How often has your property had an attempted breakin if ever?

Aodan83 · 29-08-2008 10:59PM

Never been broken into but my phone was stolen out of my bag during a soccer match once. Couple other lads got done as well, fuckin gutted. Was a new phone and all.

Trinity · 29-08-2008 11:08PM

Think my mothers house was tried a couple of times once for definate. think they were using a glass cutters, they had to replace the window or door or something. I didnt sleep for years after.

Dunno what they thought they would find in a council house in ballymun. Now they have a big fcuk off plasma on the wall and when curtains are not drawn everyone can see. Think they are asking for trouble although dont think they would get it through the window :rolleyes:

29-08-2008 11:21PM

Never, only lock the door because one of neighbours comes in and makes himself at home if you don't.

KBarry · 30-08-2008 12:55AM

Trinity1 wrote: »

Dunno what they thought they would find in a council house in ballymun. Now they have a big fcuk off plasma on the wall and when curtains are not drawn everyone can see. Think they are asking for trouble although dont think they would get it through the window :rolleyes:

I'm terrified of getting burgled and spend far too much time trying to figure out how burglars minds work. Would they be thinking "Plasma TV, must be lots of smaller stuff worth nicking in there"

Touch wood, not been robbed yet but live in fear

Alicat · 30-08-2008 01:00AM

I dunno how I'd react if I heard someone breakin in....never happened yet. Still live with my parents and we have two dogs but they sleep in the utility room at night so you can't really see them so I dunno whether it would deter someone.
Edit: Just struck me that we have a massive dog house on the back patio, so I think that might be enough :rolleyes:

My thought has always been to just scream. Scream as long and loud as I can. Makes as much noise as possible and flick on as many light switches around me as possible if it's at night. Scare the sh!t out of the thieves so that they get out as quick as possible. Not a big fan of this whole "creeping downstairs to check it out". I think that could be very dangerous if you end up face to face with a burglar.

Kavkid · 30-08-2008 02:14AM

When I was younger, 4/5 we had our car stolen, or tried. Battery was dead, so they pushed it into the park to burn it, me da caught them though.

And a few years ago, ma and da gone away for the weekend, big brother and his GF minding us. But yeah, musta been about 4 in the morning, we were all asleep and thne the alarm went off, now this is a loud alarm, but seeing as we were knackered, all of us, we just ignored it, because I thought we had a faulty alarm, then it goes off again, and then a third time, which was when me brother came down, he heard people, or something out the back garden so he was pretty sure there were lads out the back checking to see if we were in. Thank god me brother went down.. wonder what woulda happened.

pablomakaveli · 30-08-2008 02:29AM

When i was around 7 i was at my grandmothers house and it was just the two of us in the house. i was playing in the hall and she was in the sitting room. a guy walked up to the window of the sitting room and when he saw my grandmother he started asking her could he have a word. she asked him to come to the front door and so he went to the door and my grandmother opened the door. it was then we saw that there was another guy there waiting at the door. they asked if there was anywhere they could rent a boat

(the area is miles from the coast) and left.

A few days later the guards called and told us that the house next door had been broken into. Apparently the family living there were in the front garden when one of the guys walked up to them and started talking to them. while he distracted him the other guy went into the house and stole some money and jewellery. Basically it seemed like the guy that had come up to the window was going to try and distract her while the other guy broke in, but since i was playing in the hall he couldnt do it. i guess we were lucky they werent the violent type as it was only me and my grandmother in the house.

as for the guards they showed us a few photos to see if they matched the two guys but i dont think they ever caught them:(

Ruu_Old · 30-08-2008 02:43AM

Never happened to me but happened to my grandad when he lived in his own house. He liked to sit outside the front most days, one fella with a fancy camera (probably nicked too) came around to talk to him while buddy sneaked around the back of the house and got in there. I think they got away with some money and his World War II stuff was still safe but I'm glad he didn't get hurt because he was around 80 years old then (91 now). The names he had to call them afterwards.

BlitzKrieg · 30-08-2008 03:01AM

got robbed once while in the UK for college.

Our house is around the corner to the university but all the houses on the street share a common enclosed car park/garden area that you cant get into without a key.

Anyway one evening my next door neighbour is having a party so naturally the back door is open so that people can move from our place to his. it was pretty early in the evening about 7pm and I dashed back into our place to cook a toastie to keep my energy up when I heard something upstairs.

Now this was a thin house but 3 stories high with 2 bedrooms and a bathroom on each floor, so I start making my way up and the notion going through my head was *its a cat that came in through the backdoor* So I push open the doors to each room and bathroom checking them.

Slowly I went up to the top floor where it was my room and checked it.

Didnt see anything and went down to the kitchen again grabbed the slightly burnt toastie and ran out back to the party.

Next morning:

3 video cameras (was a film student, as were my 3 housemates) and 2 digital cameras were gone.

Turns out that a load of stuff from under one of my housemates beds had been pulled out, I wouldnt have noticed (his room is normally a dump) but it appears that the thief panicked when he heard me come back (like I said thin house) and pulled the stuff and hid under the bed.

Rung police etc but no luck. Though unlike everyone else here, I have to bitch about the police. the initial response was great and seeing as 3 of us were robbed they took accounts from all 3 of us. They said they'd be in touch etc and they'd try their best.

The other 2 guys got letters and phonecalls from the police quite regulary in the following months about their progress. But never a word to me, after the initial report (that I called in) I never heard from the police in any fashion. Felt quite offended for being snubbed like that.

allybhoy · 30-08-2008 03:54AM

Brought a new car bout 3yrs ago (well it wasnt brand new, but it was new for me) in from Japan, she was fairly flashy and quick. Only got it on a Thurs, never got a chance to get an alarm on it , so I had been parking my mam's car in front of it every night and had been putting a steering lock on,plus the house had electric gates. Anyways had to collect the parents from the airport that weekend at about 3in the morning,didnt get home till 4 and was so tired didnt park my mams car in front of it as i was up for work in less than 3hours. Next morning the gardai ring the bell at half 6 in the morning, they were driving by and seen the electric gates pulled off the pillars lying on the ground and thought something might have been up. Of course the car was gone!

To make matters worse as I had only posted the insurance forms off with the log book on the friday and the insurance company hadnt received them, they were trying to get out of paying me back for it. I had to hire a solicitor and was at the verge of bringing them to court when the car was found in mint condition right on the border in Monaghan. Apparently it was going to be used in a robbery. Needless to say I installed a pricey alarm system and changed my insurance company.

To this day I have no idea how they managed to rob the car as we live on a main road and the detective said they would have had to have used either a jcb or a high powered jeep to pull the gates off the wall. Neither me, the aul pair or the two dogs heard a thing that night, so it just goes to show u if they want something badly they will take it no matter what. The gardai were brilliant in fairness through out the whole thing and went as far to say that they thought it could be an insider in the Vehicle Registration Office as a lot of newly registered cars had been targeted that month.

c - 13 · 30-08-2008 06:58AM

Thankfully no.

There's been a couple of occasion we may have forgotten to put the padlock on the shed and came out the next morning to find it wide open and nothing taken. Was nothing in there worth robbing anyway, gardening tools and a BBQ mostly.

My grandmother's house was tried once, she takes sleeping tablets so never heard a thing. Woke up the next morning and there was marks all around the downstairs sitting room window from where someone tried to force it open.

One of our friends place was tried too. They have a huge alsation that normally sleeps in the shed, but sometimes if they're feeling lazy they let him sleep in the hall. So the wife hears the dog barking like mad in the hall that night and sends the husband out, as he's leaving the bedroom he hears breaking glass and someone puts their arm in the broken pane in the front door looking for the door handle. Unfortunately for the guy a couple of seconds later he has a very large dog swinging from the arm he stuck in the window. When he got free he ran off.

It was a neighbour of theirs, a bit drunk and actually went an reported their dog to the police too :rolleyes:

EDIT - Actually there was one night some little scrote robbed my windscreen wipers off my pick-up, trying to drive to work the next morning in the rain wasnt fun (to early to buy some and I didnt have spares)

30-08-2008 07:57AM

darkman2 wrote: »

So........me wokes up this mornin all fine and dandy ready to go when I went to let the dog out to the garden when I noticed my Conservatory door lock was broken from the outside - half the lock was taken out and the inside lock did not work. However the door was still partially locked so I was really relieved that whoever was trying to break into my home last night obviously did not succeed in getting through the first Conservatory door. Nothing was taken and there was no sign of anyone having been inside the house. Of course I was really annoyed though but in a way thankful I slept through it because of possibly doing something I would regret to someone I found in my home or trying to get in - or indeed I could have gotten hurt myself. I was really supprised I did not wake up - im always very concious of any noise at night and would normally wake up if something fell downstairs in the kitchen or whatever. This is the very first time my house has ever been, at least attempted to be broken into. Id say they were looking for car keys.

I rang the gaurds anyway and reported it and am getting the lock fixed and some extra ones.

My neighbour across the road was not so lucky though last night as, presumably, the same person(s) actually managed to get in. They got in the Conservatory door through the backgarden and 500 euro was taken out of the man's wife's purse. He heard and saw nothing either.

Pressed my nerves a bit this morning I must admit but happy they did not get in. And also that I did not find myself in a situation of having to confront someone.

Ive a feeling I might have my dog to thank! - its a small dog but its very excitable....

Anyways has your house ever been broken into? Have you ever caught people trying to break into your house? Just out of curiosity what was the guards reaction when you let them know? When I rang them they where helpful but you could tell by the tone that there was not much they could do. I can see why in my case but I wonder if they could nessacarilly do much more even if they actually succeeded in getting into the house?

Have you not got an alarm on your house?
I remember the bastards used to set mine off quite a lot during the night. I was thinking it was faulty. My next door neighbour told me that the same thing happened to him a few years ago and he ended up leaving iy off, then the house was robbed.
So beware of that tactic.

But I reckon these low life dopes reckoned that just because my car wasn't parked in my garden (open plan front gardens) that there was no one in.

So politely, one night, God bless their cotton socks, my door bell rang. I jumped up thinking it was my lift to work, very early as usual but had I slept it out, I knocked on the light, went to the window to indicate I was up, was getting ready and was looking out again to say I'd be a sec, but this scrawny ****er is jumping into a jeep that was turning.
I rang the police but sure what could they do. It was the sticks.

It was the last time it was attempted.

I wish it were like America though. What sort of idiotic law favors such scum!?

Manic Moran · 30-08-2008 08:04AM

Itsdacraic wrote: »

Do you have a gun?

As it happens, five.
But I don't have a sign in front of my door saying I have any.
Some people do.

But even if a house doesn't have any, they still receive the benefit because unless someone puts a sign out front of their house saying "We have no guns", breaking and entering is a pretty perilous activity around these parts as you never know who does, and who does not.

NTM

Cutie18Ireland · 30-08-2008 10:29AM

Our house was broken into just over 4 years ago. Took a 2 day old mercedes, playstation, jewellery, cash. Also tried robbing the neighbours car but was blocked in by his wife's so they couldnt get it out. Were all asleep in bed at the time, came in through the back door used to have all the keys on the wall by the kitchen door.
Alarm and bollards were installed after this.

Attempted robbery last christmas eve about 5am tried to pull a window open in the kitchen set the alarm off and they ran.

Also someone tried to rob my grandparents awhile ago tried to force the back door, either they couldnt or the dog scared them off. Worrying because my grandmother is deaf, and they refuse to get an alarm.

Epic Tissue · 30-08-2008 10:54AM

darkman2 wrote: »

My neighbour across the road was not so lucky though last night as, presumably, the same person(s) actually managed to get in. They got in the Conservatory door through the backgarden and 500 euro was taken out of the man's wife's purse. He heard and saw nothing either.

That's a strange way to refer to her!:P

0 attempts on my house... touch wood!

seanofdbush · 24-09-2008 02:18PM

I had a break-in last week. They broke-in through a side door and ransacked the downstairs. They stole the car, cameras and other stuff. I was away myself but the wife and kids were asleep upstairs but fortunately they didn't wake up.

As an aside, I need to get the front and back door locks changed in the house. The doors are standard white PVC type - does anyone know who would do this or approximately how much it should cost. I need to give an estimate for the insurance company.

Thanks..

funk-you · 24-09-2008 02:53PM

seanofdbush wrote: »

I had a break-in last week. They broke-in through a side door and ransacked the downstairs. They stole the car, cameras and other stuff. I was away myself but the wife and kids were asleep upstairs but fortunately they didn't wake up.

Sorry to hear that dude.

seanofdbush wrote: »

As an aside, I need to get the front and back door locks changed in the house. The doors are standard white PVC type - does anyone know who would do this or approximately how much it should cost. I need to give an estimate for the insurance company.

Thanks..

http://www.goldenpages.ie/search/County:Meath/Locksmiths.html

-Funk

Mena · 24-09-2008 02:57PM

connundrum wrote: »

Our house in Johannesbury was done in 3 or 4 times, which was the reason we moved here. Each time it was when we were all inside or asleep.

Funniest was when they had obviously been trying to take the wheel barrow, and had fecked it over the wall. Unfortunately for them the barrow had got caught in the tree next to the wall, and so couldn't get it. We woke up the next morning to see our bikes gone, but we still had the trusty wheel barrow

Never had a house in Ireland broke into, despite the fact that I've often come home to discover I'd left the front or back door open all day. Ach well.

Our's in Joburg, 3 times. In Port Elizabeth, 6 times. In Ireland, none.

Silenceisbliss · 24-09-2008 03:05PM

We have a pretty large maison, lots of stables, and lots of horses, and lots of tack (horse stuff). we live around 4 km from kk city in the country side and at night we used to be an easy enough target,

around 15+ attempted break ins on the property at night time, only once were two rugs stolen

the fact that everything in the yard is locked down pretty tight, the doggies, and my dads pretty unbelievable reactions stopped any further progress once on the property.

then at one point (not intended for security purposes) We got an alsation and I bought a rifle in the space of a month. Not one break in since.

target practice I guess gives off the loud bang of..."careful now"

but more so, the alsation is alwasy outside ruinning around really energetic and has a very very loud an deep bark, scare the crap outta even most farmers near us

nevaeh-2die-4 · 24-09-2008 03:20PM

larko wrote: »

He legged it out the door and someone said they saw a fella running across the field at the back of the local school. So dad took off and he actually caught him. Lets just say he came back with all the stuff and was there was a few cuts on his knuckles and mud all over him. He became a legend in our area after that morning.:cool:

Is that how he tells it - as far as legend is.. your ran dad ran after the robber & he slowed down and your dad caught up with him the burglar suplexed him and stripped him of his pj`s and made him wear a pair of panties and bra & had him barking like a dog thats how he got the blood on his knuckles!

seanofdbush · 25-09-2008 09:53AM

funk-you wrote: »

Sorry to hear that dude.

http://www.goldenpages.ie/search/County:Meath/Locksmiths.html

-Funk

Thanks for the reply... appreciate you taking the time.

How often has your property had an attempted breakin if ever?

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