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Alert For All Members - New Thievery Method
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| 6/6/2011
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Posted on 06/06/2011 9:21:51 AM PDT by B4Ranch
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If you are going on vacation let all of your neighbors know when you'll be back. If they see any vehicles in the driveway, please call the cops.
I hope nobody complains that I posted this in General but I wanted to alert as many FReepers as possible.
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posted on
06/06/2011 9:21:52 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
To: B4Ranch
It is unfortunate but it may not be a good idea to tell the cops in advance...just sayin.
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posted on
06/06/2011 9:24:21 AM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: B4Ranch
You could probably have your calls fowarded to a neighbor.
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posted on
06/06/2011 9:25:14 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: B4Ranch
Forward all your calls to your cellphone.
Make some lights on a timer.
Make sure your mail delivery is stopped. If you get newspapers delivered stop them too (actually just cancel them, what are you crazy?)
Have neighbors or friend drop in and hang out for a while every other day or so.
To: ladyjane
Most of the time it will be a good idead;but there are cops who will rob the very house they are supposed to watch.Last such incident I know of took place locally a long time ago,and the dirty cops got cold feet and dumped the guns taken,got caught,went to prison, and did not get new job as cops.
A trusted neighbor who is home all the time may be best;if your neighbor is gone to work the thieves can steal a lot between 9am and 5pm.
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posted on
06/06/2011 9:29:43 AM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
To: B4Ranch
What's “the new method”? The robbers did it while they were on vacation?
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posted on
06/06/2011 9:30:17 AM PDT
by
ryan71
(Dear spell check - No, I will not capitalize the "m" in moslem!)
To: B4Ranch
Did this friend of your’s make a post on Facebook saying he was going on vacation?
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posted on
06/06/2011 9:30:23 AM PDT
by
caver
(Obama: Home of the Whopper)
To: Peter from Rutland
I suggest owning some good dogs.Anyone breaking into our house is going to have to deal with our German Shepherds.
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posted on
06/06/2011 9:30:37 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: ryan71
They read Obituaries too.
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posted on
06/06/2011 9:32:29 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: B4Ranch
I watched an old Dragnet on Net-flick which had this same story line. Nothing is new under the sun.
When we leave on vacation we let the neighbors know as well as the police.
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posted on
06/06/2011 9:32:52 AM PDT
by
CIB-173RDABN
(California does not have a money problem, it has a spending problem.)
To: Peter from Rutland
My M.O. is to have the neighbor collect mail (and a newspaper if applicable, which isn't with us) versus placing "stop orders". He also moves the patio chairs around a bit to indicate occupancy.
The fewer that know, the better.
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posted on
06/06/2011 9:34:13 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
To: B4Ranch
Thieves have been doing this for decades. Back in the 1980s, I came home at lunch only because I was very sick, waved in a friendly manner to the movers carefully packing and emptying my neighbor’s home, and called the police. My neighbors were on vacation and had never mentioned moving, so I knew what was happening. The only down side was the very long time it took to get their stuff (the “evidence”) processed and back into the home.
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posted on
06/06/2011 9:34:32 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
To: Peter from Rutland
If you can afford a 3 week vacation, you can afford to just buy all new stuff.
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posted on
06/06/2011 9:35:04 AM PDT
by
rokkitapps
( Hearings on healthcare waivers NOW! (If you agree make this your tagline))
To: Peter from Rutland
I hate the “volunteer” newspapers. These are the papers, notes or advertisements that show up uninvited and announce to the world how long it’s been since they were dropped off.
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posted on
06/06/2011 9:35:34 AM PDT
by
pgyanke
(Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
To: B4Ranch
Did they have neighbors close by? I can’t imagine neighbors not questioning what was happening if they were close enough to see. We don’t leave town without letting our neighbors know and we don’t leave lights that would advertise that we’re not home. Even the timers tell a different story to folks perhaps casing a home. I read until a different hour every night so having the lights go off at a set time is a sure bet they are on a timer.
A couple of weeks ago we had a friend come in and feed and medicate our cat while we were gone for three days. She decided on her own to turn on lights because it was TOO DARK for the cat. This immediately told anyone up to no good that no one was home - lights on all night???? The “I was just trying to help” kind of friend. She’s done the same with our thermostat before - we set it where we want it when we leave and she for some reason can’t resist meddling with it. Won’t happen again!!!
To: caver
>>Did this friend of yours make a post on Facebook saying he was going on vacation?<<
That, I have no idea about.
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posted on
06/06/2011 9:39:25 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)
To: B4Ranch
whevener i go on leave, I notify my pal, frank who comes and gets my mail. by the time anybody figures out that I’m gone, I’m back.
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posted on
06/06/2011 9:40:25 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: B4Ranch
Yep. It's a trend. Another trend is for drug thieves to get (generally available) details of a funeral. They pick cancer victims a lot. Then, when everybody is at the funeral, they go to the home of the deceased and steal all the leftover pain meds, and other items. I've house sat for neighbors before while they attended the funeral.
I've got a buddy here at work and he told me about a theft just across the road from him. He lives in a slightly rural area. He said that his neighbor (across the road) had a large gunsafe. The house was a pre-fab. From the police report, it "seems" that the thieves knew where the safe was. They backed up into the yard with a dual axle pickup, broke the door down, and punched two holes in the exterior wall on both sides of the safe. Then they fed a chain through the holes, around the safe and onto the hitch on the back of the truck. Then they drove forward and pulled the safe right off the floor (it WAS bolted - the bolts broke) and THROUGH the wall. They (probably) winched it into the back of the truck before driving away. He said it was one of the craziest things he's seen in a long time....left one BIG mess!
To: Peter from Rutland
Make sure your mail delivery is stopped.Have someone you trust collect it.
To: ryan71
I thought using a moving van was a new trick but I guess not.
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posted on
06/06/2011 9:41:01 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)
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