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So, been broken into lately? Burglaries boom?

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  • #32
    hmmm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,192 ✭✭✭✭hmmm


    Crazy Horse 6 wrote: »
    It's not just junkies you know a lot of it is people who can't make ends meet because of the high cost of living and lack of jobs.
    Yeah, most people on the dole are forced to supplement it with a little burglary. FFS would you ever listen to yourself.


  • #33
    Crazy Horse 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,474 ✭✭✭Crazy Horse 6


    snickerpuss wrote: »
    Aunt and uncle had their house broken into at 3pm last Saturday in a busy housing estate in Dublin. Their house faces onto a green opposite a local shopping centre and they broke in through the locked front window, can't believe they weren't seen. Weirdly they didn't really take anything just threw everything around in kitchen and bedroom, ignoring laptops etc. Bizarre.

    No money for the laptops by all accounts, gold and smart phones are the main targets.


  • #34
    7sr2z3fely84g5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭7sr2z3fely84g5


    id cut them up with the chainsaw *if they don't knick it of course.


  • #35
    Crazy Horse 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,474 ✭✭✭Crazy Horse 6


    hmmm wrote: »
    Yeah, most people on the dole are forced to supplement it with a little burglary. FFS would you ever listen to yourself.
    What the hell are you on about?


  • #36
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Those lads with the charity leaflets are around in the early hours before dawn.
    Walking around apartment blocks and up people's driveways.

    Sure it's the old "my cat was in your garden" excuse when you challenge them only they'll say they are collecting bags.

    There are a few thieves among them, scoping out properties.
    And leaving the leaflets sticking out the postbox and checking if they are disturbed is a sure way to check if people are on holidays


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  • #37
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    Crazy Horse 6 wrote: »
    What the hell are you on about?
    errr, new to reading are we?:) Stats being what they are, there has to be a few burglars on boards? Or ex-burglars? WTF is your justification for ruining somone elses home just cos you need to get a few bob? Maybe grow a pair and go earn your money? Yannow, by working? As in sweat, job, bit of pride etc? Or one day you might burgularise someone who would happily spend the next year or two looking for you to return the favour.


  • #38
    tweedledee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 435 ✭✭tweedledee


    Ahh but the Gov will tell you that crime is all down,that everything in Ireland is rosey!!!CSO says so,it must be true!!!!!!!
    Everybody knows the figures "released" by the CSO have been massaged by the Gov before we get to see em.
    Lots of my mates are Gardai and all of em will tell you that they have never been soo busy especially with house crime, larceny,car theft and public order offences.
    Gov won't release exact figures due to the lack of Garda recruitment.:mad:


  • #39
    7sr2z3fely84g5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭7sr2z3fely84g5


    people who have their properties visible on google street view should contact google to remove their properties,ive heard this another tool the thief's use.


  • #40
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,702 ✭✭✭squod


    tweedledee wrote: »

    Lots of my mates are Gardai and all of em will tell you that they have never been soo busy especially with house crime, larceny,car theft and public order offences.

    I knew it was the gards, can't trust 'em.


  • #41
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    squod wrote: »
    I knew it was the gards, can't trust 'em.
    warped, but very funny:D sharp, aint ya!


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  • #42
    tallus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,324 ✭✭✭tallus


    Been Broken into Twice

    I'd gladly take a fcuking shotgun to their heads given a chance, and I mean that with all sincerity.


  • #43
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    you can protect yourself and your property with reasonable force. about time that law was changed last year.

    but some burglars have guns so unless you have a gun your screwed basically. and also every single burglar will be carrying a screwdriver so there is a good possibility you could get stabbed if you try to confront them, in which case why I have a machete handy just in case, thats not a knife this is a knife.

    but in most cases most burglars would just run away if they heard you shouting at them, but the ones that are armed probably would not.

    for people that are out most of the time just get an alarm installed and it will save all the hastle of being burgled. or a dog.

    a few years ago I was awoken from sleep with the noise of a small window being broken in the far room so i hopped up turned on the lights and ran like forest Gump out the back brandishing a meat cleaver and I never seen anyone run so fast in my life also this guy jumped over a huge wall so fast i couldn't believe it lol it's amazing what a burglar can do when their life is in danger.


  • #44
    flas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭flas


    Have heard of it happening a lot from down where my girlfriends parents live, rural area, all farmers around the area. think the burglars are bit stupid being honest, these farmers would think nothing of firing a few rounds of a shot gun at them if they were trying to rob their house or their neighbours house!

    remember years ago when was living at home, in a town, woke up for school and these travellers had gone on a bit of a theiving spree in our estate, they had my brothers weights bench and all the weights taken out of the shed and all lined up ready to go, a few bikes all ready to be taken aswell, bbq's, basically everything they could resell at markets or that, old elderly neighbour heard them and turned on her upstairs light and looking out the window with phone in her hand, gardai caught them, dirty fu£ks!

    also got my bike stolen when i was younger, was when them bikes with the suspensions came out first, I got a bright orange one, only one other one in the whole town and I knew your man with the other one, seen this fella cycling my bike on the way to training one evening, parking it up and going into a pub with bike chained up outside, my manager was a detective, when i got up to training i said it to him, he got on his phone and drove me down, i was sitting in his car, another garda car pulled up, went in got your man and got my bike back! he was caught with the bike, got nothing done to him, but i got my bike back!


  • #45
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Security lights. Alarm. Arm it at night or whenever you leave the house. Take out your double glazing and silicon seal the window panels in. Install a floor safe. Less than 100 quid installed if you're anyway handy. Get a big dog. two of them even better. Go to the dog pound and you'll find any amount of dogs in need of a good home and family and they will return this favour. Let them into the house at night. Good company and one helluva handy alarm and if big enough... Back up with kitchen knife and plastic sheeting. A cut price lidl petrol chainsaw works a charm too. Enough scum have seen Scarface...

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #46
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Fair play to you Wibbs. Couldn't agree with you more. Have two sheep dogs at home and believe me, you will not pass the older one, and if you do, you won't be leaving with both your shoes or your pants unripped.

    Also have one of them "night lights" that come on when it gets dark. Not the big sodium lamps, but the white ones. Great when going out in the yard after dark because you're not rooting around with a flashlight and I think it makes it harder for someone to come in at night and act the pr1ck as they will "in the spotlight" so to speak.


  • #47
    constantg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 666 ✭✭✭constantg


    Has anyone noticed that scumbags are not only more inclined to burgal, but also to case places far more openly? I'm renting a room on O'Connell Ave and one day myself and housemates were sitting in front room and some scobe stuck his head in window for a look and fecked off when he was asked WTF he thought he was doing!

    Now if you're not familiar with the area, the houses are all set back from the road about 30 feet, have railings and narrow gates and are usually quiet!

    Very, very ballsy move!


  • #48
    Crazy Horse 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,474 ✭✭✭Crazy Horse 6


    Solnskaya wrote: »
    errr, new to reading are we?:) Stats being what they are, there has to be a few burglars on boards? Or ex-burglars? WTF is your justification for ruining somone elses home just cos you need to get a few bob? Maybe grow a pair and go earn your money? Yannow, by working? As in sweat, job, bit of pride etc? Or one day you might burgularise someone who would happily spend the next year or two looking for you to return the favour.
    When did i ever say i robbed anyone you parcel?
    And what is "Yannow"?


  • #49
    CantGetNoSleep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,561 ✭✭✭CantGetNoSleep


    Padraig Nally for President


  • #50
    squod
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    .. Back up with kitchen knife and plastic sheeting. A cut price lidl petrol chainsaw works a charm too. Enough scum have seen Scarface...

    I keep one of these yokes under me bed for security.


  • #51
    Monkey_Pirate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭Monkey_Pirate


    chin_grin wrote: »
    I think it's the idiots who use Facebook places.

    "Suchandsuch is currently out of his\her house..........please come and rob him/her".

    If you think about it, all they would have to do is make a facebook profile with pilfered pictures of a gorgeous woman/man, add everyone in the area they're looking to rob (most people will add back out of pure flattery and stupidity), and wait for the "Holidays for 2 weeks, yippee" posts.

    ...not that I've ever done this :pac:


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  • #52
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,464 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    4.5K worth of materials stolen from a building site in Howth last night/this morning.. My OH at the loss :mad:

    Dirty pikey bastards.


  • #53
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Solnskaya wrote: »
    Any of ye noticed that there seems to be a lot of burglaries latley? Two people at work this week already told me they got broken into and their stuff nicked, in areas(rural)where previously this was unheard of. Some poor unfortunates also tried to burglarise a neighbour of ours, luckily they managed to escape relatively unharmed although their vehicle was sadly thrashed and had to be towed on a truck to the scrappies-the burglars van that is, not the neighbours. Apparently the burglars are well on their way to a full recovery after their unfortunate experience. But, theft from peoples homes seems to be getting very common. Whatcher reckon AH, is burglaries on the up? Been burgaled? Know how to spell burgaled(its a bit of a puzzler for me anyway, this the right way?)

    You wouldn't happen to be living in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool or some other English city? Heard there were a fair few burglaries during the last week over there!


  • #54
    bigneacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,222 ✭✭✭bigneacy


    As i was leaving the house today I noticed a strange white powder on the inside of the door frame. I looked closer and there was tooling marks around the door frame just below where the handle is and the black piping was all broken and torn.

    Thinking someone tried to crow-bar open the door during the night. Has me extremely worried. Its a white UPVC door with the handles that you can open from outside and inside. They lock at the top and the bottom so why would they be crowbarring in the middle, where the handle is?

    To get the keys that were in the back of the door? I.e. to steal the car?

    Or were they just amateurs, who didn't know what they were doing?


  • #55
    Jelly2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 402 ✭✭Jelly2


    bigneacy wrote: »
    As i was leaving the house today I noticed a strange white powder on the inside of the door frame. I looked closer and there was tooling marks around the door frame just below where the handle is and the black piping was all broken and torn.

    Thinking someone tried to crow-bar open the door during the night. Has me extremely worried. Its a white UPVC door with the handles that you can open from outside and inside. They lock at the top and the bottom so why would they be crowbarring in the middle, where the handle is?

    To get the keys that were in the back of the door? I.e. to steal the car?

    Or were they just amateurs, who didn't know what they were doing?

    This happened at my house a few weeks ago - both front and back door. The doors are wooden with a doubleglazed window, and have the three point lock thing (don't know what it is called). There were scratches etc on the door and frame near the lock...and the bars with the locking points on the side of the doors (don't know what they are called either) had to be replaced. The locksmith said it would be very hard for the thieves to wrench the door open that way, but that they strain the locking mechanism when they try. That is why it was bad news for the wallet even though they didn't manage to get into the house. It cost E250 to get the doors fixed.:mad: Opportunistic amateurs I guess?


  • #56
    MysticalRain
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    I think those cash for gold shops have a lot to answer for. My parent's house down the country was burgled a couple of weeks ago by two young knackers from Tallaght. They drilled open one the the windows, and took all the gold jewellery. Nothing else was taken. Not even the silver jewellery.


  • #57
    LisaLee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭LisaLee


    They'd have to get past this lad first :D

    In all seriousness though, we haven't been burgled thank God. Our dog and house alarm seems to act as a deterrent.

    I think you're able to defend yourself if they come upstairs, but what about people who live in bungalows?


  • #58
    Oral Slang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭Oral Slang


    LisaLee wrote: »
    I think you're able to defend yourself if they come upstairs, but what about people who live in bungalows?

    You're allowed to defend yourself in your own home since the new Criminal Law (Defence and the Dwelling) Bill 2010 was brought into law:

    http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/Speech%20by%20the%20Minister%20for%20Justice%20and%20Law%20Reform,%20Dermot%20Ahern%20T.D.%20Criminal%20Law%20(Defence%20and%20the%20Dwelling)%20Bill%202010%20Second%20Stage%20Speech%20(D%C3%A1il)%20on%20Wednesday%2020%20October%202010


  • #59
    jenizzle
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    mikemac wrote: »
    And leaving the leaflets sticking out the postbox and checking if they are disturbed is a sure way to check if people are on holidays

    We leave those in the letterbox cos we're too lazy to remove them. They'll have some craic trying to rob a rented house with feck all in it :rolleyes:
    Lamar Brief Ref wrote: »
    people who have their properties visible on google street view should contact google to remove their properties,ive heard this another tool the thief's use.

    Should we knock down our house too, just in case someone walks past it and looks?


  • #60
    Ophiopogon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Ophiopogon


    My car was stolen from outside my house a few years ago. It was a very old car that the gaurds said was prob stolen for parts.

    People said that the people who take these cars think that its ok as we can claim it back on insurance which its such bull. I only got 700 from the insurance company and than had to get a 500 loan to get a new car. This might not seem like much but at the time (and still :rolleyes:) I had no extra money so this crippled me for months after trying to catch up financially. On top of this as I did claim it is still effecting my premium 3 years later.

    At the moment we have nothing at all in the house worth stealing, no gold and the t.v is over 10 years old. The only thing would be my laptop and thats over 3 year old and I always leave it in my room. I've heard that if a house like ours was broken into, when they found nothing to steal they would just trash it out of anger. Again, would you not have enough brain power to realese that if someone has nothing to steal or drives a really old car than they don't even have the money to fix anything you break.

    Whats is considered reasonable force when defending your property and is there a time limit as if I ever found out where the scum who stole my car lived I'd skin them alive!!


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  • #61
    Wibbs
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    MysticalRain wrote: »
    I think those cash for gold shops have a lot to answer for. My parent's house down the country was burgled a couple of weeks ago by two young knackers from Tallaght. They drilled open one the the windows, and took all the gold jewellery. Nothing else was taken. Not even the silver jewellery.
    I agree. I'd ban those places or regulate them out of business in the morning if I could. Never mind they're blatant rip offs for genuine people selling their own gold. Cash for gold? More like rip off pittance for gold. You'd want to be a moron, or desperate to use one. Morons and the desperate should be protected.

    And yes most cops I've talked with will agree with you that these outlets are a large part to blame for increased burglaries and more and more are springing up. I've heard similar first hand to your experience MR. In one case the moronic inbred scum took two small brass candlesticks while leaving actual cash, two laptops and other saleable items alone. Yea like you'd have solid gold candlesticks in a semi d. Not unless it was Tutankhamun's semi D.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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