Break-Ins

[I bleed Blue]

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

That part almost angers me the most. That is exactly the type of incident you pay insurance all those years for then they go and **** you.

Its a weak pathetic thing to rob somones house. Hope these peices of shit got everything that was coming to them. Scum bags.

 

[NSWCROW]

Old mate broke into our house when we lived in Sydney the FIRST time ( 89-91 )
W e were all asleep upstairs and didn't know til next morn
Dad worked for " MARS confectionery " at the time ( guess who the most popular kid in the street was lol )....bloke stole a box of Mars Bars and some bills.........moron

 

[nicky]

What's your stories?

Friends of friends just got broken into and they had device tracking sw on their computers. Whenever the thieves would log in their laptops took photos of them and emailed the owners along with the address they were at. The police eventually got a warrant and went around there.

Needless to say the thieves were mystified as to how they were found.

 

[Ed_Gein]

Friends of friends just got broken into and they had device tracking sw on their computers. Whenever the thieves would log in their laptops took photos of them and emailed the owners along with the address they were at. The police eventually got a warrant and went around there.

Needless to say the thieves were mystified as to how they were found.

What sort of device is this? Is it a program or something?

 

[J_Moore]

That part almost angers me the most. That is exactly the type of incident you pay insurance all those years for then they go and **** you.

I remember back when my family got done, the insurers were being dicks about paying up, too. They were especially reluctant to pay for the replacement of the PA gear (my mum sang in a covers band, and they kept all the speakers/amps/cables at our house), arguing that it didn't fall under the typical home & contents policy, which they said only covers sport & leisure goods - ie: sporting equipment, bikes, fishing rods, that sort of bullshit.

My dad's a solicitor, and argued that since the policy actually worded it as "sports, leisure", rather than "sports & leisure", it meant something completely different, as the term 'leisure' on its own meant any activity you did for fun/enjoyment. It worked, and they ended up paying up.

It was at that moment, witnessing this dispute over the significance of a comma, that I realised I had absolutely no interest in becoming a lawyer.

 

[Gubbz]

One late afternoon my girlfriend, kids and I were walking down to the main street (it was christmas time and the town has a festival thing on) and we passed a group of young children - I knew who they were because living in a small town you kinda know everyone.

Anyway, we head out for the night and start heading home, by this time it is night time, and we give our children to my Aunty so she could drive the kids home. My grilfriend and I arrive home and she started pouring all of her coinage/change out onto the table and asks me to put it into our money tin we have on top of the fridge. I go to do it, but the tin was gone - it didnt strike us at first and we though each other was trying to play a trick on each other.

After realising that it had been taken, we checked the backdoor - which we found unlocked and noticed a chair pushed up against out bathroom window which they climbed through. The tin had roughy $700 in it, they also got away with our GPS, and a bit of my girlfriends jewellery.

The part that gets me, is when I was tlaking to my aunty she said she went to our house that arvo to drop some things off and she mentioned that the back door was unlocked (and I know for a fact we lock it all the time) - so they were in the house when she was there.

Just knowing that someone is/was in your house just makes you feel so violated, I was furious. But luckily enough as I mentioned I knew the kids and we got onto the police and got our stuff back, but not the money we were saving hard for

 

[Gubbz]

Forgot to mention - the main kid that stole the items was a little trouble maker and was always in the courts. SO I receive a letter in the mail weeks later from this kid saying sorry etc, with an attached letter from the courts asking for me to come in and hear his side of the story. no way man - no dice.

 

[benneth]

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.

Nice. Get the white fellas in to clean up the area. History says it works.

 

[Collingwood 4 eternity]

This video is creepy

 

[benneth]

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

Maybe I'm missing something, but there's no drugs in a medical centre.

Pharmacy through the roof is the go.

 

[benneth]

Friends of friends just got broken into and they had device tracking sw on their computers. Whenever the thieves would log in their laptops took photos of them and emailed the owners along with the address they were at. The police eventually got a warrant and went around there.

Needless to say the thieves were mystified as to how they were found.

Good story but that's BS.

 

[Bosun]

Good story but that's BS.

Who knows if it's true but there are applications/tools that are capable of doing just that (and more)

 

[Ed_Gein]

Who knows if it's true but there are applications/tools that are capable of doing just that (and more)

Well i had a friend who had his Senator stolen (some fancy type of Holden), but a few days prior to that he had it at the mechanics to get something on it fixed. I've heard around the traps that it's possible it was an inside job and the mechanics (who we found out after this happened) have a dodgy reputation, may have put some sort of tracking device in the car so they knew where to find it when it was stolen (from the friends work)

 

[BLPC08]

Old mate broke into our house when we lived in Sydney the FIRST time ( 89-91 )
W e were all asleep upstairs and didn't know til next morn
Dad worked for " MARS confectionery " at the time ( guess who the most popular kid in the street was lol )....bloke stole a box of Mars Bars and some bills.........moron

Hope the Mars Bars were defective. Seriously, Mars Bars!! W.T.F!!!

 

[benneth]

Who knows if it's true but there are applications/tools that are capable of doing just that (and more)

I didn't mean to say it isn't technically possible. It is but it is very costly and requires manual human intervention to get the results the poster is talking about. It's really not that automated and straight-forward.

But perhaps the 'friend of a friend' has mission critical data on their laptops (it happens believe it or not) and can afford the outlay.

No offense to Nicky, I'm not saying you're BS'ing, just that maybe someone told you a good story without letting the truth get in the way

Well i had a friend who had his Senator stolen (some fancy type of Holden), but a few days prior to that he had it at the mechanics to get something on it fixed. I've heard around the traps that it's possible it was an inside job and the mechanics (who we found out after this happened) have a dodgy reputation, may have put some sort of tracking device in the car so they knew where to find it when it was stolen (from the friends work)

That's quite easy to do, what Nicky is talking about is a different kettle of fish.

 

[vast]

Few years ago at 10 in the morning on a weekday, everyone else was out and my dad decides he will go for a walk to some friends near by. He only stayed for about 20 or so minutes. He comes back unlocks the front door looks into his bedroom and sees the whole room had been turned over, then out the corner of his eye he sees a man walking out to the back door through the laundry. My dad sneaks up behind him grabs him and the shits himself dropping the laptop bag. My dad just says what the **** are you doing? His response was what a you doing here? My dad just said I live here then smacked him in the face, the guy just pushed my dad and bolted out the door jumping the fence and getting away.

My dad was 60 at the time but he is a big unit, though obviously couldnt chase him.

He only ended up getting away with some jewellery in his pockets, but the prick turned the whole house upside down. I swear in that short time my dad was out he or they (my dad only saw one guy) went through every draw opened every box for old appliances, tossed the wardrobes, pulled out everything from under the beds, seriously even if we had hidden stuff he would have found it. But the most curious part which made me think the was more than one guy or a getaway driver I guess,was that my tv and ps3 was all unplugged and neatly laid out on the coffee table waiting to be collected. There was no way he could have carried that stuff over a fence on his own, unless he was planning to go out the front door in broad daylight with it. But he was planning to come back for it.

Anyway my dad called the cops and within minutes they arrived, soon after that a few detectives arrived as well, I think because a number of houses had been hit recently or the same day im not to sure, but nothing came of it as far as I know.

One of the cops said to my dad its a shame you didnt knock him out lol. Anyway I told my dad he is an idiot for confronting him like that you never know if they are armed or if its some nut job who will come back and hold it against you. Which is something that kinda happened to my uncle. But thats another long story.

 

[vast]

This video is creepy

If thats real then it is seriously messed up and what is that crawl space that it enters through, or is it just hiding in there?

 

[Cthublhu]

Well i had a friend who had his Senator stolen (some fancy type of Holden), but a few days prior to that he had it at the mechanics to get something on it fixed. I've heard around the traps that it's possible it was an inside job and the mechanics (who we found out after this happened) have a dodgy reputation, may have put some sort of tracking device in the car so they knew where to find it when it was stolen (from the friends work)

A former colleague of mine was from South Africa, the car theft capital of the world. Apparantly pretty much all decent cars are fitted with mobile tracking devices to help police recover them.

He swore this is true, and he wasn't a bullshit artist, so I'm inclined to believe him:

One day his luxury merc was stolen and he informed the police who activated their tracker thingy. They told him the good news and the bad news. The good news was that they'd located his car, the bad news was that it was 30,000ft in the air, heading north at 600 miles an hour. The thieves, knowing about the trackers, simply loaded up planes with luxury cars and flew them north to other countries to sell.

 

[Ed_Gein]

A former colleague of mine was from South Africa, the car theft capital of the world. Apparantly pretty much all decent cars are fitted with mobile tracking devices to help police recover them.

He swore this is true, and he wasn't a bullshit artist, so I'm inclined to believe him:

One day his luxury merc was stolen and he informed the police who activated their tracker thingy. They told him the good news and the bad news. The good news was that they'd located his car, the bad news was that it was 30,000ft in the air, heading north at 600 miles an hour. The thieves, knowing about the trackers, simply loaded up planes with luxury cars and flew them north to other countries to sell.

Haha wow. Amazing. I'm guessing that was the end of any chance of seeing his car again?

Yeah that mates Senator was found 2 or so days later in an abandoned sort of area, stripped for parts with the shell completely burnt. (Another reason to strengthen why we think it was an inside job)

 

[robstewart23]

But thats another long story.

Let's hear it......

 

[vast]

Let's hear it......

It was almost 15 years ago, my uncle went outside late around 10pm to feed their cat. As he walked by his fence someone leaned over the fence from the neighbours backyard yelling and tried to grab him. My uncle ran inside and called the cops. The guy was long gone when they arrived. The neighbours werent home all day because it was one their childrens wedding day so they assumed it was a robber who knew they werent home. My uncle didnt get a real good look but said it was a asian man, the neighbours are chinese aswell.

Anyway the next night sometime after midnight my uncle's house was awoken by a loud explosion, they ran to the front door with a fire burning on the outside. So they called the cops etc I cant remember but im pretty sure it was a molotov cocktail and the cops just said it was a warning for what happened the previous night. No one was ever caught.

Way out of proportion response, that obviously shook them up alot, but I guess these arent normal people and my uncle couldnt identify the man even if he wanted to. Thankfully no one was hurt and that was the last of it.

 

[robstewart23]

Way out of proportion response, that obviously shook them up alot, but I guess these arent normal people and my uncle couldnt identify the man even if he wanted to. Thankfully no one was hurt and that was the last of it.

Lucky escape. We had a neighbour once who was quite weird. We moved out after a year or so of living next to him and his missus, who was also weird. He kept calling me after that and asking for money for an imaginary fence he said we agreed to construct. One time he said "I know where you live...". Fair to say I s**t myself for a few months waiting for him to appear out of nowhere one day, but he never did. This guy was pretty scary. He came from a terrible upbringing where his brother and mother were both murdered. He had been in and out of juvenile detention as a teen and was a kickboxer/cage fighter. I still think about that guy and someone wonder if he hasn't finished with me yet. I really need to learn how to fight............

 

[vast]

Lucky escape. We had a neighbour once who was quite weird. We moved out after a year or so of living next to him and his missus, who was also weird. He kept calling me after that and asking for money for an imaginary fence he said we agreed to construct. One time he said "I know where you live...". Fair to say I s**t myself for a few months waiting for him to appear out of nowhere one day, but he never did. This guy was pretty scary. He came from a terrible upbringing where his brother and mother were both murdered. He had been in and out of juvenile detention as a teen and was a kickboxer/cage fighter. I still think about that guy and someone wonder if he hasn't finished with me yet. I really need to learn how to fight............

How long ago was it? If a decent amount of time has passed I wouldnt worry, that guy has probably forgotten all about it and was just trying to intimidate you. To these people thats just a everyday thing which they dont think much of, like we would. Though I must admit when we got robbed, I slept with one eye open for a while thinking they might come back coz my dad hit him.

 

[robstewart23]

How long ago was it? If a decent amount of time has passed I wouldnt worry, that guy has probably forgotten all about it and was just trying to intimidate you. To these people thats just a everyday thing which they dont think much of, like we would. Though I must admit when we got robbed, I slept with one eye open for a while thinking they might come back coz my dad hit him.

We moved almost four years ago and the last time I heard from him was about 6 months after that. It actually really affected me and I considered getting some help for an anxiety issue. Thankfully our daughter was born not long after that and it gave me something to focus on. Without going into details, I really don't know why I was so worried, because I have help - both formally and informally, but I think I was more scared because I had seen a side of someone I had never experienced. I must admit since that experience I became a lot less trusting of people. I really suss people out now.

 

[nicky]

No offense to Nicky, I'm not saying you're BS'ing, just that maybe someone told you a good story without letting the truth get in the way



That's quite easy to do, what Nicky is talking about is a different kettle of fish.

No offense taken. I've asked my friend to email me the name of the software - he hasn't gotten back to me yet but will let you know when he does.

He likes these type of stories so wouldn't be surprised if it were an exaggeration.

ps. apparently they only paid for the software when it was being used to track the thieves.