Monitored alarm system, with motion detectors, will make your house less attractive than the other 95% of houses that don't have them.
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Got Burglarized, What Should My Next Steps Be?
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I don't think that is surprising. When my two bikes were stolen from Building garage two locks were cut and the police dusted for prints on both locks. When we eventually looked at the CCTV realised it was a waste of time they were wearing gloves.
First, why didn't anyone tell me Squilly returned! This is the best part of MR today!
Okay...
Regardless, he has an alarm with a pad lock that has a pin (this idea is new to me) that he didn't arm.
I vote, a buddy, probably someone who really knew it would be incredibly easy to rob you not once, not twice, but four times is behind this.
Okay...
Everyone else has done a fine job of picking apart the first post but what I didn't see is anyone pointing out that Squilly finally refers to the "business" that he was going to or got in on as "sketchy". I'm impressed that you finally admitted this so-called "business" is indeed sketchy. And I assume everyone knew about the "business". You aren't hard to track down from what I can tell.
A bit more legit than being robbed 4 times and waiting almost 2 weeks to call the police.
Regardless, he has an alarm with a pad lock that has a pin (this idea is new to me) that he didn't arm.
I vote, a buddy, probably someone who really knew it would be incredibly easy to rob you not once, not twice, but four times is behind this.
I don't know anybody who burglarizes homes, but if I were to burglarize a home I would do the same. I would also probably watch a neighborhood a little first to make sure neighbors aren't too nosey, and see if there was pattern that you go out of the house for a certain amount of time each day for a certain period of time, so I would know how much time I have.
I would have called the police right way, even if I thought it was my brother, then I would have called my insurance company.
House had an alarm . they just didn't bother turning it on. You can't protect people from themselves .
The police were investigating a burglary one day. The window had been broken with a rock. The investigator turned over the rock used and discovered it was a "Hide a Key" rock. Doh!
That's a concern of mine as well. If they didn't find anything from the consoles, maybe they were wearing gloves.
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Four times you'd go? If I went through insurance, the deductible would be more than the items lost.
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I'm not on Twitter.
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First, why didn't anyone tell me Squilly returned! This is the best part of MR today!
Okay...
Everyone else has done a fine job of picking apart the first post but what I didn't see is anyone pointing out that Squilly finally refers to the "business" that he was going to or got in on as "sketchy". I'm impressed that you finally admitted this so-called "business" is indeed sketchy. And I assume everyone knew about the "business". You aren't hard to track down from what I can tell.
A bit more legit than being robbed 4 times and waiting almost 2 weeks to call the police.
Regardless, he has an alarm with a pad lock that has a pin (this idea is new to me) that he didn't arm.
I vote, a buddy, probably someone who really knew it would be incredibly easy to rob you not once, not twice, but four times is behind this.
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#1: thanks.
#2: slow business men paying brother $80k doesn't really add up.
#3: your signature makes sense now.
#4: first time we didn't arm the padlock. 2nd, 3rd and 4th time we did.
#5: probably.
Well I would have called the police every time, and I don't know what your mom's deductible is, but it would be something I'd look into. First and foremost I wouldn't have/spend money on a security alarm that I didn't arm. So much for it deterring crime in your house.
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You said you didn't arm the alarm at all for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.That's a concern of mine as well. If they didn't find anything from the consoles, maybe they were wearing gloves.
#1: thanks.
#2: slow business men paying brother $80k doesn't really add up.
#3: your signature makes sense now.
#4: first time we didn't arm the padlock. 2nd, 3rd and 4th time we did.
#5: probably.
My signature makes total sense, your lies do not. If you had any concern you wouldn't have waited 12 days to call the cops. I think this whole story is another attention grab.
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I do but I follow more companies than anything else so it gets lost there.
To be fair to Squilly, he has noted that there is an alarm on the house and some sort of combination padlock from garage to the house. At least that is how I understood it.
I don't mean to defend his other lapses in logic... but in this particular instance he seems to be consistent.
Yes, he has consistently said there was an alarm. He has been inconsistent with the times it was armed. He said it wasn't armed until the 4th purported robbery. This theory comes up between posts 1 and 25, or thereabout.
Admittedly he is not always clear, but in this case my understanding is that the alarm was not set until after the 3rd incident, but in this case we are talking about a padlock.
Though - as we both know - trying to find the logic in these threads is often an exercise in frustration. It's just that in this particular case I didn't find a disconnect. There were two things that needed arming...
I await the next instalment, however....
Wonderful news. Glad there nothing unclear about the number of times this person armed his alarm. Let it be clear, he's a teenager and somehow his parents aren't the voice of reason either, as it seems.
I'm still calling this story an attention grab.
Wonderful news. Glad there nothing unclear about the number of times this person armed his alarm. Let it be clear, he's a teenager and somehow his parents aren't the voice of reason either, as it seems.
I'm still calling this story an attention grab.
Sounds like a lonely guy looking for attention to me. Sad, isn't it....
Wonderful news. Glad there nothing unclear about the number of times this person armed his alarm. Let it be clear, he's a teenager and somehow his parents aren't the voice of reason either, as it seems.
I'm still calling this story an attention grab.
This I can't argue with .
It's a $2500 deductible.
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It's not an attention grab. None of my threads are.
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Plus the fact that we didn't know when he'd be coming back. At first we thought it was my brother. Now we don't think it is. The burglaries were sporadic date wise though.
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Still sporadic. 29th, 4th, 8th and 9th. We had no clue when he'd be back.
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Whatever...
I'm afraid this is where you lose me. By definition, almost all burglaries are unpredictable and the whole point of an alarm system is to protect you from these unpredictable events. If you knew when the burglary was scheduled you wouldn't really need an alarm, eh?. To get robbed, and then decide to not use it because the dates are random defies logic. Which, to be fair, is more common than not in these threads.
As well, if you really did think it was your brother robbing you, then setting the alarm still makes sense. You would have a record of times and dates it was deactivated which could be compared to your brother's activities. You would then be able to confront him without police involvement (if you wished) or very quickly eliminated him as a suspect if the alarm was triggered when he was known to be else where.
As well, since each member of the household would have their own unique code it would eliminate (or confirm) each member - not just one.
Also, assuming you thought it was your brother, setting the alarm makes it more difficult for him. Regardless of who it was setting the alarm would have saved you completely from the last two break-ins and greatly abbreviated the 2nd.
I'm sorry you had to go through this but your family handled it badly, imho.
True. But we don't get notifications when someone enters, what door it was or when the alarm sounds. That's another fee.
Are you sure your brother doesn't need cash to keep up appearances? I mean, you haven't seen any of his money so far, and all he keeps saying is that the polish are slow orderers? Seems to me that he is either in a bad situation and trying to assuage suspicion if he suddenly came up with a load of cash, or that he has bought into the premise of the polish scam himself and is simply being taken hook, line and sinker.
You should print this wall of text multiple times and place it around your home, nobody will be able to get in ever again.
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