Being burgled

[V8Granite]

Nothing expensive in the house, old cars, 2 big dogs and I’m not that concerned

Dave!

[tim]

Y'all need to man up and be like this bloke, you'll never get burgled.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fNc9SRsuawo

(FWIW the comments are brilliant)

"Dad, im 43 now im I'm ready to move with my wife and ch-'
"Ima need you on them stairs my guy"

I fucking HOWLED at this... brilliant.

[dinny_g]

Nothing expensive in the house, old cars, 2 big dogs and I’m not that concerned

Dave!

One does not simply walk into a Bear's Cave and try to rob it...

[Brannen]

Reading this thread yesterday must have been a bad omen, as my car was broken into last night... Stole my sunglasses and some change I had in the centre console. Couldn't see any damage, so not sure how they got in. Just left some charging cables thrown on the drivers seat. Luckily I didn't really have anything in the car.

[Rich B]

Yeah, when I got my ring (eufy) doorbell I said to my wife it'll be useful for security, her response (whilst holding her new iPhone, with her i watch On her wrist and a diamond engagement ring on her finger, sat in front of her laptop, knowing we have about £7k of bikes in the garage and £50k+ of cars sat on the driveway) that " we don't really have anything worth taking, why do we need that?"

When I pointed out the "stuff" we had, I was then told off for making her worried about the stuff we had that could be stolen.

[John]

Never burgled thankfully but had a few cars broken into over the years. We've got an alarm fitted that I like to think would make any burglars try an easier target.

[integrale_evo]

I had the passenger window in my metro smashed and the random contents of the glovebox which was nothing of any value at all taken when I was at uni in Coventry.

My dad had the pull-out pioneer stereo which he hadn’t removed nicked from his e30 in a pub car park around 1994.

That’s it I think.

We now have some blink cameras and a couple of motion sensor floodlights, although the biggest deterrent is probably the gravel everywhere making it very hard to poke about without anyone noticing, and a quiet enough road that all the neighbours look out for each other and would notice anything suspicious.

[Gavin]

Flat in London burgled, in through the bedroom window on the second floor which was pretty tight as was a converted church.

They took DVD player (2001 or 2002 so were still £20 off for a decent one) VCR, N64 which was still in the box and a boxed car stereo and some cash from a drawer. Luckily upon finding the £60ish in the drawer they stopped looking in said chest of drawers and therefore missed the several hundred quid two drawers down.

Most annoyingly they snibbed the front door so we had to get a locksmith to drill the locks to get back in and stupidly we paid for new ones, never thinking it should be out landlord who paid.

Also got my car broken into when I very briefly lived in Pilton, they took two cases of cassettes, many of which had been done off the radio so only sentimental value really, they also robbed an open bag of sherbet =lemons and fake YSL shades and left genuine ray bans.

[Holley]

Reading this thread yesterday must have been a bad omen, as my car was broken into last night... Stole my sunglasses and some change I had in the centre console. Couldn't see any damage, so not sure how they got in. Just left some charging cables thrown on the drivers seat. Luckily I didn't really have anything in the car.

Ditto. Never been burgled until yesterday when a man walked into our shop (I wasn't their) and stole my daughters iPhone whilst distracting her. She was pretty shaken up by the experience

[Sundayjumper]

Well, timely, we just had a nice lady from the Police knock on our door, it turns out our next door neighbours were burgled on Wednesday

My wife has spoken to next door now. It's a slightly strange one. It happened between 7pm & 9pm Wednesday while everyone was out for various reasons. They have two sons in late teens / early twenties so four of them in the house normally. They didn't even notice when they got home. A couple of internal doors were not in their normal open or closed positions but they thought nothing of it, assumed one of the others had done that. The wife only realised yesterday when she went to get some jewellery out and it wasn't there. Nothing had been obviously disturbed.

They have a dog, who is clearly a useless guard dog who wasn't harmed or even slightly bothered by it. The rear gardens here are all enclosed, you'd have to go through a couple of other gardens to get to the back of the house. Some small marks on the front door but not forced. They have tall electric gates on their drive so someone had to climb a fence or hedge at least.

And it's a dead quiet area here. In the sixteen years we've lived here I'm only aware of two other houses being burgled and they were more "normal" break ins - one was a garage break in with tools stolen, the other was an open window opportunistic grab. This one feels like it was targeted.

I've posted before about my CCTV and my setup not working properly. I feel a bit stupid for not fixing it now. One of the cameras has a decent view of next door's drive and may well have been useful. Arse

[dinny_g]

One of the kids has staged it. Probably to pay for Nitrous Oxide

Guaranteed…

[Sundayjumper]

I deliberately omitted it from my post, but the Police person did ask us specifically about the younger son, which seemed slightly odd at the time but perhaps you are right and it's their train of thought too.

I had to google about nitrous - I knew what it was; didn't know it was so popular as a recreational. You learn something every day.

[240PP]

One of the kids has staged it.

My first thought too.

[Mito Man]

Also think it’s one of the kids. But if you’re scummy enough to steal from your own mum then it’s probably for an addictive drug rather than nitrous.
Little shits should just go out looking for shrooms this time of year…

[nuttinnew]

Y'all need to man up and be like this bloke, you'll never get burgled.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fNc9SRsuawo

(FWIW the comments are brilliant)

Meanwhile, over here;

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news ... -i-278313/

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/new ... dy-278480/

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/new ... ck-278568/

[dinny_g]

I had to google about nitrous - I knew what it was; didn't know it was so popular as a recreational. You learn something every day.

I’m just trying to be down with the yoof…

There’s an inordinate amount of the little canisters littering Newport Pagnell. This used to be a Hash town 20 years ago

[Jobbo]

I became aware of NO2 a couple of years ago but was blissfully ignorant beforehand. I’d seen the canisters around but assumed it was cyclists fixing punctures and using CO2 inflators; how naive

A friend of mine was ‘burgled’ while on holiday a few years ago. He and his family lived out in the countryside in Shropshire and the neighbours fed their cat while they were away, so had a key. The neighbours’ son used the key to go into their house and take their car off the drive; obviously they reported it stolen as soon as they got home but it was found in a field less than a mile away. The neighbours’ son had been sitting in it to take drugs (heroin, IIRC). They got the car back free from any discarded needles and never spoke to the neighbours again because they didn’t even acknowledge it - think they probably had trouble processing the fact that their son was a junkie too.

[DeskJockey]

Regularly find a bunch of those canisters around here too. They could at least stick them in the bin rather than just dump them on the road.

[Sundayjumper]

This is making it feel worse now, some random doing it makes it so much easier to write it off as "other" people. My wife spoke to one of the other neighbours and they pointed fingers at the younger son having some dodgy mates.

We don't know the kids very well, not since they've grown up, but the parents are lovely and if it does turn out to be some combo of kids / mates / drugs I feel really badly for them, I don't know how you deal with a situation like that

[Gavin]

My first thought was son's friends, the fact the dog was fine, superficial marks and only the valuables gone. What a shame though if that is true.