e-rider
Banned member
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- South West
yes, good point
Been burgled
- Thread starter BearPear
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yes, good point
Sorry to hear this, and sorry to be the bearer of even worse news!
The advice on changing locks etc is essential. One of the tricks that these scrota use is to wait a few weeks until all the nice new stuff has been provided by the Insurance company.
As for the IPhones - do you use "MobileMe" in which case you can track (and wipe an Iphone or Ipod Touch)
The advice on changing locks etc is essential. One of the tricks that these scrota use is to wait a few weeks until all the nice new stuff has been provided by the Insurance company.
As for the IPhones - do you use "MobileMe" in which case you can track (and wipe an Iphone or Ipod Touch)
pepecat
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Dodging the Buzes in Brum
Oh no....not good. We were burgled in summer 09 when we were on holiday. The b*ggers kicked the front door in one lunchtime, kicked the inner door in and nicked 3 laptops and a bag to put them in. Arses. But they didn't take the spare set of house keys we'd left in a drawer upstairs, or other small (and easily sellable) items like a digital radio. Weird. The front door was then wide open and glass all over the place until a friend went round to feed the cat at 6pm and she called us so we rushed home (were only a couple of hours away).
Police were very good - but no fingerprints were left, so couldn't really do much. We had to get a new front door and inner door, and claim for laptops obviously; all this was only a month after being robbed on holiday in france and losing ipods, passports, house keys, wallet, memory card for camera (with Tour de France film/pics on it!!!!!!!!!), tickets home.... all the important stuff. The insurers (MoreThan) were great, on both occasions.
Definitely get the locks changed, especially as they have your keys!
Police were very good - but no fingerprints were left, so couldn't really do much. We had to get a new front door and inner door, and claim for laptops obviously; all this was only a month after being robbed on holiday in france and losing ipods, passports, house keys, wallet, memory card for camera (with Tour de France film/pics on it!!!!!!!!!), tickets home.... all the important stuff. The insurers (MoreThan) were great, on both occasions.
Definitely get the locks changed, especially as they have your keys!
Spot on Tund.
Until governments stop listening to the mard arse liberals who defend the scum that do this, and start treating them like the kind of shoot that you scrape of your shoe when you stand in it, then this kind of thing will only continue.
Do you think that if it was announced that the next ten burglars to be caught would be shot, and then that promise was actually kept, that it would have any effect on crime figures? I'd vote for any party that announced that.
swee'pea99
Squire
Bummer. Really sorry to hear that. Sympathy...useless tho' it is.
Crankarm
Guru
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Sympathy to the OP and all the others who have posted tales of being burgled. It must be a miserable time. My Gran's house was burgled on the night of her death in hospital. Police reckon it was some one in the hospital who tipped off the actual thieving scrotes. They still didn't catch any of them though despite several foot prints and blood left on the remains of a broken window in my Gran's porch. Well it was the Met Police so expectations weren't high.
As cyclists I guess we are all mindful of securing our pride and joy, but perhaps neglect over all security. As some one said to shoot burglars, I would advocate a zero tolerance to thieves, by holding public floggings and amputations of hands and feet, obviously not in public for amputations. And they wouldn't then be able to them claim disability allowances. They should then be treated as pariahs.
As cyclists I guess we are all mindful of securing our pride and joy, but perhaps neglect over all security. As some one said to shoot burglars, I would advocate a zero tolerance to thieves, by holding public floggings and amputations of hands and feet, obviously not in public for amputations. And they wouldn't then be able to them claim disability allowances. They should then be treated as pariahs.
hackbike 666
Guest
Sympathy to all from me.I was almost burgled in 1989 and had someone try and get in the back door recently...On both occasions im pretty sure I know who it was but im very security concious after the 1989 attempt anyway and also took note of the adverts they had on this subject on the TV.
Globalti
Legendary Member
You can walk around cities like Damscus and Amman in perfect safety at night, I have seen a thief hanging by his neck in the middle of a roundabout in Damascus. It wouldn't take many of those here.
Presuming that the man hanging in the roundabout actually did anything wrong, or maybe the policeman just did not like his attitude.
If some of you want to move to Damascus or Amman, go right ahead, but I will support the retention of our current justice system.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Hope you aren't feeling too down about it ... we were burgled in 1990 and I still remember how nervous felt leaving the house and coming back again. Someone mentioned changing your insurance but you need to be careful if you do because we had to keep on declaring the burglary for several years after on both the contents and house insurance even though they didn't take that much. One of the items they took was our CD player which had started going wrong and would open and shut the CD drawer on its own. It used to give us a good point about the burglary thinking we got a new one on the insurance and which ever idiot bought it in a pub - would get what they deserve.
OP
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BearPear
Veteran
- Location
- God's Own County
Thanks for all your advice and comments. I can confirm that new locks & extra safety devices were fitted the same day (although the insurance only covers like-for-like).
The police detective looking into things asked me if my phone had been used between it being taken and me getting it locked by the provider - it had! I googled the mobile number and I know who it belongs to, well, I have a name. "She" then texted back to my phone - I know this because I got a replacement sim from my provider this morning in the post and the message she sent appeared in my received messages! I am so tempted to ring her and vent my spleen, so to speak. It makes me so angry.
I found the mobile number on-line attached to several Gumtree adverts selling...wait for it...mobiles, laptops & 2nd hand cars!
GGGrrrrrrrr
The police detective looking into things asked me if my phone had been used between it being taken and me getting it locked by the provider - it had! I googled the mobile number and I know who it belongs to, well, I have a name. "She" then texted back to my phone - I know this because I got a replacement sim from my provider this morning in the post and the message she sent appeared in my received messages! I am so tempted to ring her and vent my spleen, so to speak. It makes me so angry.
I found the mobile number on-line attached to several Gumtree adverts selling...wait for it...mobiles, laptops & 2nd hand cars!
GGGrrrrrrrr
One additional security measure, often overlooked but always highly effective, is to have those Hazardous Materials tape and other hospital 'material' you can easily obtain.
I was alerted to this one night staying in a hotel when my car was broken into. I was woken at 3am and the policeman walking me down to my car told me they had the criminal in custody as he had phoned them to admit what he'd done! I was amazed but the copper asked me if I worked in the hospital. Now I was a medical rep and the boot of my estate car contained loads of cases in which was the medical equipment I demonstrated and sold. The paranoia of most people intrisically links hospital stuff with danger. The stupid idiot slightly cut his arm on the back window he'd smashed (you could see small blood stains on the glass) and began pulling out the cases when he realised they contained medical equipment, he concluded they could be infected! What a moron! As if I'd have carried infected hospital equipment around! Anyway, he asked to be arrested to receive assurances there was no danger to his health. The copper actually asked me if the equipment had come into contact with AIDS!!! I played this one along and assured him it hadn't.....BUT it did contain Hep B (it didn't of course) and that the annoying glep needed to get it investigated. This necessitated more worry and painful injections for him. Which was excellent.
So, ever since, I've put all the stuff I don't want stealing in the garage and roll out 'Hazardous Material' tape and scatter round those blood sample bags and larger 'Bio Hazard' bags you can pick up from hospitals (well I can since I still work in them and my wife's a senior nurse manager). Sometimes, I get the small sample jars they send blood and cut off bits from operations down to the path. labs and squirt a few drops of Ribena into them. Anyone seeing that gives it a wide swerve.
I was alerted to this one night staying in a hotel when my car was broken into. I was woken at 3am and the policeman walking me down to my car told me they had the criminal in custody as he had phoned them to admit what he'd done! I was amazed but the copper asked me if I worked in the hospital. Now I was a medical rep and the boot of my estate car contained loads of cases in which was the medical equipment I demonstrated and sold. The paranoia of most people intrisically links hospital stuff with danger. The stupid idiot slightly cut his arm on the back window he'd smashed (you could see small blood stains on the glass) and began pulling out the cases when he realised they contained medical equipment, he concluded they could be infected! What a moron! As if I'd have carried infected hospital equipment around! Anyway, he asked to be arrested to receive assurances there was no danger to his health. The copper actually asked me if the equipment had come into contact with AIDS!!! I played this one along and assured him it hadn't.....BUT it did contain Hep B (it didn't of course) and that the annoying glep needed to get it investigated. This necessitated more worry and painful injections for him. Which was excellent.
So, ever since, I've put all the stuff I don't want stealing in the garage and roll out 'Hazardous Material' tape and scatter round those blood sample bags and larger 'Bio Hazard' bags you can pick up from hospitals (well I can since I still work in them and my wife's a senior nurse manager). Sometimes, I get the small sample jars they send blood and cut off bits from operations down to the path. labs and squirt a few drops of Ribena into them. Anyone seeing that gives it a wide swerve.
Well if that's not a good enough lead for the coppers to work on then I don't know what would be.
Wouldn't it be nice to go and arrange a car viewing and take along a few big mates with you?
