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Abbotswood Road Burglary last night

ratty

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ratty

ratty

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To all Abbotswood Rd residents and surrounding roads. My next door neighbour was burgled last night. Seems to be the same MO as the other burglaries that have been happening lately. Quick in and out taking IT items, car keys, play stations etc.


Police have advised that now they have done one on this road they will be looking to do more, so please, please, please remember to lock doors and windows!!!

Laddy Muck

Laddy Muck

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Thank you Loz. That I do (and chain!). For some reason, I assume that thieves, rapists and nutters are always going to enter via the front door, when - clearly - they don't.


Thankfully, such unsettling incidents are rare in our little area - though that fact doesn't, of course, make it any easier for ratty's neighbour.

Penguin68

Penguin68

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It is always a good idea to have a mortice lock on the back door as well - and some insurers suggest using those concealed bolts that fit inside the door frame (and need a slotted key to open them) top and bottom. That means that even when the back door has glass in it, it cannot be broken and bolts easily shot back.


Many burglar alarms allow you to isolate areas, so that you can operate an alarm downstairs but still move around upstairs, that way someone breaking in downstairs triggers the alarm. No use if you have animals, of course.

ad2000

ad2000

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I've already posted this, but if you have UPVC doors, make sure you double lock them. Police said they are targetted. We too were robbed around 4am - same stuff nicked and they had a vehicle - they nicked our car. I was 2 weeks away from giving birth and we were all asleep upstairs. Only just sorted out insurance now - it happened on 8 Feb. Tell you what though - it wasn't so much the stuff - it was my precious 2 weeks of maternity leave and sleep that they robbed.
Ameliesmum

Ameliesmum

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This is very worrying.

I'm glad to hear they run off if you hear them though, what scares me the most is the possibility of having to face them if (god forbiden) something was to happen.

It annoys me that there are people out there making a living by doing this sort of thing really.

Hope they get caught very soon.

lgs

lgs

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We were broken into last night as well! We live in Ivanhoe Road, where there have been several other burglaries. We'd been very cautious over the last few weeks, but last night we left various bits and pieces in the kitchen and they took them all (laptops, ipod, iphone, even two bottles of rum)! Keys to the back garden as well. They broke in through the kitchen window, which they forced open, breaking it. They were in our living room (we'd forgotten to bolt the door from the kitchen into the rest of the house) and took more stuff from there. Horrible feeling, realising that they've been in our house while we slept!

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