Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Has anyone got the latest Daft Punk album? There's a track on there - Fragments of Time - that has Todd Edwards on vocal. Vocally he really reminds me of someone from the 70s but can't think who. Probably around Seals and Crofts or Little River Band time, so early to mid-70s.

Last album I bought, didn't even buy, was the Beatles Blue Album, a Xmas present in about 1973-74 or so.

Bought some CDs once, as I got a gift voucher when I left a job .... in 1990.

Nikkster

NDG - really sorry to hear your horrible news. Hope you are all ok x

PN - hope you get your nastiness sorted out too. Grrr.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Sorry shouldn't have been cryptic. We're all fine, no damage, stuff stolen but it could've been a lot worse. Isaac's a bit upset, so OH's taken him swimming while I sort stuff out.

Standard advice is to immediately sort out the break in point, double security etc ... because there's a theory that [a] now they know what else you've got they'll wait until they think you've replaced stuff on insurance and pop back for seconds.

My younger sibling was b.... (I hate even typing the word) while at work and I had to go over there and sleep on the sofa the night so she felt safe. They took the telly and her (no value) coins/stamps. They got in through a single glazed window in the back garden, having climbed over the bottom fence and walked up the garden unseen - it wasn't overlooked and it was heavy with trees/bushes. No window locks etc.

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Been burgled. Not a happy camper.

NDG so sorry to read this.

neverdespairgirl

Sorry to be brief, it's been a busy day!

We've not suffered the massive disruption messiness some people do after burglary.

In fact, I didn't notice we'd been burgled, and neither did OH or Isaac, until 11am. We'd been up a while, and I was making a cup of tea, when I suddenly thought, where the hell is my laptop? There was a laptop-shaped absence on the kitchen table, with the charger lead, mouse and phone charging USB cable there, but no laptop.

So I assumed OH / Isaac had moved it (and was irritated by that) and looked for my phone to call OH and ask him. then I couldn't find my phone. So I borrowed the newsagent's mobile and phoned OH, who of course hadn't moved it. OH and Isaac abandoned breakfast with a friend, and came home.

total stuff nicked - my laptop, my phone, my ipod, and my Oyster card. Nothing belonging to OH or Isaac.

There was no entry damage (and hence, we aren't covered by our insurance) because the burglar got in through an open window.

"You half-witted idiots!" I hear you cry. But it's not what we thought was an accessible window - it's 15 feet off the ground, the ground being our back yard, with no access from the street except via other buildings or the alleyway, which has metal doors to the street. to get in there, burglar must have climbed over the railings of the fire escape, walked 12 feet along the window ledge, and then through the window. Extremely unwise thing to do.

The headache is my laptop. Because it has copies of all the work I've done over the past 12 years, and I've got to notify the Bar Council, the Data Protection lot, and all the rest of it.

Good news - the police response was very quick. We reported it via the non-emergency number, 40 minutes later a scene-of-crimes officer turned up, and 20 minutes after that, two police constables.

chewmylegoff

Food for thought- we're only on the first floor and we always leave all our windows open during the day when we're out at work. I suppose we should stop doing that. Having said that we're in a Victorian terrace so the back isn't really accessible although I suppose our neighbours could burgle us. Probably should stop leaving the window at the front open though as I suppose someone could just stick a ladder up against the front of the house...

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Food for thought- we're only on the first floor and we always leave all our windows open during the day when we're out at work. I suppose we should stop doing that. Having said that we're in a Victorian terrace so the back isn't really accessible although I suppose our neighbours could burgle us. Probably should stop leaving the window at the front open though as I suppose someone could just stick a ladder up against the front of the house...

My theory is that if they are going to get in, better they get in breaking as little as possible.

When we were burgled we were all in the house.

PasturesNew

I never leave windows open, I even lock the patio door behind me to go to the loo 10' away for 20 seconds. When I get a house (can I trademark that phrase yet?) ... I plan to find a window solution that will enable me to leave one open a little at night. It's so easy for some people to scale all sorts of places to gain access. Up a drainpipe's popular.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I never leave windows open, I even lock the patio door behind me to go to the loo 10' away for 20 seconds. When I get a house (can I trademark that phrase yet?) ... I plan to find a window solution that will enable me to leave one open a little at night. It's so easy for some people to scale all sorts of places to gain access. Up a drainpipe's popular.

There are several windows that have this sort of facility. We had windows made for the cheese room that just open a little for example.

There is a sort of plastic window that does a funny thing that you put the handle one way and it tilts in to the house so just opens a little, or you put the handle the other way and it opens fully like an inward opening casement iirc.

zagubov

Sorry to hear about that NDG. Agree with the advice about securing the entry point so you don't see the likes again.

We're overlooked so - hopefully - nobody could sneak up on us.