house got broken into yesterday

[hoovhartid]

Originally Posted by emaxx101

LEFT THE CREDIT CARDS!

ok...

....this jumped out at me.

get new card numbers and cancel those.

This type of theft is becoming more common...the numbers of your cards along with the security codes, expiration dates, etc could have been written down...and returned to you ON PURPOSE so that you dont cancel them.

get new ones, it wont cost you a thing...

ALSO, another thing that is going on is this...
people steal cards and go to the mall, they dont put a charge on the cards, but they use them as reference to get new ones. Almost every major clothing store asks at the register if you'd like to sign up and get their card for future discounts or some sort of promotion...most will expedite the process if you have another card they can use for a reference. So they use your card to get a new card in your name that you dont even know about. Get in touch with some credit reporting agency and make sure there arent any new credit cards in your name that you dont know about.

just a suggestion

Nobody noticed someone(s) carting out a 50" plasma outta your house? That does suck, I'm fortunate to not have experienced a robbery yet. Although I've had our bedroom thoroughly trashed and everything in it needing replacement. Car ran straight into our bedroom at like 3 in the morning. Ol lady was in bed! Car kinda scooped up the mattress and flipped her over. THANK GOD she didn't suffer any major injuries or death. But boy did it make a mess. The only thing that stopped the car was the closet wall, which btw was opposite the computer and had I been in bed (car side) or at the computer, I woulda been no more. The computer chair was mangled to hell and pinned between the car and the corner of the closet wall that stopped the car. The @#*$%@%s tried like hell to back out, smoking the tires and what not, and they jumped out and ran off. No sign of anyone by the time I ran outside. The bedroom door was blocked with crap so I couldn't get in, meanwhile I know shes in there and was in bed. The few hours worth of that crap I went through took probably 8 or 9 months off my heart's life and added a few thousand gray hairs. That was a year and a half ago, and to this day, my heart jumps everytime I hear a car outside when Im in bed. The car was stuck inside the bedroom still running, we had this huge ass bush residing inside the bedroom. And to top it all off, it took them 5, count it, 5 months to get the room fixed and able to use again! That was almost as bad as having it happen, I think sleeping on an air mattress in the living room for that long had worse effects on her back, than a god damn car running into her. Sorry just my rant, I really hate these trashy losers that do what they please and make decent folks suffer without any guilt or punishment.

[t-maxxracer32]

you got it right rootar. even though i am almost positive i know who it is what can i really do to them if i see them on the streets? they are meth heads.. so if me and some of my freinds go and eff them up. you know they will come back with something 100x worse.

a little update...

we got our insurance papers in and hopefully by the end of next week if we dont find out anything dramatic we will file for everything that got lost...

my hope is that in 3 months i will be back to where i was.

doesnt that suck? imagine if nothing had happened... in 3 months i could use all the money to SAVE AND PUT IT IN THE BANK!!! but o well. thats life for you!!!

from now on i will make sure my house has good security, plus i will put that tracking software on my laptop.


1maxdude i could not even imagine that happening to me... ima have to say that that story tops mine... noone here got physically or mentally hurt so its not really that bad..

i hope one day you will be fine with everything and look past it all. i know it can be hard.

[JERRY2KONE]

Sorry to hear about your misfortune Tmaxx. I know exactly how you feel. I had a Halloween party at my house one year and after everyone had gone home I was on the phone chatting with some chick out of state about 0400 in the morning, when I heard a noise. I had forgotten to close the garage door, and two guys were cleaning out all of my tools. They took off in a junk car and we never did find them or the stuff they stole $6K worth. Then to top it off my insurance would not accept the claim because I left the garage door open even though I was in the house, and I had no proof to show that I actually bought all of the stuff. They wanted receipts and photos of the tools to show that I actually had what I listed. I lost it all and never got a thing from the insurance. So for the rest of you, you might want to record what you have somehow. Photos, video, reciepts, inventory with serial numbers.

The other thing is that I agree that this was someone you know, and they know you very well. They were obviously only after what you had in your room, and from the sounds of it they knew exactly what to go after(kids). I was laghing when I read your first post, which say a 50' plasma. That is one huge TV... Good luck with your recovery. It does sound like you are taking it well. Like was mentioned it is just stuff. No one was hurt or killed over stuff. Stuff can be replaced, life cannot. I would be real leary though, because if these guys get away with this too easy they will do it again. Trust me stupid theives return to the scene of the crime again when they see that nothing was done.

it sounds like to me more than 1 kid was involved. When I was a kid me and my parents went out for a Easter brunch and came back to our house being broken into all they stole was my Dads supply of booze and beer in the garage( boy was my dad pissed), you do get a feeling of being violated.I have a house alarm that was free and we just pay a service of $35 a month to service. I know how angry it makes you feel, but if you are home and someone breaks into your home be careful about being Clint Eastwood and shhotting them you could get into lots of trouble for that. If you do shhot them make sure they dont survive and none of the exit wounds are in thier back

[Rnemhrd]

Watch the show It takes a thief on discovery. It is amaizing how someone can empty a house in broad daylight and not be noticed.My brother had the windows of his car smashed, all his stereo equipment taken, ripping the back seat out to get a close to 100lb speaker box and amps all 3' from the house with 2 dogs inside. It must have taken some time and huge balls to pull it off, but they got it all out. Damage to the car was close to $2000. Tore the inside to shreads.

[t-maxxracer32]

Originally Posted by Rnemhrd

Watch the show It takes a thief on discovery. It is amaizing how someone can empty a house in broad daylight and not be noticed.My brother had the windows of his car smashed, all his stereo equipment taken, ripping the back seat out to get a close to 100lb speaker box and amps all 3' from the house with 2 dogs inside. It must have taken some time and huge balls to pull it off, but they got it all out. Damage to the car was close to $2000. Tore the inside to shreads.

that is terrible.. that is the one thing i am glad for with my situation.. they didnt really break anything... just moved a bunch of stuff around and threw things on the ground.

also there had to be at least 3 people... 2 people to get the tv and a driver.

idk

[E-Revonut]

Never had my home broken into but my vehicle has been. It def makes you feel violated. They smashed the window on my Dodge Ram and took my in-dash dvd player. They ripped the dash apart, destroyed the interior door panel with the broken glass, the outside of the door had to be re-painted as well as the door jam cause they tried prying the door open first. Insurance covered it all except my deductible, I made up for that by getting a lower level radio. Best part was that the joke was on them, the dvd player had an extra brain box in the dash that they never took, making it useless to them. This all happened at a shop where my truck was getting lifted and mine wasn't the only vehicle vandalized. They also took the radio out of a Super-Duty and took a whole Jeep Wrangler renegade! Sorry for hijacking the thread but seems everyone has been posting their stories as well.

Wouldn't something like that be on the shop and not your insurance? I know how insurance companies can be weasels when it comes to paying out money and they give you the run around saying, we wont pay for it, they should, then they say, we aren't gonna and it seems like a never ending loop. When the car ran into our place, my renter's insurance didn't technically cover her stuff or even her injuries because her name wasn't on the policy. But she is on our car insurance policy, which we ended up using for her injuries filing as uninsured motorist causing her personal injuries and messin up her stuff. It gets pretty technical when dealing with insurance companies. I was lucky that they were cool about it and told us to go about that way of claiming. So we had two different claims. They didn't want any receipts until I gave them a list calling out how much my computer cost me to build. Then the deal was, if what they gave me wasn't enough to cover, I could show new receipts of stuff I bought to replace what got lost, and they'd reimburse me the difference.

[E-Revonut]

The shop had signs all over saying that they weren't responsible for items left in vehicles. It def sucked, but the shop only has so much indoor storage, they had parked my truck right next to the enterance with a light shinning on it. I still give the shop my business, now if my vehicle is there over night they make sure it's one that gets put inside.

Ahhhh, gotcha.

[PedeBasher]

Man, I know how you feel. I had 10 grand worth of flat screen TVs stolen right out of my beach house mere weeks after it was finished. They also ripped the TV mounts right out of the wall leaving nice gashes in nearly every wall. It was definatly an inside job.'

It must really suck to be the only one affected though. I hope you find who did it and give them what they deserve.

[JERRY2KONE]

Originally Posted by E-Revonut

The shop had signs all over saying that they weren't responsible for items left in vehicles. It def sucked, but the shop only has so much indoor storage, they had parked my truck right next to the enterance with a light shinning on it. I still give the shop my business, now if my vehicle is there over night they make sure it's one that gets put inside.

This is where you have to know how the law works. The sign says items left in car. That does not include anything installed in/on the car. I would have pushed them to cover the losses and if not sued them for it. That sign is an excuse for them not to have better security for their business. For the fact of having good ethical business practices and By law they have to protect the customers vehicles while on their property. No way I would have suffered losses on my behalf for their carelesness in poor security practices.

[magman]

I am truly sorry to hear of you losses. As you stated no one got hurt which in the end is the most imp't.
My parents live next to a house, unoccupied, where a couple recently died and one of the kids is a heroine addict. He is not welcome at the house, even before their death, and has managed to 3 times break in and steal family treasures for drug money. The world we live in is not safe these days.

I won't even mention the details, but, my 10yr. old daughter was solicited today.......I know all to well how f***ed up the world is!

[JERRY2KONE]

I won't even mention the details, but, my 10yr. old daughter was solicited today.......I know all to well how f***ed up the world is!


Suddenly the plasma does not seem so important anymore. Protecting our children and loved ones is job one.