Thieves?

J86

J86

J86

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So, I was awoken at around 3am by a big bang (I presume it was one of their car doors, or car boot). I had a look outside and saw/heard some polish guys getting out of a car (baring in mind they were right under my window, I recognised a few polish words). Anyway, I watched them for a while and saw them going down every house in the street checking if their back gates were locked. They found one which was open, and proceeded to go in to the back garden and shine a torch into the shed/garage. After they found that both of them were locked, they went out in to the street and started shining their torches in to car windows. I watched them for ages messing around looking through windows etc, and then they got in their car and drove off. Funny thing is, I recognise 2 of them as being residents at the end of my road! Now, I didn't call the police as they didn't really do anything like break in, but is it worth me calling them today and reporting what I saw?

Cheers
 
cheets64 said:
What a good neighbour you are.
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Do one. If I was a BAD neighbour I wouldn't give a ****.

If I had seen them with a hammer or the likes ready to break in then sure, I would have called immediately.

Edit: Also I'm sure it would be a case of "No damage done, no crime here" by the police anyway.
 
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I just rang the police, they said they would "probably" send someone round to each house to check for damaged/missing property or forced entry (which I know didn't happen anyway but meh).
 
I only posted to see if you lot thought it was worth ringing the police over, as personally I didn't as there was no crime, which in my eyes means it would have been a pointless exercise. I've seen it on police programs/read it on sites where these people can get off just by saying their looking for their cat or something, and the police can't prove otherwise.

Edit: As I posted above, I've reported it now anyway, so hopefully if they do send round a car, that should be deterrent enough to stop them trying anything in the future.
 
Fishfingers said:
Call the fuzz and let them know the story, problem with the police is that they take forever to arrive at the scene of problems like this. I called the police a few months back when a gang of youths were drinking and shouting around our private car park and checked out cars in there, took them over an hour to get here and by that time they had all but gone, got a call from the police saying it was nothing and it was only 2 people who had been there all the time just having an argument, bah the scum will always win!
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For sure! One of the things that stopped me ringing last night was the fact I know how slow they are attending anything like this. A man was once running up and down my road naked shouting "help me, help me, please god help me". Most people came out their houses, next door rang the police, and it took them about 20 minutes to turn up. Whatever had happened, was over by the time they got there. Sure, the police were checking in everyone's back gardens (eventually) to see where he had gone, but if it really was a life threatening situation, then they were 20 minutes too late.
 
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