Thread: Burglars

Originally Posted by Burnsy

Wouldn't you just love to be waiting below with a baseball bat? People generally come down feet first, a sound belting across the side of the knee joint would make for an interesting time for them while you waited for the police to arrive, I doubt they would be able to continue their way down into the house or exit off the roof via the way they came up

Never a baseball bat thats a weapon , now a 5 "D" cell mag light thats a torch and you were defending yourself as he rushed at you , and never forget the 2 main things
1 I was in fear for my life thats why I defended myself as I did
2 Lie through your teeth cause the baddies will and there is no honour in going to jail besause you told the truth and some ba$tard that was trying to rob , hurt , kill you didn't

Originally Posted by Groggy

They push the tiles out the way and get into the roof space, then tear a huge hole in the ceiling and drop to the interior. Rob the place then exit via a door.

Bad luck Greg. Glad you made them scarper.

Now then, getting into a house through the roof seems like awfully hard yakka, so there must be something about Ozzie roofs (rooves? ) that I don't understand.

Some Oz houses have tile roof, lift up the tiles and make room enough for a body to get into. Its easy to do, handy thing to have if you lock yourself out of the house, except crim's know this trick too.

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Originally Posted by Honorary Bloke

Bad luck Greg. Glad you made them scarper.

Now then, getting into a house through the roof seems like awfully hard yakka, so there must be something about Ozzie roofs (rooves? ) that I don't understand.

Bit like the language
The standerd roof tile clips under the one above it and the one on the left , so lifting the bottom right corner and a bit of jiggling and its free the next one is easier so removing 4 or 6 tiles and theres bugger all to stop you getting into the roof cavity , from there find the man hole and your in
The tile system is good if you want to replace damaged tiles but an easy entry point for baddies.

Originally Posted by Dingo Dog

Some Oz houses have tile roof, lift up the tiles and make room enough for a body to get into. Its easy to do, handy thing to have if you lock yourself out of the house, except crim's know this trick too.

D D

Now this I have a funny story about. While working in Merredin for the Ag Department in my younger more foolish years, we stumbled back to a mates GEHA house after a few hours at the local, all somewhat worse for wear. Get to the front door and said mate realises he has lost his keys, no worries I will get in through the roof says he.

Me and another mate were standing on the front porch waiting as we hear him moving tiles around and shuffling around in the roof. Then we hear this thumping on the ceiling. This goes on just long enough for one of us to say allowed "why doesn't he just use the manhole" before he smashes through the ceiling right in front of us, still outside the house on the front porch

Originally Posted by Burnsy

.... he smashes through the ceiling right in front of us, still outside the house on the front porch

Originally Posted by Honorary Bloke

Bad luck Greg. Glad you made them scarper.

Now then, getting into a house through the roof seems like awfully hard yakka, so there must be something about Ozzie roofs (rooves? ) that I don't understand.

Think of the Spanish terracotta style tiles, or the Mexican roofs. You can slide one tile under the other to gain access - the tiles are larger than the Spanish style, see below:



EDIT: typically only every second row is nailed down.

Originally Posted by Groggy

Think of the Spanish terracotta style tiles, or the Mexican roofs. You can slide one tile under the other to gain access - the tiles are larger than the Spanish style, see below:

Thanks. Basic construction differences then. A tile roof here (any roof, really) would have a 19mm plywood underlayment solid across the entire span of the roof. Can't get in without a circular saw and a lot of work.

The rest of you Galahs are very funny.

good to hear you scared the burglars off greg

Originally Posted by Ashore

Never a baseball bat thats a weapon , now a 5 "D" cell mag light thats a torch and you were defending yourself as he rushed at you , and never forget the 2 main things
1 I was in fear for my life thats why I defended myself as I did
2 Lie through your teeth cause the baddies will and there is no honour in going to jail besause you told the truth and some ba that was trying to rob , hurt , kill you didn't

i knew there was a reason i bought that torch

Still laughing at that

The company I work for does a lot of work for the Department Of Housing, you would be surprised how often we get called around to put roof tiles back in their place for someone who has locked themselves out or on the other hand has been broken in to. The best thing to do is put some pad bolts on the underside of your man hole!!

Hmm - think I might fill my roof cavity with a lot of rat traps...... big ones.

Originally Posted by Stuart

Hmm - think I might fill my roof cavity with a lot of rat traps...... big ones.

try a python , keeps the rats down as well