You Know What Sucks...

[McBoller]

Getting your house broken into and finding your laptop, plasma tv, ps3, xbox360, ipods, cameras, etc all gone

[theFRANCHISE]

Good news on your laptop, PS3, and XBox 360: if you still have the serial numbers (or in the case of your PS3 and 360, your gamertags) you can contact the manufacturers or give the information to police, and they can find your stuff whenever any of those three items are detected online.

I almost guarantee that if they can get at least one hit for any of those three items, they'll be able to recover the rest of your stuff as well.

[McBoller]

yaeh, thats the upside. I have all the serial numbers... The downside is the unlikely recovery of the 50,000+ pictures on the laptop...and the creepy feeling that someone was in your house.

[ROH522155]

my neighbors house was broken into like a month ago in mid day. but yea maybe the most important thing that u lose is your peace of mind

[McBoller]

I know...When the crime lab got there, within 15 minutes they had 4 calls for Breaking and Entering within a 5 mile radius of my house

[Tighthead420]

Some punk broke into my truck (shattering my driver's side window) while it was at the Timonium light rail yesterday. Now I am worried he got my address and will be paying a visit soon. He better hope I am not at home if and when he does, or there will be a 12 gauge slug between his eyes.

Such a shame. I grew up in the Lutherville Timonium area. It was nice back then. Then the light rail and section 8 came and crime skyrocketed.

[McBoller]

better watch what you say. Knowing how bass ackwards this world has become, someone could come forward and say they broke into your truck and try to sue you for threatening their life...its ridiculous.

[K-Dog]

Sorry to hear about that. It truly sucks.

about a year ago my wife and I became addicted to the show "It Takes A Thief" Basicaly a retired thief breks into a house (with homeowners approval) and they expose the houses weak points, and then set them up with a bunch of neat security itmes. The point was not so much to make your house a fortress, but to make it LESS desireable than the house next door. Thieves are lazy. They want the east in and easy out with the least amount of attention.

Not a lot of money and not a lot of time and I have a pretty high confidance level with where we are at. Again its not a fortrace but it is not an easy task.

[thewarden86]

[quote name='McBoller' post='167440' date='Mar 12 2009, 10:20 AM']Getting your house broken into and finding your laptop, plasma tv, ps3, xbox360, ipods, cameras, etc all gone [/quote]

I'd kill someone.

I'm very sorry to hear that. I hope you get it all squared away with as little cost and head-ache as possible.

[Sherb]

yea sorry dude hopefully u get ur stuff back give us an update when u get ur stuff

[McBoller]

Well luckily I have good homeowners policy. They're taking care of everything. I just want to see those ****s get caught. Especially since I just had my car stolen three months ago(caught those a holes)

[Moderator 2]

[quote name='Tighthead420' post='167542' date='Mar 12 2009, 03:42 PM']Some punk broke into my truck (shattering my driver's side window) while it was at the Timonium light rail yesterday. Now I am worried he got my address and will be paying a visit soon. He better hope I am not at home if and when he does, or there will be a 12 gauge slug between his eyes.

Such a shame. I grew up in the Lutherville Timonium area. It was nice back then. Then the light rail and section 8 came and crime skyrocketed.[/quote]
Glad I just saw this I went to Wegmans tonite Sometimes people suck.

The subway destroyed Owings Mills town center and the area around it. Thats why the carnival went away too.

I always store my photos remotely as soon as I download them. I had a hard drive flame out and lost the last Christmas my grandparents had with us. They lived several years longer but Alzheimer's took my grandmothers memory and mobility and she was in a nursing home.

[McBoller]

yeah, I back up the pics every so often. Last time was in December.

[Sherb]

maybe u should try and move if u keep getting stuff stolen

[Reddawn36]

dude that sucks that your stuff got robbed, makes you wonder what ppl will do these days, oddly enough im not a violent person, but i guess some sort of reputation i got in H.S. (idk what) is keeping ppl from messing with my house, my next door neighbor had his lap top stolen from his truck, neighbor across the street was a victim of the drive by taking mail boxes out, and both next door neighbors and one across the street were "victim" to ding dong ditch.... which is harmless but in the neighborhood i live in stuff escalates

[Moderator 2]

The problem we have in my neighborhood is "outsiders". They live a 3 miles or so away, a friend of mine who works with law enforcement says 'ner do wells don't like to foul their own dens. I live in such a horrible neighborhood I left my cell phone plugged in on the dash in my un locked van for a week:lol: I've left wallet on the front seat, and I keep change in my ashtray-- I would do horrible in a bad neighbor hood. I do know I need to be more careful especially in these economic times because desperation drives people to do stupid stuff.

I will never forget my husband had his GEO Metro broken into in the late '90's and they took his laptop case out of the car and bag cell phone, they saw all these cell phone antenna's stick out of the bag and thought they hit jackpot. The antenna's were pens he got at a conference they were so pissed they left a trail of pens to their car--where the cops found them. It was great.

[Reddawn36]

ROFL, when i was like 6 or 7 my dad left a set of golf clubs out on the front porch of a town house, not even 1 hour and they were stolen, this was in upstate NY sometime between may-august

[McBoller]

yeah, Im thinkin about setting a trap, if you know what I mean...But I honestly think they cant be dumb enough to come back again, but u never know...

[theblackdog]

[quote name='Moderator 2' post='169055' date='Mar 16 2009, 02:04 AM']The problem we have in my neighborhood is "outsiders". They live a 3 miles or so away, a friend of mine who works with law enforcement says 'ner do wells don't like to foul their own dens. I live in such a horrible neighborhood I left my cell phone plugged in on the dash in my un locked van for a week:lol: I've left wallet on the front seat, and I keep change in my ashtray-- I would do horrible in a bad neighbor hood. I do know I need to be more careful especially in these economic times because desperation drives people to do stupid stuff.[/quote]

Your story doesn't surprise me. My parents lived in some crappy neighborhoods in Phoenix and never had a problem. The one area that made them have to install a car alarm? Being right next to Scottsdale, which is known for being rather upscale. It turns out the rich kids that live there get bored and decide to go and break into cars and stuff because even if they get caught, daddy will take care of them

I'm willing to bet if I moved out of PG County and lived in Anne Arundel or Montgomery County I'd have more problems with people trying to break into my car and house.

[Moderator 2]

"crappy" was sarcasm, I live with the freakin cows! We are the low rent district our houses are under 500,000K surrounded by million dollar McMansions The My Town and Country van is in a class with the YUGO's when 2 streets over you have BMW's, Hummers and Escalades

[McBoller]

[quote name='Moderator 2' post='169303' date='Mar 16 2009, 07:03 PM']"crappy" was sarcasm, I live with the freakin cows! We are the low rent district our houses are under 500,000K surrounded by million dollar McMansions The My Town and Country van is in a class with the YUGO's when 2 streets over you have BMW's, Hummers and Escalades [/quote]
under 500K is crappy? wow, my house cost 235K...I guess I live int he slums.

[theblackdog]

[quote name='Moderator 2' post='169303' date='Mar 16 2009, 07:03 PM']The My Town and Country van is in a class with the YUGO's when 2 streets over you have BMW's, Hummers and Escalades [/quote]

That totally sounds like that neighborhood I described. I joked that we were considered "white trash" because we drove a silver honda civic instead of a black Lexus SUV or black Hummer. Why these people thought having a black car in the middle of a desert was a great idea is beyond me, that stuff heats up!

[Moderator 2]

I refuse to be car and house poor. There is nothing wrong with living within your means. I would rather have the money we would dump into a McMansion to travel and pay cash for my kids college. My son just got ribbed all the time about the truck we got him for his 16th birthday--a 2 seater Toyota that is older them him--its a 1986 with 70K miles on it. We bought it from a friend of my dads, garage kept. He loves it, but its not a Civic or Cobalt or cute little SUV wanna be that his friends drive. No one will steal the radio out of that thing--it still has knobs!!!

[McBoller]

lol, that what I was hoping with my car. Its a 2000 Neon with steel wheel, no hubcaps, and just about every body panel including the hood and trunk is dented. Yet, it still got stolen....I guess some drug runner needed some wheels, or maybe a gang initiation bcuz its so easy to steal. Anyways, they caught those people...Havent caught the ppl who got into my house yet though.

[Moderator 2]

I had to take my stepson to work today, got keys, wallet and could not find my cellphone go out to the van and its plugged in on the dash Since Friday I really need to be more careful.

[JonM229]

My girlfriend's car was broken into the other day. They took all of her CDs (most of which were burned) and my GPS, but they left the charger and windshield attachment for it. That's the last time she leaves her car unlocked.

[Reddawn36]

[quote name='JonM229' post='170267' date='Mar 18 2009, 10:38 PM']My girlfriend's car was broken into the other day. They took all of her CDs (most of which were burned) and my GPS, but they left the charger and windshield attachment for it. That's the last time she leaves her car unlocked.[/quote]

dude that sucks

[McBoller]

[quote name='JonM229' post='170267' date='Mar 18 2009, 10:38 PM']My girlfriend's car was broken into the other day. They took all of her CDs (most of which were burned) and my GPS, but they left the charger and windshield attachment for it. That's the last time she leaves her car unlocked.[/quote]
ugh, left the car unlocked?

I was just in lancaster over the weekend and we were eating at cracker barrell. When I took the kids out to the van to leave my 4 y/o walked up to a van that was 2 spots down from our thinking it was ours. He pulled on the passenger door and I told him to stop, thats not our van. To my surprise, the door opened and there was a nice gps on the dash, TURNED ON. I hit the lock button for them and closed the door QUICKLY, lol...

[JonM229]

[quote name='McBoller' post='170361' date='Mar 19 2009, 07:57 AM']ugh, left the car unlocked?[/quote]
She grew up in the middle of nowhere in northern Illinois where they still don't even lock the front door.

[bossman419]

This is why i put one of my extra lacrosse poles next to my bed... anyone breaks in, I'm gonna make them a new butthole