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XBox 360, PS2, the associated games/accessories and a bunch of DVDs were taken.
I'm just glad they didn't take anything unreplacable - like my hard drives. Or, you know, hurt or kill us.
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I'm more upset that my home was violated than that things are missing. This happened while I was home--I was asleep, and I sleep VERY deeply--so I'm glad they didn't have violence in mind.
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You know... you should check with anyone you know personally. Unless the people that broke in were pros and knew how to rob a place without disturbing the sleeping occupants - the intruders were someone that probably knew you slept really deeply and wouldn't wake up.
Just some food for thought.
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quote:You know... you should check with anyone you know personally. Unless the people that broke in were pros and knew how to rob a place without disturbing the sleeping occupants - the intruders were someone that probably knew you slept really deeply and wouldn't wake up.
This was one of the first things that occured to me. The criminals had about an hour and a half of time to accomplish this.
But I know very few people well enough that they'd know my sleeping habits--fewer than 15--and none of them has any motivation to do this. I'm sure that's what everyone says when it's someone they know who did it.
But if it's someone I know, then...well, I'd rather not find out, and go on believing that it was a stranger. My home already feels violated, and I'd rather not add mistrust of my friends to the list of things to worry about.
quote:Do you lock the place up? How'd they get in?
We often leave the front door unlocked when one of us is home, because we live in a secured entry apartment building.
...so, of course, someone had propped the door open.
Not that this excuses anything; we should have been locking the door the second we stepped into our home, whether we were going to be there for five minutes or five days.
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quote:We often leave the front door unlocked when one of us is home, because we live in a secured entry apartment building.
...so, of course, someone had propped the door open.
Nothing wrong with that. I live in a secured entry dorm, and cause I live in a single usually lock the door when I'm not here or sleeping. But when I lived in a double I never felt the need to. I knew the people on my floor, knew they had my back. But that doesn't mean someone coulda gotten around them and people got in and out of the dorm all the time who didn't live there, it was easy. So I'm probably lucky that nothing was stolen last year.
But the fact that your door was unlocked and you live in a secured entry apartment building narrows it down a bit. Does it have security cameras of any kind on the entry way? Maybe you can look at them for folk who don't belong in the building sneaking in behind someone. Failing that then you can check out other folks who live in the building who might wanna take a PS2 or XBox360.
Is it possible that one of you apartmentmates, friends who lives in the building borrowed the stuff with out telling you? Not wanting to wake you or something? How long ago did it happen?
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My apartment was robbed 2 years ago at christmas. I think it was probably a bum (or at least some one that didn't have a car.) They took my cds, my roommates cds, my cd player, some money my roomate had in a drawer, and most bizarrely, about 7 dollars in quarters.
The building didn't have a good lock on the outside door, and once you where through that you would have as much time as you needed to get through the dead bolt. Which they pried out of the door. (This had to be one of the more difficult ways past it.)
About 4 months after I had moved out, (so just about a year ago) they where robbed again, this time several computers and some other stuff (I didn't live there anymore so I don't have an exact list) was taken. And also a difficult way past the deadbolt, they had cut (like, with a saw) the doorframe around the latch.
Keep in mind that you could easily easily have just come through the wall the door was in, as it was just wallboard and studs.
Being robbed sucks.
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quote:But the fact that your door was unlocked and you live in a secured entry apartment building narrows it down a bit. Does it have security cameras of any kind on the entry way? Maybe you can look at them for folk who don't belong in the building sneaking in behind someone. Failing that then you can check out other folks who live in the building who might wanna take a PS2 or XBox360.
No cameras, unfortunately.
After the police had finished up, I printed up a notice to post on the doors to the building and give to every resident. The note explained what happened, cautioned everyone to always lock their doors if they haven't already, asked them to let me know (either via phone, anonymous note or in person) if they had any information or heard/saw anything suspicious, and asked if whoever had been propping the door could please stop from now on.
quote:Is it possible that one of you apartmentmates, friends who lives in the building borrowed the stuff with out telling you? Not wanting to wake you or something? How long ago did it happen?
My living room was torn apart to the extent that I don't think anyone just casually borrowed my stuff, but my first call was to my friends in the area to ask if they had done so; after all, I'd rather yell at a friend for making a mess and borrowing stuff without asking than what actually happened. No such luck, though.
And I don't know anyone in the building well enough for them to borrow my things, with or without asking.
This took place last night.
quote:Being robbed totally sucks. You have my sympathies, Erosomniac.
I appreciate it. =\
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Yeah, "sucks" is the word, erosomniac; I'm sorry it happened to you. I'm glad that you weren't hurt, though.
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It's a kinda rueful smilie -- under the circumstances, a =) is out of place, but your sympathy raised him from a =(. Or something like that.
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My condolances as well, ero. I've had my truck broken into, and another vehicle stolen, and it just feels so. . . icky. I can't imagine how much worse it would be to know someone had beenin my place, particularly while I was there and asleep.
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The day I pulled into my new apartment complex there was a police man standing with a man whose car stereo had just been robbed. The window was shattered, and the man looked really sad. I was apprehensive about moving in.
The next day another policeman and another car stereo stolen. I was REALLY worried.
Apparently that semester they had decided not to maintane the security cameras and just leave a sign up that said the premises was monitored by cameras. Either word got out or the theives were not fooled. Either way I had a word with the manager and told them to get up to par or I was leaving, contract be damned.
Calvin and Hobbes had a really good take on their house being robbed, I think I'd feel about the same way as Calvin's dad.
My sympathies go out to you erosomniac. Very lucky with the violence part, when I was in 4th grade a kid I knew had his housed robbed and for some reason he was caught in the thick of it and was stabbed to death, so was his brother.
I hope everything is ok, I hope the theif is found and your stuff returned.
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quote:ElJay wrote: It's a kinda rueful smilie -- under the circumstances, a =) is out of place, but your sympathy raised him from a =(. Or something like that.
Exactly. =)
quote:Calvin and Hobbes had a really good take on their house being robbed, I think I'd feel about the same way as Calvin's dad.
A man's home is his castle, but it shouldn't have to be his fortress. Or something like that.
quote:My sympathies go out to you erosomniac. Very lucky with the violence part, when I was in 4th grade a kid I knew had his housed robbed and for some reason he was caught in the thick of it and was stabbed to death, so was his brother.
Yeah, one of my friends in high school had his house broken into. He and his parents were tied up and had guns trained on them for the duration of the robbery. The next time I saw his mom, weeks later, she still had scars on her wrists from the ropes. *shudder* I'm glad that didn't happen.
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I'm so sorry. but, I'm really relieved you were home and you came out of this unharmed. Electronics can be replaced. Our erosomniac cannot. Posts: 14428 | Registered: Aug 2001
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Well, material possesions can always be replaced; lives cannot. I and everyone else here are thankful that it wasn't worse.
A long time ago, my father arrived to what would otherwise be an empty house and walked in on a burglar. He was standing at the end of the hallway.
My father asked "what are you doing here?"
He responded "Nothing, I was just leaving," and proceeded to stroll out the door.
My father, 65 years old at the time, tried to take him down from behind, but couldn't keep him down. He was apprehended a block away, his pockets still full of merchandise. A repeat offender, he got seven years.
He was "shopping" for his girlfriend. He walked clean by the $4000 computer in the hallway and all the electronics equipment, set up a Burdines shopping bag in my sister's room, and began trying all of her perfumes. My father says that when he grabbed him by the neck, the smell of perfume was overwhelming.
He also ignored *some* of my mother's jewelry, including a $10K diamond encrusted watch because it was apparently not in his girlfriend's interests.
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He responded "Nothing, I was just leaving," and proceeded to stroll out the door.
My father, 65 years old at the time, tried to take him down from behind, but couldn't keep him down. He was apprehended a block away, his pockets still full of merchandise. A repeat offender, he got seven years.
He was "shopping" for his girlfriend. He walked clean by the $4000 computer in the hallway and all the electronics equipment, set up a Burdines shopping bag in my sister's room, and began trying all of her perfumes. My father says that when he grabbed him by the neck, the smell of perfume was overwhelming.
He also ignored *some* of my mother's jewelry, including a $10K diamond encrusted watch because it was apparently not in his girlfriend's interests.
That's almost amusing. That's one ballsy burgler. Glad he got caught though.
:/ I dunno what to tell you Eros, I'm out of ideas. I'm glad you're alright, and I'm glad you're replacing the stuff. I hope the crooks get found and you get it back. :comf:
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I had a long reply, decided to post it on my blog instead, then Sims2 inexplicably decided to load (there goes 15 minutes waiting) and when I got back to my blog, my copied text was gone.
Anyway, the gist of it was that my mom's apartment was robbed twice. We weren't home at the time, or I think the robbers would probably have knocked, we would have answered and they would have made some excuse for knocking and left.
The stuff they got wasn't valuable - the most valuable items were a 13-inch color TV (my gift to my mom) and a sterling silver ear cuff (gift from my mother-in-law).
Anyway, I understand that feeling of violation and anger. It's my stuff - leave me and my stuff alone. In our case, nobody was caught, although I think that when someone in the building was moving out or evicted, my mom was asked to identify something that was ours or could have been. I don't think it was returned, though.
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