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Burglars Helping Each Other Out...?

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  • 25-08-2013 9:19pm
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    UCDVet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭


    Just found this on http://www.crimeireland.com/
    'Da Pinchi Code' - Burglars are scribbling chalk marks outside homes to let fellow criminals know which properties to target. Remove these if you see them and notify the resident please!

    (I dunno if I can post a picture - but image is in the link)

    Are burglars really tagging houses....and if so, should I go draw a big circle with an X on it to keep myself safe?


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    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    I think it's bullshít tbh. If it is true it's limited to very small number of houses and only in certain upper class areas I'd imagine.

    Play it safe, get a shotgun instead.


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    Slunk
    Registered Users Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭Slunk


    Sounds like bollocks tbh.


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    Howard Juneau
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    Urban legend that's started in America & keeps popping up here every few months. I wish people would just let it die, or do a Google search before putting it in a paper as news


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    Freddy Smelly
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    SV wrote: »
    I think it's bullshít tbh. If it is true it's limited to very small number of houses and only in certain upper class areas I'd imagine.

    Play it safe, get a shotgun instead.

    would a grizzly bear in a pissed off mood work as well as the shotgun?


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    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    Freddy Smelly wrote: »
    would a grizzly bear in a pissed off mood work as well as the shotgun?

    If you can keep a grizzly bear in a pissed off mood tamed without a shotgun then you have no worries about anyone breaking in.


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    NuckingFacker
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    The journos have been watching too much of the hobbit.


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    Fr_Dougal
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    Facebook has infected boards.ie.


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    Sir Humphrey Appleby
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    UCDVet wrote: »
    Just found this on http://www.crimeireland.com/



    (I dunno if I can post a picture - but image is in the link)

    Are burglars really tagging houses....and if so, should I go draw a big circle with an X on it to keep myself safe?

    Not this again, its been done to death!


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    Don't Chute!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Don't Chute!


    There's no way scumbags would be able to draw pictures like that!


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    OU812
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    Strangely, one of the kids told me today there was a strange chalk mark on our side gate, I went out to check it & it was like a "C" with the opening at the top.

    I was actually going to post about it on here this evening.

    It could just as easily be one of the kids messing, but there's no other marks around which I'd expect. Have a big dog with a loud bark & an alarm so I'm not unduly worried but I wouldn't dismiss the possibility of them doing this out of hand.


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    Specialun
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    Sounds fair to me..a burglars time is precious and cant afford to be wasting it...same as motorists flashing others to warn of speedvan ;)


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    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    Specialun wrote: »
    Sounds fair to me..a burglars time is precious and cant afford to be wasting it...same as motorists flashing others to warn of speedvan ;)

    Wait..wanting to avoid being caught breaking the law is the same as wanting to know how to best break the law? :eek:


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    Freddy Smelly
    Registered Users Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Freddy Smelly


    OU812 wrote: »
    Strangely, one of the kids told me today there was a strange chalk mark on our side gate, I went out to check it & it was like a "C" with the opening at the top.

    I was actually going to post about it on here this evening.

    It could just as easily be one of the kids messing, but there's no other marks around which I'd expect. Have a big dog with a loud bark & an alarm so I'm not unduly worried but I wouldn't dismiss the possibility of them doing this out of hand.

    sleepless night tonight?


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    MadsL
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    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Facebook has infected boards.ie.

    Like.


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    seamus
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    That site is a complete mess. The bulk of their "latest reports" are Russian spam submissions; clearly they've no housekeeping going on. I wouldn't consider them a worthy source of any info tbh.


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    BluesBerry
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    well i know what im chalking outside my house - the nothing to steal symbol :pac:


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    KTRIC
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    Shortly after I moved into my house we got a dog, within days we noticed a "d" in chalk on the front gate. Bit of a co-incidence if you ask me.


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    Bipolar Joe
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    I kind of doubt thieves would want other thieves to know which house is good to target. Surely, they'd keep it for themselves? "Hmmm, that house would be PERFECT to burgle! But I do have a date with Sharon. I guess I'll just put a symbol here with my trusty chalk stick, just in case another thief isn't as savvy as I am."


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    mattjack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Bipolar Joe wrote: »
    I kind of doubt thieves would want other thieves to know which house is good to target. Surely, they'd keep it for themselves? "Hmmm, that house would be PERFECT to burgle! But I do have a date with Sharon. I guess I'll just put a symbol here with my trusty chalk stick, just in case another thief isn't as savvy as I am."

    Good girl, Sharon.


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    OU812
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    Freddy Smelly wrote: »
    sleepless night tonight?

    Nah. Big loud dog & alarm.


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    ArmaniJeanss
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    KTRIC wrote: »
    Shortly after I moved into my house we got a dog, within days we noticed a "d" in chalk on the front gate. Bit of a co-incidence if you ask me.

    Thats one seriously clever dog.


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    L1011
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    Chalk marks. In a country with incredibly high rainfall. Yeah right.


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    Elbaston
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    They're marking the letter 'M' on the faces of the elderly with chalk to indicate muggable.


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    biko
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    I'm just in after drawing a shotgun outside.


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    jaffacakesyum
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    I drew a Batman symbol


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    OU812
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    MYOB wrote: »
    Chalk marks. In a country with incredibly high rainfall. Yeah right.

    Mine appears to be crayon or colouring pencil... wax of some sort.


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    Elbaston
    Registered Users Posts: 443 ✭✭Elbaston


    Theres a chalk drawing outside my house a a penis penetrating an anus - and a frown.


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    Cee-Jay-Cee
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    I went out and wrote in chalk on my wall 'If you enter my house as a burglar, I will kill you'

    They can't say they weren't warned.


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    Reganio 2
    Registered Users Posts: 3,732 ✭✭✭Reganio 2


    Elbaston wrote: »
    They're marking the letter 'M' on the faces of the elderly with chalk to indicate muggable.

    Could mean Muggle and that the wizards are planning a takeover... We just don't know.


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    Caonima
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    black and amber wrote: »
    There's no way scumbags would be able to draw pictures like that!

    I was just thinking the same thing. That symbol for 'already been robbed' is way beyond the ken of scobie cunts that go around burglarising people.


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