Advice RE stolen goods / burglary / find my iPhone

[Robert Poste's Child]

There is a middle way: knock on the door and offer to buy it back! They've stolen it to make money, not because they want a phone like that.

[Seabag]

I think phone tracking is mainly for ?did I leave my phone in the car/office/down the back of the sofa? type situation

[theron]

Sue Wrote:

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> I see contents insurance as a necessity, not a

> luxury, particularly in London or any big city,

> where there are likely to be more thieves than in

> the country.

>

> iPhones and iMacs, however - they are what I

> would class as luxuries, unless they've dropped in

> price considerably since the last time I looked

> :))

>

> Also - how did they slip the latch? Does your door

> not have a mortice lock? My house insurer insists

> on that, and I would have thought your landlord's

> would. If it does, and he hasn't provided one,

> then surely he is the one to blame here? Though I

> wouldn't have thought his insurance would cover

> your personal possessions anyway, though I may be

> wrong.

Well I guess maybe that's where we differ then! In my experience, even after having to fork out for all the rising uni-fees and material costs, iMacs and MacBooks etc unfortunately do become more of a necessity than a luxury.

The landlords insurance only covers the property in case of a "forced" entry, which apparently isn't this. The landlords insurance doesn't cover his lodgers property anyway.

Thanks for your advice, he's taking it all on the chin and knows how to better prepare in the future!

[theron]

se22cat Wrote:

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> I'm really sorry to hear about what happened and

> it's maddening to hear that the police can't even

> be arsed to do anything about it, or are unable to

> due to lack of funding or maybe their rules state

> they aren't to pursue this kind of thing, I have

> no idea, I get the feeling that most police would

> like to help and do more but are unable to do so

> due to how they are governed. Either way, it sucks

> : (

I know, it's very frustrating- but I have to keep reminding myself (and him) that it must be even more frustrating for the police in some ways who aren't even able to pursue their jobs properly and prevent crime due to flaws and loopholes in the system!!!

> Regarding archives and backups, when choosing an

> option, I highly recommend your boyfriend takes a

> look into the following sub on reddit. He might

> also want to build a NAS for your home, and

> another identical one for his parents or trusted

> friend or relation that he can also send backups

> to. If the company he has a plan with doesn't have

> adequate emergency planing, or indeed, simply goes

> bust, taking all the data with them, it's good to

> have that always recommended third copy of

> everything in place.

Oh wow, thanks for this! Quite interesting, i'll definitely get him to do some research and check out the sub on reddit.

> I know it's an extra expense, but, sadly I guess

> he's unfortunately learnt first hand that without

> an offiste backup, your data is about as safe as a

> biscuit at a tea party.

Great analogy- Yes he has, onwards and upwards!

[theron]

Robert Poste's Child - my thoughts exactly. The crime has now been assigned to a specific officer 'dealing with the case' who he is yet to hear from. In the meantime, we feel that with the knowledge that we believe we have with regards to the tracker, this only encourages people to take matters into their own hands, and in some ways encourages further crime?!

ianr- luckily (or unluckily depending on how you look at it), one of the few things they didn't steal was his mobile so standing outside and ringing would not help in this case. As Robert Poste's Child and Kid Kruger have said, we are very close to making a move and knocking and asking to buy it back!!!

[uncleglen]

This happened- not in this area -but fairly recently.

A relative was spat at and she chased the spitter and found her getting into a car. The reg was passed to the cops and they tried to follow it up but did not find the spitter at home (where the car was registered)on 2 occasions so they visited my relative and told her and left a piece of paper with details on it.....

p.s for the benefit of rh it is the absolute truth

[Sue]

theron Wrote:

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In

> my experience, even after having to fork out for

> all the rising uni-fees and material costs, iMacs

> and MacBooks etc unfortunately do become more of a

> necessity than a luxury.

>

Of course as a student you need a laptop and mobile.

I wouldn't have thought, however, you needed the most expensive kind, and Macs and iPhones are top end aka luxury end, no?

[ianr]

> one of the few things they didn't steal was his mobile so

> standing outside and ringing would not help in this case.

My mistake. I haven't got my head fully round the differences between iThingies yet. It's only fairly recently I got William and Henry^WHarry sorted.

In Dock Green, PC Dixon would of course have been having a knock on their door anyway, for a quiet chat. I don't think there's any law preventing the Met from doing that. I can imagine it possibly having some benefits, but also being seen as otherwise -- ie v. unlikely to lead to a charge, and would put the possible perps more on their guard.

Checking the local full electoral register for the names of the occupiers might be productive. Have there been any more recent sightings of the goods?

[JohnL]

Send an old fashioned letter by recorded delivery maybe ?

[theron]

Sue Wrote:

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> theron Wrote:

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> In

> > my experience, even after having to fork out

> for

> > all the rising uni-fees and material costs,

> iMacs

> > and MacBooks etc unfortunately do become more of

> a

> > necessity than a luxury.

> >

>

>

> Of course as a student you need a laptop and

> mobile.

>

> I wouldn't have thought, however, you needed the

> most expensive kind, and Macs and iPhones are top

> end aka luxury end, no?

In my opinion Art degrees are slightly different I'm afraid!

[theron]

ianr Wrote:

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> Checking the local full electoral register for the

> names of the occupiers might be productive. Have

> there been any more recent sightings of the goods?

Good idea! I walked past the house in question a few times this morning to suss it out. I managed to speak to the next door neighbours who said they rarely saw the people who lived their. Chickened out of knocking on the door or anything like that but checked the surrounding areas for the hard drive- wishful thinking right!

[theron]

JohnL Wrote:

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> Send an old fashioned letter by recorded delivery

> maybe ?

This might be the answer!

[snoopy17]

do they live near you

[JohnL]

Kleeeniks Wrote:

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> That's why there are insurances for the houses.

> It's not only for the house but also for all the

> goods that are inside the house. I want to take

> soon an insurance so I was reading about them.

> After a Google search, I end up on this site

> (https://homeownersinsurancecover.net/virginia/)

> where they talk about house insurances. So I found

> out that a good insurance will cover all your

> goods that are inside the property from theft or

> damage. It's bad that you didn't have one. Now if

> the police won't find them, say bye-bye.

Insurance can't return your data - only a backup can do that.

I haven't heard of many final PhD theses being lost recently (you used to in the 90s).

[binkylilyput]

Isn't this thread a year old?

[tiddles]

The moral of this whole tale is ?crime does pay?

The police are not interested in crime as they are unable to cope do so it seems

Criminals have a free hand. Consequently insurers will take your money

But in many (most) cases will not pay out.

It seems outrageous when a bit of investigation could resolve things but

It wont happen.

[malumbu]

Bit of a blanket statement to say that the police aren't interested in crime. Now I am not a fan of the filth, many of the rozzers that I have come across are racist, narrow minded, little Englanders, worse still living in West Wickham, but I am sure that most are interested in nabbing crims.