lorrainecallison

Just to say my house was broken into last night, he/they only went into hallway and kitchen then thru utility room into what was garage and is now playroom, so presumably looking for car keys, which weren't there. Also took my bag, which was in kitchen, no keys there either, but did have in there some blue side repeaters which I had bought from Scoobyparts stand at Elvington, so I'm most piffed off about that.

Read about this sort of thing on here lots of times before, but very unsettling to have it happen......just grateful really car is still intact and hopefully nothing else will happen

C_RHYS

Oh My God thats f-ing awful, can't believe some ppl these days

jeromelo

Sorry to hear this. Was you in at the time?
Also, which part of Essex? as I live in Essex too.

timmy2take

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Sorry to hear that.

Sure most of you know already but...
NEVER LEAVE YOUR KEYS ANYWHERE OBVIOUS

Obvious to yourself... Obviously!

EOEUMC

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There is 2 ways to look at this point.
One is to think about your car and it being nicked (possibly) the second is to think about yourself and other residents in the house. If they don't find the keys and they really want the car, what are they going to do?
There all arsoles and they could do with being strung up by there *****, but there everywhere

Sorry to hear about it though Lorraine and hope your ok? Keep your eyes out for some blue repeaters for sale

Followme

Happened to me last year the scum broke in the kichen window,they took
32" lcd tv ipods ps3 games laptop ect and wifes car.
Me wife and two kids asleep upstairs did not hear a thing,plod said they were after my 2 day old focus st but could not find keys,wifes vw left around corner as no fuel in it.
Now have house alarmed.

Hope your ok

CHUNKY.MONKEY.

sorry to here about this once again get a nice sized dog is a good bet

Peanuts

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personally I leave the keys right by the front door next to the telephone.
In the vain hope that should I be unlucky enough to fall foul of this fate that they will take said keys to car and leave quick smart.
Car is replaceable metal, family is for life

BIG FUD

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This is the safest way, not to leave them on view from windows but when they are in only thing is to get them straight out and not let them walk up stairs could have a murder on your hands or in worse case be killed either way the question is are these car's really worth the trouble ?????


PS This has happend to me twice in last 12 months and its not nice i even had full cctv with 24 hr recording cant see through a mask and hoody can you ...

Glad you are ok and your car is still there take care ..

scobydoo

fookin scum mate string em up by the short & curlyes

tompka

Happened to us 5 times at the old house!!

The last time my mother was asleep downstairs and I was upstairs asleep. Heard her shouting at like 4am but thought she was taking the p!ss or shouting for her bloke. Heard him rolling down the stairs and for some reason I looked out the window...

They'd moved his Corsa down the drive with the door open and got it lodged in the hedge which was down the side of the driveway. Ran outside and pulled him out the car and he ran away.

They nicked her bag, phone and jewellry. His Claud Butler mountain bike and mobile...and nothing of mine due to leaving everything upstairs...including mountain bike.

We were going to get an alarm but decided to buy a geet big dog instead. Done the trick they came back a year later to find a Labrador in their face.

Now moved house and in a better neighbourhood but it means nothing!!!

Followme

Buy a alarm or a dog the scum that do this do not want to get caught if they see an alarm chances are they will move on to house that does not have one,if they do try to get in the alarm going off and lights going on should see them running down the road.if they are still there well give them the keys or kill them its up to you i know what i would do.

lorrainecallison

Live in Waltham Abbey; apparently there have been quite a few car thefts from breaking in and stealing keys in this area recently; haven't heard of any subaru's going but a friend saw something on TV couple of weeks ago about thefts of high performance cars in Waltham Cross I think.

Was in and in bed at the time, + 2 kids; first I knew was when I got up and found front door open and dirty footprints on my clean wooden floor I am not sleeping that well at the moment!

phil_wrx

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just be grateful they didnt want disturbing, when i got mine nicked they just kick a huge upvc door of its hinges and demanded the keys off me when i ran down stairs.

police where very good though

lorrainecallison

Half of me entirely agrees with you; the other other half thinks that I work my a**e off to finance this car and me and the kids get so much pleasure out of it that I'm not going to give it up that easily...........if I had left keys in hall then for sure my car would be gone by now. Just have to keep fingers crossed that they don't come back, police came for statement tonight and said definately was the car they were after but for some reason didn't come looking elsewhere in house - so fingers crossed. If me or kids get too nervous then I'll have to think again.

In the meantime if anyone sees some blue side repeaters for sale then let me know!

RyanSTI

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damm man, that sucks. good job they didnt get the keys, its pretty hard to steal cars these days without keys (well its not but crims these days are lazy) much easier to rob the house just for the keys. recently heard of a guy at work who had his s3 and a4 cab stolen via keys fishing rodded out of his house.

M535I

sorry to hear your new mate , on the plus side you wasnt hurt as some of theese people can be on the nastyier side , glad your ok and youc cars didnt go walkies , string um up i say ....

EOEUMC

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Can you get the door wired up to an elecrical current? So when you arm an alarm it sends a current to your door handle and when someone tries to break in, they get a lovely surprise lol

I mean the door to your house btw

PEP

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Sorry to hear this,but this seems to be happening more and more these days
I have had two scoobys now and this has happened to me with both..
But as previous posts better the scoob than anything happening to the family

Peppe............

andyxros

happened to me new year eve 2006 he had all documents keys all layed out on my bed but car was still there to mine and police amazement!!!! when theycought him 6 months later after admiting to 12 other burglarys it turned out he didnt have a clue how to drive dick head!!!! lucky me i suppose but but really feel sorry for people this has happened to, i cant belive we still have to deal and put up with scum that do things like this
took lots of other stuff easly sell things, even took my new after shave the git

Dirtbag

the thing with these people as 99 % of these scumbags will not venture upstairs for keys as they will have a particular car to get that night and plenty to choose from and wont be worth the hassle of getting caught (because lets me honest its only hassle to these people 1 night in cells and a minimal fine)

M444GY

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not good . luckily cars still there

zs_phil

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i was watching sky cops last night and they said you should take them upstairs with you i thought the same as a few on here sod that and leave them where they are easy to find like kitchen worktop i wouldnt want someone upstairs with knifes to my children or partners throat that would scar them for life over some metal id rather them write it off so i could get another car with the insurance

Fabioso

I saw a programme about this happening more and more in Britain. Apparently organised crime are finding it more lucrative than drugs and the penalties are not as stiff if you get caught. They ship lots of luxury cars out to Cyprus apprently (RH drive like us).

The gangs target high value luxury and high performance cars. The security on cars in general these days means its much easier to break in to the house and get the car keys or attack you in the street in broad daylight and threaten you with a gun and take it that way than the old school break into motor and try to hot wire it on the street/car park.

Glad I live in a very low crime area......

Dirtbag

unfortunatley alot of the tv stuff makes it sounds much worse than it actualy is as with most things

scoobygreg

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totaly agree best to leave the keys where they can be found u can replace the car . not as easy to replace the wife or kids