Lock your doors!
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Topic: Lock your doors!
Posted By: GuestGuest
Subject: Lock your doors!
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 11:34am
Our neighbour was robbed on Sat night while they were asleep upstairs in their beds 
They had forgotten to lock their back door and the guy walked in and took a wallet and camera, looked around and left again. They have security cameras around their house so saw the whole thing - he turned up about 2am, walked around checking all of the car doors on the drive and checked the house doors until he found one that was unlocked. I'm guessing he walked around the streets doing the same thing to other houses after he left
A good reminder to check all of your doors and windows before you go to bed...I sure did last night! |
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 11:39am
| Not just at night but when you aren't home during the day. Most people get robbed during the daytime not night. |
Posted By: GuestGuest
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 11:40am
| I agree, but it's a lot scarier to get robbed at night when you're in the house sleeping! |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 11:43am
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When I was flatting I was asleep in bed in summer, the guys were still up and lights were on and I had a window open cause it was so stinking hot and I woke up and saw an arm coming through my window with a lighter to see if anyone was around.. cops came around and the dog found the guy a few houses down doing the same thing. He was jumping through backyards looking for an opportunity
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Posted By: Kazper
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 11:56am
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OMG kebakat! that would have been so scary! what did you do? - I mean were you able to scream! I'm such a freezer, I probably wouldn't have even been able to make a noise! ------------- http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/545141" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 11:58am
| I stayed put. In my head i was saying "f**k off" and I wanted to get up and run into the next room where the guys were but I was nakey lol |
Posted By: freckle
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 12:03pm
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Scary!!! How freaky seeing him on the video in the morning....
Once when I lived alone with DD1 I had a knock on the door from the police at about one in the morning and they'd caught someone trying to break in... apparently he'd tried other places down the road and they'd called the police... ------------- mum to 3 lovely girls :D |
Posted By: Nutella
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 12:56pm
Lol Kazper, I know I am a freezer......one night I woke up and I felt this hand on my shoulder and I just froze and thought holy crap what is happening who is this...and it took me a while to realise it was my own hand on my shoulder and that my arm was asleep hence couldn't tell it was me haha!  ------------- 
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Kazper wrote:Posted By: Robyn26
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 1:05pm
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Lol Talios!!
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Posted By: tictacjunkie
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 1:21pm
| My grandparents have had a lot of stuff stolen from the house while they've been out in the backyard hanging washing etc, they still leave everything unlocked though, including their car! Grr |
Posted By: mothermercury
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 1:25pm
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Haha, TaliP, that's hilarious - sounds like something I would do.
Someone breaking into my house while I'm in it has been my biggest fear ever since about the age of nine. I grew up in South Africa though and knew multiple people who had this happen to them, so my fears were not completely unreasonable.  I do not know what I would do if it happened.
Now I am super-vigilant about locking doors. Twice, I've come home to see the door wide open and I nearly threw up I was so scared. Went inside, nobody was there, nothing at all had been taken either time (all valuables were lying out in the open, plain to see, so I'm quite sure nobody was in there)... Figured out it must have been my husband who didn't pull the door shut properly before he left the house (it has a deadbolt so you need to click it in properly).  I was so not impressed with him. Now I am the one who closes the doors when we leave the house.
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Posted By: jaz
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 1:49pm
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I have always been super vigilant, I even lock my back door during the day when I am home. Although that is more to keep kids in than burglars out. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 2:41pm
Hehe  My sister did the exact opposite, she left her window open and in the middle of the nigth woke up to what she thought was a hand reaching through behind the curtain - she walloped it! As it turned out, it was just the cat trying to get in, and she gave him a good fright... I'm just pleased it wasn't a burglar, I'm not sure if hitting them is really the way to go -------------   
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Posted By: Robyn26
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 2:46pm
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The next door neighbours cat was trying to come through my Mum and dads window one night, they have screens on their windows so it was making lots of noise. My Dad thinking it was a burglar banged on their bedroon wall but did it just a bit too hard and put a hole in the wall!!
I walk out and leave doors unlocked/open all to reguarly during the day but am very vigilant at night. Need to be way more careful! |
Posted By: MamaT
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 3:20pm
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Haha TaliP thats a great story
A friend of mine got robbed while she was asleep. The guy came into her room and stole her laptop which was just inches from her. Its so scary to think of the "what ifs". -------------  
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Posted By: amme_eilyk
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 4:11pm
| I keep the doors shut unless I am in the same room as the door that is open, it is too easy for someone to come in and you not to hear them. I'm getting a cat door put in tomorrow hopefully which should help as dh tends to leave the door open all day which drives me nuts. I also shut and lock the door and take a house key with me if I am in the garden out of sight of the door as even with the back door you can see its open from the street. |
Posted By: M2K
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 4:26pm
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I read in the newspaper, sometime last year, that a elderly lady was at home watching tv when she seen a man crawling around in her kitchen, trying to pass by the lounge to go into the bedroom!!! She asked him "what are you doing??" to which he replied he was looking for his lost dog. He then took off so she called the police, and she said he was clearly drunk or on something, looking for money.
How freaky would that be! ------------- 
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 8:24pm
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Yeah we had a guy doing this a few years ago and someone reported him and the police were door knocking warning people jic.
Also 3 of our neighbours got robbed last year during the day whilst at work. The guy could pick locks too. During the day people usually just walk up to the house, knock on the door and if no one answers go round back. Or they watch the house for a few days. So scary. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: M2K
Date Posted: 29 July 2010 at 9:17pm
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We had someone send a child (about 10 yrs old) over just before we got robbed to case the place, he was checking the windows, and when I confronted him he asked for the time, I didn't catch where he came from (as there were heaps of flats) but the cops caught the guy who robbed us and he did live around the corner. I moved not long after as I didn't feel safe, had a feeling it was one the 2nd neighbour down ''contacts".
I felt that frightened to stay there by myself, i can't even imagine being home while someone is going through your stuff, how awful -------------
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Posted By: Richie
Date Posted: 30 July 2010 at 11:20am
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I make sure I keep all doors etc locked during the day and never open any of the front windows. OK to open back windows cause if anyone jumped the fence into our back yard they'd have my dog to contend with and I'm pretty sure they'd come off 2nd best. But my Mum was home a few months ago out in her garden and came inside to find someone had stolen her cellphone, her digi camera and my little sisters iPod off the kitchen table. Fair to say she was freaked out! -------------  
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Posted By: IVFGirl1111
Date Posted: 30 July 2010 at 11:43am
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OMG that is awful! And totally my worst fear, awful.
Lucky they have it on video! What area was it in? ------------- TTC 6 years IVF it is IVF/ICSI round one 10 eggs, 8 mature, 3 fertilised BFN IVF/ICSI #2 = 22 eggs! 20 mature, 15 fertilised, 1 fresh transfer and 2 frosties BFN 2 Frosties still in freezer thank god |
Posted By: GuestGuest
Date Posted: 30 July 2010 at 12:23pm
| It is in Burwood around by Horseshoe Lake BooBoo. |
Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 30 July 2010 at 1:03pm
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That's scary stuff.
The neighbours got broken in to & a few months later someone went through our car...thought it was the kids at first. We live down a long shared drive. My FIL put a gate up for the kids & it can be a bit hard to open if you don't know how. But since the car episode we now double check things...got a bit relaxed when we lived in the country
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Posted By: IVFGirl1111
Date Posted: 30 July 2010 at 2:29pm
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Eeek that is terrible! My sister lives around there too - I'll make sure I tell her as well! Hope your neighbours are ok and not in to much shock! ------------- TTC 6 years IVF it is IVF/ICSI round one 10 eggs, 8 mature, 3 fertilised BFN IVF/ICSI #2 = 22 eggs! 20 mature, 15 fertilised, 1 fresh transfer and 2 frosties BFN 2 Frosties still in freezer thank god |