Thread: been Robbed ........

Originally Posted by Groggy

It's a bad feeling knowing someone has been in your house. Be aware though that once they have been inside it actually increases the chances they will return .

Sorry I need to verify this. The gear they took is not the main house. I am very releived about that part but they are all on the same block. If you can imagine one house that is mainly used for storage and it set up with my bowen room room in it. The boundary are together my lathe gear could of been taken..We do think it a local that involved in some heavy stuff. The worse thing that made me mad is it had my meat for the month..that made me see red..but lucky I got plenty of meat in the house so we won't starve. Made me feel bit jumpy but I do htink it was someone that knew we were going away to pick up the car and took my daughter back to the peadtrician but we got all clear on that area.
bye Toni

Good to hear the paediatrician went well. The rest can be replaced although it is still a pain in the backside and you feel violated!

Pete

Better bolt that lathe down quick smart & lock up the tools.

cheers

I also live on the outskirts of a small town (pop.800).

I no longer say "i am going away for a few days" , it is now " I am unavailable for a few days". Hopefully the wrong people don't find out if I am at home or away.

Cheers

In my experience Toni, the person you think it is will be the one. It's also been my experience that you have to be careful how you approach the situation. In other words, do it all through the police.

Sorry about the theft. I'm in the process of setting up an alarm system in my shed, with two motion detectors attached to an outside alarm. Sounds like such a setup would be useless for you.

Toni

Still, it's nice to creatively visualise imagine you going up to the front door of the place where the villains dwell. You knock, then duck around the corner. The door is opened. The villain looks gobsmacked because facing the villain is a blurdy great ballista, loaded and ready.

You call out, "Surrender and gimme me stuff back you tealeaf or i will let you have it right in the brisket!".

Villain obligingly yells out, "Go to bergery!" Slams door and rushes through house to back door where a similar ballista is awaiting, manned by your friends and rellys all busily grinning and hoping.

Villain still sez, "Burger orf".

You yell, "FIRE!"

Two five foot long arrows, tipped in iron with brass flights take out his front and back doors along with the frame and parts of the wall.

Purely by chance the arrows meet in the middle of the house and 11ty million bits of wooden shrapnel perforate everything in the house.

The villain staggers through the hole that used to be the front door and sobs, "i surrender". Villain now looks just like a porcupine with him being perforated with the shrapnel and all.

You yell out, "No you blerdy don't".

You and rellys and friends charge and take over the castle of the evil baron and hoist yer flag over the defeated cur's home.

All the members of UBeauty! Woodwork forum pour gallons of Shellawax over the villain and buff him brutally.

Then all join hands and dance in a victory circle around the vanquished. Skewy looking particularly attractive in an off the shoulder little number is set upon by a passing native hen.

The End.

Great image, tashammer. Just what I would have loved to have happen to the last swine who turned over our place.

The low life who robbed Toni deserves it.

But what a waste of Shellawax!!!!

Yeah tashammer If it who we expect, I would save my shellawax because it won't make him a nice finish; LOL

As for doing it all through the police, we are
Toni

If you get no justice from the plod, then in about 6 months if I knew who it was, I'd just get my trusty baseball bat, and put on a ski mask, wait for the crook to come stumbling home drunk (more than likely to happen) and get a ruler and beat him within an inch of his life.

I'd not say a single word the whole time, just a beating.

Repeat as needed.

Why continue the cycle???

Toni your doing the right thing go through the Cops even if they can do nothing this time they have a pattern of behaviour for the suspected villians in the end they'll come a cropper

.. as to tashammers comment.. nice imagery..(and imagery is where it should stay) and just think of the joy of engineering a couple of nice ballistas-- tribochets could be an interesting diversion as well.

Hey Tony

Sorry to hear about the robbery, wish bookworm and I could help.
Wait a minute we can in a tiny way.
That information that you have been waiting for, your not getting it.
Only small but hope it helps.

That's really rotten luck Toni. What really get's up my nose is that it sounds like locals - only a bushie would go for the freezer and reloading gear :mad:. We used to be pretty relaxed here but with just about every builder in the state working here at the moment, tools are hot property so to speak. I've actually taken to locking the shed up in the last few weeks!

Hi Toni
sorry to hear about the robbery. hope the cops catch them :mad: :mad:
Andrew

well we had the criminal investigator today and the kids had a ball learning on how they get fingerprints. There eyes were as big as a dinner plates. but there was no fingerprints left. Joys of no humidity. the dust needs sweat for it to stick.
so it was no joy
Toni