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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭maceocc2


    No didn't have alarm, am getting one at the moment though. ;)

    Dead right on the courts, sure the cops went looking for them, came back ten minutes later, with "no Joy". Took my name and other general details and said, sure call us if they come back.

    I don't think they where being lazy, it's just that they know there's nothing they can realistically do to stop them. If they catch them and charge them they get out pending trial, and will inevitably end up as a misdemeanor anyway.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    this sort of stuff starts happening in the run to December :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    this sort of stuff starts happening in the run to December :(

    :( Any advice?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Mountjoy Mugger


    One of these


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    Slydice wrote: »
    :( Any advice?

    Get a monitored alarm fitted, and use it all the time, even when you're in the house.
    Ensure there are proper locks on your front and rear doors, 2 if you can. Use them.

    I heard recently that a large percentage of house robberies occur during mid-afternoon, often while the house is occupied, and that the point of entry is the front door in the majority of cases. Think this is the report in question.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭kitser


    <SNIP>


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    Thanks for the heads up Mace.

    Their manner of break-in was very strange indeed!

    Would you mind saying what estate you are in? (Or general area eg. beside village and if you are in new or old estate etc)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭Nolimits


    Near Huntstown, 3 houses got done yesterday within about a 2 min walk of each other, I know for a fact the same bloke did at least two of them, he was caught and is on remand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭maceocc2


    Don't want to say the exact estate, but it was at the back of Allendale. Near to the Spar shop and topaz garage.


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,717 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    Just a kindly reminder folks that there is now a home security systems forum where a lot of info on alarms can be found. There is a regular bunch of members who are installers that give out good advice on what you might need.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭kitser


    alarms can be great but are only half the battle. for some of the monitored packages, the guards have a three call out policy on false alarms. if your neighbour phones them to report an alarm going off- sometimes they don't even come out to check. i guess they are generally too busy giving out fines at the sided of the road.
    the first line of defense lies in making it as hard as possible for burglars to get past your windows and doors. some are brazen feckers who'll just smash the window to get in. theres not a hell of a lot you can do to prevent this type at a reasonable cost, except hope you have an alarm that is monitored or a concerned neighbour.
    the more experienced will either try to force open the window - 1 minute if hes good- , or remove the glass if its externally glazed - 2 to 5 mins. depending on the alarm and the sensors used, some alarms won't even go off. i have demonstrated this to people.
    the professional burglar is generally coming in for something specific. car keys for one, so good advice is not to take the keys to bed with you, because you don't want them waking you up with boiling water or a smack of a crow bar. they will generally come in through the door by snapping or drilling the cylinder, or popping the locks from their receivers.
    there are things you can apply to slow these guys down so that they'll opt to try someone else.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,980 ✭✭✭meglome


    Gaspode wrote: »
    Get a monitored alarm fitted, and use it all the time, even when you're in the house.
    Ensure there are proper locks on your front and rear doors, 2 if you can. Use them.

    I heard recently that a large percentage of house robberies occur during mid-afternoon, often while the house is occupied, and that the point of entry is the front door in the majority of cases. Think this is the report in question.

    A friend of a friend lives out in Windy Arbour. One of them popped out for lunch a few months ago without putting the alarm on. Came back and all the goodies were cleared out, widescreen HD tv, laptops etc. Pried open the front door in broad daylight by the Luas stop and no one saw a thing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭kitser


    people are afraid to confront burglars. couldn't blame them really


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Well there are many, many estates in D15. Was there once and got lost :D

    Around our area, you see vans touring the estates around 4am or 5am and the lads dropping off their bogus clothes donation stickers.
    Our post box is on the wall and they still try to open our door, I've seen the handle move. Got reported to the gardaí and our local councillor

    I realy do think a lot of these clothes donation scams are an easy excuse to check out estates and look for easy targets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭Nolimits


    Well there are many, many estates in D15. Was there once and got lost :D

    Around our area, you see vans touring the estates around 4am or 5am and the lads dropping off their bogus clothes donation stickers.
    Our post box is on the wall and they still try to open our door, I've seen the handle move. Got reported to the gardaí and our local councillor

    I realy do think a lot of these clothes donation scams are an easy excuse to check out estates and look for easy targets.

    They are, I've had a Gard tell me as much, they'll also check your car doors as they're walking past but in this day and age if anyone leaves their car doors open they deserve to have it taken.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭kitser


    Nolimits wrote: »
    They are, I've had a Gard tell me as much, they'll also check your car doors as they're walking past but in this day and age if anyone leaves their car doors open they deserve to have it taken.

    how the hell does anyone deserve to have their car taken.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    kitser wrote: »
    how the hell does anyone deserve to have their car taken.

    I don't think it was meant literally.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,145 ✭✭✭Rosita


    amdublin wrote: »

    I don't think it was meant literally.


    How could it not have been meant literally? You cannot have your car stolen in the abstract. It was just a silly disproportionate thing to say.


  • Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭PaddyBomb


    Keep your alarms on everyone. There was a few going around last night banging on doors to see if the alarms are going off.


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    Nolimits wrote: »
    They are, I've had a Gard tell me as much, they'll also check your car doors as they're walking past but in this day and age if anyone leaves their car doors open they deserve to have it taken.
    kitser wrote: »
    how the hell does anyone deserve to have their car taken.
    amdublin wrote: »
    I don't think it was meant literally.
    Rosita wrote: »
    How could it not have been meant literally? You cannot have your car stolen in the abstract. It was just a silly disproportionate thing to say.


    MOD NOTE: Relax folks, dont get drawn off-topic.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,716 ✭✭✭brightkane


    Where abouts Paddy?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    kitser wrote: »
    the professional burglar is generally coming in for something specific. car keys for one, so good advice is not to take the keys to bed with you, because you don't want them waking you up with boiling water or a smack of a crow bar.

    I leave the car keys in the ignition and car unlocked

    Last place they'd look ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭horse7


    fed up with the local castleknock college idiots who live in deerpark,they are mid teens and like nothing better than kicking a rugby ball high in the sky and see what window or car it lands on.they leg it when you go out to them.im sure their parents think butter would not melt in their mouths.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 Monia


    I moved into Collegewood about 3 months ago , and I was very happy until my car was clamped on Vistors space, my brothers car window was smashed and finaly RATS vistited into my apartment!!!!I already cought 2 in my kitchen( use rat Trat) and ther are still running above ceiling and behind the walls.Just talked to the neighbours and they have that problem too.Management is useless and will not do anything about that.I am so scared and cant imagine leave here anylonger.If anoyone have the same problem plese contact Management ASAP!!I am on the grand floor but neigbours from the 2nd floor seen them too.I am just afraid as they are very dengarous and spread diseases!!than longer Managemnt leave it behind then more rats will be moving into Collegewood apartments.


  • Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭KingMambo26


    Great Halloween weekend we had. Saturday night we had a firecracker thrown in through the letterbox while we were out in the evening. It cracked the door panel around it and destroyed a cardboard toy box on the inside of the door. Last night we had our brown bin stolen at around 10pm just a week after our green bin had been stolen.

    We've been living on this estate on the Clonsilla Rd for about 6 years and we hadn't really had any problems but in the last year we've had four attempts to break into the garden shed - two of them successful one bike stolen every time. A few months ago my wife rang me terrified while I was on a night out to tell me there were guys with hurleys banging on the door. Apparently they were looking for a lost sliothar but who plays hurling at 11pm?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,755 ✭✭✭A V A


    just read the last reeply there

    same ting with weelybin last night for my mates house on the estate of the clonsilla road, we were in the house , the dopes didnt notice , we caught them at the window went out , and lets just say they got a reason "to get their brothers" :P


    i hate dublin 15 now, its turned into a sh*t whole and its full of scum and the littles ones are getting into their hard man role


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 413 ✭✭noxqs


    I live in Castlecurragh. Since the Gardai started patrolling, what seems like every 20 minutes.. Its OK. But its still full of scum, and their kids hanging around the Spar/Offlicense/Bookmakers (What a great combo in that neighbourhood).

    But the worst is the little kids, maybe not even 10, who thinks that they can verbally abuse adults. I usually just plug in my earbuds and ignore them, but as scum goes thats a legitimate reason to harass for weeks. This hasnt been the case to me yet, but they hung out outside a neighbours house..

    Dublin 15 in general is too full of knackers, theres horse poop everywhere. What the hell is that about. Who holds horses in a city?! Where do the horses live, I only see the poop not the horses?! (talking about my house here).

    I actually NEARLY got run down by a horse on snugborough road walking from the industrial estate down to westpoint. Some idiot on a massive horse had decided to gallop at full speed down the pedestrial walkway across waterville. I didnt notice it before it zoomed past me, dangerous that was. I can say alot of things, but I have never, ever, seen nor even heard of such things in other European cities. Atleast the developed ones...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,034 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    noxqs wrote:
    But the worst is the little kids, maybe not even 10, who thinks that they can verbally abuse adults. I usually just plug in my earbuds and ignore them, but as scum goes thats a legitimate reason to harass for weeks. This hasnt been the case to me yet, but they hung out outside a neighbours house..

    I had the same problem. Several weeks of being unable to go outside without having abuse hurled at me, urinating in the letter box and the like. Thank god I got out of there.

    Edit: Ah I see I already posted the same thing 3 years ago when this thread was last active.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭wildlifeboy


    which estate off the clonsilla road is this happening on? its not coolmine woods or bouelvard or woodview grove so which one is it? i would hazzard a guess and say summerfield.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭blondie7


    I live just before you in warrenstown and it has been fairly quite until recently. I have too seen the horses around the estate and the kids hurling abuse at you. And the dogs running wild trying to grab onto the tyres. I have to say the place is getting to rough for my liking and im looking into moving out of the area!
    noxqs wrote: »
    I live in Castlecurragh. Since the Gardai started patrolling, what seems like every 20 minutes.. Its OK. But its still full of scum, and their kids hanging around the Spar/Offlicense/Bookmakers (What a great combo in that neighbourhood).

    But the worst is the little kids, maybe not even 10, who thinks that they can verbally abuse adults. I usually just plug in my earbuds and ignore them, but as scum goes thats a legitimate reason to harass for weeks. This hasnt been the case to me yet, but they hung out outside a neighbours house..

    Dublin 15 in general is too full of knackers, theres horse poop everywhere. What the hell is that about. Who holds horses in a city?! Where do the horses live, I only see the poop not the horses?! (talking about my house here).

    I actually NEARLY got run down by a horse on snugborough road walking from the industrial estate down to westpoint. Some idiot on a massive horse had decided to gallop at full speed down the pedestrial walkway across waterville. I didnt notice it before it zoomed past me, dangerous that was. I can say alot of things, but I have never, ever, seen nor even heard of such things in other European cities. Atleast the developed ones...

    I live just before you in warrenstown and it has been fairly quite until recently. I have too seen the horses around the estate and the kids hurling abuse at you. And the dogs running wild trying to grab onto the tyres. I have to say the place is getting to rough for my liking and im looking into moving out of the area!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭Nolimits


    Stark wrote: »
    I had the same problem. Several weeks of being unable to go outside without having abuse hurled at me, urinating in the letter box and the like. Thank god I got out of there.

    Edit: Ah I see I already posted the same thing 3 years ago when this thread was last active.

    Does this really happen, that's disgusting.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 Mick1166


    I agree with you Blondie, I used to live in Warrenstown as well. The place is going down to hell, there are scum bags everywhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Nijmegen


    The horses are coming from either down around Porterstown or Ballycoolin and out towards the airport - the corporate parks up there are forever having trouble with some of the umm, residents, out that way. Blanch corporate park had to go and inspect their entire fence after some broke a hole in it to bypass the gate security and were robbing industrial units during the daytime.

    They do it on CCTV too, the Gardai catch them, and hey presto, a few weeks later they're back.

    There's also a lot of horses, you often see them riding on their trap coming from the direction of the scrap dump / finglas down, and the horse crap is all over the footpaths.

    As for down south in the estates themselves, it is getting rougher in my observation. You can't walk to the shops in some parts without taking abuse or risking some form of altercation.

    One Thursday I popped into Hartstown spar for their weekly deals (it's a good trick, don't miss it) and there were some brave youngfellas kicking their football - with force - into the wall by the garage as people, including lone women, were walking past.

    Brave men.

    The Gardai could pop in there for a coffee once a day and end up bringing someone home to the station for a cool down.

    Same around plenty of places.

    Nasty neighbours can be the worst though, when you live next to some real abusive people. From stolen bin tags to broken windows, and you need to wire your house up with your own CCTV aimed at your property if you want any chance of catching them.

    Crazy stuff. Why can't folks just get along?


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    Merged threads


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭RMD


    noxqs wrote: »
    I live in Castlecurragh. Since the Gardai started patrolling, what seems like every 20 minutes.. Its OK. But its still full of scum, and their kids hanging around the Spar/Offlicense/Bookmakers (What a great combo in that neighbourhood).

    But the worst is the little kids, maybe not even 10, who thinks that they can verbally abuse adults. I usually just plug in my earbuds and ignore them, but as scum goes thats a legitimate reason to harass for weeks. This hasnt been the case to me yet, but they hung out outside a neighbours house..

    Dublin 15 in general is too full of knackers, theres horse poop everywhere. What the hell is that about. Who holds horses in a city?! Where do the horses live, I only see the poop not the horses?! (talking about my house here).

    I actually NEARLY got run down by a horse on snugborough road walking from the industrial estate down to westpoint. Some idiot on a massive horse had decided to gallop at full speed down the pedestrial walkway across waterville. I didnt notice it before it zoomed past me, dangerous that was. I can say alot of things, but I have never, ever, seen nor even heard of such things in other European cities. Atleast the developed ones...

    How many other European cities have you lived in let alone lived in what would be considered a bad area of the city? Obviously you're not going to hear or see of it happening.

    I'm not in anyway supporting or condoning what is going on, I hate these scumbags who are ruining reasonable areas but I just hate this mentality that Dublin is so dangerous and bad compared to other European cities.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,765 ✭✭✭Diddler1977


    RMD wrote: »
    How many other European cities have you lived in let alone lived in what would be considered a bad area of the city? Obviously you're not going to hear or see of it happening.

    I'm not in anyway supporting or condoning what is going on, I hate these scumbags who are ruining reasonable areas but I just hate this mentality that Dublin is so dangerous and bad compared to other European cities.

    Aside from Dublin, where in Europe have you seen horses in the capital cities?
    Or did I miss them in Paris?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27 EdwardHopper


    I've lived in D15 my entire life, 40 years now, and I've never seen a horse within the area apart from the Phoenix Park which is not actually in D15 now that I think of it. Remember D15 is a now very big area, with a varied demographic breakdown and like other suburbs and areas of Dublin, Ireland and Europe can't be tarred with the one brush


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    Aside from Dublin, where in Europe have you seen horses in the capital cities?
    Or did I miss them in Paris?

    Were you in all of Paris? Including the suburbs? Because they're the only places I see lone wandering horses around here... I've never seen a lone wandering horse in the city centre.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,765 ✭✭✭Diddler1977


    Were you in all of Paris? Including the suburbs? Because they're the only places I see lone wandering horses around here... I've never seen a lone wandering horse in the city centre.

    I saw an unattended horse in Sherrif Street, Dublin City.

    Are you saying that you have seen a lone wandering horse in Paris?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    I've lived in D15 my entire life, 40 years now, and I've never seen a horse within the area apart from the Phoenix Park which is not actually in D15 now that I think of it. Remember D15 is a now very big area, with a varied demographic breakdown and like other suburbs and areas of Dublin, Ireland and Europe can't be tarred with the one brush

    I have in and arround corduff, tyrellstown and whitestown, the horses were never there for long but they were there.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,251 ✭✭✭✭Lemlin


    Wheelhaus wrote: »
    It was on my way to tesco, genius.

    That's a long way to go for some grub and you pass three or four chippers on the way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭blondie7


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    I have in and arround corduff, tyrellstown and whitestown, the horses were never there for long but they were there.

    I have seen them there too grazing out on the green and they ride them through warrenstown and out into castlecurragh. Its the poor horses i feel sorry for


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,034 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Used to see them being ridden(thrashed) up and down every day on the Damastown and Cruiserath roads when I used to commute that way. Often hoped the scrote on top would get thrown off the horse and injured but sadly that never came to pass.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,765 ✭✭✭Diddler1977


    Stark wrote: »
    Used to see them being ridden(thrashed) up and down every day on the Damastown and Cruiserath roads when I used to commute that way. Often hoped the scrote on top would get thrown off the horse and injured but sadly that never came to pass.

    What is more likely to happen is for the horse to run out on to the road, cause an accident and leave the drivers paying for the damage.

    Or even worse cause an injury to an innocent pedestrian as they gallop along the Ongar Road (where I have seen them).

    It is really unacceptable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    I've lived all over Dublin, and in all honesty, D15 (Roselawn area) is the quietest and safest area I've experienced.

    The only negative is that there is absolutely no sense of community. Neighbours live beside each other for 20 years and don't even know each others names.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,420 ✭✭✭✭athtrasna


    PaulDonnellySF
    Spike in burglaries in #dubw. Please watch out for your neigbours and take precautions and up your security measures.

    Any evidence or idea of neighbourhoods affected? It's sickening to read that, especially at this time of year.


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    Always peaks this time of the year unfortunately.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    A neighbour of mine was broken into two days ago. Straight in the front door at midday on a Friday, so brazen. Stole a laptop, but little more.


  • Registered Users Posts: 317 ✭✭RTT


    Last week a neighbour of mine saw an Eastern European woman in my porch going through my post and was walking away with my umbrella while I was in work. She came out to her and the woman dropped it and ran. No doubt she was just havin a good look around and had my neighbour not approached her who knows what could have happened.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,427 ✭✭✭Morag


    There have been a lot of sellers of 'Tat' going around the door during the day, usually at about 10am and again at 2pm. It's a way of checking which houses are occupied.
    I've come out to find them peering in next doors letter box and also having my mail in hand and have seen them trying to peer in my sitting room windows.

    Being brusque with them and saying your going to ring the Garda sends them scattering, or even keep stepping to watch them try and case other nieghbours houses puts them off.


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