Lock your front door

Red Alert

Some pure scum broke into my house last night. I'd forgotten to lock the deadlock and put on the alarm - costly mistake that turned out to be. They stole the 3 grand worth of MacBook Pro and nothing else - not even the charger for it. First thing I knew was the door was wide open this morning when I came down for breakfast. Absolutely ripping mad.

duckysauce

were they born in a barn ?

Conmaicne Mara

Expensive lesson.

Christ the Redeemer

The sickening feeling having been fleeced is a terrible thing. Hope you're insured.

Lenin Skynard

Three grand is what a Macbook Pro costs now? Jesus wept.

mcmoustache

Where did this happen?

Frosty McSnowballs

Unless they also shat in your kettle......I'd say they were moderate watered down scum.

cusackd

Where was that Red Alert

anncoates

Sounds like hipster thieves.

Possibly broke into a few houses beforehand and were prostrate with smug laughter at the dull, pedestrian Microsoft hardware on offer.

pebbles21

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Unless they also shat in your kettle......I'd say they were moderate watered down scum.

I got broken into once ..fleeced me and shat into a stew i had on the cooker....Had to throw half of it out!

KeithM89

In other news, i just got a shiny new laptop.

stretchdoe

Sorry to hear that.
But, 'ye can't be doin' that, lads...'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8k1d8uX9Gw

Stone Deaf 4evr

Always lock the front door, sure that's how they got poor Osama bin Laden.

CarMe

I have a big boltery locky thing on my front door but I never lock that incase there's a fire which in hindsight seems a bit stupid! Would that even make a difference if there was a fire?

Frosty McSnowballs

**ANYONE WITH A MACBOOK PRO........LOCK AWAY YOUR CHARGER**

Sketch!

Ilik Urgee

pebbles21 wrote: »

I got broken into once ..fleeced me and shat into a stew i had on the cooker....Had to throw half of it out!

What did you do? Water it down to preserve the nutty taste?

DublinArnie

Same thing happened to a friend of mine a few months ago. His door was left unlocked in the middle of the day... some junkie walked in, took his school bag, and started pouring things into the school bag (Psp ... DVDS ... phones ... money ... sky box etc) and his school books were still in the bag. Luckily his dad just came home and the thief was about to leave, the dad gave a huge box to the head and knocked the guy out just when he was about to leave.

Red Alert

In Ballinteer! There's been a spate of these kind of things recently.

KeithM89

Red Alert wrote: »

In Ballinteer! There's been a spate of these kind of things recently.

You not got "Find My Mac' activated??

paulmclaughlin

Cheer up OP, at least the MacBook is gone.

Ihatecuddles-old

Red Alert wrote: »

In Ballinteer! There's been a spate of these kind of things recently.

All my friends live there, and my parents. THanks for the heads up!

Frosty McSnowballs

paulmclaughlin wrote: »

Cheer up OP, at least the MacBook is gone.

They might break back in to return it.

krudler

On the plus side they probably won't have a clue how to work anything on the mac. "ahh heeyor where's de bleedin' interneh exploawrur?!"

efb

I sleep with my MacBook Air

anncoates

Keith wrote: »

You not got "Find My Mac' activated??

You don't need that

Everyone tells you they have one anyway.

Lenin Skynard

krudler wrote: »

On the plus side they probably won't have a clue how to work anything on the mac. "ahh heeyor where's de bleedin' interneh exploawrur?!"

Ah heeyor, der's only one bleeedin' mouse button, chape hape o' shoih!

Red Alert

They haven't connected it to the net yet so it's not showing up. I've set it to erase when it does connect - it doesn't ask for password on startup and doesn't have FileVault enabled either :mad:

shruikan2553

The first mistake you made was buying a mac. For that price would could of gotten a top of the range laptop and a holiday. Suppose they followed you home from starbucks while you worked on your blog.

Fr_Dougal

Red Alert wrote: »

Some pure scum broke into my house last night. I'd forgotten to lock the deadlock and put on the alarm - costly mistake that turned out to be. They stole the 3 grand worth of MacBook Pro and nothing else - not even the charger for it. First thing I knew was the door was wide open this morning when I came down for breakfast. Absolutely ripping mad.

Did you have any sort of lock on the door?

Sorry to hear about your stuff being nicked, I've gone to bed a few times and not locked the front door at all.

CrazyRabbit

This may be a first in AH, but I'm going to offer genuine sympathy.

I've been burgled as well and it's not pleasant. Leaves this horrible feeling in your gut for weeks, and you feel vulnerable.

Lock all doors, enable the house alarm if you have one and don't leave any small valuables visible from the windows.

Mango Joe

Christ the Redeemer wrote: »

The sickening feeling having been fleeced is a terrible thing. Hope you're insured.

3K? By Apple ya mean?

MurdyWurdy

I went out for lunch the other day and left my front door wide open. We're in an apartment block so the actual front door of the block was locked (there are three other apartments in our block) but still, so stupid of me! Nothing happened though, the cat didn 't even escape!

Katgurl

F**k that OP.

Sorry to hear that - scumbags! Were you alone in the house?

Ice Storm

I can't believe people leave their doors unlocked!

My apartment was broken into when both locks were locked. Feckers kicked the door in and the frame gave way. Never really felt fully secure after that.

Lock your doors and set your alarms if you have them people!!

krudler

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

This may be a first in AH, but I'm going to offer genuine sympathy.

I've been burgled as well and it's not pleasant. Leaves this horrible feeling in your gut for weeks, and you feel vulnerable.

Lock all doors, enable the house alarm if you have one and don't leave any small valuables visible from the windows.

That, my parent's house was burgled a few years ago and it's awful afterwards, it was on a country road that had recently been turned into a cul de sac so it wasn't unusual for people who didnt realise to stop and turn in our driveway, but after the break in if you heard a car or saw lights outside you'd wake up straight away for a look.
Its less the stuff being taken and more the idea that some scummy prick has been sauntering around the house going through your things. They trashed my parents room and mine even though they didnt take much, cops said they do that to make it harder to figure out what's gone missing when the place is in a heap.

Gran Hermano

efb wrote: »

I sleep with my MacBook Air

I sleep with mac-unt

SEANoftheDEAD

anncoates wrote: »

pedestrian Microsoft hardware on offer.

Microsoft make hardware?

Red Alert

It was on the night latch only, which a coat hanger will open through the letterbox. It's also got a key-operated 5pt lock, which I forgot to lock. Funny thing is, an old Yale lock would be harder to open silently.

testicle

SEANoftheDEAD wrote: »

Microsoft make hardware?

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware

Zebra3

I have no idea what a MacBook is?

Is this McDonalds related?

CruelCoin

Red Alert wrote: »

3 grand worth of MacBook Pro

LOL

Sorry to hear about the burglary, but still lol.

user2011

Shouldn't of given them the green alert OP!

biko

It could have been worse, they've could have taken your iPhone TM

ratracer

It's lucky they broke in during the heatwave. If it was winter you could have caught you're death of cold with them leaving the door open and all...

kowloon

Two crimes have taken place here.

MickFleetwood

The cúnts didn't even have the manners to close the door on the way out.

Boombastic

Zebra3 wrote: »

I have no idea what a MacBook is?

Is this McDonalds related?

Maybe it was the Hamburglar ?

http://thehairpin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/hamburglar.jpg


What a crap thing to happen OP, just be glad nobody was hurt

knucklehead6

krudler wrote: »

That, my parent's house was burgled a few years ago and it's awful afterwards, it was on a country road that had recently been turned into a cul de sac so it wasn't unusual for people who didnt realise to stop and turn in our driveway, but after the break in if you heard a car or saw lights outside you'd wake up straight away for a look.
Its less the stuff being taken and more the idea that some scummy prick has been sauntering around the house going through your things. They trashed my parents room and mine even though they didnt take much, cops said they do that to make it harder to figure out what's gone missing when the place is in a heap.

How would you see lights of a car if you are asleep?

tallus

Red Alert wrote: »

Some pure scum broke into my house last night. I'd forgotten to lock the deadlock and put on the alarm - costly mistake that turned out to be. They stole the 3 grand worth of MacBook Pro and nothing else - not even the charger for it. First thing I knew was the door was wide open this morning when I came down for breakfast. Absolutely ripping mad.

Sorry to hear OP. Been there myself and its no joke.

Try to ignore the people who think they are being funny, they would have a different outlook if it happened to them.

ronan45

I actually only use my night latch lock the door has another lock system built into it that locks the door in 5 places right up the side. We dont use it as its more of a hassle to be messing around with 2 sets of keys. Hmm maybe i should rethink that!:o

TheBody

Check to see if they left the immersion on op. These cnuts are pure evil.