Have you ever been burgled?

toexpress · 12-06-2012 01:28PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

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

When my sister got married my folks did that had a security company sitting in a jeep outside the house for the night your only man really

Wibbs · 12-06-2012 01:30PM

Scum is indeed the right description. It's a crime that can have serious personal repercussions for the victims. I've talked before about an old lady in my area that wasted away and ended up killing herself after a break in. They stole stuff, but also willfully destroyed personal items of hers, smeared shít on the walls the lot. I'd not like to describe in a public forum what I would do to such worthless human filth if given the chance.

mikemac1 · 12-06-2012 01:32PM

Ellis Dee wrote: »

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.

Definitly travellers

Mink · 12-06-2012 01:32PM

My mam and dad were out one night and the woman next door saw guys breaking into one of our back windows.

Full Paddy wagon came, with coppers going along the back walls. Two of them went to the front door & rang the doorbell. The lights were all off & the burglars answered the door (nice of them). The garda asked them if they were the owner & he replied "well of course, I have the keys don't I", while holding up some random bunch of keys.

The garda accepted this and left :eek:.

Now they only made off with some small amount of cash & a watch (we'd been burgaled a few months before & all my mother's jewellery was taken) but the garda had to come to our house & explain to our parents what had happened & apologise profusely. My dad just laughed at them from when they arrived at the house til when they left, he said it was worth the bit of cash & watch just for the story of it.

shuridunno · 12-06-2012 01:32PM

Not inside the house but our diesel and home heating oil was taken.

Got a german shepherd and a rottweiller from some friends that were emigrating. The dogs are old and just stroll around but it has put a stop to tinkers calling.

People seem afraid of those breeds.

mikemac1 · 12-06-2012 01:34PM

oxo_ wrote: »

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.

Unless you are Alan Shatter and then you get the forensic squad, suspects picked up off the street and the detectives doing interviews

His house was burgled at the end of March

MaxSteele · 12-06-2012 01:36PM

I haven't myself luckily.

But I remember around christmas 2008 or 2009 ... The first house on my road has a single mother with two kids living in it.

On Christmas eve, some c*** broke in at the side bathroom window of it and swiped all the children's xmas presents from under the tree. Playstation 3, toy cars etc.

Fairly heartless stuff alright. But what kind of animal would do that to an excited child at xmas ?

Mink · 12-06-2012 01:36PM

We also had the one piss-green coloured Micra robbed from us 3 times & it was always found each time & returned to us. They must have realised it wasn't a great steal & abondoned it.

My mother got knocked to the ground at her front gate for her bag.

There was a family that used to come around looking for money weekly, the mother was a drunk. My mam would give food and clothes to the kids & she would give some change to the mother. One time, while my mam went off to get her purse, the woman made off with my sister's jacket with her weeks wages in it. I've actually seen her in town several times since then & she still has her kids begging even in their teens.

bamboozle · 12-06-2012 01:36PM

ours was broken into 2 times when the house was being renovated and we were living elsewhere, definately travellers, copper piping, shower hose, fireplace.

Vicxas · 12-06-2012 01:36PM

House wasnt burgled, but the car window was smashed and ransacked.

meoklmrk91 · 12-06-2012 01:39PM

Nothing yet thank god, I keep something by the bed and we have a boxer who stays in at night, half thinking of leaving him in by day when there is no one in the house now, which is rarely. Must move the PS3, the Xbox and the telly though, they are visible from the kitchen window at the front of the house, I certainly won't be giving the bastards any excuse to break in, it has become all too prevalent these days.

HazDanz · 12-06-2012 01:40PM

Had problems with travellers trying to rob from my parents property, had the same group rob us three times in the space of a few months. The last time we caught them in the act, cue my father and myself running out like mad men after them. My father had a shotgun on him and in his demented anger told them their horses head will be blown clean off if they didn't leave in ten seconds.

Haven't had a problem with the bastards since.

shuridunno · 12-06-2012 01:42PM

Vicxas wrote: »

House wasnt burgled, but the car window was smashed and ransacked.

Likewise and my little peugoet was written off as replacing the windows was more expensve than the car.....and all they took was my wet swimming gear and a pair of prescription sunglasses..

Weirdos.

On the burglaries whilst being at your families funeral/wedding.

It happened here in Wexford yesterday. A family burying their Dad, they broke into their cars while the funeral was going on.

We got security for our wedding and a funeral last year to house sit as was suggested above.

I don't know weather it's just worse in Wexford, but it is comman around here.

Corvo · 12-06-2012 02:20PM

shuridunno wrote: »

Likewise and my little peugoet was written off as replacing the windows was more expensve than the car.....and all they took was my wet swimming gear and a pair of prescription sunglasses..

Weirdos.

On the burglaries whilst being at your families funeral/wedding.

It happened here in Wexford yesterday. A family burying their Dad, they broke into their cars while the funeral was going on.

We got security for our wedding and a funeral last year to house sit as was suggested above.

I don't know weather it's just worse in Wexford, but it is comman around here. [/

Disagree with that, its everywhere but I dont think Wexford is the worst of it.

Carstuck · 12-06-2012 02:25PM

Luckily I was never robbed, but have heard of loads of cars being broken into recently while the families were visit graves or during the fine weather when the cars were parked near the beach

12-06-2012 02:27PM

Never been burgled thank god, never had anything stolen so far. It must be pretty scary to know someone was in all of your stuff. I tend to leave my keys somewhere easy enough to find and that so if someone does break in and wants my car, they can have it, I'll just keep pretending to be asleep.

2rkehij30qtza5 · 12-06-2012 02:29PM

Be careful of those charity plastic bags that get left on your doorsteps...you know the ones looking for you to put unwanted clothes etc into?
That happened my parents before and all the houses that were away had obviously not brought in the plastic bags that were left on their doorstep so the thieves knew who was home and who wasn't! Gardaí said its a common scam and if you are away always make sure you have a neighbour who will take those bags in if you are not there.

Sam Mac · 12-06-2012 02:39PM

No, but I've had things stolen outside the house. Neighbours got broken into, she's quite old and is now afraid of the place

maximoose · 12-06-2012 02:40PM

Few years ago I was at the Mighty Boosh show in the Olympia, just as the curtain was rising and show about to start I got a call saying to come home as we'd been broken in to

I lost a laptop, iPod, Sony Camera. Another 2 laptops and some cash stolen from housemates rooms.

Could have been a lot worse - had an Xbox, PS3, big ass telly and plenty of other pricey things in my room at the time.... it seemed like they just took smaller things they could lift and get out of the house quickly with.

Garda came the next day, said they most likely just shimmied the door open using a plastic bottle or something similar (it had been left with just the latch lock closed, deadlock not locked). Needless to say we started locking the door properly after that, and got contents insurance :pac:

Didn't stay in that house for much longer either, it left us all feeling quite uncomfortable there.

CruelCoin · 12-06-2012 02:43PM

No.

Also we have a gun here.

If i saw a gleam of steel from an intruder at night, blam blam.

SunnyDub1 · 12-06-2012 02:47PM

I know not everyone is a dog lover but I have to say they are best type of security for a house.

Anyone knocks my door - the dog will bark. Any one my dog doesn't know that enters the house he will bark, any unusual noises late at night and he barks.

Great for scaring off any unwanted visitors

padraig.od · 12-06-2012 02:50PM

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

I know not everyone is a dog lover but I have to say they are best type of security for a house.

Anyone knocks my door - the dog will bark. Any one my dog doesn't know that enters the house he will bark, any unusual noises late at night and he barks.

Great for scaring off any unwanted visitors

Indeed. People think they need a WE3 dog to protect the place, but really they just need a little yap machine. Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot, a small yapping dog will strike terror into their hearts.

SunnyDub1 · 12-06-2012 02:53PM

padraig.od wrote: »

Indeed. People think they need a WE3 dog to protect the place, but really they just need a little yap machine. Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot, a small yapping dog will strike terror into their hearts.

My Jack Russell fits this description

charlemont · 12-06-2012 02:57PM

MaxSteele wrote: »

I haven't myself luckily.

But I remember around christmas 2008 or 2009 ... The first house on my road has a single mother with two kids living in it.

On Christmas eve, some c*** broke in at the side bathroom window of it and swiped all the children's xmas presents from under the tree. Playstation 3, toy cars etc.

Fairly heartless stuff alright. But what kind of animal would do that to an excited child at xmas ?

I wouldn't be able to control myself if that happened, Things to do with children really make me tearful and really really mad. I'd beat the cúnt to death. Even reading that put my blood pressure up.:mad::mad::mad:

My dad's, mum's and sisters house were all broken into, No one charged, I had to sort the last burglary at my dad's out myself, I found out who done it and I thought them a lesson, They were travellers.

Two of the burglary's would have been easy to solve but for some reason the Guards didn't do anything, The Garda who came to my dad's after the travellers burgled it would be on fairly good terms with me but still nothing happened so I took matters into my own hands.

My sister had her house robbed when she was in hospital, Happened a few patients too, Small towns and big mouths lead to burgled houses.

toexpress · 12-06-2012 02:59PM

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

My Jack Russell fits this description

My friends call Benji the alarm on four legs ... he was great at the weekend bad date got handsy Benji went for a sensitive area see dogs are the best kind of alarm!

charlemont · 12-06-2012 03:01PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Never been burgled thank god, never had anything stolen so far. It must be pretty scary to know someone was in all of your stuff. I tend to leave my keys somewhere easy enough to find and that so if someone does break in and wants my car, they can have it, I'll just keep pretending to be asleep.

Just disconnect a cable by the battery (a Mechanic could show you), So at least if they get your keys they won't be able to start it.

caitmb · 12-06-2012 03:01PM

Living in a brand new estate(at the time),only in the house a wk so no alarm etc,my sister was in bed.She heard patio door open at approx midnight but ignored it cos she thought it was next doors,but she hopped up to use loo and went back to bed.Next am she copped footprints and bits of leaves on ground but nothing taken thank god.Guards think they heard her and were frightened off.She had a powerful car at the time and think thats what they were after as 3 other cars robbed that night.Gave her a serious dose of the sh*ts I can tell ya!!!

Also my da doing up his house,not living there at moment and place has been fleeced....wiring,water tank,ceilings pulled down,anything you can think of is gone. Ba**ards.....lucky he has big garden to bury the feckers if he ever catches them!

12-06-2012 03:02PM

charlemont wrote: »

Just disconnect a cable by the battery (a Mechanic could show you), So at least if they get your keys they won't be able to start it.

The quicker they're gone, the better tbh!

ZETOR_IS_BETTER · 12-06-2012 03:04PM

padraig.od wrote: »

a small yapping dog will strike terror into their hearts.

Just thought of yuuuuuuuuup dave hesters dog....

antodeco · 12-06-2012 03:05PM

At night, I have a very large wolf who sleeps in my kitchen (only 1 of 2 entry points). The other entry point is 3 part locked. There are also some 'interesting' surprises around the house should anyone ever try break in.

Have you ever been burgled?

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