Are yours like mine!

pukkamum

I've always held onto the idea that life is more precious than stuff, we should all have insurance anyway.
We were burgled twice whilst I was in the house alone, I was 17 and my mum worked nights.
The first time I heard the dog barking but he was a pup and would bark at anything and it stopped about a few minutes, got up to a ransacked house, they'd given the dog the butter dish to shut him up.
They came back the week after, I knew it was them, this was before mobiles and we had no phone upstairs, so I just sat in my bedroom petrified, it was the longest wait of my life, I didn't dare go down until I hadn't heard any noise for 2 hrs.

harrys_nan

me and my ex , when we hadn't been married long heard a noise up in the loft bedroom, he asked me to go 1st as I was about 7 months pregnant and "they wouldn't hit a pregnant woman". in love at the time I thought it was funny but as time went on I found out I had to be the guard dog.

busiscoming2

pukkamum wrote: »

I've always held onto the idea that life is more precious than stuff, we should all have insurance anyway.
We were burgled twice whilst I was in the house alone, I was 17 and my mum worked nights.
The first time I heard the dog barking but he was a pup and would bark at anything and it stopped about a few minutes, got up to a ransacked house, they'd given the dog the butter dish to shut him up.
They came back the week after, I knew it was them, this was before mobiles and we had no phone upstairs, so I just sat in my bedroom petrified, it was the longest wait of my life, I didn't dare go down until I hadn't heard any noise for 2 hrs.

Can't imagine how scary that must have been for you.

marisco_2

Poppie68 wrote: »

My husband works away, home tomorrow....we will be better defended than Fort Knox by sunday..

Oh well at least you can rely on one family member to make sure you will be safe and sound from now on. Is your dog a spaniel by chance? They are as soppy and dopey as they come. I think you did well to raise the girls at all to be honest. At 21 a bomb could have gone off and I would have slept through it. My parents wouldn't have stood a chance with expecting me to wake quickly, and then function well in the middle of the night! It is only since having kids of my own that I have mastered that skill.

Tiglath

I think I'll opt for Daryl Dixon's crossbow - no need for him to get out of my bed

DigForVictory

This triggered a discussion with family that I really hope stays Just In Case. Presuming the chaps wake up (and can be pointed in the right direction, not grousing & snuggling back under the duvet) to a man they'd pick the most offensive article in the room (& I do not mean their socks) & go to investigate.
Which will give me time to go upstairs & phone for police, ambulance etc as 4 amateurs & even 1 semi pro in a confined space? Will be *messy* & most likely "friendly fire".

On my own, it was easy. Landline by the bed, alongside 6D cell Maglite. (I learned years later there's a martial art variant using them!) Plus yelling like the hockey coach for my neighbours, implying we shared a house instead of a party wall. Never any trouble.

Now, I'm almost afraid to snooze in case they decide to take steps. Common sense asserts the odds of 4 blokes waking at night simultaneously without a police loudhailer (& even then the eldest sleeps hard) must be minimal & anyway our car & front room are really not "tempting" unless you have OCD very badly.

itsanne

On the one occasion there really was anything my OH wouldn't waken quickly enough so I went downstairs with a baseball bat which had been in the wardrobe for years. A wall cupboard had completely fallen off the wall in the utility room and broken dishes were all over the place. He didn't half tell me off for going down by myself, but how he hadn't heard the racket I'll never know.

Glad you're okay, though, OP .

valk_scot

Sethisis wrote: »

I've always wondered about whether it does need to be something that you'd reasonably be expected to keep by the bed. It might be a bit awkward to explain if you'd battered a burglar with a sledgehammer or something!

I've got a sledgehammer that lives in my wardrobe! I don't like to leave it in the garden shed for obvious reasons and I'm not leaving it lying around where the kids are going to find it. Mind you I say that, elder one is an 18 stone prop forward now and he gets to do all the heavy bashing with it. I'm sure any burglar seeing DS coming towards them with a sledgehammer in his hands would wet himself tbh.


OH? He's never got up for any night noises. It was me that confronted the burglar out the front when I caught him trying to jemmy open my neighbour's door. I had only picked up a garden fork that time but I was quite incredibly !!!!ed off about the whole thing. Burglar legged it pronto.

*Louise*

PenguinOfDeath wrote: »

A baseball bat... and a baseball!

Quote from some comedian whose name and face I can't place

Sarah Millican

I'm looking round at the moment and there isn't too much I could use in the way of weapons. Hubby would go and investigate, he's pretty tough. I would be ready with the phone cos I'm useful like that

KateBob

Funnily enough after commenting on this thread we heard a noise downstairs last night.

Turned out to next door banging but everything unfolded like I said, naked hubby searching the house!