Been burgled

[hondated]

You have my sympathies as well.
It happened to us many years ago when we had nothing and lived in rented rooms so I have an understanding of how you are feeling.I just hope that like us they capture who did it.

Its not as if they wait until everyone is asleep either.Would you believe that this morning I walked down to my local shops to buy a paper at 9am and as I entered the alley beside the Co Op a young fella was running up from the opposite direction with a tray of drinks.As he passed me I thought blimey I would like some of his energy and just as I thought again about this my new thoughts were confirmed when a girl from the shop shouted out " your on cctv camera ".

Yes he had actually been into the shop picked up the tray of drinks and ran out.I did feel after that I should have stopped him but then again given knife crime would that have been advisable.

It seems to me that everything these days as to be nailed down

 

[Crankarm]

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.

Brilliant idea ....................

Danger : Risk of Radioactive contamination.

It wouldn't be hard to trace the thieves glowing in the dark or by using a Geiger counter.

Take your pic,

 

[Crankarm]

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.

Milton Keynes would have very few burgulars then ............................

 

[vernon]

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.

It would have no effect - they wait for ten dumb schmucks to be executed before resuming their activities. Net effect? - a five minute hiatus.

 

[Crankarm]

But after the first ten there would be another 10 and so on .....

 

[vernon]

But after the first ten there would be another 10 and so on .....

No, that's a totally different proposition.

 

[stephec]

But after the first ten there would be another 10 and so on .....

Maybe I should have said that's what I meant, once you've done the first ten keep it going until there's non of the vermin left.