Have you ever been broken into?

Birneybau · 24-09-2014 08:31PM

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.

Did they nick your glasses?

Frigga_92 · 24-09-2014 08:35PM

We've never been robbed, thankfully, but unfortunately every one of our neighbours has. We live in a rural area and there's 4 houses, including ours, on one side of the road and 1 house on the other side of the road and all of them have been broke into, one of them has been done twice. Only difference between us and the neighbours is that we have 2 german shepherds, who aren't very fond of strangers and very vocal about that, and a shotgun.
The neighbour right beside us was broke into in the middle of last year and she had a stroke towards the end of last year and she's not great since then so we keep an eye on her. Late last year she was at home and she heard someone pull up outside and start poking around trying to find a way into the house, she said our dogs kicked off barking like maniacs and whoever it was legged it, they couldn't get back into the car fast enough, and no sign of them since.
All our neighbours are elderly so we try to keep an eye out for them.

vixdname · 24-09-2014 09:02PM

I to also live in a rural part of the country.

Theres been quite a few break ins recently into houses no more then 5 mins from my house.

I've 2 dogs that are let out at night, security lights that come on if movement is detected, am getting a new alarm system fitted shortly and possess a couple of rifles, which I add I would have no qualms about using on any f****r that tried to enter my home and steal my hard earn belonging never mind threaten my wife or kids well being.

Hopefully, I'll never have to come to that.

LeBash · 24-09-2014 09:08PM

Happened to me 3 years ago for the second time. I heard a noise out back and saw a guy with an iron bar pulling the door open. Ran down stairs in a pair of jocks and he ran off. I later thought about how i was going to deal with that if he didnt run.

I know a guy who heard some at the back of his appartment kicking the door trying to get in. He boiled coke in the kettle and poured it on the lad. The tea in his place was great for a week.

Tokyo · 24-09-2014 09:18PM

Twice in Ireland, both times in the same house in the space of a year. Alley ran at the back of the house where the local scummy ****bags used to congregate. Came back one evening to find the front door wedged shut, legged it around the back to see them legging it out the back door with a bunch of our stuff in tow. Guards were called, said there was bugger all they could do because they were all underage, one of them told us that we'd have been better off not calling the guards at all and to have given them the hiding of a lifetime.

Didn't lose much, but the stuff that did go missing was never retrieved, and the house was in a mess form top to bottom. Crappiest part was that the other three people I was sharing with didn't feel safe there and moved out a couple of weeks later. Next time it happened, I took the guards advice.

cruais · 24-09-2014 09:34PM

Ten years ago I arrived home to my house to find the glass on the front door smashed. Stupidly I went in and saw a rock placed on top of the radiator. I really don't know what I was expecting, I suppose I was in shock.

I walked upstairs and could hear someone walking around my bedroom. I called out who the hell is in my house a and within a second, my bedroom door swung open and a man in his 50's walked out.

He grabbed me by the neck and threw me up against the wall and threatened to blow my head off. He then turned and calmly walked down the stairs.

It was like a switch went off in my head and I ran down the stairs after him and down the road all whilst getting on the phone to the guards. He went to take a swing at me on the road and thankfully he managed to miss.

He really was a classy individual as at the time I was only a 19 year old girl.

Anyway between the jigs and the reels he was caught by the guards and that was the last I heard of it, apart from the guards telling me that he did have a weapon in his pocket that was capable of causing severe injury.

Funny thing is, I would normally run a mile from any situation.

tallus · 24-09-2014 09:38PM

Twice, and I'd gladly pay to see the scum physically punished regardless of their situation. Absolute fcuking lowlife pond scum.

Potatoeman · 24-09-2014 09:40PM

I picked these up last week. 65 euro each. They allow live streaming so you can keep an eye on your house when you are not there (from a smartphone too) and you can set up the motion detector on it to email you pictures if triggered.

http://mydlink.dlink.com/products/DCS-932L
http://www.currys.ie/Product/dlink-dcs932l-wireless-home-security-camera/328240/7.14

Mariasofia · 24-09-2014 09:40PM

Was once.....
The guards said he was either no good or disturbed......story of my life!!!!

Birneybau · 24-09-2014 09:42PM

Mariasofia wrote: »

Was once.....
The guards said he was either no good or disturbed......story of my life!!!!

Did he smash your backdoor in?

Mariasofia · 24-09-2014 09:46PM

Birneybau wrote: »

Did he smash your backdoor in?

He tried as I said......amateur......

qwertyabcd · 24-09-2014 09:47PM

yes, 2 years ago, had worked a 24 hour shift and was in bed trying to sleep, thought it was my dad sorting files down stairs woke up to find one of them staring at me and I actually thought I was dreaming so I turned around and went back to sleep, realised what had happened about 15 minutes later, luckily nothing was taken but I got some fright

columf · 24-09-2014 09:51PM

When I was young the Family and I lived in Limerick my dad used to shoot and kept the shout gun on top of the wardrobe in a locked case. One night Mam woke Dad telling him there was somebody downstairs dad grabs the gun and a couple of shells and heads down stairs que him in his best voice " if you two don't feic off you'll be pickin pellets out of you arse for the next week" They left

Birneybau · 24-09-2014 10:01PM

columf wrote: »

When I was young the Family and I lived in Limerick my dad used to shoot and kept the shout gun on top of the wardrobe in a locked case. One night Mam woke Dad telling him there was somebody downstairs dad grabs the gun and a couple of shells and heads down stairs que him in his best voice " if you two don't feic off you'll be pickin pellets out of you arse for the next week" They left

Those shout guns are fierce loud.

Packrat · 24-09-2014 10:02PM

Not my house, but my jeep has been done 3 times in as many years in Dublin. They never got more than a couple of hundred worth of tools, but they fcuked up the doorlocks of the jeep. Its as good as worthless after last week's episode.
I'm to become a dad in the next few weeks and I'm buying a shotgun. God help the fcuker who has the misfortune to ever enter my house with my family or me present, but I'll leave him like a strainer, and do my time for it. There'll be no "reasonable retreat" either.

xzanti · 24-09-2014 10:06PM

2 days before Christmas 2012 we were burgled. We live in a remote area and I came home from visiting my Mother to find the kitchen window broken.. Our bedroom was ransacked pretty badly and another looked as though they had just started.

So we reckon the lights of my car startled them and they scarpered. I had my baby with me coming into the house too.. so we're blessed they were gone, I don't like to think what could have been!

Gas thing was, they stopped just short of finding a load of money that my hubby had stashed to pay his bill at the building suppliers for Christmas. We never leave money in the house now, just not worth it. Could have been a really miserable Christmas if they got that cash!

They got nothing! Delighted for them.

It is a horrible feeling though.. I didn't sleep for weeks after it.. every little noise in the house sent me into a panic. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy

markc1184 · 24-09-2014 10:19PM

About 18 months ago, a scumbag that lives 2 doors away from us broke in while I brought my mam to Tesco for a bit of shopping. We were only gone about 30 mins but he obviously seen us leaving and was in not long after through the front door that he forced open. My mam had a habit of locking bedroom doors when she was going out so he bust open all of them and damaged all of the frames. He ended up getting a large sum of cash that my mam was after taking out of the bank for a holiday, along with some jewellery that had more sentimental than monetary value. He went out the back door when leaving but the dog got a fair chunk of his leg it's just a pity he didn't get more. He was caught, sent to Cloverhill for a few months but was back out within no time.

wiseoldelf34 · 24-09-2014 10:26PM

its not really the same but my sons house was raided a couple of years ago and he felt as though he had been robbed with them going through his drawers

Its Only Ray Parlour · 24-09-2014 10:31PM

markc1184 wrote: »

About 18 months ago, a scumbag that lives 2 doors away from us broke in while I brought my mam to Tesco for a bit of shopping. We were only gone about 30 mins but he obviously seen us leaving and was in not long after through the front door that he forced open. My mam had a habit of locking bedroom doors when she was going out so he bust open all of them and damaged all of the frames. He ended up getting a large sum of cash that my mam was after taking out of the bank for a holiday, along with some jewellery that had more sentimental than monetary value. He went out the back door when leaving but the dog got a fair chunk of his leg it's just a pity he didn't get more. He was caught, sent to Cloverhill for a few months but was back out within no time.

How did he get caught?

Highflyer13 · 24-09-2014 10:36PM

Yes 3 weeks ago. I was face to face with the 2 of them as they tried to enter our bedroom. Tense few seconds before they left.

LorMal · 24-09-2014 10:45PM

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 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.

God Bless you. Your Dad sounded like a nice gentle man. RIP.

Robsweezie · 24-09-2014 11:25PM

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 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.

my condolences about your father, thanks for sharing such a dark time with the thread. hope you're in a good place right now

Highflyer13 · 24-09-2014 11:29PM

Yes 3 weeks ago. I was face to face with the 2 of them as they tried to enter our bedroom. Tense few seconds before they left.

Frigga_92 · 24-09-2014 11:33PM

Potatoeman wrote: »

I picked these up last week. 65 euro each. They allow live streaming so you can keep an eye on your house when you are not there (from a smartphone too) and you can set up the motion detector on it to email you pictures if triggered.

http://mydlink.dlink.com/products/DCS-932L
http://www.currys.ie/Product/dlink-dcs932l-wireless-home-security-camera/328240/7.14

Thanks for posting these.
Are they worth purchasing? Any problems?

Soups123 · 24-09-2014 11:57PM

Was burgled three weeks before Xmas gone. They broke in via the front window in broad day light and took every toy we had and the kids clothes for Xmas.

Was a horrible feeling, pure anger followed by a feeling if stupidity for not setting the alarm. She was devastated, our sense of security and homeliness wiped in an instant. The night it happened was awful as we had to send the kids to her mams and we sleep in our sitting room until we got the window fixed the following day.

The next day in case the bastards were still around I went to argos and got every light up decoration I could find and lite the house up just as a fcuk you we are better and stronger than you.

We found our family and friends were everything we expected and we replaced everything in time.

She just never settled though and we are in the process of moving.

Strongbow10 · 25-09-2014 12:13AM

Soups123 wrote: »

Was burgled three weeks before Xmas gone. They broke in via the front window in broad day light and took every toy we had and the kids clothes for Xmas.

Was a horrible feeling, pure anger followed by a feeling if stupidity for not setting the alarm. She was devastated, our sense of security and homeliness wiped in an instant. The night it happened was awful as we had to send the kids to her mams and we sleep in our sitting room until we got the window fixed the following day.

The next day in case the bastards were still around I went to argos and got every light up decoration I could find and lite the house up just as a fcuk you we are better and stronger than you.

We found our family and friends were everything we expected and we replaced everything in time.

She just never settled though and we are in the process of moving.

Do burglars really care about alarms in this day and age? we have one on the house but the amount of times we hear them going off and nobody gives it a second thought. If anything, alot of people are of the opinion that hopefully it will be switched off (presume its a fault) rather than presuming its a burglary.

Did the burglars see you guys had an alarm? and if so did they chance it even though they didn't know ye didn't set it? If so, this indicates zero fear of setting the thing off

shedweller · 25-09-2014 12:41AM

Padraig Mc Nally.

Legend.

Theres my flag pinned to the mast.

WoollyRedHat · 25-09-2014 01:10AM

Yeah, years ago, ransacked drawers looking for money(as if, we keep it in a safe buried in some field somewhere), couldn't find any, so took a big smelly poo in the corridor in protest and left. The toilet was inches away like.

B.A._Baracus · 25-09-2014 01:27AM

Might as well post this here seeing as how we are on the theme of security and breaking in

https://www.aldi.ie/en/specialbuys/thursday-25-september/products-detail-page/ps/p/safe-can/ Aldi safe can that looks like a can of their beans. lol.

Nice little idea. But I fear that seeing as how popular Aldi is within Ireland. The idea of it will be wasted as robbers will surely twig on to check the cupboard with the tins now.

policarp · 25-09-2014 02:03AM

Three times and no one was ever convicted.AFAIK.
Makes me think, why shouldn't we form vigilante groups
to protect our property.

Have you ever been broken into?

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