Two nights ago we were burgled in the early hours of the morning.
I was sleeping down stairs looking after our baby and my wife was looking after our 1 & 2 year-olds up stairs. We have had some rough nights recently and have temporarily moved the baby down stairs as she was getting woken by the other two.
I was woken by the sitting room door being opened and seeing a silhouette in the door frame. I just thought it was my wife looking in on us.
Next morning I had to go to the solicitors. I couldn’t find my bag or wallet. I thought that I had left it at work. I went to work and it was no where to be seen.
When I got back home we did what all parents do and blamed our two year-old daughter for moving the items.
After a while it slowly dawned on me what had happened. I asked my wife if she had come down in the middle of the night to check on us. She hadn’t.
I checked the front door (which we don’t use) and it was un-locked.
We had neglected to lock it after a delivery that day. The scum bag had simply inserted a right angled piece of copper pipe through the letterbox and depressed the handle.
The Police informed us that this is the most common mode of entry used on UPVC doors for burglars. I didn’t realise that if the door is unlocked although the door won’t open from the outside. The handle will still move, once the door is locked the handle becomes fixed. The burglars just walk along trying every handle until one moves and bingo.
My guess is that when they opened the sitting room door and saw me I must have scared them and they just grabbed what they could on the way out.
The thing that sucks the most is that some one has been in my house with my babies sleeping.
Please let this be a lesson to us all, check your doors and windows don’t give the scum a chance.
Neil
I was sleeping down stairs looking after our baby and my wife was looking after our 1 & 2 year-olds up stairs. We have had some rough nights recently and have temporarily moved the baby down stairs as she was getting woken by the other two.
I was woken by the sitting room door being opened and seeing a silhouette in the door frame. I just thought it was my wife looking in on us.
Next morning I had to go to the solicitors. I couldn’t find my bag or wallet. I thought that I had left it at work. I went to work and it was no where to be seen.
When I got back home we did what all parents do and blamed our two year-old daughter for moving the items.
After a while it slowly dawned on me what had happened. I asked my wife if she had come down in the middle of the night to check on us. She hadn’t.
I checked the front door (which we don’t use) and it was un-locked.
We had neglected to lock it after a delivery that day. The scum bag had simply inserted a right angled piece of copper pipe through the letterbox and depressed the handle.
The Police informed us that this is the most common mode of entry used on UPVC doors for burglars. I didn’t realise that if the door is unlocked although the door won’t open from the outside. The handle will still move, once the door is locked the handle becomes fixed. The burglars just walk along trying every handle until one moves and bingo.
My guess is that when they opened the sitting room door and saw me I must have scared them and they just grabbed what they could on the way out.
The thing that sucks the most is that some one has been in my house with my babies sleeping.
Please let this be a lesson to us all, check your doors and windows don’t give the scum a chance.
Neil
Good thing though that nothing worse happened. Take care.
