Why are people so fearful of burglaries at night?

uncle_sam_ie · 08-05-2012 10:00am

I've have a small dog but, she'll barks her head off if anyone comes near the house. It's enough wake me up and get armed

SoapMcTavish · 08-05-2012 11:30am

Been burgled twice ( around 12pm both times ) - Gardai took hours to arrive on the first occasion, and didn't come at all on second occasion. Limerick city also.

Have beefed up door and window security, and have a weapon at hand.
Next time - someone is not leaving my premises ... gardai don't care - so I can just bury the problem in the garden.

Wibbs · 08-05-2012 12:07pm

Lando Griffin wrote: »

A couple I know got burgled twice, once when they were in bed and left the front door unlocked and no alarm, they heard the intruder but didn't get out off bed and rang the guards. The second time they forgot to close the door when they went for a walk and came home house robbed and car gone. The alarm wasn't set either.
BTW whats the story with insurance if you dont set the alarm and get burgled.

IIRC it means no payout, or they'll take their time. TBH while I have some sympathy, it's low enough in a repeat case like that.

Recessionbust · 08-05-2012 4:42pm

Even with the top 2 combined it shows more happen when we are away from the house.

An overview of when burglaries tend to occur based on the results of an AA online poll conducted during January 2012. (6,000 burglary victims polled) At night when we were asleep 25.9% At night when the house was empty 11.7% During the day when the house was unoccupied 43.0% While I was out gardening 1.0% When I was on holiday 6.7% When I was at a family funeral 0.5% When I was at a family wedding 0.5% Over the Christmas holidays 1.7% Other 9.1%

Latchy · 09-05-2012 6:16pm

filmbuffboy wrote: »

Now there's one house I wouldn't want to burgal!

Stray cats might trip the wire but at least they won't want to come back to your garden again

flanders1979 · 09-05-2012 6:45pm

Stained Class wrote: »

Nah, the Dirt are too lazy for that.

Drug dealing is their main income now, stealing is just a habit

frozenfrozen · 09-05-2012 7:12pm

No point in confronting them as in the best case scenario of you hurting them / killing them you go to jail whereas if they kill you they plea that they came from a troubled background and get out early

Recessionbust · 09-05-2012 7:17pm

frozenfrozen wrote: »

No point in confronting them as in the best case scenario of you hurting them / killing them you go to jail whereas if they kill you they plea that they came from a troubled background and get out early

Hopefully the new law will help the victims fight back. Shoot first ask questions later.

Insurance Works · 31-05-2012 12:58pm

People need to realise that most burglaries do happen during the day, the reasons for this is people are busy, and a lot more relaxed.
For example can you imagine what percentage of houses would be empty at 9.00am on a weekday morning, with one parent gone to work and the other one possibly gone to do a school run.
I really feel as a nation we should be a little more vigilant and security conscious.

frozenfrozen · 31-05-2012 4:49pm

Insurance Works wrote: »

People need to realise that most burglaries do happen during the day, the reasons for this is people are busy, and a lot more relaxed.
For example can you imagine what percentage of houses would be empty at 9.00am on a weekday morning, with one parent gone to work and the other one possibly gone to do a school run.
I really feel as a nation we should be a little more vigilant and security conscious.

Do you know what's worse than stealing from houses? Stealing from the thread graveyard.

Insurance Works · 31-05-2012 5:40pm

@frozenfrozen What does that mean ?

Why are people so fearful of burglaries at night?

Comments