Dumb Thieving Scum

[tim2100]

OUr house has been empty for a few weeks as it is on market and we don't live there.

got back yesterday morning to collect post and to do garden.
In the kitchen foudn that some pikey scum have knocked down a fence panel, went through the dog flap and put the covers neatly on the conservatory sofa and forced the kitchen window and knicked a brand new petrol power hedge trimmer, pulled down a wall mounted surround sound speaker, left their house key.

Outside they had forced the shed door and knicked a mini moto.

scum.

Now I am not a theif but if i was going to rob a house I would;-
1, make sure house was empty - check
2, make sure stuff in house - ahhhh

[Urban_Ninja]

tim2100 said:

Now I am not a theif but if i was going to rob a house I would;-
1, make sure house was empty - check
2, make sure stuff in house - ahhhh

ahh yes, but you said they got away with a strimmer and a mini moto. so there was stuff.

[sinizter]

Well, they did get some stuff.

I doubt they would have taken much more than that amount of stuff even if there were more stuff. They might have just taken more valuable stuff if there were other things around.

[the mini mole]

tim2100 said:

Stuff

Whaa?

[AndrewW-G]

tim2100 said:

went through the dog flap and put the covers neatly on the conservatory sofa

Erm is that normal for a burglar?

[pc.iow]

Apparently it is in the West Midlands, and stuff

[tim2100]

AndrewW-G said:

tim2100 said:

went through the dog flap and put the covers neatly on the conservatory sofa

Erm is that normal for a burglar?

Sorry I meant covers for the dog flap

[the mini mole]

tim2100 said:

...left their house key.

Go Burgle them. Simple!

[tim2100]

Urban_Ninja said:

tim2100 said:

Now I am not a theif but if i was going to rob a house I would;-
1, make sure house was empty - check
2, make sure stuff in house - ahhhh

ahh yes, but you said they got away with a strimmer and a mini moto. so there was stuff.

That was very lucky, it was underneath the breakfast bar, which is under the window they came in through.

If they had looked through any windows they would have seen the house was empty. The lounge had a bass speaker in there only.

The shed had crap in there that was being thrown on the skip yesterday, including min moto whcih didn't work.

Edited by tim2100 on Sunday 9th August 11:12

[North West Tom]

Is there no way of 'tracking' the house from that key? Can't forensics get their little brush out and get fingerprints?

[tim2100]

North West Tom said:

Is there no way of 'tracking' the house from that key? Can't forensics get their little brush out and get fingerprints?

We had police out, they called SOCO. He said couldn't take finger prints as not big or smooth enough, despite them touching many things, he could only get prints from the PVC Window.

[trooperiziz]

tim2100 said:

North West Tom said:

Is there no way of 'tracking' the house from that key? Can't forensics get their little brush out and get fingerprints?

We had police out, they called SOCO. He said couldn't take finger prints as not big or smooth enough, despite them touching many things, he could only get prints from the PVC Window.

Had the same here when I got burgled, they could only take prints from the window and were annoyed that the window was contaminated with fingerprints from the window fitters who had boarded it up.

Firstly, SOCO came round 2 days after the place was broken in to, funnily enough it seemed prudent to make the house secure before then.
Secondly, if the police had managed to get their fat arses off out of the police station which is only 200 yards away from my house, they may have managed to catch the scum actually in my house instead of telling my neighbour when he phoned while they were inside that there was "nothing they could do". If they wanted to be really proactive they could have came round the first time he called after he heard them break a window and saw them run off, waiting for 10 minutes to see if anybody was in the house to respond.

But obviously, what do I know about policework, i'm sure it's all much too complicated for me to understand why none of that was possible...

[shouldbworking]

Thats a rubbish tale.

At my old work site we had thieves break a window, crawl literraly directly over a stack of brand new laptops to make their masterful getaway with a jar of pennies someone had on their desk, and a 6 year old pda worth about £2