Have you ever been broken into?

Robsweezie · 24-09-2014 06:33PM #1

Yes, I am aware this MAY or may not have been discussed before so just to warn off all the whiners on here #askmeslice....but anyhow how does it feel in that moment when you know your home has been invaded? I imagine its very much fight or flight but just wanted some real, fresh perspectives as it's something ive always thought about...how I would react.

FloatingVoter · 24-09-2014 06:35PM

Junkie kicked in my front door once. Arrives in the living room looking as shocked as I was. It is true that bone makes a different noise when it shatters than when it breaks. I was a good lad. I rang an ambulance after I left it in a skip two streets down.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 24-09-2014 06:36PM

Dey broke me windrit brakin in
De karmachameliooon is knokin on der door, n goin 2 put dem on d tik train #choochoo

Gongoozler · 24-09-2014 06:38PM

God I hate to see people using hash tags outside of Twitter.

I've had the experience of having my house broken into 3 times. It's a very unsettling feeling, disturbing. Once I was actually there when they broke in. Couldn't wake up my boyfriend and went out to the room to get rid. Scary stuff. It puts you on edge for quite a while.

The_Valeyard · 24-09-2014 06:38PM

Pure and utter scum, can make families afraid to live in their own home, a violation of their sanctuary and safe haven. Those criminals do not deserve hands or feet.

Potatoeman · 24-09-2014 06:40PM

A friend of mine house shared with a butcher who was cutting up a roast he got from work when he heard some banging in the back garden. So we walks out the back in his bloody work apron wearing his knife belt holding a large knife and sharpener to be confronted by two junkies that turned white and scampered over the back wall. They never came back again.

Nino Brown · 24-09-2014 06:40PM

People broke into a houseshare I was in once and stole car keys and a car. My friend woke up and saw them, they ran but by the time he gave chase they were gone in the car.
It prompted me to get laser eye surgery because I didn't like the idea of somebody in my house and my vision being impaired, by other than that I didn't really care too much, my friend who disturbed them was pretty shook up by it for quite a while.

Bafucin · 24-09-2014 06:40PM

Yes three times.

When I walked in the first time I was a teenager it was winter and because the backdoor was open the house was freezing and very eery. The way everything was laid out was weird. They had not ramsacked but rather looked through drawers and placed things out in an orderly way. My sisters clothes were still folded when they took them out and put them on the bed. They only took cash and everything in the medicine cabinet.

boobar · 24-09-2014 06:44PM

When I was a student, the house I shared was broken into.

I didn't have much, movie posters were all that was robbed really from my room.

But definitely felt uneasy in the house after that.

Lucy and Harry · 24-09-2014 06:45PM

Happened 2 times in different houses.The 2nd time I was in work and opened the door.Then my dogs ran to me.How did they do that I asked myself.As they had been locked out the back garden.Then I saw my back door was smashed in and my dogs had been beaten up by garden tools .I walked around the house listening to hear if anybody was still there.Called the Gardai.They were very nice about things.I could not sleep well for a while as I kept thinking they were coming back to rob me again.

harry Bailey esq · 24-09-2014 06:45PM

we were broken into a few years back,I was awake.Grabbed portable tv and stood on top of the stairs,ready to smash it into the head of the intruder,and shouted all sort of obscenities and spooked him and he fkd off. I rang the guards,and they were there in an instant.The guy burgaled several properties that night in the area and was eventually picked up,and confessed that he had also entered my gaf. id to go to the station few days later,and never heard any more about the matter.The cop told me "ah sure this fella is just down on his luck" I asked him the guys name but the copper wasn't forthcoming.Never heard a word back from them since.

smellmepower · 24-09-2014 06:46PM

Family home was burgled on St.Patrick's Day in 1997.I was 17.Was a drug addict who lived a few doors down that did it,burgled his own aunts house the same night too.Stole money,a mobile phone that was broken anyway,and a few bottles of wine out of the fridge before my little brother jumping out of his bunk bed disturbed him.We always locked the door from kitchen to the hall so luckily he didn't get any further than the kitchen.

Saw him begging on O'Connell Bridge a few years ago,and he's apparently dead now according to a few friends that still live at home.No great loss.

Mrs Garth Brooks · 24-09-2014 06:56PM

Never been broken into but had people try to pick pocket me before. Scumbags. Had someone slip up beside me and reach into my pocket for my wallet. I turned around and gave him a thump and he dropped it.

Stealing anything and especially your wallet can be a pain in the hole, you have no access to your account until a new bank card comes, not to mention them having your credit card. No way was I going to let him come up and steal from me.

Another time I was in Dublin, standing on the bus, my bag on my back. I felt someone pushing against me even though there was space. I looked behind me and the pushing would stop. I looked forward and the pushing started again. By the time I got off the bus the front pocket of my bag that was on my back was open. That was all the pushing I felt. I didn't keep anything in the front pocket of the bag, but they tried.

Dirty scumbags for even trying. It would scare you.

Taltos · 24-09-2014 07:01PM

Three times to me.
The last time one of the guys I was house sharing with (shady character

) found out who it was and paid them a visit, we got nothing back but did hear the junkie was walking around with 2 broken arms after said visit. Horrified I lived with someone like that but at the same time it was the last time we were broken into.

kupus · 24-09-2014 07:14PM

of course.

Reiver · 24-09-2014 07:43PM

Couple of times. They made the mistake of going into a downstairs room that had been converted into a bedroom. It was a bit of an odd call to arms with everyone roaring and shouting, blundering about in the dark. Bastards took a remote control, Usual Suspects dvd and a few other odds and ends.

It was a weird feeling for a few days, just like paranoia and the sick feeling that someone had actually broken in while we were sleeping. Not nice at all.

DVDM93 · 24-09-2014 07:45PM

I have, in jail

I was too pretty for my own good, never stood a chance.

Aubrey loves Joe · 24-09-2014 07:46PM

Not since I lost my virginity

fleet_admiral · 24-09-2014 07:48PM

I was in 2007. Bastards broke in through the kitchen window. What they werent expecting was my flighty 78 year old grandmother that went for them with her walking stick.
They fled but the window had to be replaced

bitemeluis · 24-09-2014 07:48PM

Nino Brown wrote: »

People broke into a houseshare I was in once and stole car keys and a car. My friend woke up and saw them, they ran but by the time he gave chase they were gone in the car.
It prompted me to get laser eye surgery because I didn't like the idea of somebody in my house and my vision being impaired, by other than that I didn't really care too much, my friend who disturbed them was pretty shook up by it for quite a while.

Infra red sight?

bitemeluis · 24-09-2014 07:50PM

DVDM93 wrote: »

I have, in jail I was too pretty for my own good, never stood a chance.

Did they get in through the back or front door?

DVDM93 · 24-09-2014 07:51PM

bitemeluis wrote: »

Did they get in through the back or front door?

Both, there was two of them. An good old-fashioned spit roast.

purplecow1977 · 24-09-2014 07:51PM

boobar wrote: »

When I was a student, the house I shared was broken into.

I didn't have much, movie posters were all that was robbed really from my room.

But definitely felt uneasy in the house after that.

Your MOVIE POSTERS were robbed?!?!?!?

fleet_admiral · 24-09-2014 07:54PM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Pure and utter scum, can make families afraid to live in their own home, a violation of their sanctuary and safe haven. Those criminals do not deserve hands or feet.

Agree completely. If it ever happens to me again they will be met with the heavy metal bar that I use to open the attic door. Then they will be dragged a few steps up the stairs before I call the Gardai

myshirt · 24-09-2014 08:08PM

I posted it on boards before, but we had a break in a while back.

They took one item, and also made themselves a sandwich. I didn't know what to be more upset about. There was a minimum 6 slices of ham in my fridge pre burglary, and none afterwards. I just couldn't believe the bast@rds had the audacity to make themselves a sandwich.

There is something very sinister about taking a man's food in my books.

Ava_e · 24-09-2014 08:15PM

Tormented by scummy people

Yep, my dad had a large house and a bit of land that backed onto a not very nice estate. They would regularly drink behind his wall, and smash bottles against it every night. Fight, scream abuse, the Gaurds called all the time.

My dads a gentle soul, lived on his own liked box sets, music, good people and animals for company. But scum would regularly taunt him and abuse him, when he used to go and clean up the broken bottles outside his house. He was fed up enough that he confronted them one night, told them to clear off. They knocked at his door 1 day later and punched him in the face, knocking his teeth into his gums, and his mind into next week. They threatened more. He planned to move out within the month. He was that stressed.

House was on sale, he had the cash, it was all good.

He had a sudden heart attack at home later that month, it killed him on the living room floor despite the best efforts of my brother and the Dublin paramedics, he was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital. His house was vacant for 3 days while my mother, bother and myself, made funeral arrangements for our dad. Within that time his house was raided of all it's belongings, (they were drinking by the back wall while dad was being carried out to the ambulance) they even tried to set fire to his bedroom to hide all traces.

Yea, there are scummy people about, my sympathy goes out to anyone who has been broken into.

keith16 · 24-09-2014 08:19PM

Never happened to me thankfully, but shocked at the number of people who have already posted 3 times :eek:

fleet_admiral · 24-09-2014 08:20PM

Ava_e wrote: »

Tormented by scummy people

Yep, my dad had a large house and a bit of land that backed onto a not very nice estate. They would regularly drink behind his wall, and smash bottles against it every night. Fight, scream abuse, the Gaurds called all the time.

My dads, a gentle soul, lived on his own liked box sets, music, good people and animals for company. But scum would regularly taunt him and abuse him, when he used to go and clean up the broken bottles outside his house. He was fed up enough that he confronted them one night, told them to clear off. They knocked at his door 1 day later and punched him in the face, knocking his teeth into his gums, and his mind into next week. They threatened more. He planned to move out within the month. He was that stressed.

House was on sale, he had the cash, it was all good.

He had a sudden heart attack at home later that month, it killed him on the living room floor despite the best efforts of my brother and the Dublin paramedics, he was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital. His house was vacant for 3 days while my mother, bother and myself, made funeral arrangements. Within that time his house was raided of all it's belongings, they even tried to set fire to his bedroom to hide all traces.

Yea, there are scummy people about, my sympathy goes out to anyone who has been broken into

Thats terrible, You're poor dad.

I really hope the saying 'what goes around, comes around' applies to the scum in you're case

myshirt · 24-09-2014 08:21PM

Ava_e - sorry to hear about your father. That is a very sad set of circumstances.

You reminded me of a chap who's son died at 19.
3 little **** broke into the house, knowing it was vacant during the funeral, and amongst other things tore up this chap's youngest sons communion suit for his communion that saturday. As if they hadn't enough heartache.

Riddle101 · 24-09-2014 08:24PM

House was broken into when I was about 7 or 8. They Took the tv, the car, and my new tracksuit bottoms that I had just got the day before. We also had people working on the house putting in hardwood floors at the time too, and the burglars stole one of the guy's tool boxes as well.

Birneybau · 24-09-2014 08:30PM

Really sorry to hear about your dad Ava_e.

Have you ever been broken into?

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