chalk marks outside home indicate marked for theft

biko · 11-04-2013 6:17pm

I just have this sign up.
No-one ever calls to buy a car or scrap metal.

[X] Gun owner
COLOR="White"]X[/COLOR Victim

Capt'n Midnight · 11-04-2013 6:30pm

Back in 2009

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1232496/The-Burglars-Code-Criminals-chalk-messages-pinpoint-targets-villains.html

Thatnastyboy · 11-04-2013 7:40pm

stmol32 wrote: »

Jesus christ man no .... just no.... not today.

First, the thread is about false moral panics and lazy cut and paste media.

Secondly, I've seen this once or twice on Boards "Certain 'nomadic' ethnic groups" and I feel I should point out it's not as pants wettingly witty as ye seem to think.

Just say knackers you know you're really dying to.

Who made you the thread police?

It's also about the markings.

I used those terms because using the word knacker to describe travellers is not generally welcomed around here.

I was also speaking of Romany gypsies, btw, based on the times we've found trespassers both at home, and in neighbouring houses - it's always been people from those groups, always.

Not trying to cause any pants wetting, just don't want a ban/infraction

Thekist · 28-11-2013 4:21pm

This is very true as I seen three guys drawing a circle on the back of my car with chalk last night! When I got down from my apartment they had gone!As for you smart arses who don't know much about it, chalk doesn't washed away when it's highly compressed, this left a thick layer on the car, it's being raining here all day and it's still on it as new. I'm just biding my time for them to try the next move!

29-11-2013 1:37pm

Three guys were messing with your car - therefore the contents of this thread are true?

Bit of a leap, no?

tayto lover · 29-11-2013 3:53pm

Must draw one of them outside my neighbour's house, he's a pri**.

Foxhound38 · 29-11-2013 3:57pm

Da Pinchi Code? FFS

ScumLord · 29-11-2013 5:01pm

If criminals were doing this other criminals would pick up on it straight away and just get in before them. It makes no sense to put in the work of finding an easy mark then advertising it to the world.

The fact that there's no actual pictures of these signs in the real world outside someone's house goes to show they're working on pure speculation.

The Glass Key · 29-11-2013 5:13pm

If I found chalk marks outside a house I'd be checking for free WiFi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warchalking .

MadsL · 29-11-2013 5:17pm

http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/femastickers.asp

The marking of homes to identify them as targets for future activity makes sense only if the markings and the follow-up activity are being performed by different groups who are prevented by time and distance from communicating with each other between those two steps. But in today's world, where information such as an address list can be communicated almost instantaneously by e-mail or text message, and anyone with a cell phone can be reached virtually anywhere at any time, there are no such barriers.

rubadub · 29-11-2013 5:20pm

ScumLord wrote: »

It makes no sense to put in the work of finding an easy mark then advertising it to the world.

+1, it would be similar to tesco building up a database of a customer's preferences using their clubcard info, investigating all their spending habits etc, and then just freely sharing this info with dunnes stores.

Delacent · 21-01-2017 9:10pm

I see this ridiculously stupid story is doing the rounds again.

Indo is so short of journslists they seem to have dim-witted interns rehashing and sensationalising stories that crop up every couple of years in countries all over the world.

Quite obvious that burglars don't use phones/email if their only means of communication is chalk in a country where it rains more days than it doesn't.

How on earth are people so gullible?

somesoldiers · 21-01-2017 9:25pm

Delacent wrote: »

I see this ridiculously stupid story is doing the rounds again.

Indo is so short of journslists they seem to have dim-witted interns rehashing and sensationalising stories that crop up every couple of years in countries all over the world.

Quite obvious that burglars don't use phones/email if their only means of communication is chalk in a country where it rains more days than it doesn't.

How on earth are people so gullible?

There are a few indo interns who's job is to leave listen to liveline and come up with a couple of stories each day ...click me, click me

whoopsadoodles · 21-01-2017 9:33pm

I put the "nothing worth stealing one" outside my gaf.

And a huge X outside my cnuty neighbours.

_Kaiser_ · 21-01-2017 10:03pm

Go with the chalk outline of a body and a few rolls of those GARDA DO NOT CROSS tapes and you have nothing to worry about

mynamejeff · 21-01-2017 11:22pm

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-35337747

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/14210358.Police_bust_roadside_burglar_symbols_myth/

stupidity should be a jail-able offence

start with the media and work out way up from the gutter

The flying mouse · 21-01-2017 11:51pm

Everyone should start chaking the houses with the 0x mark, burglary solved, actually the goverment should issue all houses with chalk sticks, We can put them beside the nuclear tablets.

bilbot79 · 21-01-2017 11:53pm

It's not real folks. It's fake news. It's phoney stuff.

Make America great again

Atlantic Dawn · 21-01-2017 11:54pm

De criminals would have smart phones to log places of interest and share in a WhatsApp group, the days of the chalk and markings are long gone.

Stigura · 22-01-2017 12:05am

This reminds me of the legend ye'll find on every horse forum in england:

Horses mane gets matted and forms like dreadlocks. Cue every serious and ruddy faced little girl on there passing dire warnings that the OP is being targeted by Gypsys!!! :eek:

Yes! It seems these dastardly rascals creep into a meadow, at night. There they choose the horse they want to steal. And they spend some quality time plaiting its mane.

This is so that, when they come back on a following night to complete their mission and chore the grai, they can tell by the mane which one it is they want!

Seriously. I've seen this several times, repeated on various horsey fora.

Yeah. Just read again what they do. Let it sink in. And there is absolutely No dissuading these people that they are speaking the gods honest truth. Bit like the urban myth that this thread started with.

jimbis · 22-01-2017 12:23am

One thing nobody seems to question about all this bullsh1t chalk marking hysteria is what are you gonna do if you find one of these markings outside your house?
Sit there night and day waiting for them? People should be vigilant and take the proper security measures regardless of any chalk markings.

22-01-2017 12:37am

2 years ago my alarm went off at 6:30am in the morning, ran downstairs guns blazing, nothing
Checked cctv, nothing
Next day at 6:30am alarm went off again
I thought my alarm was faulty, and didn't really sleep well cos I was half expecting it to go off
When I got downstairs my outter hall door was wide open (hadn't locked it properly, thought pushing handle up locked it, they couldn't get through the second one before I scared them away. Inner door had a twisty lock, so always properly locked it
After checking cctv I could see some prick open my hall door in seconds, quicker than I could with keys
An alarm, 2 cars in driveway, cctv did not deter him
Even after alarm went off he still tried opening inner door
I live in an estate
After googling burglaries in work, I came across this chalk myth
Sure enough when I came home I could see two chalk lines on my pillar
Coincidence, maybe

dodderangler · 22-01-2017 1:07am

I read a while ago that they have different marks outside. Some marks mean the house is alarm, if you have a dog etc.

22-01-2017 1:51am

The last time I saw marks on the road outside my house it was for the installation of a water meter, a different form of fobbery!

Atlantic Dawn · 22-01-2017 1:58am

I'd believe more in dolphins able to disable bombs than this ****e.

worded · 22-01-2017 2:12am

Gone Drinking wrote: »

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

Grow lots of pampas grass outside to let them know you are swinger dealers ?

Samohara844 · 22-01-2017 2:14am

Complete nonsense

Charlie19 · 22-01-2017 2:22am

I'd say it be handier just checking people's Facebook accounts..

"off on my holidays for two weeks "

" bringing the children into the zoo today"

And all that checking in shyte at certain locations.

Some people make it too easy.

deco nate · 22-01-2017 2:26am

It's all BULL****, oh let's mark this for other scumbags?

Why not, not mark it and keep it for themselves?!

People that believe this ****e should not be allowed to be in control of crayons.. .

Delacent · 22-01-2017 2:34pm

dodderangler wrote: »

I read a while ago that they have different marks outside. Some marks mean the house is alarm, if you have a dog etc.

Why are people so gullible?

Do you think a potential burglar has the inability to look at a house and see an alarm box?

languagenerd · 22-01-2017 2:41pm

This has been doing the rounds since 2009. http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/housebreakerscode.asp

Normally, any marks that actually exist are by utility companies marking where pipes etc are.

22-01-2017 2:41pm

Delacent wrote: »

Why are people so gullible?

Do you think a potential burglar has the inability to look at a house and see an alarm box?

Not every alarm box is real
Not everyone sets their alarm

My alarm was triggered at 6.30am on a Saturday
Triggered again at 6.30 the following day as they broke into my house
Two chalk lines on pillar

languagenerd · 22-01-2017 2:46pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Not every alarm box is real
Not everyone sets their alarm

My alarm was triggered at 6.30am on a Saturday
Triggered again at 6.30 the following day as they broke into my house
Two chalk lines on pillar

In all seriousness, though, why would burglars want come straight back to a house the alarm went off in? If they were gonna mark it, they'd probably be telling themselves NOT to come back. Unfortunate coincidence I'd say.

22-01-2017 2:54pm

languagenerd wrote: »

In all seriousness, though, why would burglars want come straight back to a house the alarm went off in? If they were gonna mark it, they'd probably be telling themselves NOT to come back. Unfortunate coincidence I'd say.

Why would burglars want to break into a house with 2 front doors, 2 cars, alarm and cctv and 2 dogs????????

CatFromHue · 22-01-2017 3:59pm

languagenerd wrote: »

In all seriousness, though, why would burglars want come straight back to a house the alarm went off in?

They would be trying to make it look, sound, like the alarm was going off for no reason.

So when they come back again people will think it's a false alarm

22-01-2017 4:22pm

CatFromHue wrote: »

They would be trying to make it look, sound, like the alarm was going off for no reason.

So when they come back again people will think it's a false alarm

A prime example of why you should have a burglar alarm backed up by CCTV that records the video.

Weepsie · 22-01-2017 4:29pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Why would burglars want to break into a house with 2 front doors, 2 cars, alarm and cctv and 2 dogs????????

Because they might think there's something good worth taking if there's that much security

22-01-2017 7:25pm

Weepsie wrote: »

Because they might think there's something good worth taking if there's that much security

I wish

FizzleSticks · 22-01-2017 7:38pm

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22-01-2017 8:10pm

Someone was busy practicing their shapes judging by those drawings. Not sure many criminals would have the intellect to decipher these anyway.

"Vulnerable female easily conned " and "nervous and afraid" both look like beginner attempts at drawing a cube.

Capt'n Midnight · 22-01-2017 11:44pm

Charlie19 wrote: »

I'd say it be handier just checking people's Facebook accounts..

or twitter
http://pleaserobme.com/why

lertsnim · 22-01-2017 11:51pm

The council does it.

darkpagandeath · 22-01-2017 11:54pm

I'm just loling that Scumbags seem to spread a secret code amongst themselves like the Templar.

Mountainsandh · 23-01-2017 12:00am

There's been a spate of robberies in my rural area. I was talking to a council worker today who said that indeed, some guy nearby had rang the council looking to see what was going to be done on the road outside their house : there was a spray mark outside his gate. Council boss hadn't anything on schedule for that location, but told him he'd check with water crowd, just in case : there was nothing planned either.
So the word is out in our area, at least, that a mark, whatever mark, not little drawings, outside your gates should be investigated.
No harm in that anyway, right ?

In rural areas where houses are few and far between, I wouldn't be surprised if gangs had some way to earmark a few places.

There's also a story that a lady in local small town found a mark outside her father's property : the man had moved to a home, so the house was empty most of the time.

edit : not on about some elaborate code here, just mark, of whatever kind.

darkpagandeath · 23-01-2017 12:02am

Mountainsandh wrote: »

There's been a spate of robberies in my rural area. I was talking to a council worker today who said that indeed, some guy nearby had rang the council looking to see what was going to be done on the road outside their house : there was a spray mark outside his gate. Council boss hadn't anything on schedule for that location, but told him he'd check with water crowd, just in case : there was nothing planned either.
So the word is out in our area, at least, that a mark, whatever mark, not little drawings, outside your gates should be investigated.
No harm in that anyway, right ?

In rural areas where houses are few and far between, I wouldn't be surprised if gangs had some way to earmark a few places.

There's also a story that a lady in local small town found a mark outside her father's property : the man had moved to a home, so the house was empty most of the time.

Prob just a colour of paint for the Gang themselves send out a spotter. Nothing like the da vinci code in the op.

Mountainsandh · 23-01-2017 12:10am

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Prob just a colour of paint for the Gang themselves send out a spotter. Nothing like the da vinci code in the op.

Yeah, I think anything that just pops up some morning outside the gate could be a mark tbh. The gangs that operate around here would not be from the immediate area, so I can see how even a coloured plastic bag hanging off a tree outside, a dot of spray or some such would be useful to the scourers themselves or the ones meant to do the robbing.

We've been told to be very vigilant and try and spot vans/cars of certain colours and makes by the gardai, but sure there's many of the same in the area, so any other little sign we can spot might help.

darkpagandeath · 23-01-2017 12:12am

Mountainsandh wrote: »

Yeah, I think anything that just pops up some morning outside the gate could be a mark tbh. The gangs that operate around here would not be from the immediate area, so I can see how even a coloured plastic bag hanging off a tree outside, a dot of spray or some such would be useful to the scourers themselves or the ones meant to do the robbing.

We've been told to be very vigilant and try and spot vans/cars of certain colours and makes by the gardai, but sure there's many of the same in the area, so any other little sign we can spot might help.

If you are Rural, Your best bet is be vigilant. If it looks out of the ordinary it probably is.

Nekarsulm · 23-01-2017 12:43am

Mountainsandh wrote: »

In rural areas where houses are few and far between, I wouldn't be surprised if gangs had some way to earmark a few places.

They do. Its called a Sat Nav.
You can give it to a mate, and itll bring him to the last few chosen properties.
And no matter who chases you down unfamiliar back roads, it'll even bring you home!

Mountainsandh · 23-01-2017 12:51am

Nekarsulm wrote: »

They do. Its called a Sat Nav.
You can give it to a mate, and itll bring him to the last few chosen properties.
And no matter who chases you down unfamiliar back roads, it'll even bring you home!

I'm not sure the gangs operating in our parts are that sophisticated, or even communicate well enough to share geo locations that way. My guess is they grunt, nod, or spit at each other.

And sat nav in rural parts is famously crap, BTW.

darkpagandeath · 23-01-2017 12:55am

Mountainsandh wrote: »

I'm not sure the gangs operating in our parts are that sophisticated, or even communicate well enough to share geo locations that way. My guess is they grunt, nod, or spit at each other.

And sat nav in rural parts is famously crap, BTW.

Dunno about that boss :P

chalk marks outside home indicate marked for theft

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