[QUOTE=Glorbo;34294905]Oh, you are so naive aren't you?
Alarms are fucking useless. We used to have one, and discovered that not only does it go off at the most random shit, people can bypass it in a matter of seconds. A lot of my neighbors had alarms, and not one stopped a burglary.
As for locks, My front and back door have a lock. My windows are locked as well, but if you really want to get in you can just break them. Putting bars on the windows would make them ugly as shit, and they're also useless. I have personally viewed how, with only a screwdriver and a hammer, you can break bars in no less than 30 seconds.
Alarms are bullshit. Don't fool yourself thinking that your house is completely safe if you have one. If you don't have someone actively paroling your house, someone will manage to get in with ease.[/QUOTE]
I don't know what you're thinking. Of course alarms don't physically stop people. Alarms scare them away because if you have an alarm that actually works, the police WILL come, even if they disable it. They know that.
[QUOTE=Mabus;34273540]An old roomate of mine was in our house a few years ago when someone got in through the window and took his wallet, he chased after him with a hammer and threatened to break his fingers and then come after his family if he tried that again. Limerick people can be very angry when provoked haha.[/QUOTE]
God I love Limerick
The closest to being robbed I've ever come was when our neighbour turned out to be a drug dealer, and the police showed up and used our house as a small base of operations for about half a day. The buggers ate all our doughnuts witohut asking.
Also I get accused of stealing things a lot. Once someone accused me of taking all their office supplies (because I would totally take that and not just steal their dosh). He found them again when he accidentally opened a vein on his compass.
[QUOTE=Drsalvador;34291893]Because i seriously doubt you [I]laughed[/I] as a guy was shooting at you with a .38[/QUOTE]
I laughed after we got away. I never said I laughed while I was being mugged.
The only thing that was robbed from me was the welcome mat in front of my door, seriously what the fuck. Who the hell steals welcome mats??
My roommate got robbed like a week or three ago.
My room was untouched. Getting a call and hearing we got robbed was not a good thing to hear, I was pretty crazy until I got in later.
They stole the toaster. Just the toaster.
Just last year my Nintendo DS was stolen from me while i was playing football at lunch by a couple of guys i recognized (because they always get caught trying to sell weed in front of everyone during P.E.). So the next day, i talked to all of his connections/friends, tracked down the guy who did it and put him in a choke hold until he gave back my DS, and then threw one of his shoes on the roof of our gym. All of his friends were laughing at him and he hasn't bothered me since then.
Somebody broke into my dad's house years ago. He phoned me to tell me that they'd taken my playstation 2 and I was pissed as hell because of all my save files.
Got there at the weekend to find that they hadn't taken the PS2 at all, just the shitty portable TV and some cases of beer from the kitchen.
Nothing else at all. Not games consoles, computers, stereos, TVs, games/DVDs/CDs, money, antiques. They drove up to the relatively remote house, broke down the door, smashed the alarm up and threw the pieces all over the lawn for just a shitty TV and some beers.
I suppose we were lucky. We were robbed by stoners.
My dad set his computer screensaver to "ALARM: POLICE CALLED" scrolling for years after that and even got an aunt's old car to park in the drive outside to make it look like somebody was in.
Haven't been burgled so far. Got all my stuff photographed and serial numbers noted down and shit. Probably the most valuable thing to me is my bicycle, but I built it myself so short of disassembling the whole thing and selling each part individually, it'd be p.much impossible to fence.
I was almost mugged once though. I was walking home through central London and this tiny turkish kid rolled up to me on his bike and asked for a cigarette. I told him I didn't have any and started walking on. He followed me and asked for 20p. I told him I didn't have any a change and carried on walking. He then grabs my arm and spouts the cliché 'WHAT U GOT 4 ME' at which point I tell him to fuck off because he's like a half my height and weight. He pulls a knife on me, but literally the second the knife comes out of his pocket, a police car that was passing screeches to a halt, two cops jump out and tackle him to the ground. I lol'd and thanked the cops and that was the last I heard of it.
My moms car was stolen when I was just a wee baby. The guys who stole it, apparently couldn't drive, and kept stalling out. Then, when they saw my parents approaching they ran out.
[QUOTE=Newbienice99;34270368]Hahaha, they break into an apartment and all they take is a headset and an xbox?
Terrible criminals.
Anyway, for my robbery story:
Dad and I get home from shopping, we get into the house, and drawers everywhere in the office are open, obviously someone broke in. We tallied what they stole, and it amounted to: my lockbox with ~$100, my sister's small safe that had nothing of monetary value in it, and some jewelery (dunno how valuable, they were my mothers). But the best part is this: They apparently found the safe we keep in our basement. It's a huge safe, and really heavy. Would take at least two people to move it. They must have thought they hit the jackpot, since they manage to drag it up a flight of stairs, and outside.
The fun part? That safe was completely empty. There wasn't a single thing in it. I'm sure they spent hours trying to open it, as well.
So, they passed right by suitcases of thousands of dollars of camera equipment to drag an empty safe up some stairs.[/QUOTE]
Now I'm just going to buy a safe and put a note in it.
Reading this thread makes me paranoid that I'm going to get robbed.
I had my bike seat stolen.
I still wonder, to this day...... why a bike seat?
[QUOTE=TheCronkofDestiny;34334345]Reading this thread makes me paranoid that I'm going to get robbed.[/QUOTE]
Me too, but I figure that's a given when you live alone (technically, I have a roommate but he's barely here 80% of the time) in an apartment. Especially since the majority of people in this area are college students, such as myself.
Though having a gun makes me feel safer.
A few days after this past Christmas, my dad heard my neighbors car alarm go off (they were off visiting with family and left one of their cars in the drive). A couple of guys were lifting the car to steal the wheels off of it, my dad grabs his gun that he bought for himself only just a few days ago and calls the cops. He goes out, sneaks up behind them, and stands there with a gun pointed at one. He says "Hey" to get their attention, naturally they have the shit scared out of them. "The cops are on their way, and if you try to pull some shit over on me you'll get a bullet to the head." The cops come in about 3 minutes as the nearest police station is very close, and they arrest them. One of them had a warrant out for a few other things, and both of their places got searched. They found tons of coke, weed, and various bags of pills in each of their homes. Needless to say, they won't be stealing tires for quite some time.
My aunt was in a relationship with an abusive man who was an alcoholic, and got worse as time went on. After beating her and leaving, my dad gave her a snubnose revolver to keep on her for protection. Three days later the abusive husband came back to her house and smashed out her window with the butt of a shotgun, and as he was halfway crawling in through her window she shot him twice in the chest, and then once in the head, causing him to slump out of the window onto the ground with his legs still through the window.
Not really a robbery but god knows what would've happened if she didn't have some way to protect herself.
My bike got stolen once, I wen't inside my house. FOR 30 FUCKING MINUTES, and when I came out again, it was gone.
My dad paid 4000 SEK for that bike, and it was a damn nice bike to.
We went to the police station to report it stolen the next day. The policeman said the bike was probably already halfway to Poland. :v:
Some dumbass broke into my house by kicking in [b]the only door that wasn't locked.[/b] He then proceeded to steal [b]absolutely nothing[/b] and then left.
Someone I know had his phone stolen. He and his friend confronted the thief's friend and revealed his name. The guy I know went to Facebook and found the thief's profile and little later the thief deleted his Facebook.
[QUOTE=clockroach;34350937]Some dumbass broke into my house by kicking in [b]the only door that wasn't locked.[/b] He then proceeded to steal [b]absolutely nothing[/b] and then left.[/QUOTE]
Troll Robbers? loldunno
[QUOTE=urundeadmom;34276216]I was robbed once, I was 19 and living on campus collage, but not with dorms, it was like small houses, anyway, there was no security and no gate to the campus so break ins were occasional. One night at like 1:00 in the morning i was up playing whatever games, (this was like 3 and a half years ago) and i hear my door handle to the house begin to rattle, and it is a SOB to open it was all old and shit. Anyway i hear it rattling as if someone was coming in and then I hear to door slowly open and someone step inside, and whisper something to someone else. Before i go on, the house was 3 rooms, 1 dining/living room with Kitchen, 1 was a bedroom, and a bathroom, and i had my pc set up in my room, and little did people know, i also had my Gun safe. In north Carolina it is legal to purchase any rifle as long as its not automatic at the age of 18. So to continue, I hear the whispers.. bla bla bla.. so I slowly get up from my chair and as quietly as possible open the safe, and grab my loaded Mosin Nagant which i had loaded for saefty reasons, I bolt the rifle, and open my door, I see 2 guys one trying to disconnect my Brand new Flat screen that my parents got me for Xmas, and the other looking through drawers in my kitchen,
I then turn my lights on, and aim my rifle at one of the guys, i tell him " Get the fuck away from my tv, and sit down , and then the same to the other guy. So i get both of them to back up into a corner, and i go and close my door, and lock it, One of the guys threatens with a shaky voice, " There are not bullets in there are there man, your too big of a pussy to kill anyone" To which i respond by rebolting my already loaded rifle, thus dropping out a live round onto the carpeted floor, needless to say the guy went white with fear, I then got one of the kids, to get my land line which was on the kitchen counter, and told him to call 911, i gave him the adress and told him to say that he was robbing my house. The cops came about 5 minutes later even though it seemed like hours, They arrested the guys, and needless to say i was quite shaken up, so from now on i put Dead Bolts on all my doors and always keep a loaded handgun, that rifle is fucking bulky, Just my story :)[/QUOTE]
I believe you, but why Mosin Nagant? A bulky pre-WW2 rifle isnt exactly what I expected
My Ipod Touch was stolen, my bike was stolen, and when I was 6, some crackhead tried to steal my bike, but I wouldn't let him take it, and screamed till someone ran over and scared the crackhead away.
I should get some 12 Ga Blanks for my Mossberg, someone breaks in, first round chambered is a blank, they call a bluff that it's not loaded, i pop that fucking blank into the furthest wall and load a live round. Many bricks would be shat. On another topic, i've had countless small trinkets stolen, but the worst thing i've ever had stolen is my cat, someone stole my fucking CAT. It didn't run off, i found the collar in a ditch at these people's house near ours, and they've always hated us(and are always fucked up on meth and shit) and i wouldn't doubt for a second if they stole our cat and killed it. They killed my grandma's little tabby cat, i know they did, i found a dead tabby cat in the trash bin outside their house after seeing a buncha blood around it and i had to investigate. They carved the cat up and decapitated it.
My bike was stolen. That's about it.
As it wasn't locked when stolen, the insurance was rather useless and I had no right to get my money back, but because my family had bought bikes from the same bikeshop for years they decided to give us 3000 NOK/$505,02 anyways.
[QUOTE=Gen;34353428]I believe you, but why Mosin Nagant? A bulky pre-WW2 rifle isnt exactly what I expected[/QUOTE]
Hey, its a kick ass rifle.
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My neighbor is a former Police chief or something (well, we had Militia, but now it's Police). He's an old guy that usually chills out smoking on the street. One day someone tried to rob him. He chased the robber through the whole house, and when they ran out to the street, he shot the bad guy in the leg with a Makarov pistol. He dropped down and started screaming. Neighbor came up to him and said: "Give back my fucking watch. THE WATCH, MOTHERFUCKER!" and shot into the air. By that time I got to them, I heard the robber shitting himself. The Police guys came up to them and took the gun-wounded robber. I don't know what happened to the watch, though.
since everyone is sharing stories of crime i shall share mine.
my family home was robbed many times - 3 times from the shed taking lawnmowers and bikes and twice from the main house - jewellery, tv, stereo equipment etc being stolen. the times the main house was robbed the police believe was a professional job - no prints, footsteps showed very planned and direct movement around the house to high value areas.
as a result - the house is now secured with electric gates, barbed wire fencing/carpet grip rods nailed to the top of wooden fences over the entire property and an enhanced alarm system with break sensors on all the windows and a system that links with a control centre.
since making everything aggressively secure - no more robberies!
at my university house in my last year there we were robbed while i was in the house. i was due to go to the driving range with some friends, i'd selected the golf clubs to take and was just about to jump into the shower before going. as i stepped in i heard the front door open - figured it was my housemate getting back from her fell running training so i hopped out and threw on my gown to see if she wanted to use the bathroom.
called out her name - no reply, started to go down the stairs to see what was going on when a guy in a black hoodie ran out of the door. i chased to the end of the drive before realising i was barefoot and mostly nude.
went back inside, called the police, had various forensic things happen etc etc. all he got away with was my housemate's macbook which was quite fortuitous. he'd got a new imac so didn't use it anyway and since he'd upgraded the hard drive he ended up getting a very large voucher from his insurers and bought a macbook pro for himself! yay!
A few years ago someone stole my gas several times. My family also uses my car, but they couldn't have driven the 500 miles necessary to drain the tank overnight. Solution: locking gas cap.
I know the feeling.
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