Have you ever been burgled?

u_c_thesecond · 12-06-2012 12:12PM #1

4am friday night i was woken by the loud screech of my house alarm going off.

When i jumped out of bed i saw two men jump over my back wall and run off, now my back walls about 7 foot to they must have been pretty tall. Its was only gettin bright so couldnt see any faces.

Theres been a spate of robberies in the estate latley and since friday iv been pure paranoid jumping at the slightist noise. Iv always had a serious fear of someone breakin into my house :-(

have you ever been burgled?

krudler · 12-06-2012 12:15PM

yup, few years ago two travellers broke into my parents house, scummers stole my mams jewelery and tore open all our wardrobes looking for stuff leaving the place in a state, its horrible thinking some piece of scum is going through your house, thats probably worse than stuff being taken.

kildare.17hmr · 12-06-2012 12:20PM

Parents house was broken into a few years ago when no one was home. Jewlrey tossed out of the box on the bed and a few wardrobes too but nothing except a newbridge silver xmas tree decoration missing! Monatered alarm, cctv and the dogs now roaming free in the house and garden should deter anyone now

toexpress · 12-06-2012 12:20PM

Shortly after we moved into our old house we were broken into they got damn all the place was a building site at the time so screw em!

Where I live here I was broken into twice but this was to do with dodgy neighbours. The first time put the heart across me by the second time they had nicked my oil, chucked paint over my car and generally made life miserable so I snapped and went a bit postal ... was nearly me in the cuffs that night but fcuk em the bastards they got what they deserved :-)

davet82 · 12-06-2012 12:21PM

no... touch wood!

something i fear though with my children in the house, makes my blood run cold, i feel sorry for anybodys house being broken into but more so if they were in the house at the time

flutterflye · 12-06-2012 12:22PM

Nope, not once.
Not when I lived with my family, or any of the places I've lived since.

stargazer 68 · 12-06-2012 12:23PM

Yep - when I lived in London my bf got up one morning and went downstairs. Came back up and said the front door was open and my handbag was scattered all over the sofa.

When I was on the phone to the bank cancelling cards etc I realised that my handbag had been at the end of my bed that night as it always was. :eek:

frag420 · 12-06-2012 12:25PM

Couple of months ago. They got away with a laptop and rent money. Cops said it was a traveller gang. They got a few places that day.

They will rue the day they burgle my place again if Im in there..................I will confuse them with the 4x tables and some simple second class spelling questions before taking a baseball bat to that sponge they call a head.

SCUM!!

Where To · 12-06-2012 12:25PM

No, they would need to start carrying in before they could start carrying out.

FatherLen · 12-06-2012 12:27PM

u_c_thesecond wrote: »

my back walls about 7 foot to they must have been pretty tall.

i am 5"6' and could easily climb a seven foot wall.

frag420 · 12-06-2012 12:28PM

FatherLen wrote: »

i am 5"6' and could easily climb a seven foot wall.

You would make a great burglar!!

FatherLen · 12-06-2012 12:31PM

frag420 wrote: »

You would make a great burglar!!

ssshh you'll ruin everything

Ellis Dee · 12-06-2012 12:34PM

My house was broken into about 1997. I was in India at the time and the thieves broke down the back door. They took a couple of TVs, a videotape recorder, a microwave oven, a collection of brass objects and a few other things. They also ripped a Victorian cast-iron fireplace right out of the wall and took it, in addition to taking the burner from my oil-fired central heating and leaving around 300 litres of kerosene flooding the shed. They were probably too thick to recognise that some of the pictures on the wall were quite valuable, so they were left where they were. :eek:

My daughter discovered the burglary when she came home and called the Gardai in Portlaoise. One of them turned up in the fullness of time and (approximately) the following conversation took place:;)

Garda (sweeping his eyes over the place). "Dim were professionals!":D

Daughter: (Wondering just how many amateur burglars there are in Ireland): "I see. By the way, I've been careful not to touch any doorknobs or anything so that you can dust for fingerprints.":)

Garda: "Ah shure, I never finished that course.":rolleyes:

And that was the end of that, but at least the insurance paid up.;:cool:

Biggins · 12-06-2012 12:37PM

No thankfully. The home is well protected.

antodeco · 12-06-2012 12:44PM

A guy up the road from me, Mr Sweeney, his house was broken into and was forced into a bra by the intruder. Apparantly he was a victim of the 200 cases of "forced transvestism" in the space of one year.

brummytom · 12-06-2012 12:46PM

Yeah, we used to get burgled about once a month by the time I was 10. Probably well in to double figures. We moved.

Wibbs · 12-06-2012 12:50PM

No not so far touch wood. Alarm, variable times going out, house rarely empty and a big and aggressive dog who prowls the house should help.

mikemac1 · 12-06-2012 12:54PM

Not burgled as such, not even broken into as the door wasn't locked

Came home from work, watched some TV and fell asleep on the couch
Woke up with a junkie in the flat

Off his head, if you asked him what country he was in he wouldn't know.
Kicked him out, squad car up in minutes, zero followup, I've heard nothing since

If I left my door unlocked at 3am and someone got in that would be my fault
But who locks their door at 7pm on a sunny evening?

kildare.17hmr · 12-06-2012 12:57PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

If I left my door unlocked at 3am and someone got in that would be my fault
But who locks their door at 7pm on a sunny evening?

my mother!

Wibbs · 12-06-2012 12:58PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

But who locks their door at 7pm on a sunny evening?

I do. Unless the dog is out and about in which case the back door is unlocked for him(He can open and close it with his paws).

oxo_ · 12-06-2012 12:59PM

Ellis Dee wrote: »

They also ripped a Victorian cast-iron fireplace right out of the wall and took it, in addition to taking the burner from my oil-fired central heating

Trait of traveller thieves. Stealing fireplaces and boilers.

If anyone shíts on your floor or sofa, it's a trait of thieves from the surrounding Dun Laoghaire area, a couple of particular area's actually which I won't mention. I grew up there and unfortunately knew filthy scummers who robbed houses, they even were so brazen as to eat your cereal and make cups of tea while they were robbing your house. Afterwards one of them would take a shít on your floor or sofa.
Garda never bothered doing anything about it, houses in the surrounding area's were rifled for years on end, sometimes multiple times by the same scumbags. I learned years later the reason why some Gardaí never did anything about it nor ever touched those responsible, but I can't give that info here but I've no doubts it still goes on there and elsewhere.

Gardaí don't care, don't even think they do. You just need to go through the motions to report to them for insurance purposes.

mikemac1 · 12-06-2012 01:01PM

oxo_ wrote: »

I learned years later the reason why some Gardaí never did anything about it nor ever touched those responsible, but I can't give that info here but I've no doubts it still goes on there and elsewhere.

Garda informant?

Duggy747 · 12-06-2012 01:03PM

No, fortunately, considering the areas I tend to live in. I used to have a hurley under the bed in case anyone happened to come upstairs uninvited.

I'd be surprised if they could get in the back considering the windows are jammed and I can't even open them :pac:

mikemac1 · 12-06-2012 01:04PM

Sounds like a fire hazard waiting to happen

I think you've just jinxed yourself

DERPY HOOFS · 12-06-2012 01:07PM

My next door neighbour tried to rob my home thinking i was still on holiday in Spain but i had returned the night before and chased him down the road with a pick axe.

The 2nd time in a new house i came home from work to find every thing thrown all over the place and some body had searched the place but took nothing?I had to get the back door fixed on my insurance as the **** had destroyed it though.

These 2 incidents had a effect on me as i sleep with a hatchet beside my bed.You never think you are going to have your home violated till it happens

Dave! · 12-06-2012 01:15PM

Years ago someone went up to our shed and tried to rob my dad's golf clubs... He fooked them over the wall into the neighbours garden, then seemingly gave up! Worst robber ever!

Don't think anyone has broken into the house

aujopimur · 12-06-2012 01:16PM

A neighbour and myself caught a guy stealing tools from my van a few years ago, we laid in to the fcuker with hurleys, I can still remember the scream of pain and terror as we beat the crap out of him.

SunnyDub1 · 12-06-2012 01:19PM

Friend of mine, her cousin passed away sadly. The family live in a huge house in the country on a wide area of land surrounded by trees.
A few relatives where over in the house one day.
When her aunty went to her room she realized her bedroom was locked, she hadn't locked the room herself and the key was on the inside. she frequently locked her room from the inside. One of her uncles went around the back of the house climbed in threw the open window. turns out some scumbags where watching the house, knew that there was a key in the door, knew her aunty left the window open often, and knew that all the family where in the main sitting room where they wouldn't see anything.

The scum climbed in threw the window and robbed all most everything out of the aunty's bedroom in the space of 20 mins.
The really sad and angry thing is that they where obviously hiding in the trees looking at this family grieving for a few days and just waiting for the right moment to rob the house
They really don't care of the situation the family are in before they decide to rob them. SCUM

toexpress · 12-06-2012 01:25PM

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

Friend of mine, her cousin passed away sadly. The family live in a huge house in the country on a wide area of land surrounded by trees.
A few relatives where over in the house one day.
When her aunty went to her room she realized her bedroom was locked, she hadn't locked the room herself and the key was on the inside. she frequently locked her room from the inside. One of her uncles went around the back of the house climbed in threw the open window. turns out some scumbags where watching the house, knew that there was a key in the door, knew her aunty left the window open often, and knew that all the family where in the main sitting room where they wouldn't see anything.

The scum climbed in threw the window and robbed all most everything out of the aunty's bedroom in the space of 20 mins.
The really sad and angry thing is that they obviously hiding in the trees looking at this family grieving for a few days and just waiting for the right moment to rob the house
They really don't care of the situation the family are in before they decide to robbed them. SCUM

That seems to happen a lot, watch for families that will be distracted by their grief, out of the house and things like that. A friend of mothers came home from burying her husband to find the house ransacked. There is no getting away from it, that truly is the lowest of the low.

tallus · 12-06-2012 01:26PM

Twice in the last few years, and I'd gladly pay to see the bastards swing for it.

mikemac1 · 12-06-2012 01:27PM

Similar happened when the four air corps servicemen were killed in the South East.

Their families houses robbed when people went to the funerals.
Just a high profile example

If there's a family wedding or funeral you almost need to get a house-sitter these days

Easy to blame it all on gangs from your nearest city but someone local is passing on the info

Have you ever been burgled?

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