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chalk marks outside home indicate marked for theft

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    #62
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,375 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    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.


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    #63
    Delacent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 214 ✭✭Delacent


    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?


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    #64
    somesoldiers
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    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


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    #65
    whoopsadoodles
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    I put the "nothing worth stealing one" outside my gaf.

    And a huge X outside my cnuty neighbours.




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    #66
    _Kaiser_
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    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


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    #67
    mynamejeff
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    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


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    #68
    The flying mouse
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    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.


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    #69
    bilbot79
    Registered Users Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭bilbot79


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

    Make America great again


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    #70
    Atlantic Dawn
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    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.


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    #71
    Stigura
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    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.


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    #72
    jimbis
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    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.


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    #73
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    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


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    #74
    dodderangler
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    I read a while ago that they have different marks outside. Some marks mean the house is alarm, if you have a dog etc.


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    #75
    [Deleted User]
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    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!


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    #76
    Atlantic Dawn
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    I'd believe more in dolphins able to disable bombs than this ****e.


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    #77
    worded
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    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 ?


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    #78
    Samohara844
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    Complete nonsense


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    #79
    Charlie19
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    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.


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    #80
    deco nate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,340 ✭✭✭deco nate


    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.. .


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    #81
    Delacent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 214 ✭✭Delacent


    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?


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    #82
    languagenerd
    Registered Users Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    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.


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    #83
    [Deleted User]
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    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


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    #84
    languagenerd
    Registered Users Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    [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.


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    #85
    [Deleted User]
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    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????????


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    #86
    CatFromHue
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    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


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    #87
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    #88
    Weepsie
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    [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


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    #89
    [Deleted User]
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    Weepsie wrote: »
    Because they might think there's something good worth taking if there's that much security

    I wish


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    #90
    FizzleSticks
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    #91
    222233
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    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.


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