house broken into

[Vegas Halo Fan]

On 1/5/2017 at 4:51 PM, fan_since79 said:

Several friends of mine have a SimpliSafe home security system and swear by it. I might just look into it. Home and car break-ins are on the rise in Long Beach

 

Just bought one, haven't installed it yet.

[2112]

I've had my house broken into several years ago, I know the violation people feel.  

 

The worst was when my parents home was broken into.  My mom had passed away, and my father was in a home.  I was really glad that I had told my sister that my mom's jewelry was hers (my mom told me that she wanted her to have it).  The robbers had realized no one was there (periodically my sister would come inspect the home). 

They had cut the lock on the garage door and put their own on it.  They had taken their time and went through the whole house.  They really didn't get much.  My mom's inexpensive stereo, a bedroom tv, my nephews PlayStation, a slew of stuffed animals (?), my dad's tools.  They had moved one of the kitchen chairs to the attic opening (probably trying find the good stuff). 

They didn't steal the most valuable item in the house - the living room tv.  Of course it was so heavy that the guys from Stonehenge would have complained about moving it. They did take the remote though. 

[notherhalo]

One time I was stretching or something at the YMCA pool and my trunks split from front crotch area to butt, like almost in half

whatever, I threw them in the locker without a lock, took a shower to change into gym clothes and when I came back someone stole those busted swim trunks 

[ten ocho recon scout]

7 hours ago, notherhalo said:

One time I was stretching or something at the YMCA pool and my trunks split from front crotch area to butt, like almost in half

whatever, I threw them in the locker without a lock, took a shower to change into gym clothes and when I came back someone stole those busted swim trunks 

Id imagine theres a lot of crotchless trunks in the shower area at the Y.

[mrwicked]

highly recommend getting a monitored security system. sensors and cameras and stuff up the arse. totally worth it IMO.

also dont forget physical security. make sure to protect all external door jams, hinges and locks. deadbolt doesnt do much when the plates use 1/2" screws. super easy to just kick a door in.

[Jay]

The worst part of being broken into is calling the cops.

They come and pretend to do some fancy CSI shit by spreading black fingerprint dust all over everything.

Nothing ever comes of it except now you have a god awful mess to clean up.

 

[mrwicked]

24 minutes ago, Jay said:

The worst part of being broken into is calling the cops.

They come and pretend to do some fancy CSI shit by spreading black fingerprint dust all over everything.

Nothing ever comes of it except now you have a god awful mess to clean up.

 

 

[ten ocho recon scout]

On 1/6/2017 at 2:19 PM, Taggart said:

yeah, true story. i remember house shopping after the crash and came across a bunch of homes that were stripped of copper. the wildest one i heard of was people going underneath cars and stealing peoples catalytic converters to sell for scrap.

That was going on huge for awhile. We still get them occasionally.

The copper wire thing was huge too for a long time. Ranged from straight tweakers taking out small business stuff, to guys who looked legit with the boom trucks and helmets and safety vests...we obviously never even noticed them because they looked legit.

Shaved keys are huge right now...any asshole can make one pretty simple...fit most older cars...

[ten ocho recon scout]

4 hours ago, Jay said:

The worst part of being broken into is calling the cops.

They come and pretend to do some fancy CSI shit by spreading black fingerprint dust all over everything.

Nothing ever comes of it except now you have a god awful mess to clean up.

 

Youd be suprised how many dna and fingerprint hits we get...the problem is most good crooks know to wear gloves...

Sorry about the mess...

[ten ocho recon scout]

Just now, calscuf said:

TORS, do you know all this because of your law enforcement or Hispanic backgrounds?

I watch a lot of msnbc

[Tank]

5 hours ago, Jay said:

The worst part of being broken into is calling the cops.

They come and pretend to do some fancy CSI shit by spreading black fingerprint dust all over everything.

Nothing ever comes of it except now you have a god awful mess to clean up.

The worst part for us was cleaning up after the punk emptied drawers and turned over furniture. He even broke one of our lamps. 

We called police and they came and made a report. We lost a really nice kitchen knife that the cops took into evidence for DNA because the scum-sucking punk used it to try and jimmy a couple of locks. We finally replaced the knife this Christmas.

we used the "find my iPhone" feature but the punk disabled our electronics pretty quickly and we never found them. 

We never really had any hope of ever recovering our things, but we're okay because everything has been replaced at this point.