footsteps. When I woke up I could not believe what I saw there was a guy dressed in all black tinkering with my heating and cooling system unit. My first reaction was shock and fear so I screamed and I felt my screen was enough to just frighten him off. I feel he was trying to dismantle my heating and AC system. Maybe he wanted to get to the copper fillings that were inside of it. I don’t know why he was there although I immediately jumped up and called the police. I was truly relieved when they told me that they were able to catch the guy and that I didn’t have to worry about him damaging my heating and AC system. What kind of world do we live in where I cannot even go without worrying about my heating and cooling system? I am going to have a metal cage installed around it, but something has to be done to protect my air conditioning unit. Normally when I am going to sleep at night next to the window I can hear the sound of the air conditioner running. It is a calming sound that helps to put me to sleep, hopefully I won’t have to suffer anything like this again.
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