Car break in Heber road

[MichelleE]

Did anyone else's car get broken into last night? My bugaboo stroller was stollen out of my car on Heber road last night. Car was locked and no sign of forced entry, must of had a skimmer to open it. Very upsetting!

[MM22]

The same happened to us on pellat road a few weeks back! Phil and teds double buggy stolen out of boot. No sign of forced entry although I am sure the car was locked - how low must one go to steal a child's buggy?!

[MichelleE]

Sorry to hear that, it's so low, stealing from a 6 month old, I'm not the one that suffers my son does, it's disgusting!

[shelly2012]

Last week my boyfriend had gone out at 7pm in our car when he came back at 10.45 his van was blocking our entrance you turn into our flats . The van was in the car park outside our flats just on botton off Sydenham hill. Someone had got in van ( yet again no signs of Falsed entry , turned van around and left it blocking entrance with head lights on . Not quite sure what theirs plans where .

[lane lover]

Sorry to hear this, but why on earth do people still leave valuables in their car?

You really can't teach common sense!

[Giacomelli]

I can completely understand why you might leave a buggy hidden in the boot. They are perhaps not the most obvious thing to steal and in this rubbish weather you have to bring buggy in to clean house with mud and leaves all over the wheels. I don't have a car btw so my small flat is covered in leaves.

[????]

Yup. Getting small, tired kids and babies out of a car in the dark and in crap weather makes a journey back to the car to unpack a buggy/pram a right pain and sometimes impractical, we often leave ours there it's not like leaving a bag or a mobile, I completley emphasise so the smuggy 'common sense posters' should do a bit of thinking themselves.....

[nunhead_man]

Sorry to hear of your loss and curious to know what is a "skimmer"?

Wondering if we should fix our dear old 4 wheel drive beastie to prevent summat like this

[lane lover]

I would also love the convenience of leaving doors open and not having to triple check locks and pay for an alarm.

But we live in London. Anything you have of value; never ever leave it in a car. It's asking for trouble.

[Bella83]

MichelleE and MM22 same thing happened to us last night on Jennings. Did your home insurance cover you, ours are being tricky as apparently, small print says there must be sign of forced entry. Would be interested to know to build my 'case'.

Thank you

Annabel

[newboots]

Have you all been watching Loot/Gumtree/Ebay/Local Facebook/EDF to see if any of these prams are for sale?

If you wouldn't leave a wallet filled with ?800 in cash in your car overnight, why would you leave a bugaboo in the boot? I am not unsympathetic because obviously the thieves are the bastards and it should of course be possible to leave everything lying around without risk of it being stolen, but it is a legitimate question in a relatively high crime area I would have thought.

[Bella83]

Newboots, unnecessary and unwanted 'I told you so'.

Thanks

[newboots]

Fair enough Bella.

But have you looked on those For Sale boards? People have found stolen bicycles and similar on Gumtree. It really is worth a look.

[Bella83]

Thanks, I'll take a look. Pram is also registered with icandy so have reported it with them too.

[Acrickmore]

I was on here looking for something else and stumbled upon this thread. We had our bugaboo stolen from our car sometime between new year eve and the morning of the 2nd jan from Silvester Road. Seems to be a high demand, only other thing taken was the satnav. The car was definitely locked at night. I have searched ebay etc but no sign, did anyone else have any luck?

[bonniemac11]

Oh my god I am so glad I was on the only one... i thought it was personal! I had my Bugaboo stolen from the boot of the car with the footmuff and rain cover. LIVID! We called the police and have a crime no and we live on Pellatt road. The car was locked and it was parked right outside our house. it happened on the 30th Dec. Do we know if there is any CCTV cameras on the roads? such scum bags

[Bella83]

Police came out to us, no CCTV in Dulwich apparently! Still livid, I've been checking eBay, gumtree etc but nothing yet. They even took my daughter's coat and toys!

[apbremer]

Bring on the firing squads.

[nubby'smums]

I've not been able to find my satnav for ages and am wondering if it was stolen from the car without my knowledge. We live on Underhill so quite possible. Bloody annoying.

[hazelnunhead]

Just a general heads up - our car was broken into in the parking lot (Choumert Grove/ Peckham) yesterday around 5.00ish. Nothing was stolen except a school bag (!), and unfortunatley car door jammed open with a screw driver or something so the door has to be repaired. We did report to the police as apparently there are cameras around the car park .......

[rcharles13]

We have had our car broken into twice on Jennings Road, first time they took the Sat Nav, the second time over Christmas the iCandy was taken.

This morning I happened to look out of the window around 6.45 and I actually saw the man trying to open the boot of our car. Shouted out of the windows at him and he walked across the road to his push bike which was perched against a wall and pedalled off. I am sure it is the same man as our CCTV showed someone on a push bike a month ago circling outside our house.

The man is around 5 foot 6, eastern eurpean, short brown hair, blue jeans with a beige jacket. Police have been notified.

With a definitive description hopefully this scum can finally be picked up by the police but I doubt it.

Still cannot believe the cheek of this man seeing as it was broad daylight!!

[Penguin68]

eastern eurpean

I'm afraid I don't know what Eastern Europeans look like - how are they different from Western Europeans? Southern Europeans (from e.g. Southern Italy, Greece, Southern Spain, do occasionally have a more tanned look (probably from being more tanned). Or are you trying to say 'Roma' without saying it (and I'm not sure, out of a hooped caravan, I'd be able to spot a Roma in a crowd anyway). People from the far North of Europe (Northern Norway, Finland, Northern Russia, are of course more easily spotable, as they are ethnically different from other Europeans (the Sami).

[rcharles13]

I wish penguin was with me this morning, together we would have been able to determine the exact region and possibly the town.

[miga]

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[Penguin68]

Borat of course being (actually) from London and jewish - I'm not sure that's going to get us that far.