Someone knocked on my door to ask for directions
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Somewhat strange occurrence yesterday evening.
Someone knocks on my front door. Now I never answer my front door as anyone I would want to talk to knows to use the back door. So I ignore it.
A minute later someone knocks on the back door.
There is a late teenage lad stood there that I have never seen before. I open the door had he asks for directions to Market Harborough, which is about three miles away. Somewhat surprised as ask him if he has seriously knocked on my door to ask directions? He says yes and apologises claiming they don't have a sat nav in the car.
I ask which way they came into the village. I direct them back out that way onto the main A road and tell them it's signposted from there. He thanks me and leaves.
I look through a window and see him get into the passenger seat of a car, and it leaves. Loud exhaust and all. At the end of the road he turns the opposite direction that he would need to to exit the village the way he came in.
Hmmmmm.
So, could I have been burgled if I wasn't here?
Someone knocks on my front door. Now I never answer my front door as anyone I would want to talk to knows to use the back door. So I ignore it.
A minute later someone knocks on the back door.
There is a late teenage lad stood there that I have never seen before. I open the door had he asks for directions to Market Harborough, which is about three miles away. Somewhat surprised as ask him if he has seriously knocked on my door to ask directions? He says yes and apologises claiming they don't have a sat nav in the car.
I ask which way they came into the village. I direct them back out that way onto the main A road and tell them it's signposted from there. He thanks me and leaves.
I look through a window and see him get into the passenger seat of a car, and it leaves. Loud exhaust and all. At the end of the road he turns the opposite direction that he would need to to exit the village the way he came in.
Hmmmmm.
So, could I have been burgled if I wasn't here?
Edited by PurpleMoonlight on Friday 17th February 06:01
PurpleAki said:
Casing the joint.
This.Something similar happened to me when I lived in the Cotswolds. A week later I got burgled. Time for security lights and CCTV if you haven't already. That often puts them off.
ETA... keep a record of the make/meodel/colour of his car! Tell people in your village to keep an eye out for it.
Edited by GetCarter on Friday 17th February 07:01
We had a similar thing here yesterday - was on our 'plot' about 500 yards from home strimming and a couple of herberts go past in a chavved up 53 plate Tyre R - I could hear it coming & though WTF is that doing round here ? anyway Missus Zippy said later on that it had pulled up the driveway of Zippy Towers and she happened to be in the hall & opened the front door - one of them got out and asked if we were "Nigel' and had a Discovery for sale. There is no one called Nigel round here and I would know if a Disco was for sale (19 houses) plus they both had smartphones so how can they get lost ? reckon they were casing the joint.
Time for a quick read of the Tony Martin guide to home security.
You can find a lightly used copy here:
https://www.sportsmanguncentre.co.uk/guns-and-mode...
You can find a lightly used copy here:
https://www.sportsmanguncentre.co.uk/guns-and-mode...
I had some scrote collecting for charidee a few weeks ago. Called police and sent them details - his face came up nicely on the CCTV. If I get unexpected callers, I try to rile them a bit to gauge a reaction - this guy in particular was quite rude (didn't like me asking about the charidee) and then I mentioned the BiB which he definitely did not like.
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