just got broken into

Redpunto · 05-05-2008 07:29PM

Irish Halo wrote: »

South Bromley, out Canning Town way, it is in Tower Hamlets, **** hole.

I used to live in Tower Hamlets in an ex corpo flat,,:D i used to love the smell of curry in the morning time

OP sorry to hear that,,,the f*ckers should be hanged...

dazberry · 05-05-2008 07:49PM

mayordenis wrote: »

In waterford i was living up around bridge st. the apartment block was called the terrace, if you're going up bridge street and you take your second right just across from the tax office.

And just to say yea, right now the assumption we would make is that it was an ex-tenant or something like that.

I lived on Bridge Street circa 1993, and the place was constantly being broken into. As a poor student all they took was my walkman and my condoms (having just had my heart broken and the subsequent drought - its was akin to pathetic fallacy) - still a shock to find your door kicked in and all you stuff all over the floor. A lot of gear was stolen off others, stereos, TVs, videos, bicycles etc - it was pretty grim - and my gut feeling was that it was someone in the building

D.

luckat · 05-05-2008 09:09PM

The_Minister wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek:
o_0
Only half?

Hah, only just noticed this Cavanist joke. Trying to suppress grin.

hunter164 · 05-05-2008 09:37PM

pebbles21 wrote: »

i know a guy from cavan who got broken into recently,they even **** in his stew he had on at the time!

poor ****er had to throw half it out!!!!

Only half of it out?

Irish Halo · 05-05-2008 10:21PM

Sherifu wrote: »

Did ShellBell1 mention blacks yet? Brixton was mentioned? Good stuff! It were them that did it! :pac:

In Brixton it was black people, racist? No I walked in on them, and they was black.

redpunto wrote:

I used to live in Tower Hamlets in an ex corpo flat,, i used to love the smell of curry in the morning time

Yeah ours near Canning Town was ex council (only one in the entire block), it was great for the ethnic shops and quality ingredients for curries but a ****hole

ShellBell1 · 05-05-2008 11:50PM

Irish Halo wrote: »

In Brixton it was black people, racist? No I walked in on them, and they was black.

Oh right. I thought u were insinuating I was a racist. 4 da record, I'm not. Haven't ever acted hatefully or consciously spoken disparagingly of other ethnicites. I was going on negatively about those Roma/Romany types yesterday because of what crimes some of them committed - but NOT the whole lot of them, or because of their background, etc.

Well, black or not, the people u walked in on who were raiding your old flat were goddamn greedy thieves. S'pose u get a fair few blacks in certain unsavoury areas involved in crime simply because they aren't always afforded the same respect and opportunites that black people from more affluent backgrounds get. Their address is like a millstone around their necks that hampers their chances of progressing in life more easily.

I know a muslim man, originally born in Algeria who now lives in France, who was inexplicably turned down for jobs he was suitably qualified for for ages before. He eventually set up his own IT business, which is now flourishing.

He said that the fact he had been living in a rough, immigrant-populated part of Marseilles, along with his surname 'Mehenni', may have had a lot 2 do with those baffling rejections. I mean, he's a very likeable person and a good communicator, you know? I dunno really.. There's still a lot of prejudice around the place..

Kinetic^ · 05-05-2008 11:56PM

Sorry to hear that dude.

Energizeer · 06-05-2008 12:15AM

Have a look in cash converters. I know someone who found thier stolen wedding ring in there a few months back.

ShellBell1 · 06-05-2008 12:25AM

Energizeer wrote: »

Have a look in cash converters. I know someone who found thier stolen wedding ring in there a few months back.

Oh, I've always thought that Cash Converters place was dodgy. Firstly, they give u peanuts 4 the decent (well, in my case) product you're trying to flog. Secondly, I just don't like the feel of the place. Dump.

Deliverance · 06-05-2008 12:28AM

mayordenis wrote: »

no insurance just moved in like,
no signs of being broken into,
garda are there now(i'm not),
i know no-one is going to see this item but it's a really rare-ish game in europe at the moment is the ps3 version of Rock band at the moment.

Thieves have to sell their goods. Have you tried some second hand shops? I'd recommend checking out 'Cash Convertors' and 'Vibes and Scribes' for a start, if they suddenly stock this rare game then it is a start. Plus make note of who was the previous tenant he/she probably still has keys to the apartment unless you changed the locks. No sign of a break in sounds like the thief had keys, a lot of landlords neglect this potential, now that I think of it, it sounds like your burglar could have been the ex tenant.

The first thing I do when moving into any property is change the locks, it is easy to hand over the keys to the landlord but it would be even easier to copy a spare set and potentially gain access to the new owners apartment and steal stuff.

Good luck, I think you can identify the culprit by the sounds of it but proving it will be harder, unless of course he has sold a game to shops mentioned.

ShellBell1 · 06-05-2008 12:38AM

If it's any consolation 2 u mayordenis, Cash Converters or Vibes&Scribes will give da bleedin' chancer f*ck all 4 the game! :pac:

Keep an eye out anyway..

Deliverance · 06-05-2008 12:43AM

Energizeer wrote: »

Have a look in cash converters. I know someone who found thier stolen wedding ring in there a few months back.

Massive problem with them in England, 'Cash convertors' is an ironic term really, should call it 'thief central' or something like that. My flat was burgaled like the OP and the detectives that called around informed me that I was better off investigating it myself. I did so and found my stolen goods in their shop.

The manager freaked out as he had been done a few times before for receiving stolen goods but I grabbed his books and found a record of sales which included all the stuff that was stolen from my flat, I'm a hound for that. I called the police but in the meantime the SOB got the books back.

The police turned up and the SOB was cautioned but got away with it as he managed to hide the books, I protested but the police could do nothing without the evidence. Never got my stuff back but had some satisfaction as the police were made aware of their buy without question practices.

Anyway it sounds like the OP has potential, this rare game is evidence if it turns up, this combined with the ex tenant having sold this stuff to a second hand shop, once they have records of his selling it to them is possibly a way to get the goods back. Good Luck.

Deliverance · 06-05-2008 12:49AM

mayordenis wrote: »

apartment broken into,
only living there about 4 days,
obviously something odd going on,
this is down in cork,
just in case anyone is flukey enough to notice anything, PS3 and laptop gone not sure of what else at the moment.

Check if any kind of ID was stolen. ID can be used to sell the stuff. One thing I will say is that there must be an enclosed market for stolen laptops, I have never seen one in a second hand shop for some reason, something to do with the MAC address?

nkay1985 · 06-05-2008 07:28AM

Sh!t Dennis sorry to hear that. And what timing with GTA only out. ****!n pricks!!! :mad:

A bit of advice I would give is to get word around UCC. Either on some boards or just word of mouth, but do it as soon as you can. When I was in UL, there was a spate of burglaries and, sure enough, as I was walking through the University some travellers pulled up and asked me did I want to buy a laptop and they had about 5 of them in the back of the car.

So if anyone gets offered a PS3, a laptop, or rock band (specially at a ridiculously cheap price, as the people robbing this probably don't konw how hard it is to get), you might get an idea who's taken it.

The other suggestion of the likes of cash converters sounds very good to me too.

Otacon · 06-05-2008 08:34AM

Sorry to hear that Denis. As was mentioned above, get the Student Union involved. You may not be a student there but they will be interested if students were at risk.

I know in UL some guys were caught and all/most of the stuff they stole got back to the owners.

MIN2511 · 06-05-2008 11:08AM

My flat got broken to about a month ago, my laptop and camera were taken..... There was no money in the house, but they/he/her didn't take anything else.. Moved out of the flat on friday as i never felt safe anymore, kept dreaming someone was going to burgle the flat when i was sleeping
Thank God they were insured, but bloody insurance company have not sent me the claim form still-bastards

I know how you feel, where they insured? The Gards, can't do much... take prints(that is if the thieves didn't use gloves) and chances of the prints coming up on the system is slim.

_feedback_ · 06-05-2008 02:33PM

ShellBell1 wrote: »

Yeah, I wouldn't trust those Gypsy-type Romanians - I've heard bad stories about them. Stealing from charity shops, biting into the arm of an employee.. They'd steal yourself!

Dunno where your apt is mayordenis, but those Romanians all seem to congregate around Nth Main St and most of them live in either the Shandon area or Blackpool. Of course, we can't verify it was them..

How do you come to mention the above as a result of what the OP said?!

mayordenis wrote: »

apartment broken into,
only living there about 4 days,
obviously something odd going on,
this is down in cork,
just in case anyone is flukey enough to notice anything, PS3 and laptop gone not sure of what else at the moment.

mayordenis wrote: »

no insurance just moved in like,
no signs of being broken into,
garda are there now(i'm not),
i know no-one is going to see this item but it's a really rare-ish game in europe at the moment is the ps3 version of Rock band at the moment.

ShellBell, you mention later that you’re not racist, but really, why bring foreign nationals in to it straight away?!

luckat · 12-05-2008 08:51AM

Get a Mac: http://www.switched.com/2007/09/27/stolen-laptop-self-uploads-photo-of-suspect-to-web/

just got broken into

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