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That's very unlucky, I on the other hand could not believe my luck the other day, I parked my car up at home and left it unlocked becuase I was talking to a mate, in the morning I realised what I'd done so rushed down to the car to find it unlocked and untouched with my £400 head unit still in it (which I'd also left with the facia still attached!)
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Unlucky Kol 
Unlucky, it reminds me of a few months ago when my mum and dad went out to walk our dog round the block circa 9pm, they do it every night and it only takes them 5 minutes or so. That night there were no curtains on the main front window (living room) because they had the rails down to paint. The living room extends right to the back of the house and the conservatory in our back garden. They left the lights on and left the conservatory door at the back of the house open as I was upstairs on my computer, probably OcUK and it must have been clearly visible from the road but they locked the front door. They got back from their walk, unlocked the front door and entered as normal then went straight through out of the conservatory into the back garden to play with the dog some more, our dog ran over into the far corner where it's dark and there's some bushes etc. and stood there barking its head off, it usually does this when it can't reach one of its toys so my dad went over to have a look and apparantly stood there looking for 5 to 10 seconds but couldn't see anything, then suddenly to his shock a 6 foot 2 black man in his 20's revealed himself probably thinking he'd been spotted or was scared of the dog when my Dad actually had no idea he was there and probably never would have hadn't he made himself known. The man seemed quite scared either at the dog (even though it's a little fanny thing) or the prospect of being caught and made some excuse saying I'm being chased, I was just hiding blah blah, my Dad in his 60's just said ok and let the man through the garage and out, and he ran off up the road. All this while I was blissfully unaware in my room. They didn't see anyone when they left the house and on their walk around the block so they must have just missed him, and he must have seen the open back door and took the opportunity straight away. When we called the Police afterwards the next door neighbour came out and said they heard a bang so it appears he climbed over our side gate to get back there. He was probably under the impression no one was in and wouldn't return for a while and was gonna nick our laptops, xbox360 etc all kept downstairs but didn't get a chance to enter before my parents got back. I just wish my dad would have called me straight away, as I can handle myself and would have liked to have arrested him but I had some banging choons on so it wasn't until like 2 minutes after he'd left my dad came up. I went out in the car round the area but couldn't find the ******
The police definetely said we'd disturbed a burglar and NEVER to leave any doors, windows open at all as it only takes minutes! Great advice and we've been a lot more careful since, we live in a nice area as well it can happen anywhere.
The police definetely said we'd disturbed a burglar and NEVER to leave any doors, windows open at all as it only takes minutes! Great advice and we've been a lot more careful since, we live in a nice area as well it can happen anywhere.
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Unlucky man, I had my headunit stolen which I left in the glovebox like an idiot but I empathise with that horrid hollow feeling when your personal space has been invaded 
If I may be permitted? hgygfyff, they should hang by the balls!
I know exactly how you feel mate, I came home a while back at 4am to find two of the ***** knobs rifling through our house. Luckily though, they'd spent most of the time 'bagging' stuff up rather than taking it so in the end they got away with nothing more than a few pieces of jewellery and some TV/DVD remote controls!
Funny thing is, the idiots left an Omega watch in it's box and took the £2.99 market job next to it!
I know exactly how you feel mate, I came home a while back at 4am to find two of the ***** knobs rifling through our house. Luckily though, they'd spent most of the time 'bagging' stuff up rather than taking it so in the end they got away with nothing more than a few pieces of jewellery and some TV/DVD remote controls!
Funny thing is, the idiots left an Omega watch in it's box and took the £2.99 market job next to it!
my uni flat got broken into in first year just before new years eve, luckily I was at home at the time so the door to my room was locked - but 2 of my flatmates were there and had popped upstairs for the night, when they came back down, someone'd made off with a laptop, 2 cameras, a phone, an ipod and some jewelry ooh, and a laundry basket. It feels **** knowing someone's been in your flat and going through your stuff without your knowledge
hope you're alright and get some money back from insurance if the stuff was expensive.
hope you're alright and get some money back from insurance if the stuff was expensive.
Haha, I remember when I was living in a student house with some friends, I got home and the door was unlocked, so I thought OK i'll leave it unlocked someone must have done it for a reason and my other housemate was in.
My bedroom was right at the front of the house and next to the front door. I was in a good few hours when my other housemate got home and popped in my room saying "hmmm, why was the front door open" I was like... "I dont know", a few minutes later he pops back in and asks where the VCR is... I told him to ask the other housemate, but none of us had it... Then he also noticed the £200 motherboard that was ready to be sold on ebay was gone too...
Some swine had just popped in and nicked the VCR and motherboard and just sauntered right past my closed door with the goods...
Made me feel kinda stupid lol
A while later a friend was round and he had come on his moped, he stuck it in the back 'yard' and we watched some random stuff into the early hours, to awake next morning with the chained, stearing locked moped completely vanished! Oh what fun that area was.
Oh I could go on about the student house shennanigans...
My bedroom was right at the front of the house and next to the front door. I was in a good few hours when my other housemate got home and popped in my room saying "hmmm, why was the front door open" I was like... "I dont know", a few minutes later he pops back in and asks where the VCR is... I told him to ask the other housemate, but none of us had it... Then he also noticed the £200 motherboard that was ready to be sold on ebay was gone too...
Some swine had just popped in and nicked the VCR and motherboard and just sauntered right past my closed door with the goods...
Made me feel kinda stupid lolA while later a friend was round and he had come on his moped, he stuck it in the back 'yard' and we watched some random stuff into the early hours, to awake next morning with the chained, stearing locked moped completely vanished! Oh what fun that area was.
Oh I could go on about the student house shennanigans...
I got home from work once (when my mum and step-dad were away on holiday) to find all the downstairs windows wide open.
After investigating a bit further, I found that the back door was unlocked too. All of the blinds/curtains were open allowing people to see that nobody was in.
My step brother (the **** that he is) had brought quite a few friends round the night before and as I trusted him to clean up his mess and lock the house up before he went out, left for work in the morning.
Yeah right... I was absolutely livid when I got home. Luckily no-one had noticed the empty house and nothing bad had happened, but just the thought of the **** putting all my stuff in jeopardy like that makes my blood boil.
After investigating a bit further, I found that the back door was unlocked too. All of the blinds/curtains were open allowing people to see that nobody was in.
My step brother (the **** that he is) had brought quite a few friends round the night before and as I trusted him to clean up his mess and lock the house up before he went out, left for work in the morning.
Yeah right... I was absolutely livid when I got home. Luckily no-one had noticed the empty house and nothing bad had happened, but just the thought of the **** putting all my stuff in jeopardy like that makes my blood boil.
That sounds like exactly what happened when I was living in a different house, I got home from work about 6 o clock, lights were on, door was unlocked, so i just walked in, wondering where my housemate is at, he was nowhere to be found, he strolls in about 10pm telling me he lost his door key somewhere in the house and had to goto the football match, so he just left the house unlocked and went to his match. The stupid thing is that he could have just dropped the latch on the door to lock it... Harrowing days.agw_01 said:
Happened to my flat mate at uni last year, was in bottom floor flat, he'd been sat in his room, just nipped out for a fag round the front. Thieving gits saw him leave his room, as soon as the door closed they popped his window open jumped in, locked his door, grabbed his laptop, phone, and psp, and made off with it.
It's bad but sometimes you get lucky 
Appart from my old neighbour who had his TV nicked, nothing odd about that considering the area we lived appart from the fact he was on the 14th floor of a 15 floor building and they went through the window!
But the best one was the ex's parents. They went on holiday and the milkman gave the details to a pair of local scroats, they broke into the shed (her dad had a load of quality tools) thing they didn't bank on was the sledge hammer swinging down from the roof indianna jones style. Best the police could make out was one had opened the shed while the other kicked the back door in on the house, as they never set foot inside we could only assume whoever took the shed got the hammerand they both decided if the shed was that well protected they didn't want anything to do with the house! They never proved who it was but about a year later someone caught up with the 'gent' concerned and he was given two choices, have his finger nails pulled or his knees done... Police came round but her dad was working at the time so no way it could have been him, his van was delivering a few hundred miles away.
Appart from my old neighbour who had his TV nicked, nothing odd about that considering the area we lived appart from the fact he was on the 14th floor of a 15 floor building and they went through the window!
But the best one was the ex's parents. They went on holiday and the milkman gave the details to a pair of local scroats, they broke into the shed (her dad had a load of quality tools) thing they didn't bank on was the sledge hammer swinging down from the roof indianna jones style. Best the police could make out was one had opened the shed while the other kicked the back door in on the house, as they never set foot inside we could only assume whoever took the shed got the hammerand they both decided if the shed was that well protected they didn't want anything to do with the house! They never proved who it was but about a year later someone caught up with the 'gent' concerned and he was given two choices, have his finger nails pulled or his knees done... Police came round but her dad was working at the time so no way it could have been him, his van was delivering a few hundred miles away.
Vibez said:I just wish my dad would have called me straight away, as I can handle myself and would have liked to have arrested him but I had some banging choons on so it wasn't until like 2 minutes after he'd left my dad came up. I went out in the car round the area but couldn't find the ******
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The "Banging Choons" bit had me in stitches.
OP: Unlucky fella, same thing happened to my dad, had his brand new phone on charge in the kitchen (he hadnt even had it a full day) and someone came in the back door and had it away.
Unlucky.
My parents live on a cul-de-sac thats in the middle of a large field just off a national speed limit b-road. Once upon a time nobody locked their cars or houses at all, some even left their doors wide open!
Its just 16 houses a half mile from the outskirts of a secure unit and a village one way, countryside the other way. Sadly the secure unit shut down all the low risk side of things (the hospital side) and built a massive housing estate for the wealthy.
Sadly all these wealthy "important" people brought with them their fancy cars, poncy attitude and their delinquent burberry clad children they couldn't give two ***** about. So naturally crime went up in the area, with me having a bycycle stolen and a few cars broken into.
Now though after a year or so of this, the police must have done something right as its stopped. Although people will never leave doors unlocked etc again like they could freely do so only a few years ago.
I sometimes walk the dogs without locking my door, and I live in the middle of a town, although at the end of my row is the police station. I don't take that for granted. Sometimes I just wonder if anyone really would be that oppertunist to open my back gate and try my back door.
My parents live on a cul-de-sac thats in the middle of a large field just off a national speed limit b-road. Once upon a time nobody locked their cars or houses at all, some even left their doors wide open!
Its just 16 houses a half mile from the outskirts of a secure unit and a village one way, countryside the other way. Sadly the secure unit shut down all the low risk side of things (the hospital side) and built a massive housing estate for the wealthy.
Sadly all these wealthy "important" people brought with them their fancy cars, poncy attitude and their delinquent burberry clad children they couldn't give two ***** about. So naturally crime went up in the area, with me having a bycycle stolen and a few cars broken into.
Now though after a year or so of this, the police must have done something right as its stopped. Although people will never leave doors unlocked etc again like they could freely do so only a few years ago.
I sometimes walk the dogs without locking my door, and I live in the middle of a town, although at the end of my row is the police station. I don't take that for granted. Sometimes I just wonder if anyone really would be that oppertunist to open my back gate and try my back door.