I remember when I was about 4-5, we moved into a new house, and we were in the process of moving in. We had some boxes on the porch filled with some sentimental stuff and family jewelry and whatnot. When we came back down, it was all gone.
Then once we were leaving the house and two guys were in the process of getting over our half-sized gate, and my dad chased them down the street for trying to rob us again.
So he says "Fuck this." We soon get tall black gates with pointed tips installed, surrounding the front and sides of our property, and later on, got an alarm system that goes off as a warning when the doors open, but when armed, wails and alerts the authorities - we only arm it when traveling, because our neighbor usually watches our home, and at least one of us are always close enough to get home in a hurry.
Since then, nothing has happened, but I've gotten a lot more paranoid in recent years, having got to the point that I triple-check locked doors both at home and in my dorm to make sure everything's good - I can't sleep without doing it, and I wake up to even the slightest odd noise.
Goddamn, now I'll going to go and write down the serial numbers of EVERYTHING now, and make more backups. That tracking program for electronics - Prey, right? How well would that work for a custom-built desktop computer? I wasn't sure as it seemed Prey uses a lot of equipment already built into laptops and phones, mainly. Also, what's the best way to track that sort of thing? Serial number on the case itself?
You can get an ancient case and make the PC look like a piece of crap.
That way they wouldn't want to steal it.
[QUOTE=Links;34405999]I remember when I was about 4-5, we moved into a new house, and we were in the process of moving in. We had some boxes on the porch filled with some sentimental stuff and family jewelry and whatnot. When we came back down, it was all gone.
Then once we were leaving the house and two guys were in the process of getting over our half-sized gate, and my dad chased them down the street for trying to rob us again.
So he says "Fuck this." We soon get tall black gates with pointed tips installed, surrounding the front and sides of our property, and later on, got an alarm system that goes off as a warning when the doors open, but when armed, wails and alerts the authorities - we only arm it when traveling, because our neighbor usually watches our home, and at least one of us are always close enough to get home in a hurry.
Since then, nothing has happened, but I've gotten a lot more paranoid in recent years, having got to the point that I triple-check locked doors both at home and in my dorm to make sure everything's good - I can't sleep without doing it, and I wake up to even the slightest odd noise.
Goddamn, now I'll going to go and write down the serial numbers of EVERYTHING now, and make more backups. That tracking program for electronics - Prey, right? How well would that work for a custom-built desktop computer? I wasn't sure as it seemed Prey uses a lot of equipment already built into laptops and phones, mainly. Also, what's the best way to track that sort of thing? Serial number on the case itself?[/QUOTE]
you should probably always properly arm your alarm - whether you're just nipping out for 5 minutes or going away for a week - it'll make sure your insurance covers it.
also set up zone exclusion so you can set it at night.
and just cable lock your computer to something solid where it is - keep the serial numbers and any invoices from when you bought parts, and take some photos. and ensure it's covered by insurance.
When I was in High school, I was "Joke" mugged or something stupid like that.
Basically, I took a bus to and from school, and about a week or two after school started the bus "thug" came over (he had tattoos all over his arms, mini afro, shiny teeth, and an angered face.) He pretty much sat next to me, and pushed me in. Being polite, i put my backpack on my lap so he would have more space. He looks over to me and says "got any money" and I told him I didn't, he looked at my watch and pulled it off my hands. knowing that he squashed me in the seat to limit my mobility and was twice the height of me, I just sat there and watched him unhook the watch and slither away. I was a freshman at the time, and was already in trouble during middle school for fighting on two occasions, so I didn't want my high school record to get tarnished. His girlfriend pretty much guilt tripped him into giving me the watch back, and he and his pals played it off as a joke. It wasn't even a valuable watch, like a rolex or something, it was a cheap casio I bought a week before school started from wal-mart. I guess it's cause it has a calculator on it, which I thought was cool, and was why I bought it in the first place.
My house was never robbed, fortunately.
However I was some time ago and I got the better of it.
So I was in the metro, sitting in the corner, minding my own business. My carriage was almost empty. It was just me and 4 or 5 more people and the surface metro always passes by this dangerous neighbourhood.
Ok, no problem, minding my own business. It was 2 stops till my uni when suddenly two guys, about my age 20/21 come in the metro making lots of noise with a small stick beating on the seats. Nobody made a sound about them because everybody new what they were there for and everybody was just trying to stay out of trouble.
So one of the guys just sits next to me and the other one behind me. They start asking for cigarettes first, then money, you know the usual talk. I then jump and try to get up in an instance and the guy just grabs me by the backpack witch I drop while he insisted on holding it. The other guy was just watching while his friend was just trying to get me seated again while I struggled to stand up because of all the motion from the metro.
Now, I'm a yellow belt in Krav Maga, I'm not a Bruce Lee nor anything but I know the abc of self defence, and at that point I was just worried about all the factors. I had no place to run, I didn't know if they had weapons and such.
I took my chances.
I was still holding my backpack with my hand and the other guy just stands behind me trying to reach for my wallet. At that point I pushed the guy behind me away and suddenly all hell broke loose inside the metro. It happened so fast and I was always curious of how I would act in an assault situation and it went rather mechanically.
So, I just throw my backpack at the guy that was holding it from the seat and threw a kick in his face that by some miracle rendered him unconscious. I never knocked out anybody before and that made me hesitate a little.
The other guy reacted first and was able to hit me with a punch in the face. It hurt like hell.
I then tried to put it together and I noticed he was reaching for something in his pocket. I ran at him and blocked his hand and threw him to the floor. He had a small knife with him and I was lucky enough to grab his arm before he started cutting me.
We both fell on the floor due to the carriage oscillation and I threw the knife away. The few people there were just watching, nobody tried to help me no matter how I pleaded for help. Nobody went to warn the security nor film nor call the police.
So basically Krav Maga also covers some aspects of jiu jitsu and floor techniques but in yellow belt we have few training there and in the pressure of the moment it was just impossible to think, so I just stood on top of him trying to punch the guy in the face.
I then noticed the other guy waking up and while I was looking at him the guy I was "dancing" with throws a kick at my face and runs away when the metro stops at the next station.
I was pretty messed up at that point, I couldn't see nor walk straight from that kick. So the other guy tries to stand up and make a run for it only to stumble in his feet and bash his head on the door.
So basically the metro stops at my uni, lots of students waiting to come in, my other colleagues get out, I try to drag the other guy out of the carriage and everybody's like staring at us. He just falls face on the floor, I fall next to him and last thing I remember is puking and then some paramedic waking me up.
I didn't break anything only had minor lacerations and an opened lip that had to be stitched. Apparently I puked due to the adrenaline rush and lost my senses because I started over ventilating from all that panic and adrenalin rush and because of the kick in my jaw.
The other guy that tried to rob me was taken to the hospital. Apparently he couldn't walk straight. He tried to run away but he didn't go very far. Then he got arrested and I pressed charges and the police were kind enough to take me to the hospital just in case of any lesion or fracture.
And that was it. I'm never getting in one of those adventures again though. I got lucky. :v:
I'm always so paranoid and glad I keep my old baseball bat from when I was a kid with me all the time. Though my dad thinks it's dumb because he always tries to tell me nobody will try to break in.
When I'm older I'll buy a pistol, then I'll feel safer. :v:
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;34271923]I'm rather surprised that forensic investigators actually showed up. My apparently was also similarly robbed about 8 years ago, but much aggressively as the door lock was completely busted. All the police did was dropped a card and told us to take care after taking a walk around the apartment. Not to mention that they showed up 3 hours after we called them.[/QUOTE]
Only in Canada. Wait... what?
[QUOTE=zombini;34353588]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.[/QUOTE]
And you didn't call the police?
Someone stole my car's numberplate once. That shit would've cost me 200€ if these cowards hadn't put it in front of the windshield the next day
If you thought getting nothing stolen was dumb, I think you need to see this:
[video=youtube;AqqlJJGLcBA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqqlJJGLcBA[/video]
My bike was stolen once, but I didn't care since I bought it for like 10 euros from my friend who probably stole it/bought it from someone who stole it.
[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]
Moral of the story. Always keep a giant ass empty safe in plain view in case of robbery! (which in all honesty isn't a bad idea).
[QUOTE=newbs;34439047]Moral of the story. Always keep a giant ass empty safe in plain view in case of robbery! (which in all honesty isn't a bad idea).[/QUOTE]
A giant ass empty safe in plain view that has a treasure map in it that leads to a hole with a chest that has a paper in it which says ''Shame on you''
[editline]29th January 2012[/editline]
And maybe a camera to record the criminal's face or some shit
I had my scooter stolen when I was about 8, shit sucked cause I had only gotten it like a week earlier for Christmas.
Other than that, I don't think that I'd ever had anything stolen.
[QUOTE=.FLAP.JACK.DAN.;34432258]And you didn't call the police?[/QUOTE]
I had no solid proof that they did it, plus i was 11 at the time.
I once had my DS and my phone (Nokia N-Gage) stolen.
:saddowns: I miss them.
I almost couldn't sleep last night with all the stories on here. I live in a bad neighborhood :(
When I lived in a different house then I do now, we got robbed. I was really young at the time, so i don't remember it very well, just that there was glass all over the floor and my mom was crying
My house never gets robbed because of my dad's quick wits.
My dad places timers on various household appliances and lights. They turn on whenever it hits a certain time and turns off at a certain time. Smart eh. No robber would rob a house when the lights and TV are on.
[QUOTE=gooldude;34455694]My house never gets robbed because of my dad's quick wits.
My dad places timers on various household appliances and lights. They turn on whenever it hits a certain time and turns off at a certain time. Smart eh. No robber would rob a house when the lights and TV are on.[/QUOTE]
how do you sleep when every appliance in your house is turning itself on and off and blaring noise everywhere at spontaneous points throughout the night
Never been mugged or had my house robbed, but I'll tell you this much: I keep a steel pipe hidden close to my bed, I hear something strange downstairs?
Shit will hit the fan if it's a burglar.
It ain't no firearm, but hey, assuming I have the element of surprise, a good whack to the back of the head can knock just about anyone out.
Never been robber masterrace
When I was little some guys stole my bike, my dad's bike and a neighbor girl's bike. ;_;
But more recently there's been this absolute fuckwad at school that stole people's iPods, money, wallets, anything for weed money. He took over 200 dollars, seven ipods, and one girl's iPhone that she paid for herself. Needless to say, when (I think he was caught by the cops) he was pretty fucked. Not to mention the entire school wanted to beat the everloving fuck out of him.
[QUOTE=KarloMcMarlo;34457490]Never been mugged or had my house robbed, but I'll tell you this much: I keep a steel pipe hidden close to my bed, I hear something strange downstairs?
Shit will hit the fan if it's a burglar.
It ain't no firearm, but hey, assuming I have the element of surprise, a good whack to the back of the head can knock just about anyone out.[/QUOTE]
A pipe to the head would probably kill the robber to be honest
[QUOTE=DFC;34458135]A pipe to the head would probably kill the robber to be honest[/QUOTE]
Good point. Still, gets the job done.
[QUOTE=KarloMcMarlo;34460110]Good point. Still, gets the job done.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, sure, but so does nuking the city when you just want to demolish a building. It's probably a better idea to use something like a baseball bat to the arms and legs rather than a lead pipe to the head. It might be with the same force but a baseball bat could probably absorb some of the impact better than a pipe could and so you're less likely to kill someone and get charged with murder.
[QUOTE=mechanarchy;34460126]Yeah, sure, but so does nuking the city when you just want to demolish a building. It's probably a better idea to use something like a baseball bat to the arms and legs rather than a lead pipe to the head. It might be with the same force but a baseball bat could probably absorb some of the impact better than a pipe could and so you're less likely to kill someone and get charged with murder.[/QUOTE]
Technically, I'd think if I killed someone while they were stealing my shit, it'd be technically legal, not only for self defense reasons, but also for trespassing, breaking and entering, etc.
Plus I don't have a wooden bat.
[QUOTE=KarloMcMarlo;34460165]Technically, I'd think if I killed someone while they were stealing my shit, it'd be technically legal, not only for self defense reasons, but also for trespassing, breaking and entering, etc.
Plus I don't have a wooden bat.[/QUOTE]
Hm. (Not to cast aspersions, but) Maybe the laws are different in America due to your gun laws and such, but I think it's always murder and hence illegal in Australia if you kill someone unless they're using deadly force against you and it's the only way out of the situation. IANAL.
[QUOTE=mechanarchy;34460300]Hm. (Not to cast aspersions, but) Maybe the laws are different in America due to your gun laws and such, but I think it's always murder and hence illegal in Australia if you kill someone unless they're using deadly force against you and it's the only way out of the situation. IANAL.[/QUOTE]
Well, here in America we have certain self defense laws. In other words: If someone is attempting to attack you (And believe me, there's a pretty good chance a thief will attack YOU, so it's best not to wait around to get your ass handed to you), you can kick their asses. Not to mention the fact that any decent robber will atleast have some form of weapon on them (Either the crowbar they used to get in, or an actual gun.)
[QUOTE=KarloMcMarlo;34460334]Well, here in America we have certain self defense laws. In other words: If someone is attempting to attack you (And believe me, there's a pretty good chance a thief will attack YOU, so it's best not to wait around to get your ass handed to you), you can kick their asses. Not to mention the fact that any decent robber will atleast have some form of weapon on them (Either the crowbar they used to get in, or an actual gun.)[/QUOTE]
Yeah, you can fight back in self defence in Australia too but there's this whole "reasonable force" bullshit.
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