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Have a look on Lidl's offers for 24th of this month, they have various motion sensors and alarms etc

Lizx

Well done Elaine, glad you have retrieved some of your property. Marvelous you managed to do this without police help. You put them to shame !

Yes Liz detector lights are a good idea, in fact one of the police officers that came to my house suggested I get them fitted. My side garden is very dark as there is a high hedge that blocks out the street lamp so at night it is pitch black out there. :-(


Jo

Joeva we have automatic outside lights so even if the hedgehog walks across the garden it sometimes activates them. I think it would soon put off a burglar if light came on suddenly and maybe you would feel safer.

Well done Elaine, glad you found some of the items and hope the bag and purse etc are not damaged, just damp. Did you let the police know that you out did them? Might they still get some fingerprints from the items?


Lizxx

Oh very well done Miss Elaine Marples! :-D Good for you! <3 xxBC

Well done Elaine at least you have got some of it back :-)

Update 16th Oct. !st dry day so I took my dog for a walk thinking as a burgler would. I knew they had gone into the park across the road from my house as they left a gemmy, screw driver and fishing rod at the top in the long grass. I walked onto the school field and to where it adjoins a farmers field of maranthas grass ( the tall pampas type grass). I had not walked far before I spotted soggy white paper, which turned out to be the contents of my oh purse. I then began searching in the jungle as I walked along. Turning down the side of the field which runs alongside the road I found more of oh's stuff. I was beginning to see what they had been doing, they had used the streetlights on the field side of the road to look at their pickings. Sure enough under the next light I found my handbag , then my purse all valuables removed just things of no value to them left. I eventually after two hours had found oh's mobile driving licence even train times. I decided it was time to take a break so set off for home. I was wet through from going through the jungle and wet grass but I had found my handbag, purse and YES mi bus pass. I have not however, found my passport nor any money or Kunas or Euros. Now I know that a 74 year old lady can knock spots off the police who do not give a damn about something so minor as being burgled. :-P see :-D :-D :-D

You should contact the ombudsman about the misinformation Elaine or threaten to write to Watchdog or similar programme, they might rethink then.
Insurance is such a rip off and so much small print that a layman wouldn't cope with or understand.

Ask for your 12 yrs payments back!


Thinking of you

Lizxx

Well been running round like a blue a...d fly. Chemist ,Dr's bank. The worst thing has been Sentinal Gold insurance. Although on my policy it states cards and passport and on all their literature says passport and driving licence they now say that is only on the higher fee although nowhere does it state this and why put my passport on the policy making me and others believe it was covered. I have paid them for about 12 years and never had a claim but I will not be doing so again. Uugh. :-S

O.h. was burgled years back so fitted an alarm, but we don't set it at night when we are home.

A few weeks ago in daylight hours, o.h. was moving something for me and my son in the work's truck. I had to dash back to drop off a ladder and stuff, put it in the house and went out to the car, closed the boot I left open when removing ladder, after putting seats back up and drove off, completely forgetting I had left the front door wide open. It was visible from further up the street where the culdesac begins but we were lucky and no one had been in, in fact, probably no one had noticed as had a neighbour seen it they would have come over and called out and then realising we were out (no car so a giveaway) they would probably have closed the door even tho they wouldn't have been able to lock it.

Hope someone gets caught for the crimes committed, and your passport turns up Elaine


Lizxx

Grannie .... I too got my house fitted with an alarm system as the break in made feel so insecure, but even now, after all these years I still jump if I hear a noise when I go to bed. Usually it is a fox or cat jumping over my gate to the back garden but I still get up and switch on the garden lights to reassure myself. :-(

Jo

Elaine know the feeling. I was burgled on the 1st August. They took my car and hubbies van keys. Nothing else. Front door left open. Have now got house alarmed as so frightened to go to bed. Been paid out for car and been out today and ordered new car as we had gap insurance. Someone has been arrested for my car and on bail but so far not been charged. Sorry this has happened to you xx

Awful for you Elaine to find this had happened whilst you were sleeping.

My house was burgled many years ago but fortunately I was away for the weekend.

Nothing of value was taken, because the scumbag got through a very small toilet window and even item such as TVs etc would have been impossible to take out the same way as he got in. My precious bits of sentimental jewellery I had with me.

It really freaked me out because the police officer who came to take fingerprints etc warned me that the trail of blood, obviously that he had cut himself breaking the window he had had left on every wall, cupboard and drawer he had touched should be scrupulously cleaned with bleach because of the risk of aids, as he may have been a drug addict.
I have said 'he' throughout my story because the low-life was caught for another crime, but , fortunately pleaded guilty so I did not have to attend the court hearing.

Best wishes to you and your OH that you will soon be able to overcome this shocking violation of your house .

Jo <3

cars gone over a number of years Ann - two Morris Minors and a Ford Cortina twice

Trouble is, I think unless the police catch them with the stuff they have stolen they say it is not worth prosecuting because they just say they have found it.

Gosh Ann that was scary, they must have watched them fitting the window and realised how they could remove it. They are very brazen aren't they? Breaking in when people are in there.

And four cars Ann, gosh, one after the other or spaced out?

Sorry, I am wrong.

I read Facebook but didn't see horoscope.

I took my friends little boys (under seven) to see an elderly friend once and not long afterwards she was burgled. I am pretty sure it was their very unpleasant older brother.

it's horrible - we had just had new double glazed burglar proof windows fitted - hadn't even paid for them - they simply removed the whole window - only took a watch, but had the TV, and remote ready to remove but my husband got up to use the bathroom and they must have panicked - they did however catch them which was good - when I asked the police if the guy had ever worked for a double glazing firm he laughed his head off - worked? He never worked a day in his life

had four cars stolen - found that far more traumatic

Sharron, why facebook?

Elaine I am sorry you have had this happen, you must have felt sick when you saw the disturbed rooms and realised what was stolen.

It's hard to believe these people have the nerve to fiddle about with a fishing rod while you were sleeping, I am glad they didn't do more damage and that you didn't end up confronting them, there's no telling what they would have done had you come downstairs in the night and found them inside.

Seems strange that they take the trouble to bring a fishing rod out to do such things and then discard it, I mean unless they stole that too, those things cost money so defeating the object of burglary.

Severed hands and branded across the face THIEF would be more of a punishment than the pathetic sentences dished out nowadays.

Thinking of you, take care of yourself.

Lizxx

So very sorry it is such a horrible feeling to get up in the morning and discover you have had burgled. I hope are ok and that the police can catch the thieves.
Take care

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