Terry, sounds like something that happened to me back in the day. While my Challenger still had its flat hood, my wife and I lived in an apt. In the LA area in the 70’s,I use to park the car on the street, during one night someone opened my hood and ripped out my new maintenance free JCPenney battery, cutting the battery cables. I bought some hood pins at Pep Boys mounted them on the rad support and used small pad locks, no more problems. Except when some kids ripped of my radio antenna and had a sword fight.