We was robbed

[mp-seventythree]

No, really. Someone broke into the house on Monday night, and stole all Jenn's jewellery, her handbag, cash, credit cars, her new iPod, both our digital cameras (one was a Canon EOS10D that you can't get anymore), they found my car keys and went through my car, stealing my sunglasses, all my best CDs (about 40 of them) and they ripped out my hands free bluetooth kit. The police reckon the fucker was in the house for between 20-30 minutes, and the bit that freaked Jenn out the most was that they were sat outside our bedroom sorting through the jewellery.
Strange thing is they didn't take my car or the Mercedes, they didn't even look in that.

FUCKERS:mad:

[Loppfessor]

were you in the house at the time?

[na§tee]

:( sorry, mp. god! i'm so trusting. i always hear about these sorts of things happening and just still have this kiddish sense of "i'm invincible! a lock will do fine! it will never happen to me!"

one of my friends who got burgled said she felt a real need to reacquaint herself with her home afterwards, make it belong to her again - "perhaps naked, and with a bottle of red wine". :cool: maybe you and jenny should try that to make it all better, heh.

[Loppfessor]

burgled

LOL...I love that word

[Miho Mingu]

That sucks. You have my sympathy. We should all just put traps in our houses like the Home Alone movies. If you can survive the fun house, then you can leave with the goodies. That's the game.

[b-grrrlie]

Sorry to hear about that, mp.
I'm always worried about being burgled. Once I (silly me) let in a guy who was selling locks for balcony doors (I didn't think until afterwards that he was checking out if I had anything to steal) and I had two VCR's cracked open on the floor (I was repairing them) and my stereo ain't the latest so guess he thought my place wasn't worth burglaring...

We had a break-in at my work the other night. They'd taken one flatscreen, videocamera, digital camera and a DVD burner. Stuff that can fit in a big bag... The alarm went on so they figured they had 20 minutes before the police arrived, so they didn't have time to take more stuff (there was another flatscreen in the same room, and the next room would've had three...).

[Bitchamachacha]

Oh, damn. I hate that shit happened to you.

I hope they catch the ass-hats who did that and give them a good caning. Or chop off their hands. Or cane them and then chop off their hands.

[abcdefz]

Terrible story, mp. Are you guys insured?

[paul jones]

No, really. Someone broke into the house on Monday night, and stole all Jenn's jewellery, her handbag, cash, credit cars, her new iPod, both our digital cameras (one was a Canon EOS10D that you can't get anymore), they found my car keys and went through my car, stealing my sunglasses, all my best CDs (about 40 of them) and they ripped out my hands free bluetooth kit. The police reckon the fucker was in the house for between 20-30 minutes, and the bit that freaked Jenn out the most was that they were sat outside our bedroom sorting through the jewellery.
Strange thing is they didn't take my car or the Mercedes, they didn't even look in that.

FUCKERS:mad:

fuckin bad news man,sorry to read about this(n)

[beastiegirrl101]

I'm really sorry to hear this. When my car got broken into I felt totally violated, so I can't even imagine someone in my house. Hang in there.


On another note...is every guy on heres girlfriend / wife / named Jenny? Damn.

[kaiser soze]

"You're mah girl Jenny."

I fucking hate thieves with a passion.

[ms.peachy]

Sorry to hear about this, man. That's really awful.

[wanton wench]

sorry this happened to you mp73. that really sucks. :(

[Bob]

fuckin sucks. were you home when it happened? that's gotta be frightening.

people who steal from people like that piss me off. my dorm room got cleaned out once, but it was my fault, i left the door unlocked while i was away. still makes you want to spill blood though.

just think though. eventually, people who live a lifestyle like that have it catch up to them. they'll get theirs, somehow. call it karma, cause and effect, whatever, but i bet their uppance will come.

[ET]

At least no one was hurt. But then again I'd be pretty pissed too. Sounds like they took some awesome stuff. At least the baby (Mercedes) is fine?

[monkey]

:( sad. sucks that it happened.
and i think there's a reason why they didnt take the car... they'd be 1000% more catchable if they took the car.

that;'s my biggest fear. im seriously paranoid about that shit.

FUCKING SHIT. they JUST burglerized the house behind ours. the cops just came to ask me questions. :(

[mickill]

Seriously...monkey?

[mp-seventythree]

Thanks for your messages guys.
Yes we're insured, although for some reason insurance companies expect you to keep receipts for every thing you've ever bought, which is totally unrealistic. And there were a lot of things that can never be replaced, like a few rings that Jenn had designed and had made in Goa, and family heirlooms. Plus the new version of the camera that was stolen is shite in comparison.
Jenn was the only one home that night, I was working nights and had cycled to work. That's one of the things that really pisses me off, that I wasn't there at the time.

The house feels weird now, there's a real sense that we've been violated, and that no matter what we do to make it more secure, it won't be enough.

And the stupid UK law about not arming yourself to defend your own home suck. Although I think I may have found a legal loophole in the form of a high velocity paintball gun. If anyone breaks in again, a few (well lots actually) shots to the groin and then the face should disble them long enough for me to give them a good kicking.

Oh, and ET, the Merc was untouched because it has a really weird key that doesn't actually look like a car key, and it was attached to the key that was hanging in the back door at the time (they broke in through the patio door in the dining room).

[ET]

Good to know. I don't know if you guys have access to mace.pepper spray related products. Some of them fire it out in a "shotgun" like mist (http://www.tbotech.com/bearspray.htm) designed to take a grizzly bear down. I would still use the paintball gun (smart!!!) to shoot them in the groin numerous times. :cool: But the pepper spray is a plus.

The receipt thing sucks but maybe you have pictures? I'm not sure if that's still acceptable to insurance companies or not.

[beastieangel01]

what a mess, sorry this happened to you :( I hope you get things covered by insurance and that those people get caught.

[hardnox71]

Sorry to hear that, mp. I've never had my house been broken into but I know how fucking pissed I was at the gym when someone broke into my locker and took all my shit, and that's just a gym locker. I couldn't imagine what it's like to come home and discover someone has been going through my personal belongings.

Material shit can be replaced (most of the time). The important thing here is you guys are alright. Who knows what would have happened if you guys had been home when they broke in.




they were definitely crackheads. that's why they didn't bother with the cars.

And, according to you, why don't crackheads steal cars?

I don't know where you live, Crafty, but on the South and West sides of Chicago, if you're the dopeman, you got crackheads bringing you all kinds of shit. And that includes cars. About five years ago some dumb bitch gave her kid away for a couple of bags of rock. A crackhead will sell anything. Or at least try to. These were probably drug addicts that broke into the house, I'm not denying that, but I think the reason for not taking the cars probably had more of a practical basis than you think (e.g., if mp lives in an upscale mostly white neighborhood and the theives were minorities then they might have figured that driving around in the middle of the night in a stolen Mercedes full of stolen shit probably would not be a good idea. Much easier to jump back in their Toyota shitbox parked down the street and drive away without notice.) But that's just my opinion.

I read http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375760717/qid=1155158122/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-9276641-2550354?v=glance&s=books a couple of years ago. It's nonfiction. It was really enlightening as to what goes through a theif's mind as he's running around your house in the middle of the fucking night.

[befsquire]

On another note...is every guy on heres girlfriend / wife / named Jenny? Damn.
not dr deaf's. :)


sorry to hear you were burglarized, mp. i've had cars broken into before, and felt violated, but never my home. your home is a sanctuary that shouldn't be touched.

here and there, bobby and i watch a show called "to catch a thief" or something like that, and two former thieves are the hosts. they show people how to beef up their security to keep their belongings secure, and how to document shit for insurance purposes, etc. it's scary to see what someone can do in the few minutes they are burglarizing the home of the person who consents to be on the show. to think they spent 30 minutes in your home is scary, because you could have walked in on them.

i'm glad you are both physically unharmed.

[cosmo105]

^it takes a thief. scary show.

that's the scariest feeling, when your home's been broken into. that feeling of powerlessness, and helplessness...and other "lessness"es...bummer, mp. hope you guys can replace what was taken from you - including peace of mind and a sense of security - before long.

[QueenAdrock]

Or cane them and then chop off their hands.

Or do it middle-eastern style where they cut off only one hand, because back in the day you wiped with one hand and ate with the other, and you can guess what happened when they cut off one. Gross!

But yeah, dude. Fuck those guys. Sorry that happened to you MP, I hope they catch those douches.

[Bob]

i DO kind of have to comment on the irony of the first sentence in MP's signature in this situation, as bad as that is

[ms.peachy]

i DO kind of have to comment on the irony of the first sentence in MP's signature in this situation, as bad as that is
LOL you know Bob I just noticed that and was thinking the same thing...

[b-grrrlie]

I just witnessed some kinda robbery today.
I was sitting at this sushi bar, enjoying my meal looking out the window thinking what a dreary backstreet they had for the view. On the otherside of the road there was this black SUV and suddenly I saw these people inside it I hadn't noticed before. First I thought there was two of them, getting it on, but then I saw just a girl, picking up some stuff from the frontseat, grabbing a packet of cigarettes, so I thought maybe the other person I thought I saw was just some stuff she'd held up.
Then I heard some other guys walking into the sushibar and one of them suddenly running out to the car and calling out WTF!? and they all rushed out, to check out this woman etc. It turned out it was some junkie trying to nick whatever there was to nick. I hadn't seen her get into the car, but I stayed to witness untill the cops came. The guys where kinda cute, there's this Stockholm Culture week going on right now and they were gonna do some performances with torches and stuff during the week. I saw these tarred torched at the back and said it was a good thing that the "lady" didn't start smoking inside the car! The guys got the stuff she'd nicked (iPod, keys, cigarettes, etc) from her, but she had loads of suspicious credit cards in her purse.... I think she was known to the law from previous misdemenours..

Maybe I should go and check some pyrotechnic performances this week...

[voltanapricot]

And the stupid UK law about not arming yourself to defend your own home sucks.
This law sucks hard, my mum was attacked with a crowbar during a robbery at work a few months ago. Could shit be done to make the area more secure? No! It's atrocious. She's safe now though and so I'm glad you guys are okay apart from your losses.

It's scary you know, today I had seen a guy snooping about looking inside cars. Later on the builders working on a house 3 doors down were telling my neighbour that some guy had nicked their sat-nav from their van in broad daylight paces away from them. You just can't escape from such pondlife.

[voltanapricot]

Oh Jayzuz, starting on a second page thinking it's a new thread gives me a minor heart attack everytime.