Break-Ins

[RU_]

Was just browsing Facebook at the early hours of Monday morning, and noticed a friend was still waiting on police to arrive to their house. I checked out their page to find a set of car keys, and two laptops stolen. Reward's offered, etc.

What is the worst break-in that you have ever seen or has happened to you?

Mine would be a couple of years ago, I was quite young and in bed, but I have heard the story since. We had quite a large house, the dog's were locked up in the shed, about 10:00pm, parents were off in the lounge room, I was sleeping I presume, and we had some friends of ours staying to watch over me while my parents went to work.

Anyway, dad walks into the kitchen to grab a drink, and mum asked for her phone.. as he turned the corner he swears he saw a foot dash past, and then when he got around noone was there. Upon investigation it turned out someone had knicked all the car keys, mum's handbag, phones, etc.

We locked the doors with chairs, and used dad's car which we still had the key's for, to block mum's car in. A couple of days later, my parents had new phones and actually called their old ones, and surprisingly someone actually answered, I can't remember how but in the end we didn't get the stuff back.

What's your stories?

 

[Igloo]

Never happened to me but it's something I get incredibly paranoid about. I keep my trusty Shillelagh next to my bed just in case

 

[RU_]

Never happened to me but it's something I get incredibly paranoid about. I keep my trusty Shillelagh next to my bed just in case

Apparently keeping a weapon near you is a bad thing!

 

[Igloo]

Apparently keeping a weapon near you is a bad thing!

To the untrained eye it's just a stick, but I know better . Would a stick be classed as a weapon?

 

[Ed_Gein]

I had a house me and my ex-girlfriend that we had only been living in for 2 or 3 months when we got broken into.

We had a laptop, travel backpack, xbox original with all the games and a digital camera stolen. It was pretty much a 2 minute bust in, take what the eye could see in each room and take off. If they had of dug around in drawers and that, they could have taken a heap more.

The problem is though, is that it was a rented house that was continually targeted by the same people. (I'm not stereotyping when i say this) It was a family of unemployed aboriginals about 20 or so houses down that would break into a majority of the rented houses on the street. The cops ended up doing a raid on them at some point and i'm not sure what came about.

In hindsight, it actually was nice of them, because our insurance company replaced everything old for new so i ended up getting an xbox 360 and a much better laptop and digital camera out of it.

When i moved out (i stayed there for 6 months or so after me and the girlfriend at the time split up), there must have been a good 3 or 4 males in their mid-20's or so that moved in. Probably to deter the aboriginal family from trying to break in again.

 

[Tex_21]

I broke into a medical centre once. Fully recommend doing this

 

[Bluelegs]

Had one about four years ago. Stole my parents jewellery, and two laptops. Only one I've ever had.

 

[JuddsABlue]

We had one about 10 years ago, just a snatch and grab where they smashed through the frontdoor middle of the day and took what they could see. Neighbour saw and called the cops, but they were gone by the time they arrived. Was 3 blokes apparently.

Mostly alcohol and ciggies, along with a playstation. Nothing of extreme value.

But yeah like an above poster said, it was actually a good thing to happen to us. Still got my xbox

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Had one a couple of months ago. They weren't Hawks fans because all my Hawks stuff was left untouched

 

[GOAUS!]

To the untrained eye it's just a stick, but I know better . Would a stick be classed as a weapon?

Yes it would just ask Russell Crowe, a phone was classified as a class 3 weapon in America at least.

Never had a break-in myself, which is interesting considering that most of the people around me have .

 

[Smoooothy]

On the weekend a arcade machine business got broken into in the northern suburbs of adelaide. $30k of pinball machines and arcade machines were taken.

Purchased my arcade machine parts from him. He had a wicked setup

 

[robstewart23]

Parents house got broken into, when I was about 10 years old, while we were on holidays. Dad was smart and had hidden all the good stuff. I was always suss that it was a mate's big brother, who was very dodgy and knew we were away, but could never prove it. I remember feeling a little violated afterwards and a bit scared they would come back.

 

[Upgrayedd]

Someone broke into my back-room, i keep a machete on my bedside table.

Cue me chasing the prick down the street in my underwear with the guy screaming "**** you campaigner i didnt mean it" (Belmont Cuz!)

 

[Ed_Gein]

Parents house got broken into, when I was about 10 years old, while we were on holidays. Dad was smart and had hidden all the good stuff. I was always suss that it was a mate's big brother, who was very dodgy and knew we were away, but could never prove it. I remember feeling a little violated afterwards and a bit scared they would come back.

I know what you mean. My ex-gf after we got robbed (from the story above) was hysterical and made me ring up 24hr locksmiths despite me telling her they wouldn't come back, that they've got what they wanted and left. Anyway, most of the locksmiths didn't answer, one did and he groggily (was probably asleep) answered the phone saying "Nah, we're booked out".

 

[LosBeatles]

When I was 15 I was woken at 4am by our dog barking like crazy and then mum screaming. There was a guy outside with some tools taking off a side door into our house.

The weird part was me, my dad and my uncle who was staying with us all grabbed cricket bats and golf clubs and were waiting for him on the other side of the glass, but he still kept trying to take the door off! He must have been high meth or whatever drug they take which makes them not give a ****.

Mum called the cops and he started kicking the door in, which made a hell of a noise, while my dad and uncle screamed at him and mum screamed into the phone so she could be heard over the noise.
So, it was pretty obvious this was an emergency situation and the police should get there as soon as possible in case something serious happened.

Eventually the guy gave up kicking the door and jumped the side fence and dissappeared ....... Five hours later two gray hair, fat bordering on obese cops waddled up our drive way. Pretended to look around for 5 minutes, advised us to replace the door (wow, no sh!t officer) then waddled off home. Needless to say I havn't had the same respect for the pigs ever since

 

[RU_]

When I was 15 I was woken at 4am by our dog barking like crazy and then mum screaming. There was a guy outside with some tools taking off a side door into our house.

The weird part was me, my dad and my uncle who was staying with us all grabbed cricket bats and golf clubs and were waiting for him on the other side of the glass, but he still kept trying to take the door off! He must have been high meth or whatever drug they take which makes them not give a ****.

Mum called the cops and he started kicking the door in, which made a hell of a noise, while my dad and uncle screamed at him and mum screamed into the phone so she could be heard over the noise.
So, it was pretty obvious this was an emergency situation and the police should get there as soon as possible in case something serious happened.

Eventually the guy gave up kicking the door and jumped the side fence and dissappeared ....... Five hours later two gray hair, fat bordering on obese cops waddled up our drive way. Pretended to look around for 5 minutes, advised us to replace the door (wow, no sh!t officer) then waddled off home. Needless to say I havn't had the same respect for the pigs ever since

All 3 of you should have just charged him with the bats. Would have ****ed his shit up.

 

[J_Moore]

When I was about 13-14, our place was broken into while everyone was asleep. They cleaned out a granny-flat type thing that was pretty separate from the rest of the house. Knicked a whole lot of expensive-ish PA gear, TV, computer. That was all replaced (+ upgraded) with insurance, so no biggie.

The worst bit was they'd obviously roughed up our dog and dragged him somewhere. When we woke up the next day, he was lying on our front verandah with a big cut down his leg, and was quite scared and out of sorts for a couple of months after. That was the only part about the whole thing that really upset us, I think.

Oh, also got done while on holiday by the delinquent ****ers over the back fence a few years earlier to that. They stole some shit bottles of scotch, my basketball cards, and various U10's sports trophies. Then tried to surreptitiously watch us over the back fence when we returned. True master thieves.


EDIT: lol, 'gooses'. Well done, swear filter.

 

[JuddsABlue]

pretty amazing people get robbed at night while theyre sleeping, I just assumed most crims would rob when houses were empty

 

[DTRAIN87]

We had one about 10 years ago, just a snatch and grab where they smashed through the frontdoor middle of the day and took what they could see. Neighbour saw and called the cops, but they were gone by the time they arrived. Was 3 blokes apparently.

Mostly alcohol and ciggies, along with a playstation. Nothing of extreme value.

But yeah like an above poster said, it was actually a good thing to happen to us. Still got my xbox

Ironic considering your avatar.

 

[Plugger35]

Had some dodgy bloke snooping around our backyard one day, it was a weekday and I was the only one home as I was on uni holidays. At first I thought he might have been a tradesman or something but it was pretty clear after a while that he was up to no good as he was having a look in our back shed and then casing the house out looking for somewhere to break in, obviously assuming that no one was home. He walked around to the back door so I opened it to ask him what he was playing at and he shat himself and bolted over the fence. I yelled out "what the f*** are you doing?" and then he stuck his head up over the fence and said "sorry mate I was just trying to take a short cut" which was obviously bullshit.

I called the cops to report it and they sent around an older bloke copper and a young female copper, for some reason they must have thought there was no one home either as instead of knocking on the front door they just walked around into the backyard so I opened up the back door to speak with them and the young female copper shat herself and screamed. Stupid bitch must have thought I was the burgler, hate to think how useless she would have been if I was a burgler.

 

[Tasmaniac]

Had one a couple of months ago. They weren't Hawks fans because all my Hawks stuff was left untouched

We had a break in at work. Only thing the buggers took from my office was my Hawk membership hat.

Evil, evil bastards.

 

[Tasmaniac]

Separate incident, well before the missing Hawk hat caper.

Sharehouse. I came home from work, mature age uni student flatmate told me next door neighbour's kid + his mate (late teenagers) tried to jimmy open our back door. Uni student was in the house, so he picked up a hockey stick from my room and went and showed the business end to these two kids though a window in the door.

Kids took off, the student went next door and told his parents. The End.

personalyl I would have called the cops, but these kids might have been under 18, and so gotten off scott free.

 

[saintsrfreak]

When I was 12 our garage got broken into. Twice. Both times they stole a motorbike, both times while we were asleep.

 

[RU_]

When I was about 13-14, our place was broken into while everyone was asleep. They cleaned out a granny-flat type thing that was pretty separate from the rest of the house. Knicked a whole lot of expensive-ish PA gear, TV, computer. That was all replaced (+ upgraded) with insurance, so no biggie.

The worst bit was they'd obviously roughed up our dog and dragged him somewhere. When we woke up the next day, he was lying on our front verandah with a big cut down his leg, and was quite scared and out of sorts for a couple of months after. That was the only part about the whole thing that really upset us, I think.

Oh, also got done while on holiday by the delinquent gooses over the back fence a few years earlier to that. They stole some shit bottles of scotch, my basketball cards, and various U10's sports trophies. Then tried to surreptitiously watch us over the back fence when we returned. True master thieves.


EDIT: lol, 'gooses'. Well done, swear filter.

That shit there really pisses me off. I hope that somewhere someone attempted it and the dog ripped his ****ing arm off.

 

[Le Class]

Parent's house got broken into two and bit years ago on Melbourne Cup Day back when I was still living at home. They stole a laptop, 2 big screen TV's, 2 Digital Cameras, Nintendo Wii and probably 30+ games, a DS, DVD and Blu-Rays, Jewellery, a heap of alcohol we had all just bought from Duty Free, a mountain bike, Dad's golf clubs and countless other stuff The thieves must have been there for a while because they went to town on us. They even took FOOD from the fridge.

To make matters worse they just smashed and threw around whatever the f*** they could see around the place. My bedroom was totally, they flipped every cupboard and drawer full of clothes that they could get their hands on. I washed all my clothes before I would wear anything again, it didnt feel right sleeping in my bed for ages afterwards too. We had just got a little puppy only a couple of months before that too, luckily he was out with Mum that day.

I still remember when Mum rang me screaming and freaking out about it too, it was absolutely horrible. The police did SFA with it also... Oh and we got spanked by insurance too