HAVE YOU EVER BEEN BURGLED

here's a thing,has anyone on the forum ever been burgled,i have 3 time's not in my house but in my garage--on the first occasion only my freezer was emptied along with a quantity of cleaning materials i put it down to youths.

on the second occasion only the locks were forced enabling the thieves to get in nothing was taken i think they must have been disturbed --still it cost me money for new locks.

on the third occasion a lot of my tools were stolen and my freezer emptied yet again fortunately it wasnt as full as the first time all i can say is they must have been hungry.--i had my suspicions as to who it was as he was a regular visitor to my house ----it was the window cleaner who had access to an outside tap at the rear of the garage. how did i know you might ask?he gave his self away as one day he said to me did they get away with much--we never told anyone about the burglarys,it has made us more alert now regards home safety.

Good Day, I was in a very cold state my dad's cane was stolen, was planning to return it. Don't care for thieves, such a crime fighting world.. Good Luck and Enjoy the day!

Juju

Interesting question, James.

I am glad to say that as an adult living on my own I have never been burgled. However, I remember very well an incident that happened when I was about 14 years old.

It was a cold winter's night and I was asleep in my bed when I was awakened by the sound of my bedroom door opening. It was not unusual for my two youngest siblings to crawl into bed with me when they had bad dreams or were just cold, so I assumed it was one of them. But a moment later the door opened and closed again. I thought they had decided to go back to their own room. I had just dozed back off when I heard a blood curdling scream coming from my mother's room.

I, along with my other four siblings, jumped out of our beds (and our skin) to race to our mother's side. As I came around the corner I slammed smack dab into a strange, hooded figure. I screamed and he bolted out the front door.

Fortunately, although shaken, my mother was unharmed as were the rest of us. We called the police and they told us that there had been a rush of similar attempted burglaries in the neighborhood by what they suspected were drug addicts looking for money.

That, I am glad to say was the last time anything that scary has happened to me. It's a disconcerting feeling to know that a stranger was in our home and could have killed any one of us in our sleep! 

                Three times at the dry cleaners I work at!!! First two times it was smack window in and (whilst alams were going off) they grabbed the CHARITY BOX!!!!!!!! They got away with a few coins and caused such a mess but no damage or loss of stock. third time a rather upset young gentleman shall we say who had just been dumped by his girlfriend went up the High Street at nearly midnight  kicking in a few windows. Damage to window and some cacti I keep in the shop window and one heck of a mess.

              Bookham is normally a really quiet place but yesterday (wednesday) it was balaclavas sledgehammers at the local jewelers in the middle of the afternoon!!!!

              Also in the last week thieves or thief were captured robbing the local and 24 hour manned FIRE STATION, desperation or just plain dumb?

Burglary introduces fear into the family life. To remove that fear my next step if i'm lucky, will be remote and noisy.