Burglars Helping Each Other Out...?

UCDVet

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?

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.

Slunk

Sounds like bollocks tbh.

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

Freddy Smelly

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?

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.

NuckingFacker

The journos have been watching too much of the hobbit.

Fr_Dougal

Facebook has infected boards.ie.

Sir Humphrey Appleby

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!

Don't Chute!

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

OU812

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.

Specialun

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

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:

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?

MadsL

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Facebook has infected boards.ie.

Like.

seamus

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.

BluesBerry

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

KTRIC

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.

Bipolar Joe

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."

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.

OU812

Freddy Smelly wrote: »

sleepless night tonight?

Nah. Big loud dog & alarm.

ArmaniJeanss

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.

L1011

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

Elbaston

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

biko

I'm just in after drawing a shotgun outside.

jaffacakesyum

I drew a Batman symbol

OU812

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.

Elbaston

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

Cee-Jay-Cee

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.

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.

Caonima

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.

ozmo

I heard the chalk story during the 80's when it was supposed to be the door to door beggers leaving marks as to what houses they would recommend tapping. Think it was false back then too.


Here is a proper site for crime statistics in your area -
http://airo.ie/news/airo-crime-mapping-toolkit


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SV

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.

Maybe someone heard that you wanted the D and just got confused as to what that meant?
probably just a friendly misunderstood neighbour.

face1990

Why would burglars help eachother? Wouldnt they rather their competing burglars got caught?

--Kaiser--

I had read about these burglar codes in the paper and some weeks later I came back to my house after a long weekend to see strange symbols scrawled in faint chalk on my door step. I was incensed. Someone had been staking out my house. Figuring out who lived there and when they were away and stuff worth stealing I stood on my doorstep staring at these marks for many minutes. What had they written in their cryptic hieroglyphics? What did they mean?

Then my housemates niece came out with a stick of chalk and asked me "Do you like my drawings?"

BillyMitchel

Ah lads come on. Who in their right mind is that paranoid and worried that they log onto crime.ie. Some nosey liveline listeners pressing the refresh button every 5 seconds. FFS.

OP I'd say its rubbish. That's saying "no honor among thieves" comes to mind. If I was a criminal would I really really trust what another was telling me through a few lines of chalk? Not a hope!

Jimoslimos

The chalk markings are mostly urban legends but tagging of houses does exist. Members of a...certain ethnic group...have been known to call at houses and leave a small bag of rubbish nearby on the premises, noticeable enough that the homeowner would dispose of it if present. A handy indicator if the residents are away on holiday.

Ash.J.Williams

If you tippex out the explanations you have a burglar theory test.

Bipolar Joe

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

If you tippex out the explanations you have a burglar theory test.

And tippex on your monitor.