Listen, there’s no pride or braggadacio in my responses, I am simply recounting it as it was then for me, and how it likely still is now for a lot of people. I started burgling at the age of 13, for nothing but thrills and kicks, and when I saw how easy it was, combining the thrill factor and the monetary gain had me hooked. I stopped burgling houses six years later, not because I was afraid of getting caught by the police, but because I burgled a ‘gangster’s’ house by mistake, and was made to realise the error of my ways, in that you never knew who’s house you were robbing if you were an opportunist thief. If the householders had made it harder for me, I’d have moved on to robbing business premises a lot sooner.