So, I've been at work for the last week. I work away from home (OIL RIGS and shit, some of you probably know a bit from me talking about it.)

I got on dry land about 5 hours ago. My mother picks me up, I get in the car and I say "Hey mum, how's the week been?" There's a look of misery on her face. Then she says, "We got burgled last night." I pause for a moment to take it in... Burgled? We live in a shitty little town, population of like 8000 (max), where everyone I know is pretty chilled out.

I'm baffled as to how it happened. My mum always locks the door, my brother stays up playing World of Warcraft to the early hours of the morning. How can someone steal shit from right under their noses?

She tells me she came downstairs this morning, wanted to go outside for her morning smoke, grabbed the back door key and went to unlock the door, only to realise it was already open. "Strange" she thought. She swore she'd locked it the night before. Then she looked around. Her bag was missing. She thought she'd just misplaced it, positive that with her scatty brain she'd just put it down somewhere and forgot where.

She then looks around even more.

Her laptop is missing. Several DVDs are missing from the DVD pile. My brother comes downstairs, looks around at various things and notices his Xbox 360 controllers are gone along with some of his games, he knows they were there the night before cause he was playing them...

It suddenly dawns on my mother that she's been robbed. Her bag is full of credit cards, cash, pictures of me and my brother as babies, letters from friends who live on the other side of the world. She'd been robbed while she slept and my brother was upstairs in his computer room killing dwarves on Warcraft.

There's pretty much a lack of conversation on the way home. She's just too distressed to really talk to me about how my week's been at work, how many big gas compressors I FIXED UP that week, etc. No standard HOW ARE YOU, HOW ARE THE CATS type shit.

So anyway I'm at home now, nothing of mine has been stolen (well, apart from one xbox game I bought a while back).

I'm kind of in a state of shock right now that shit like this can happen right under their noses. The guy/girl/whatever obviously saw an opportunity, noticed the back door hadn't been locked properly (or picked the lock somehow), ran in, grabbed all the shit he/she could and went out again. My mum and brother completely oblivious to the whole thing.


So, to give this topic a point; has anyone here been robbed? Anyone here also TOTALLY BAFFLED how this shit can happen so easily? I can't believe this shit has happened to my family, especially in such a quiet town.

I'm guessing I'm not alone, anyone else here been burgled?

i don't know how things work over there but

you should alert local pawn shops about all of the stolen items incase the thief tries to pawn them, they'll get caught

sorry to hear that!

if any of the items that were stolen are really priceless items, perhaps you can hire a detective to find the culprit. Wipe for fingerprints and all that jazz.

Yeah we got LAW ENFORCEMENT round to check for prints etc.

Hoping for some news on that front soon, but I guess it's kind of wishful thinking.

i dunno about the local pawn shop thing. if i was gonna burgle, i'd go do it in a small town then go back to a city before getting rid of the stuff...but then again...i'm a criminal mastermind

when I was about 7 we were burgled whilst we wre on holiday.

I can't remember too many details becuase it was about 14 years ago, but I know that they got in by smashing a window. They stole everything as I remember, even the furniture!

We lived on an old farm in the country so they could take as much time as they wanted and make as much noise and no one would notice. I guess this is why they felt the need to take the furniture

That sucks man. I hope everything works out.

i dunno about the local pawn shop thing. if i was gonna burgle, i'd go do it in a small town then go back to a city before getting rid of the stuff...but then again...i'm a criminal mastermind

Yeah man, there are no pawn shops in this town, it is really fucking small.

Nonetheless, I guess it's worth a try.

I've been ringing my mum's phone (it was in the bag) and it keeps saying "switched off". Maybe they dumped some shit somewhere.

Also they stole my brothers COLLEGE BAG (i suppose they were guessing something was in it) so he's just lost a fuckton of his college work. Really fucking sucks.

I was pretty dumb here, but nobody deserves to be robbed:

I went to the YMCA as a guest with my friend, and we went swimming.  I left my stuff in a locker, without a lock, and when I got back, my bag had been left open and all the valuable stuff inside was stolen.  There was a TI-86 calculator, a Kid Rock CD (god my taste in music sucked), and several comic books including the Death of Superman issue and a 3-D Green Lantern comic.  Looking back, I really didn't lose anything of value.

What was left were the comics I drew in middle school.  Come to think of it, if the thief had stolen them, then that would mean they were good... *sigh*

gorm should have smelt the thief with his ghostwolf nose and run downstairs and windfuried that shit

ul though :-(

Then again the robber was probably a rogue, enhance shammies don't have a lot of hope tbh

tell him to remember to drop a magma totem downstairs to destealth them in future

Yeah I'm done.

please dont warn mark he just made a quad wow joke post you dont get those often.



my brother just knocked something over in the kitchen and my mother freaked.

You know if you live in that small a town I bet you know who did that shit.

I'd do a little investigating, see if your brother or mom know anyone that might possibly be into some hard drugs. Or any nearby neighbors that seem pretty shady.

To just go in there and steal RANDOM shit like that it seems like they didn't plan it out to well and did it out of desperation, to ME anyways.


I got a cousin that was sold meth for awhile and he stole from my grandma/grandpa a few times, he's pretty much reformed now. But now I got an uncle thats doing crack (apparently) and stole from my cousin.

The only time I've ever had anything stolen from me was when my truck broke down at work and I had to leave it behind the building until I could get it fixed. Some asshole figured out the latch on the back window didn't work and stole my CD player, I knew who did it and I ran into the building and told him I was gonna stomp the shit out of him but someone told me he wasn't there when it got stolen so I didn't do it.


I live in a pretty small town too, but everyone around here is redneck as hell and anyone that knows my dad knows he's got like 3 shotguns and 4 rifles loaded in a cabinet in my house so I don't think we'll get robbed.