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ISALB Wrote:

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> At 6pm this eve I saw 2 young blokes wearing

> gloves climbing the fence into someone's garden

> opposite the cemetery on Langton rise. Do you

> think this is worth reporting to someone? Didn't

> seem worthy of an emergency call but didn't know

> what to do(I was driving past)I


It's good to report it on the forum, but best to tell police first.

Hi ISALB,


It's absolutely worth reporting - even if it is too late - as you may be able to provide police with details the residents of the burgled house cannot provide.


It may be nothing, but two men climbing a fence into someones garden is not normal. Most people would use a key & enter through a door.


This also happens to be around the time 2 houses were broken into on Hindmans Rd.

I think that's a bit harsh! But the pink cheeks of wasting police time is better than what happens if they are up to no good.


It reminds me of a time I called the police in the middle of the night when i could see two shadows of men with a crowbar working on my living room window (i was inside), when the police turned up the chaps were infact working on a sewer access point or something like that that just happened to be directly under my window. The police were very good about the whole thing - and there were 3 cars that turned up, I was in such a panic!

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