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wesimmo

wesimmo

wesimmo

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Anybody had this happen to them?

We've just been away for a week to Centre Parcs as a family.

None of us posted on Facebook or anything like that.

When my brother got home with wife and kids, someone has crowbarred the windows, gone in and seemingly searched the house.

He says it looks a professional job, they knew exactly where to attack the windows.

However nothing was taken, no valuables, cash nor passports.

A quick Google suggests drugs are the normal explanation, but I'm pretty certain if that was the intent, it was mistaken identity, they did only buy the house a few months ago. Though not from an "obvious" drug dealer.

Why else?
 
I would be changing your locks pronto! Can car keys get reprogrammed easy enough incase they've been copied?

Also, any documents stolen? Might have cloned/ copied enough info to access bank accounts, but are waiting weeks / months to do so...
 
Maybe they were after the keys but couldn't find them? The car was most probably the target if it's a GTI. When I was done the first time they literally came in, looked around downstairs and found the car keys, grabbed my laptop and drove off without even waking me. Second time I think it was amateur hour as they tore the whole house apart and still only took my laptop and watch. They didn't find my car keys though as I'd learnt after the first time to hide things well.
 
almoststew1990 said:
I would be changing your locks pronto! Can car keys get reprogrammed easy enough incase they've been copied?

Also, any documents stolen? Might have cloned/ copied enough info to access bank accounts, but are waiting weeks / months to do so...
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Yeah locks are being changed.

If they got the Golf keys they could have just taken it and my brother's car is a big old Merc estate that's not worth stealing unless it's oppurtune, certainly not worth any particular effort.

No documents taken that they've noticed yet, but passports are the most obvious thing they left.

They also left by the back door and left the key in it.
 
wesimmo said:
Anybody had this happen to them?

We've just been away for a week to Centre Parcs as a family.

None of us posted on Facebook or anything like that.

When my brother got home with wife and kids, someone has crowbarred the windows, gone in and seemingly searched the house.

He says it looks a professional job, they knew exactly where to attack the windows.

However nothing was taken, no valuables, cash nor passports.

A quick Google suggests drugs are the normal explanation, but I'm pretty certain if that was the intent, it was mistaken identity, they did only buy the house a few months ago. Though not from an "obvious" drug dealer.

Why else?
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I broke in your house. I released hundreds of invisible bitey spiders with big teeth.
 
Street said:
Maybe they were after the keys but couldn't find them? The car was most probably the target if it's a GTI. When I was done the first time they literally came in, looked around downstairs and found the car keys, grabbed my laptop and drove off without even waking me. Second time I think it was amateur hour as they tore the whole house apart and still only took my laptop and watch. They didn't find my car keys though as I'd learnt after the first time to hide things well.
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Yeah when I got done they must have loaded it all into my Integra but it had a weird immobiliser set up that re-armed even if you left the doors open.

I got home to find loads of stuff gone plus car keys, car open and a few little bits like Xbox controllers under the seats.
 
Reminds me of a campaign of head ****ery we played on a mate. We got hold of his house keys and made a copy, then everyday whilst he was at work we let ourselves in and moved random items around. Things like
  • moving the coffee table next to his chair a few inches out of reach.
  • changing the toilet paper to the wrong away around.
  • putting the tea bags in the coffee jar and the coffee in the tea bag jar.
  • putting the volume to max on his TV and AV system.
  • putting all the clocks in the house forward six hours
It drove him ******* mental. :D
 
Malevolence said:
Reminds me of a campaign of head ****ery we played on a mate. We got hold of his house keys and made a copy, then everyday whilst he was at work we let ourselves in and moved random items around. Things like
  • moving the coffee table next to his chair a few inches out of reach.
  • changing the toilet paper to the wrong away around.
  • putting the tea bags in the coffee jar and the coffee in the tea bag jar.
  • putting the volume to max on his TV and AV system.
  • putting all the clocks in the house forward six hours
It drove him ******* mental. :D
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That's actually quite funny, might have to do this..
 
Did they search your sock drawer / bedside cabinet for valuables?

I was broken into a year ago and intially didn't see anything missing. But after looking further my DSLR camera gear was stolen which was by far the most expensive item in the house.
 
They were obviously only after the keys to the Golf GTI hence the reason they didn't take anything. Take it you had the keys with you on holiday? Fast Golfs and Audi's are the number 1 target now for thieves the amount you see on Facebook and Pistonheads of them getting stolen is staggering it's literally every other day someone posting there's has been taken
 
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