[Mylo]

one week before xmas and some dirty scum broke in to my mates house today

Smashed glass, all over the baby's stuff, from the broken window and the upstairs of the house ransacked

Irreplaceable jewellery taken and their camera and cam-corder full of baby footage
The rest of the missing items are easily replaced but the sentimental stuff is not.

[Mep]

absolute scum....sorry to hear it mate..........way too much of it this time of year

[signs]

Gitts ..

we were done a few years back ,and it still winds me up thinking about it now

don't know what to say mate ,lets hope they cut them self's to shreds on the

glass

[Mylo]

That's what the PC told us Paul. Several of the estates in the Slough area have hit tonight.

[Simba]

i remember it happened to my house a few times years back. eventually got an alarm.

set us back alot

[JohnG]

There's been a spate of burglaries around my area according to the local press, the scum are obviously expecting to find lots of presents and stuff lying around Mind you, they'd get short change at my house as I still haven't bought anything.

[Daddy k]

real scum at this time of year, its low any time but at xmas, well if they get caught they should be given extra punishment for ruining a happy time of the year for a new family.

last week we had a white light up 6ft tree outside, had it last year also but this year both my children are old enough to appreciate (1 and a half and 2 and a half) woke up one morning to find it smashed all over the floor, looks like they tried to rob it but couldnt (as the plug was indoors) my eldest was so upset and then she said "the boys and girls broke it"

id hate to be someone that caught someone doing something like this however as i know i would get in more trouble for what i would do to them, and then feel sorry for the police officer that have to do me for what i done, to protect themselves, as im sure they would agree with what i dont to this type of person

[raigraphixs]

that horrible, hope they are not shaken up too much, make sure of sentimental stuff is hidden away its surprising people leave it out in the open (at home)

[PoochJD]

Mylo,

Sorry to hear about your mate's house being done over. It seems to be a "normal" occurence now, each year around this time, and the theives seem to be able to quite literally get away with it, with no chance of being caught, let alone punished.

They're all scumbags, who should be shot, as far as I'm concerned, for the misery and suffering they cause hard-working, normal individuals and families!


Pooch

[nej]

Sorry to hear it - happened to me last Friday. All sorts of stuff gone, but it's the sentimental stuff that's hardest (the video camera had the disk of my son's 2nd birthday in it and they took my wife's wedding & engagement rings from a drawer).

[Decadence]

Damn this makes me mad! It is all so futile too because they will never be caught. How can anyone find who did it?

[avinitski]

scum, anyone play Team Fortress 2? one of those sensor gun turrents would come in handy, blow the heads right off of scum like this.

your right some of the stuff is replaceable, but the cam corder fotty of family and little baby can be never brought back, shame.

[alexs2]

My sympathies Mylo....Xmas really is a mixed bag at times.

It's the sentimental items that really hurt,and the fact that someone has been in your own home.

[loz]

Sorry to hear it.

Hope they were insured, because the police sure aren't going to do anything about it...

[Mylo]

Mark and Nat say thanks for the kind words

Luckily baby Harry is too little to know what is going on and this will not spoil his xmas.

It's been a timely reminder to us all, to try and keep some sort of record for valuables. Digital pics kept off site will help the police if the goods ever resurface.

[Zone]

Originally Posted by Mylo

Irreplaceable jewellery taken and their camera and cam-corder full of baby footage
The rest of the missing items are easily replaced but the sentimental stuff is not.

Sorry to hear that Myles and that's the worse bit and the most annoying, because if it aint of value to the thieves then it will just be discarded

[iSix]

Originally Posted by Daddy k

last week we had a white light up 6ft tree outside, had it last year also but this year both my children are old enough to appreciate (1 and a half and 2 and a half) woke up one morning to find it smashed all over the floor, looks like they tried to rob it but couldnt (as the plug was indoors) my eldest was so upset and then she said "the boys and girls broke it"

I had some lights on the hedge outside my house, but some sh!ts on monday night tried to nick them and cut the cables so now they're only fit for the bin.

Sucks for your mate being burgled, especially so close to christmas...

[partyweb]

Sorry to hear the news.

One of my sons had his nintendo DS nicked from him from a restaurant last night.

It's totally ruined, not only last nights meal, but also his whole attitude to Xmas now. He's got nothing to play the games he asked santa to bring and worse is his brothers still got his and keeps reminding him of this.

I've been looking everywhere this morning on the net for somewhere that has them for sale but it looks like they're in short supply (as usual ).

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by partyweb

Sorry to hear the news.

One of my sons had his nintendo DS nicked from him from a restaurant last night.

It's totally ruined, not only last nights meal, but also his whole attitude to Xmas now. He's got nothing to play the games he asked santa to bring and worse is his brothers still got his and keeps reminding him of this.

I've been looking everywhere this morning on the net for somewhere that has them for sale but it looks like they're in short supply (as usual ).

my trick might help , find out what time your chosen highstreet store gets deliveries , might take a bit of waiting about but i got lucky for the wife's , shame you have to go the trouble though

[partyweb]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

my trick might help , find out what time your chosen highstreet store gets deliveries , might take a bit of waiting about but i got lucky for the wife's , shame you have to go the trouble though

Cheers, I had to Ring & Reserve a '2 game bundle' at my local Argos and pay £150 for a DS + a starter kit that I already have & 2 games my boys'll never play.

It's amazing that they've got the bundles in stock but not the individual items. I asked why I can't buy it seperate and was told it came in an individual box. Like cp it did. Came down the conveyor belt loose in it's own green Argos bag.

Oh well, it had to be done, I hate to see the boy sad at Xmas especially as it turns out he didn't lose his own one, he lost his brother's one.

He's just finished making a begging letter to Santa saying he was sorry and if Santa could bring a new DS for his brother.

[vinvader]

Well done for tracking one down!

I wanted to get one for my girlfriends christmas present, but when I went into town last monday they had sold out everywhere. Managed to track one down on Amazon in the end and it was delivered today!

[emo72]

really sorry to hear about people getting robbed at crimbo.

my mother in law got robbed on christmas eve, all the presents for 18 grand children under the tree robbed.

i was woke up by a phone call asking if i had done it as a practical joke.

im not that bad really.

but what sticks with me is the utter despair on the faces of my mother and father in law on christmas day. no chance to put things right, and having to explain to all the kids why there was no presents.

and then the thieving scum go home to their own families and smile and enjoy themselves