Returned home after work tday, work so I can buy things like windsurfing gear and stuff, pay taxes, to find some dirty thief ransacked my house.
They smashed my brand new garage door, sole my motorbike (2006 ktm 250sx), laptops, cash, wedding rings, the works.
Something has to be done, if your not safe in your own home???
Crime paid this time, and if they do get busted all they'll get is drug rehab.
Sorry to hear.
What's the burb ?
I know someone who chains (big links) his motorbike even in his own garage.
I don't know that it'll prevent the bastards from get it though..
I'm in padbury nor, and apparently a few places have been hit.
Someone saw a van pull in front of my yard, got out with lawn mowing gear and started working while their mate robbed the place.
Sound to me like a pro crook, targeting small expensive stuff. (exept mbike)
So I'm at home now with the wife waiting for the cops.
So, lawnmower men arnt so innocent afterall!
I guess the mower provides coverage for noise of breaking things. Did they mow the grass? Brazen bastards
fkn ck faces...
Crime is definitely on the rise. We are also NOR, in Edgewater. 2 years ago, burglaries in the area were unheard of, but in the past few months loads of houses around us have been hit. Coming from South Africa, I don't want to go back to having to have burglar bars on the windows, electric fences etc. What we have done is installed hidden cameras all around our house and motion detectors, so, although it won't prevent the crime, we will have nice movie clips to give to the police to help apprehend the suckers.
Sorry about your belongings being lifted. Hopefully you are insured?
Each Saturday night for the last three weeks, cars parked on the street and in driveways have been broken into.
Am in North Fremantle.
Cheers guys, yeah we are insured but I dunno about the cash, It was in a safe along with the jewlery so fingers crossed, which they ripped half the wall apart to get off.
The bike was locked with 1 inch steel rope in a locked shed, so at the end of the day if you've been targeted they'll find a way.
The bike was pretty nutsy so karma will sort them out.
Thieving deceptive scumbags .... hope you had enough insurance coverage Spok (even though some of the stuff you mentioned probbly won't be exactly replaced mate) .....
Place a message at your local supermarket pin-up noticeboard etc about the lawnmowing scam too i reckon , the more folks that know - the more that may get a better sighting & description of them , scum absolute scum!
I've put Spocktek in touch with someone senior at the Community Newspaper Group. The Joondalup Times will probably run a story that will hopefully either lead these DH's to stop, or else make other householders more aware of their M.O. - and perhaps prevent some of their belongings being pawned off.
We almost got broken into early hours of the morning a couple of weeks ago- one of those stinking hot nights we left our security screen thingo rolled up a bit to try and get a little breeze through the house.
Around 330ish there were 3 maybe 4 blokes in our front yard, one started fiddling with the window, they claimed to be looking for a lost mobile phone when I confronted them.
Dont know if it was seeing me starkers, or the oily click that made them decamp in the general direction of away.
I would have thought seeing me starkers would have made them crack up giggling- but I could be wrong......
I saw a neon road sign down at Mullaloo a few weeks back saying be care full as a spat of breakin's were happening..
Seems West Perth is a target for thieves too, I've had motorbike and a phone stolen in separate thefts here, both during business hours.
The helpful people in the office across the road from the bike thought that the person bashing off the steering lock and hotwiring it 'might' not have been the owner, so they took this helpful photo on a mobile phone:
www.flickr.com/photos/22558538@N00/3225391800/
I'm very good at putting disc locks on now.
A mate lost his $800 drill off the back of his flat bed ute last week, fortunatly it was found and returned.
I lost a $320 bag of insulation off my roof rack , (untied the 3 rolls ,the mobile rang, had to rush off, bloody phones) put an add on the local website EELIS, it was found in the bush and returned to me. Lots of honest people here , thank god
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Was burgled twice in 2 years down south , so glad I'm not there anymore.
Sorry to here those stories , hope they get what they deserve
^^ I'll be needing that when/if I find out who done it!!
Total of goods + damage was in exess of 30k! And Being a good score the the coppers reckon they'll be back, which is not a comforting feeling.
The pricks also stole a file full of receipts aswell so they new what they were doing. Goods are worth more/easier to move with proof of purchase.
I've always liked dogs so this weekend I'm goin dog shopping. I had a ridgeback years ago and he was cool so I might get another, any suggestions?
My car's windows were smashed a while ago (in my garage) 2000$ damage just to steal 100$ car radio...
guys came back a week later (I was doing night shift) and broke in the house, I got home 2mins too late....
I bought a Pitbull and a large Beauceron shepherd, haven't been annoyed since....
Best dog for us was a male black and tan Kelpie.
You could have left the house open all day and he wouldn't let anyone he didn't know near it until you got home. He would make a stack of noise, but once he saw all was OK he settled pretty quickly. Otherwise
Then about three weeks after he was gone, the house was broken into and car, personal stuff was taken from the house. Then neighbours were broken into as well.
Yes a growling dog at night makes you think twice. Last Christmas We stayed at my parents place. They got a new dog as their old one who knew me died. This dog, a border collie, is very friendly and intelligent. During the day she was fine.
However one night I got up to go for a piss outside, they live on a farm, and I heard this deep growl. Very scary even from a mid sized, friendly dog.
girlfriend of mine (many years ago) had a german shepherd with a growl like that, except you only heard the growl if you were patting it or being nice to it - scratching its belly etc.
Turns out as a pup it was raised by a cat and it was just purring at me.
scared the bejeezus outa me the first time.
stephen
