Attempted robbery, watch your keys!

[melkor1]

NEIGHBOURHOOD ALERT

At about 4 am this morning (Thursday 28th December 2011) we had an attempted break in at our house in Marmora Road.

I was awoken by our dog barking and on going downstairs to investigate realised that someone had tried to steal our car keys using canes stuck through the letter box.

We found three lengths of bamboo tied together with duct tape to form a long pole with a hook, like a fishing hook, at the far end. The culprits had gone but had left it behind. I had left the keys to my car at the bottom of the stairs that evening. The distance from our front door to the bottom of the stairs is approximately 15 ft but their canes did not reach that far. I think that if they had had more time they could have attached another cane and maybe have reached the stairs.

Forensics have been but no prints were left behind

I wanted to alert neighbours to be wary of these tactics and to be aware that these people are operating in this area.

[Strawbs]

Bloody hell!! That's ballsy.. I'd be freaked if tat was me, sorry it happened but glad the feckers didn't get anything!

[vivienne]

warning!

[Huggers]

we have a cage over our letterbox, mainly to stop dog eating lovefilm arrivals, but good idea anyway.

[EDOliver]

Just take your keys, phone and wallet etc up to bed with you of an evening that's what I do.

[fernado]

Attach a guillotine to your front door maybe

[JohnL]

Be lovely to find a way to really scare these lads whilst they were doing this.

Ghost/Alien/Zombie/Lion.

fernado Wrote:

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> Attach a guillotine to your front door maybe

[minder]

Just noticed that the original post is dated December last year.

[Mrs TP]

Classic - do not leave anything in the hallway. No coats over the stair post. Alternatively, if your house is easy to break into leave a few things downstairs so the buggers don't come upstairs whilst you sleeping.

[LadyDeliah]

Sorry to be pedantic but I find it kind of irksome that people refer to all theft as 'robbery'. Robbery is defined as violence or the threat of violence in order to commit theft. This case was attempted theft, not attempted robbery although it could be argued to have been attempted burglary if his arm was on the premises through the letterbox.

[thusau7]

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[uncleglen]

They must have been looking through the letter box to see where the keys were- just grab the cane and shove it back right through their evil eye if you are quick!

[Huggers]

turn the hall light off at night then they won't be able to see .

[Loz]

LadyDeliah Wrote:

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> Sorry to be pedantic but I find it kind of irksome that people refer to all theft as 'robbery'.

> Robbery is defined as violence or the threat of violence in order to commit theft. This case was

> attempted theft, not attempted robbery although it could be argued to have been attempted burglary if

> his arm was on the premises through the letterbox.

Oooh, LD, don't get me started on why 'copyright infringement' (downloading songs/movies) is not 'theft'...

[LadyDeliah]

Lol, it's hard not to wince!