chalk marks outside home indicate marked for theft

stmol32

Came across this in the examiner

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/reconnaissance-units-stake-out-houses-for-burglar-gangs-227987.html

Quick Google shows it's not a new story and a lot of papers have printed about this in the past three months.

Surely this has all the hallmarks of a big steaming pile of bullsh*t and, as they have done time and time again, journalists have been completely fooled by doing no research.

Any thoughts AH?

gobnaitolunacy

Smacks of cut-and-paste journalism.

I find it hard to believe that there's mass co-operation between petty crims.

Terry1985

Sounds like one part of a burglary team scope out the house and mark it, while others come later to rob it.


http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/chalk-marks-outside-homes-indicate-potential-for-theft-590901.html

I think an AH sting operation is called for... in combination with the MMA forum of course!

Kylo Ren

I'll get the doughnuts.

TwoShedsJackson

Yeah I can really see them taking the time to do the 'already been burgled' sign.

anncoates

Pulitzer price stuff.

donvito99

The schoolchildren outside my house have marked out some sort of hopsktoch course.


...the bastards.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Reminds me of hobo code.

Gone Drinking

Hang some old shoes over the phone lines outside your house, they won't break in if they think you're a drug dealer!

Thatnastyboy

I call bullsh1t on the sensationalism of the detail of the markings anyway,

Its not unknown for the Romany gypsies to be at that lark where they mark for cars that are on the shopping list.


I was messing with a can of roadspray and drew a line on the path outside my house, thought nothing more until a few weeks later the mother comes to me and says "think we're being watched to be robbed, be careful"

I says "why"

Replies:
"Theyve marked the path out on the road, see the blue line, that means we're gonna be robbed" :pac:

She nearly threw me out when I told her, she'd been up in arms for weeks :pac:

copeyhagen

most burgulars are junkies. judging by the level of intelligence seen by 'them' on dublins boardwalks, i would be pretty confident that this story is BS.

Hoop66

That's just some shite the Daily Heil printed a while back.

They use chalk? In one of the rainiest countries in the world?

Also, since when did different crowds of thieves co-operate?

gurramok

Mark your own house with chalk, outwit them.

Thatnastyboy

copeyhagen wrote: »

most burgulars are junkies. judging by the level of intelligence seen by 'them' on dublins boardwalks, i would be pretty confident that this story is BS.

Maybe in and around Dublin CC they are, in the rest of the country its mostly,


Certain 'nomadic' ethnic groups, including but not limited to Indigenous ones.

hardCopy

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

Yeah I can really see them taking the time to do the 'already been burgled' sign.

Must go paint one of them outside my own place!

Duckworth_Luas

Looks like a poorly committed street artist who gets halfway to drawing a 3D boxe and then gives up!

antodeco

For me, its like old school dating. Im going to take a walk around my place later and find all the "vulnerable females who are easily conned"

I have found one of these in chalk outside my house three times since moving in 5-6 years ago.

Something tells me it is not burlary they have in mind.

jack presley

I like fact that they have a symbol for houses are alarmed. Is it too difficult to look up at the alarm on the wall?

humanji

Threads merged

goose2005

I hear they give out free heroin to get the childer hooked Joe.

smash

I'm just going to draw my own 'too risky' sign on my wall.

Along with a few guns and a big dog!

fishy fishy

sorry to tell you but it's true - there have been lots of burglaries in certain areas in my city and the guards have warned about these signs - seemingly they work in groups, the houses are "studied" for a while and marks are put on the pillars of the house (not the footpath) telling the other half of the group when to go in and what to expect. Its very well organized. So don't disregard it.

just letting you know.

My name is URL

If you smear lamb's blood on the door they won't bother you

smash

fishy fishy wrote: »

sorry to tell you but it's true - there have been lots of burglaries in certain areas in my city and the guards have warned about these signs - seemingly they work in groups, the houses are "studied" for a while and marks are put on the pillars of the house (not the footpath) telling the other half of the group when to go in and what to expect. Its very well organized. So don't disregard it.

just letting you know.

Sorry, but if a gang wanted to rob a house they'd talk to each other. Not draw symbols in plain site for everyone to see!

OldGoat

Are they not the scoring marks for hopscotch?

gobnaitolunacy

fishy fishy wrote: »

sorry to tell you but it's true - there have been lots of burglaries in certain areas in my city and the guards have warned about these signs - seemingly they work in groups, the houses are "studied" for a while and marks are put on the pillars of the house (not the footpath) telling the other half of the group when to go in and what to expect. Its very well organized. So don't disregard it.

just letting you know.

Can they not write down a house address? It's not that hard!

Solair

Wouldn't chalk marks wash off in about 10 mins of Irish weather which resembles the inside of a washing machine on super-rinse most of the time ?

Duck Soup

donvito99 wrote: »

The schoolchildren outside my house have marked out some sort of hopsktoch course.


...the bastards.

Don't you recognize a schematic of the neighbourhood when you see it? Look closely and I'll bet you they put the house numbers on it as well.

Have them arrested and waterboarded just in case.

captain caveman

Maybe they've organised some sort of thieves guild ala Terry Prachett's Books...

Truncheon Rouge

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

Reminds me of hobo code.

Thats an awesome page, who would have guessed.

hobo convention....gtfo