**** - Burgled :(

Windle · 29 Oct 2010 at 22:05

Been away all week for work, returned home to find the snib on the yale lock. Get a locksmith out to open it only to find that some buggers have come in the back window of my flat and nicked a load of my stuff

Gay gay gay!

Has anybody had experience of being burgled and can give me a checklist of what I should do.

So far I've checked with my neighbours to see if they've heard anything - Negative.

Had the cops round to get an incident sheet - Apparently forensics will hopefully come tomorrow.

Cancelled my cards since they've gone through my document box.

They've made it off with a mobile phone, xbox 360 slim, ps3, few games, jewellery, ugg boots, ghd straighteners and a couple of cameras along with my nice new and shiny mountain bike

Anyone had any experience getting burglar bars fitted? My back windows face onto a wall so I don't care that they look a bit crap.

Windle · 29 Oct 2010 at 22:12

Vita said:
Who knew that you would be gone away for work?

Only people that I trust but I don't think they knew I was away as I think the reason they locked the snib on the door once they were in was so nobody disturbed them.

As mentioned, my insurance will cover my losses but my girlfriends jewellery was reasonably sentimental. Birthday presents etc so she's really gutted.

Windle · 29 Oct 2010 at 22:26

Rroff said:
I think he was being serious... unfortunatly if it looked like easy pickings its not unheard of for them to wait til they think you've had stuff replaced on insurance and do it again.

Ah in which case sorry, police didn't specifically bring it up but I'm aware that they might return. Hence why I was asking about Burglar bars etc. It'd be considerably more difficult to get past them than a wooden window frame.

Windle · 29 Oct 2010 at 22:27

doofer said:
WTF someone stole my Post! They will be back! They have seen what you have, the layout of your place, what they took they know you'll replace, statistics show that you have a very high chance of them targetting you again in a few Months, and as you called me an idiot for no reason I hope they crap in your bed next time.

I did say sorry, I thought you were trolling and understandably my tension level is pretty high at the moment!

Windle · 29 Oct 2010 at 22:58

Oxy said:
No sympathy for you.

Well have some for my missus who is quite upset that a lot of her jewellery and her new straighteners and expensive ugg boots were nicked.

Windle · 29 Oct 2010 at 23:30

Yeah already keeping an eye on places like ebay/gumtree online and going to take a sniff around the local cash converters.

After doing some research, it looks like doofus is right and after being burgled your chances of being burgled again a couple of months down the line increase once they come back to see if you've replaced the items. Main way of stopping them is some form of deterrent. Hence my thinking along burglar bars and the like. I'm also going to invest in some additional window locks and door locks and consider getting some kind of monitored alarm, I've seen a couple that when the alarm is triggered they speak to you and you have 2 passwords. One to say it was an accidental trigger and the other is to say that theres someone with you and you need help.