# Home invasions suck. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 31, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-invasions-suck/552076 "2010-08-31T01:22:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-invasions-suck/552076/41 "2010-09-02T13:57:52Z")
That sounds extremely sloppy for a burglar, if it wasn’t the cats but the burglar. I suppose the noise could’ve been the cats and the burglar was their earlier. If they were in the house with you, it’s sloppy and either a bunch of kids, a drug addict needing money ASAP or someone you know. A lot of people need money in this economy and aquaintences who know your home and routine may just try it on. Cops are not too likely to devote too much time to this as no one was hurt and your home is probably insured, right? Perhaps if where you live is small enough the cops will have more time to devote to it. I can’t believe anyone wouldn’t cancel their credit cards after losing a wallet as it can take weeks for a charge to show up. I lost my wallet and charges were showing up three weeks after. Plus the credit card companies are going to want a statement saying you were robbed and a copy of the police report, in order to remove the credit card charges. I guess it’s time to invest in a dog 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-invasions-suck/552076/42 "2010-09-04T02:00:42Z")
I don’t know if they’d have to be kids–they could just be only wanting quick cash for drug stuff. And, if they did cause the picture to fall, that might have cut their criminal escapade short. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-invasions-suck/552076/43 "2010-09-04T02:43:34Z")
So, what breed of large vicious dog will you be purchasing? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-invasions-suck/552076/44 "2010-09-04T22:36:39Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > So, what breed of large vicious dog will you be purchasing? That’s a dilemma. I’m terrified of dogs, but now I’m pretty terrified of people coming into my house and taking my stuff… What to do, what to do… We got bigger locks. **BigT** , I think you’re right. Meth is a big problem here, so say the two officers that investigated. They said we are lucky, since people so desperate as to come into an occupied house in the daylight, would have no qualms about doing bad thing to us. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-invasions-suck/552076/45 "2010-09-05T18:51:28Z")
I would put the shotgun in the vette with myself, but then again, I’m an idiot. I’m glad you’re not idiots. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-invasions-suck/552076/46 "2010-09-06T20:24:15Z")
My freaking God, what kind of asshole takes the trouble to _ **smash your glasses** _ before discarding them? Buncha damn haters. Oh. Fingerprints, maybe. Still. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-invasions-suck/552076/47 "2010-09-07T01:43:56Z")
It’s Back! We got a call from SPD last night at 8:30 PM. They found our truck “parked” in the middle of the street a few miles from here. They had to impound it, since it was blocking traffic. It had run out of gas, so the f\*\*\*ers just left it where it died. They took the keys with them 😕 So we got it re-keyed at the tow yard. The whole day was $300, plus the $700 to re-key the 'Vette and house. They obviously used the truck to rip-off someone else, they left an expensive camera lens in it. We gave that to the police. The cracked the windshield, but otherwise, didn’t do any damage. Life can get back to some semblance of normal now. Except, of course, for the $1000 that should have gone for the mortgage. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-invasions-suck/552076/48 "2010-09-07T01:45:27Z")
Will insurance cover the re-keying and impound? (I know they’ll cover the glass.) ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-invasions-suck/552076/49 "2010-09-07T02:04:10Z")
I’m sorry, **picunurse.** I was in Winnipeg last week helping out a dear friend who has just had surgery. While we were there, he was telling me about his two idiot brothers (they are four brothers living in a house together) who REFUSE to lock the doors they unlock. More precisely they never remember to lock the doors (they grew up in a rural area and this is their first time living in the big city – my friend is the eldest) and refuse to develop the habit. Sure enough, while I was staying there, someone just walked in one night and waltzed off with two computers and a bunch of other stuff belonging to another houseguest. (Fortunately, my friend lives in the basement, behind his own lock.) My friend thinks he heard them, but he had no way of knowing whether it was the thieves or just one of the brothers walking around on the ground floor. The kicker is that the two in question didn’t think it was any sort of a deal _because everything will be replaced by insurance._ Uh… _kind of not the point._ Never mind that someone with possibly violent intent was walking around the ground floor of their house. What if someone had gotten up to get a snack, or something? My friend already has enough problems with anxiety, so needless to say, neither the danger nor his brothers’ inexplicable pigheadedness about the situation is helping matters at all. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-invasions-suck/552076/50 "2010-09-07T03:39:28Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > They probably tossed the wallet as they drove, but my purse . . . Damn fashionista home invaders. I’m glad and yours are OK. What a horrid thing to experience. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-invasions-suck/552076/51 "2010-09-07T21:22:32Z")
You got it back. God luck, that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-invasions-suck/552076.md?page=2)