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Burglars Helping Each Other Out...?

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    #32
    ozmo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭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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    “Roll it back”



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    #33
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭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.


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    #34
    face1990
    Registered Users Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭face1990


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


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    #35
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--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?"


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    #36
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭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!


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    #37
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭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.


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    #38
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 20,937 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


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


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    #39
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    If you tippex out the explanations you have a burglar theory test.

    And tippex on your monitor.


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