DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 4 November 2018 Posted 4 November 2018 I have had the Xmas presents for my family, stolen from the living room. Two new DVD players, and numerous other items have been taken. The back door was forced, open, during the night. I had been saving up during the year for them, and am gutted. Probably others on this site have suffered the same fate. I feel murderess right now.
foxfanazer Posted 4 November 2018 Posted 4 November 2018 How awful! Were you in the house when it happened? Does your contents insurance cover you for this?
Bellend Sebastian Posted 4 November 2018 Posted 4 November 2018 Urrgh, that's grim, DT. The stuff being swiped is bad but it's the thought of people having been in your house that weirded me out when we were burgled years ago
ithuriel Posted 4 November 2018 Posted 4 November 2018 Was burgled once, also had two attempted, both when I was in the house. It's not nice and the police are pretty much useless. Fortunately not had any such issues for a decade now.
StanSP Posted 4 November 2018 Posted 4 November 2018 Shite that it happens, even more so around this time of year. Hope insurance sorts you out if you were covered and the burglers are caught.
Nalis Posted 4 November 2018 Posted 4 November 2018 Absolute cvnts, sorry to hear that. Hopefully you have contents insurance.
deejdeej Posted 4 November 2018 Posted 4 November 2018 Sorry to hear that, people like that are a waste of oxygen.
Strokes Posted 4 November 2018 Posted 4 November 2018 Never been burgled fortunately but I have had my van turned over and all my tools stolen, which is awful. I really hope you’re covered on some insurance @DANGEROUS TIGER because you don’t need hardship over Xmas mate.
Smudge Posted 4 November 2018 Posted 4 November 2018 On 04/11/2018 at 09:24, DANGEROUS TIGER said: I have had the Xmas presents for my family, stolen from the living room. Two new DVD players, and numerous other items have been taken. The back door was forced, open, during the night. I had been saving up during the year for them, and am gutted. Probably others on this site have suffered the same fate. I feel murderess right now. Gutted for you mate, hope you have decent insurance.
Jimothy Posted 4 November 2018 Posted 4 November 2018 It's a little early for people to have houses full of presents, so it's possible they knew you'd bought them @DANGEROUS TIGER, so just be careful, you may be being watched. I remember when I was younger when there was a spate of burglaries where the perpetrator had been watching the neighbourhood to see when people brought in presents or new big ticket items.
Jaspa Posted 4 November 2018 Posted 4 November 2018 Had it happen twice as a kid growing up in Highfields. First time we'd gone off on a battle reenactment in Porchester for the weekend, come back and they'd booted a glass door at the back in and turned the place upside down, took my old sega-mega drive w/Canon Fodder, Lemmings, Road Rash ect. the t.v, the stereo, some jewellery - I was so young that it didn't effect me the worst at the time but we were poor as f***, anyway we had the police over, the robber/s left boot prints and later on in the week they found our heavy old scabby T.V in nextdoors wheelie-bin - more investigations ensued and it turned out to be the lad in a family's house nextdoor, they caught him selling stuff off and they all eventually moved out the house and the Housing Assoc fixed the door up and stuff and that was it. Second time someone snuck in while the only person in the house was in the bath with the back door left open for the cat, they got a mobile, a purse with money in and a load of CDs, never caught that one. Thats all childhood stuff . . . without counting having a drug addict in the family a couple of times too, arghh I f***ing hate smackheads. The point I'm trying to make is generally it's usually somebody who woulda known you'd be out, they'd have known the house had a stash of prezzies two months earlier than Xmas ready to go. If you live somewhere dodgy invest in a camera or security system, get friendlier with your neighbors and watch eachothers backs.
VLC86 Posted 4 November 2018 Posted 4 November 2018 I got burgled once. We were away to Watford under Sven I think, 2-0 down and Gally brought it back to 2-2. As Danny Graham scores the winner I get a phone call to say my house has been broken in to and they let my dog out which has been roaming the streets and bit one of my neighbours. Fair to say that was a pretty shit minute.
stripeyfox Posted 5 November 2018 Posted 5 November 2018 8 hours ago, Costock_Fox said: I got burgled once. We were away to Watford under Sven I think, 2-0 down and Gally brought it back to 2-2. As Danny Graham scores the winner I get a phone call to say my house has been broken in to and they let my dog out which has been roaming the streets and bit one of my neighbours. Fair to say that was a pretty shit minute. Tbf that's pretty decent of the burglar to call you to tell he's finished. Would have been nice if he'd let the dog back in though...
Collymore Posted 5 November 2018 Posted 5 November 2018 I had a mate this week return to their house and the robber was upstairs. He just nonchalantly walked past him on the stairs with a knife and left through the front door
Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo Posted 5 November 2018 Posted 5 November 2018 2 hours ago, Collymore said: I had a mate this week return to their house and the robber was upstairs. He just nonchalantly walked past him on the stairs with a knife and left through the front door Turn around on the stairs and kick them in the back of the head, hard as you like. "Self defense"
stripeyfox Posted 5 November 2018 Posted 5 November 2018 2 hours ago, Collymore said: I had a mate this week return to their house and the robber was upstairs. He just nonchalantly walked past him on the stairs with a knife and left through the front door A colleague of mine told me years ago how he came home and discovered a burglar in his house. He was quite shocked and later admitted to his own astonishment that the words that came out of his mouth to the intruder were "er, hello, can I help you?" The burglar turned around and said "oh sorry mate, I didn't think anyone was in" before slowly walking out of the door. He said they then bid each other and almost cheery farewell and he was gone!
stripeyfox Posted 5 November 2018 Posted 5 November 2018 20 hours ago, DANGEROUS TIGER said: I have had the Xmas presents for my family, stolen from the living room. Two new DVD players, and numerous other items have been taken. The back door was forced, open, during the night. I had been saving up during the year for them, and am gutted. Probably others on this site have suffered the same fate. I feel murderess right now. sorry to hear this DT. Not a nice thing to happen. Touch wood has never happened to me but I know plenty of people who have been through it and it can be pretty traumatic.
whoareyaaa Posted 5 November 2018 Posted 5 November 2018 Not good, I remember my cousin getting burgled once turns out the next door neighbour had hacked out the wall in the loft that joins the two houses and came through the hatch, problem was he couldn't re-hatch the door so it was pretty obvious. hope you get it sorted.
RoboFox Posted 5 November 2018 Posted 5 November 2018 That's rubbish, man. As others have said, hope you manage to recompense for the losses via your insurance company. Material objects can be replaced, it's often the sense of personal invasion that's the most harrowing thing about home burglary. When I was still living with my folks, our house was broken into whilst we were sleeping upstairs. It wasn't long before Christmas, they nicked a decade-old late 80's VHS, a crate of beer and a f**king turkey from the freezer. Barely worth their trouble. Many of us have experienced the same thing, unfortunately.
Guest Electric Yetis Posted 5 November 2018 Posted 5 November 2018 We got burgled when I was 8. Just before Christmas 1993. My dad had been admitted to hospital three days before and we had gone to see him at the visiting times of 3pm-7pm. The car was still parked outside, lights on in the house etc so feel we must have been watched for someone to know. Remember coming home and my mum trying to open the door but the key wouldn't turn. I looked through the window and all looked normal enough. Tried again for a couple more minutes with no luck. I looked through the window again and the room was a mess, like loads of stuff had been scattered in a hurry. Still s**ts me up to think they were in there when I was looking and had quickly escaped out of the back door. Never got any of the stuff back, the only evidence was a size 13 footprint on the sofa and some blurred fingerprints on the brick they'd lobbed through the back window.
lifted*fox Posted 5 November 2018 Posted 5 November 2018 I think this sort of shit is only going to get worse tbh with police resources at an all time low after being sucked dry by the government the police aren't even bothering to respond to most burglaries now. time for everyone to get proper alarms / locks, etc. and keep something like a baseball bat besides the bed; if they haven't already.
Uranyl Yellow Posted 5 November 2018 Posted 5 November 2018 I'm not sure it's just the police resources being stretched that's the problem. Even in the unlikely event that the police catch someone, unless they are a serious serial re-offender, the courts will likely only hand out a relatively trivial punishment. (In my opinion) You can either have a high detection rate with lenient sentencing, or a low detection rate with Draconian sentencing, but you're asking for trouble if you couple low detection rates with light sentencing.
Buce Posted 5 November 2018 Posted 5 November 2018 6 minutes ago, Uranyl Yellow said: I'm not sure it's just the police resources being stretched that's the problem. Even in the unlikely event that the police catch someone, unless they are a serious serial re-offender, the courts will likely only hand out a relatively trivial punishment. (In my opinion) You can either have a high detection rate with lenient sentencing, or a low detection rate with Draconian sentencing, but you're asking for trouble if you couple low detection rates with light sentencing. Why does it have to be between those choices? What about the alternative of high detection rate and proper deterrant sentencing?
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