Planned robbery on my home?

[Efour]

100% call the police and report an attempted robbery and miss gendering.

use 999

 

[dlockers]

Was there any turd on the floor near the gap? Could be they misunderstood the letterbox instructions

 

[Nasher]

100% call the police and report an attempted robbery and miss gendering.

use 999

Crime number provided for attempted robbery, no police visit, no suspect identified. Case closed.

Police helicopter, detectives and cyber crime unit dispatched to deal with missgendering incident.

 

[hornetstinger]

Not sure if it was the high winds on Friday, the local kids messing with my fence or a planned robbery on my house but I came home yesterday to find that one of the fence panels for my garden was removed from the posts but placed back standing up against the posts.

It’s one of those panels that are normally held in by grooves in the posts.. I only noticed it as I have a raised flower bed in the garden and the panel was standing on the out side so it was much lower than the other fence panels.

It might be totally innocent and came out in the winds, it was ok Thursday when I went out to empty the house bins and I didn’t spot it on Friday/Saturday morning, which I may have done while doing the dishes..

The panel seems to be smaller than the width of the posts now and won’t stay in.. I’ve jammed a few tree off cuts in there for now to keep it in place.

Waiting for my brother to come back before nailing some wood to the side of the panel and dropping it back in. It’s too heavy for me to lift it to the height of the posts and dropping it in once the wood gets nailed to the side.

 

[Diddums]

When I'm planning a robbery I also remove a fence panel a day or two before, thought this was standard practice?

 

[Joxeon]

Add a second fence of electrified razor wire behind the first just in case.

 

[Kill_Phil]

OPs gutted

 

[LOAM]

More likely someone else got robbed and they were looking for a fence to get rid of the stolen goods.

 

[ODuffer]

If your that perturbed, maybe look in concrete panels

 

[Diddums]

Definitely sounds like a fencing operation.

 

[adidan]

When I'm planning a robbery I also remove a fence panel a day or two before, thought this was standard practice?

Nicking stuff 101

 

[BUDFORCE]

Definitely sounds like a fencing operation.

Very good

 

[Mr Badger]

Sell that house immediately.

Sell the house? I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

 

[something daft already!!]

They probably needed the fence to sell the stuff they are going to steal.

 

[Minusorange]

The panel seems to be smaller than the width of the posts now

The potential thieves definitely cut it smaller to make the robbery easier

 

[ShiWarrior]

Yes it was attempted robbery, of your fence panel
It was gale force winds so 1 person couldn't steal it

 

[C@ppy1961]

Your fence panle probably blew out, then someone trying to be helpful propped it back as best they could.

This^.

 

[Mr Badger]

This^.

What do you think this is? An episode of neighbours???

 

[COYS]

Just how thick was said short plank OP?

 

[arknor]

can these burglars not climb or knock out a fence post on the day they burgle ?

maybe its lie those articles in the papers you sometimes see, the ones about your house being marked by baked beans or something..

if you don't fix the fence they know your on holiday....

Do the nail holes or whatever on the post look worn? did moisture entering/exiting the wood over time start rot the holes?
did the heat/cooling cycles off the nails cause them to expand/retract over the years slowly loosening the fence? and then the wind pushed it free.


Did it look like someones football had landed on your lawn?


I remember in the 80s we used to play hide and seek in the area as kids, other peoples gardens weren't off limits, what a safer world it must have been when you could put everything down to "just kids playing" and carry on watching the TV