Fucking homo thieves :eek:

I decided to go out on Saturday night with my housemates, ended up at real dive, but had a good night nonetheless. Anyways, one of my housemates, Emma, got completely shitfaced so we decided to call it a night a bit early. We stopped off at Subway to grab some food as we were all digesting our own stomachs, and caught a taxi home. When we got back, there were two cops stood outside our front door.

"I'm sorry but you've been burgled"

We went inside and found the place had been trashed, but it would appear that the cops interrupted them mere minutes after they arrived as not much had been taken. Though what had been taken was worth a hell of a lot to each of us.

1 Playstation 2
1 Xbox
1 Gamecube
1 PC
1 TV
1 Digital Camera
1 Wallet
1 Claud Butler Mountain Bike
2 Mobile Phones
A bunch of DVDs (including my housemates Futurama DVDs - an outrage!)
Other assorted crap

The thing is, the house was (or we thought it was) secure, there's a 2 inch thick iron gate across a 2 inch thick hardwood door, both were locked and yet they managed to break the lock on the gate and sledgehammer the door until it broke open.

We estimated all the stuff to be worth WELL over £1500, and they'll likely have sold it for a whopping £100 for drugs or whatever the hell they needed it for.

Fucking douchebags :(

Fortunately my PC was still here (shit, it was still turned on!) when I got back. If it had been taken I'd be screwed, as my university course requires a good PC, and if mine had been taken that would be it for my course, I'd have had to move back home, get a job, buy another PC and then try again in a years time.

Royally sucks :mad:

Sounds like a shitty deal

Two things:

1. why the fuck did you have a gamecube?

2. I thought Europe was a crime free zone, at least that's what the EU information ministers tell us.

UK didn't accept euro, and see what is happening to them, compared to our freedom! (my door house is always opened)


Seriously, OUCH, but I doubt they were drug addicts, especially if they had to sledgehammer the door to break in. This kind usually takes the easy way.

Everyone knows french criminals are the ones with the sledgehammers.

It has Halo.

Indeed it was. Sorry Chris.. I just WANTED A FUCKING GAMECUBE!!

But seriously, that sucks mate. Sorry to hear it. Ugh, just when you were skint for Uni next year.
Let me know if I can do anything (that doesn't involve large sums of money, or whoring myself out....again).

And Crist0, if it were in America, the thieves would have waited for Chris to come home, sprayed him and his mates with bullets, raped the cat, and took the PC as well to be sold off as car parts.

So, in some ways, we're lucky.

I once had a teacher whose cat had been raped under the house by a tomcat.

Heh, believe it or not, the Gamecube hadnt been touched in 6 months and I could care less about it getting taken, but its the invasion of privacy that bothers me.

If they'd just walked up to my door and knocked (without the use of a blunt instrument) and asked "Can we have your Gamecube?" I'd have probably given it to them!

I am kinda bummed that I never finished The Wind Waker though, that was the only reason I bought it, but lost interest and now have it back now that I cant finish it...wonderful :(

Ah well

Smash Brothers Melee is a good game, too.

I got a GameCube to play Bloody Roar. Now my future nephews play the system mostly.

A bunch of DVDs (including my housemates Futurama DVDs - an outrage!) Travesty!

The coolest thing about windwaker was the end fight with Ganonn... it was a lot more interesting then any other end fight. Wuwu for silver arrows.

And Crist0, if it were in America, the thieves would have waited for Chris to come home, sprayed him and his mates with bullets, raped the cat, and took the PC as well to be sold off as car parts
You're damn right, because when we do shit we do it right and don't stop halfway.

We probably wouldn't have sold off the pc as car parts though, I don't know that anyone buying car parts would have fallen for it...maybe we just aren't as gullible over here.

"burgled".... /snicker

that is a funny word =D

'We probably wouldn't have sold off the pc as car parts though, I don't know that anyone buying car parts would have fallen for it...maybe we just aren't as gullible over here.'

- We both know you couldn't have maintained a straight face while typing that.

You're right.

I have a hard time keeping a straight face just while reading your posts most of the time, let alone while responding to them.

Thanks, turning my thread into a flamefest really made me feel better...:mad:

Thanks, turning my thread into a flamefest really made me feel better...:mad:
Zag,

In an effort to empathize with ya, they have some dude with what I think is a truck that loves to drive thru my yard at night and try to spin out.... so far no real yard damage but I can see the imprint of his tire tracks in my grass.

Now this may sound like nothing but I have no real recourse against this individual..... kinda helpless to this bastard (or bastardess if it is a female). Violates my yard and shit... makes me mad but what can I do? He does it during the night when I'm sleeping.....

Its happened like 3 times now. Im thinking of making a spiked 2x4x10 and covering it up with grass to catch him.... anyone have any other ideas?

I can only imagine if my place got robbed..... that would really be a creepy feeling.

Motion sensor. Video camera. Police.

Do what we do in Sweden.
Get shitfaced with some random bikers at a bar, gain their friendship and place a "protected by Hells Angels" sticker for your door. Shit works fucking wonders. Except that your neighbors won't talk to you again and they might think you banging your girlfriend to be rape if you're noisy enough.

Seriously though, I'm sorry man. That's gotta fricking suck. It feels like you have to rig a shotgun to your front door to feel safe at night these days (man I sound like I'm 95), and if someone gets blaster you wind up in jail.

I hope you'll be able to recoup most of your losses off your insurance although the traumatic loss of the futurama tapes will probably drive your friend into the waiting money-grubbing arms of a local shrink.

me mad but what can I do?

You answered your own question, but stuff in your yard that isn't tire friendly.

Don't get mad, get even..or actually..don't get even, get ahead.

An older couple that lives near me had a similar problem, Bise. What they ended up doing was (I think) contacting the city who then put up a few steel stakes with chain in between to discourage future yard violation. The side of their yard was right next to the road so it was easy for someone who envied their inhumanly perfect yard to leave a few muddy tire marks. That little fence thingy looks decent, too.

As far as the truck in the garden goes, I'd makeshift rig some police style spike rails. Lay them out in the garden at night and when the asshole comes and does donuts he's gonna find himself stuck, then when he bails you've got his numberplate sitting in your driveway.

The old police number will find who did it and then it'll stop happening :P