I'd run too if someone called '
big-dav' with an avatar like that came running at me
. I'd think that I'm about to end up as sausages.
Now that everything has turned out relatively well (you still have your car and your teeth) you can think how lucky you were. First, that you happened to be out the night he struck. From his point of view what are the odds that he would chose the car of an astronomer and that the astronomer would be out on the night he struck? Second, that he ran (though people who break into cars at 3am are probably cowards).
I'd be devastated to lose my car. I've put so many many hours into it that I'd never get back and it's getting to be a great holiday rig now.
BTW years ago a mate was awoken one night by the sound of someones breaking into his brother's car parked on the footpath. So he jumped out of bed and ran out the back door to release Bobby, the german shephard, who had also heard the noise and was going off. So Bobby ran up one side of the house and my mate ran up the other yelling and screaming -
stark naked. (We tease him that it's his Scottish heritage.) He only went as far as the footpath but the dog followed for a while and possibly delivered a warning nip to some disappearing buttocks. They didn't return.