Sorry, this is a rant!

[abucksdiver]

Thieving, b*stard scumbag w*nkers!

On Monday, we were burgled again, for the second time in 9 months.

They didn't take too much..
the Wifes PDA (the one the insurance company replaceed from the last burglary)
a bottle of whisky (not one of my better ones... there was a reason I hadn't opened it!)
Chocolate biscuits
Around £50 cash
Some of the presents we had got for our daughters birthday later this week...

The worst part is that they got in through the garage door, by nearly bending the damn thing in half! It looks like replacing the garage door is going to cost about 3-4 times the value of stuff taken.

Luckily, they walked past my Dive boxes without even looking... it seems a definate "only what we can easily carry" job.

They also checked all the places that stuff was taken from last time... luckily, I found a new hiding place for the Video Digi cameras.

Rant over... (well, subsiding)


Andrew

[Bantam]

Originally Posted by abucksdiver

Thieving, b*stard scumbag w*nkers!

On Monday, we were burgled again, for the second time in 9 months.

They didn't take too much..
the Wifes PDA (the one the insurance company replaceed from the last burglary)
a bottle of whisky (not one of my better ones... there was a reason I hadn't opened it!)
Chocolate biscuits
Around £50 cash
Some of the presents we had got for our daughters birthday later this week...

The worst part is that they got in through the garage door, by nearly bending the damn thing in half! It looks like replacing the garage door is going to cost about 3-4 times the value of stuff taken.

Luckily, they walked past my Dive boxes without even looking... it seems a definate "only what we can easily carry" job.

They also checked all the places that stuff was taken from last time... luckily, I found a new hiding place for the Video Digi cameras.

Rant over... (well, subsiding)


Andrew

I would bet that it was the same wankers who burgled you the first time, waited for you to replace your stolen objects, then come back to get the new ones.

Still not a nice thing to happen, though. Hope they catch the bastards.

We got burgled once - they levered out the entire window frame (wood windows) however the pricks who did it dropped a lighter whilst nicking the ferguson videostar, so the prints were all over it, and they caught them. They'd done 9 houses in one night in our road.

My wife's always worried we'll get burgled, but not from the burglar coming in, but from what I'd do to anyone who came in the house (Speargun in the spare room, and before you ask, yes, I would (esp if they went anywhere near my kids.........)

[MATTBIN]

Andrew
sorry to hear that mate, at least the dive kit wasnt swiped or anyone hurt.
Scum bags.

Matt

[Steve S]

sorry to hear that mate I reckon Bantam has it sussed unfortunately the s**ts have got it off to a fine art, knowing everything about their "trade" even down to insurance payout times

Safe diving,
Steve

[DecoWarrior]

know the feeling there mate thieving low life shower of bastards, we ve been burgled getting oin 13 times in total, not been done for a while, we even had some one take the front window out, in the street in broad daylight while we were on holiday!! cheeky bastards

one bastard put the d9g in the washing machine cause it was making to much noise, thank god they didnt turn it on

they all deserve to be shot on sight

[keith_henson]

Sorry to hear matey about getting broken into again. I cant believe they stoop as lowas to nick your daughters birthday presents. The scum!

my family know about the problems of getting burgled. I wasnt that bothered about the thing getting taken out of our barns, but the problems it caused to my parents, sister and grand parents was something that cant be replaced or fixed.

All in all we got done over 13 times in 10 years, with a tractor being nicked one weekend we went away to the coast. 4 months later tony martin (lived on farm about 6 miles from us) shot two gipsy burglers (fred barrett and some other guy) - we warned the coppers many a time, but they took no notice that someone was going to get shot. Just glad that tony did it before i got round to it - if i caught them in the process.

Even after tony shot two of them, we had problems with hare coarsers on our farm, I doscovered them in the act, called the coppers who said they could do nothing, so i shot the two greyhounds they were using to chase the hares. Never seen two scummy gits run so fast. (the hares I had been helping the population grow from about 4 pairs to nearly 10 on our farm over 6 years).

Yet even after all of this the farm at the end of our local road got done over and they nicked 4 horses and 3 ponies.

Whats the world coming to?

Sorry - rant over.


Keith

[vulcan]

You have every right to rant; we all probably would in the same cicumstances.

Things don't need to have monetary value to upset you when it's taken from you like this. The small, the cheap, the irreplaceable items are the ones I have missed more in similar circumstances; bigger items the insurance pays for (then your premium goes up).

The inconvenience, as has been mentioned, is also a major upsetting factor.

But we're told day after day that crime is not running out of control, and the Police are in control......

......well just give a picture of how in control the Police are (I have no axe to grind with them, I have a long and positive association with them) a long serving and well respected officer who I work with was told by his immediate supervisor that drugs "were no longer a problem". They had gone off the list of targets for his division to meet so his unit was not to target drugs and drug related offences.

It had been replaced with "nuisance teenagers/youths on the street" because, allegedly, the Divisional Commander had had a run in with some as (s)he went home a few weeks previously.

I don't intend to get in to arguements about what is the more serious problem, but there does seem to be a remarkable lack of focus here and a disregard of what the public perceives to be their priorities.

I accept that the officer (a true old fashioned bobby in every sense) was telling me the story probably to gain support for his course, but what he told me I believe to be true.

How long before burglary slips off the list of "things to do" of Police Chiefs.

Judging by the number of burglaries people have experienced here, it may already have done just that!

[Mr T.]

Hi Andrew,

Sorry to hear your news mate - bastards.

I know that this might be a case of closing the stable door once the horse has bolted, but have you considered a monitored alarm?

We've had one for about three years, £27 per month to ADT and that includes a monitored fire alarm too. If you have a fire in the house and you're not there, the fire brigade turn up in short order too

If the house gets tanned, and being as the cops no longer respond to audible house alarms (i.e. ringing bells etc.), if the silent alarm is tripped, a signal is sent to a switchboard who call the nearest area car and the cops are there in minutes - I know this to be the case as when we first had it fitted (before having it 'modified' and expanded ), the post man putting post through the letterbox set it off whilst we weren't there and the cops were there in quick sticks. We know this coz the nextdoor neighnour was cutting his lawn and saw the postie arrive followed very shortly by a cop car screaming to a screeching halt in my drive; one cop went to the front door and looked through the windows whilst the other went round the back in a 'we'll head 'em off at the pass' move. They then asked my neighbour was he a registered key-holder so they could gain access to the house to check it out

So if you'd like the opportunity to catch the twats who did this whilst they're still in your house, I can recommend it. It works.

Hope that helps mate

[Bantam]

Originally Posted by Mr T.

Hi Andrew,

Sorry to hear your news mate - bastards.

I know that this might be a case of closing the stable door once the horse has bolted, but have you considered a monitored alarm?

We've had one for about three years, £27 per month to ADT and that includes a monitored fire alarm too. If you have a fire in the house and you're not there, the fire brigade turn up in short order too

If the house gets tanned, and being as the cops no longer respond to audible house alarms (i.e. ringing bells etc.), if the silent alarm is tripped, a signal is sent to a switchboard who call the nearest area car and the cops are there in minutes - I know this to be the case as when we first had it fitted (before having it 'modified' and expanded ), the post man putting post through the letterbox set it off whilst we weren't there and the cops were there in quick sticks. We know this coz the nextdoor neighnour was cutting his lawn and saw the postie arrive followed very shortly by a cop car screaming to a screeching halt in my drive; one cop went to the front door and looked through the windows whilst the other went round the back in a 'we'll head 'em off at the pass' move. They then asked my neighbour was he a registered key-holder so they could gain access to the house to check it out

So if you'd like the opportunity to catch the twats who did this whilst they're still in your house, I can recommend it. It works.

Hope that helps mate

ADT usually do special offers with Free kit and free install if you go for the monitored option. Mrs Bantam's Mum's got one installed and it's the tops.

mark.

[abucksdiver]

Just got a call from a Detective Constable on my local Burglary Squad...

Could I please come down to teh local Police Station and identify a few items that they believe came from my TWO break-ins, and could I do it sooner rather than later, as identifying some of the "suspected" stolen goods is a good enough excuse to remand the little scrot for a night in the cells!

I'll keep you all posted!

Andrew

PS> They wouldn't tell me who he is, though!