Attempted Burglary

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My mum rang tonight, someone's tried to get in her house & she was frightened.

It was 8.40pm tonight, she was in bed watching tv when she thought she heard someone knocking at the front door, again she heard the knocking, she got up & shouted "Hello." Nothing. Then she heard something round the back so turned the light on in the back bedroom & saw the security light was on. She went into the kitchen & peeped out from under the blind (she didn't turn the light on) just in time to see a man, approx 30's climbing over her 6 ft fence, he turned round as he was climbing (prob to see if he'd been copped) & she saw his face in full view but didn't know him.
She rang the police but daren't open the door, they took details & had a look around. The guy, obviously disturbed had left a long stick of wood which he'd used to turn the sensor bit of the security light away. The police said they knock on doors to assess wether anyone is in or not. >:(

My mum's not easily frightened, she's lived alone since my dad left over 25 years ago but this has totally freaked her out. She's not going to bed tonight in case he comes back.

What a world we live in, when you can't sit in peace in your own home! >:(
 
Niki - where does she live? It really does freak you when something like that happens. I had a knock on the door a couple of years back when my daughter was still a baby. It was 5am & just getting light, I looked out of the front bedroom window & there was a bloke there mid 20's asking where the local church was 98) I just shook my head & stood there looking at him until he went. That freaked me & it wasn't nearly as bad as what your mum has just been through. Hope she gets through it.
 
Bloody hell that's awful, i feel so sorry for your mum :o :o :o
I hope the police are more vigilant in her area for awhile and they catch the >:(
Cuddles to your mum :-* :-*
 
She lives the other side of Leeds & it's weird apparantly last week 2 young lads were knocking on the door at about 7pm, she didn't open the door just shouted "what do you want?" They wanted to know if she wanted to sell her car (it's my brothers), she said "no thank you" & they left but it makes you wonder if that was the reason.

She's lived in her house for almost 37 years, it's a "young family street" but the streets up the road are filling up with idiots etc.
The area's going down the pan & me & my bro' wish she'd sell up & leave but she won't :(
 
Glynis said:
Bloody hell that's awful, i feel so sorry for your mum :o :o :o
I hope the police are more vigilant in her area for awhile and they catch the >:(
Cuddles to your mum :-* :-*
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Thanks Glynis, i doubt it tho' the police seem to want their jobs doing for them >:(

I'm hoping she's alright, i was going to go over but she said "no, you're not well, i'll be ok" Bluddy independent she is but i know she was freaked out! :(
 
furryfriends said:
That must have really shaken your mum up! Its so scary when something like that happens. Its horrible when you don't feel safe in your own home. I hope she will be ok. x
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It has Debbie & it upset me to hear her sound so worried, she thinks he's gonna come back which is why she's not going to bed - whoever it was wasn't wearing a coat, just a jumper. What puzzles us is the way he left, over a 6ft fence onto a pathway which goes round the backs of the houses but it's impassable because of all the blackberry bushes.

I think it's someone who lives close by, the 3 houses that run off the path were owned by old people, they've gone & a private landlord rents them off to "all kinds." Then theres a house on the end of the street that's been converted into flats & the least i say about those tenants the better on a public board >:(
 
What a worry! I can understand you wanting her to move but I can also see why she doesn't want to, especially after living there for so long! She must have felt so frightened. Even more worrying that you think it could be someone who lives close by!
 
furryfriends said:
What a worry! I can understand you wanting her to move but I can also see why she doesn't want to, especially after living there for so long! She must have felt so frightened. Even more worrying that you think it could be someone who lives close by!
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Exactly Debbie :(
 
something similar happened to my parents in law a few months back.. approx 5 AM, they heard a knock at the front door, this is an area where you have loads of retired people living. luckily for my DIL, he is an early bird and was awake and just shouted hello, when he went to look if anyone was there there was nothing..
 
I really feel for your Mom. When i was a bit younger (15 i think) and ill off school a young boy knocked our front door - I didn't answer as I didn't know him and I was in my nightie still - he opened the porch door and stepped in which I thought was weird and then started smashing through the glass at the side of the front door. I was that scared I hid round the door frame in the front room but then shouted "Hello" ( 98) no idea why I shouted that, but hey) and he ran off. The police caught him as I gave a good description from when I looked out the window, but I still wouldn't be in the house on my own for years after that. I'm ok now but I won't leave downstairs windows or anything open if i'm going upstairs to do the ironing or something and might be a while, it still always niggles at me.

Just make sure if she is worried she talks to you about it and doesn't bottle it up ;) *Sending hugs to her*
 
Aw, your poor mum, thank heavens he didn't get in. Is her house fairly secure? Is there anything more she can do to deter intruders?

I was burgled when I lived in Hackney - fortunately I was out at the time but he took all my CDs and my stereo - things that meant the most to me. Sold them for drugs apparently, the scum bag. I was scared for ages after though.

Hope your mum doesn't have any more scares. Its not fair is it?
 
That's awful Niki, how is she now?

KatieP where abouts in Hackney did you live?
 
OMG I know it well :) I spent the 1st 18 yrs of my life living by Broadway Market / London Fields !

What a small world ;D
 
Blimey! I got locked in London Fields station once - very scary! You were not far at all from where I lived!
I liked Hackney, it was lively and there was a great Vietnamese Restaurant and some Greek shops that sold really nice bread and houmous. I did used to worry coming home late at night though. I lived on the Isle of Dogs after that, then Limehouse.
I saw Well St featured in Vogue a year after I moved out - it was being touted as the new trendy area! I bet my landlord made a fortune!
 
Oh my Goodness Niki what a horrible thing to happen. No wonder your mum is scared poor love. We've had 3 burglaries here within 3 houses of us and its scary enough when its a neighbour when it actually happens to you, well, words fail me. :(
 
It still looks like a s**t hole, just an expensive s**t hole LMAO.

I went to school on the Isle of Dogs too. George Greens :)

How on earth did you manage to get locked in the station? :o I agree that would've been very scary, its quite a deserted place!
 
bev said:
It still looks like a s**t hole, just an expensive s**t hole LMAO.

I went to school on the Isle of Dogs too. George Greens :)

How on earth did you manage to get locked in the station? :o I agree that would've been very scary, its quite a deserted place!
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i bet she was pretending to be a tramp asleep on the benches

some people do anything to get a free meal ::) lmfao
 
Ha ha! Nah, although I have crashed out on a park bench before after a session in the park..
I don't think the train was supposed to stop there, but me being dim pressed the open button and got out, but the station was all locked up. I can't remember how i got out, think I called BR on my mobile, but it was daylight, not too scary, just smelt of pee...

Bev do you remember The Ship pub on the Isle of Dogs? We used to have lock ins in there!
 
Yes I do! When I went to school there it wasn't like it is now, docklands was just empty fields and disused docks ;D

Never actually went in the Ship though... I was young and a good girl ;) ;D
 
hah, I wasn't young and certainly wasn't good!

Its all apartments now round there - we met some of the original "Islanders", inc the Brothers whose dad did time for helping in the murder of Jack "the hat" Mcvitie by the Krays - or so they said, they were well dodgy anyway. They thought me and my mate were Australians coz we had "wierd" accents - I'm slightly scouse and my mate is from Yorkshire!
 
My mum was done not so long back, at teatime whilst she was at mine having her tea! Scumbags! :tickedoff:

Hope your mum's ok now Niki, it does rattle you.... :(
 
katiep said:
hah, I wasn't young and certainly wasn't good!

Its all apartments now round there - we met some of the original "Islanders", inc the Brothers whose dad did time for helping in the murder of Jack "the hat" Mcvitie by the Krays - or so they said, they were well dodgy anyway. They thought me and my mate were Australians coz we had "wierd" accents - I'm slightly scouse and my mate is from Yorkshire!
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LOL For Islanders, anything further than East India Dock Rd is foreign ;D
 
bev said:
katiep said:
hah, I wasn't young and certainly wasn't good!

Its all apartments now round there - we met some of the original "Islanders", inc the Brothers whose dad did time for helping in the murder of Jack "the hat" Mcvitie by the Krays - or so they said, they were well dodgy anyway. They thought me and my mate were Australians coz we had "wierd" accents - I'm slightly scouse and my mate is from Yorkshire!
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LOL For Islanders, anything further than East India Dock Rd is foreign ;D
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Do you still live round there Bev?
 
bev said:
That's awful Niki, how is she now?

KatieP where abouts in Hackney did you live?
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She's not good at all, totally petrified, i've been over tonight to adjust the sensor, it now comes on when your toe's out the back door, she won't open the door when she gets in from work & the slightest noise & she's jumping in the air. She now knows there were 2 of them because the front gates were shut when she looked out the first time, she was watching for the police coming & the gates were open.
The one who legged it over the fence had tried to unbolt the back gate, he'd got one undone & the chain off but the other bolt had rusted that's why he was climbing over the fence & why he'd moved the sensor. It's worse because she saw him & she says she'd know his face again because she couldn't get over how "clean" he looked. Like he'd just had a shave & a clean shaven head.

I've tried to placate her & tell her it was an opportunist & they won't be back now they know they can't offload the stuff, i mean it's harder to pass stuff like tv's etc over a 6ft fence but i don't think i was convincing enough.

It really upset me to see my normally strong, fearless, independent mum a frightened, jumpy wreck who daren't open the sodding back door to let her cat out :( :(
 
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