Has your house ever been broken into?

[DisneyBeagle]

I just received a call from my friend and her house was broken into while she was at work today. The person(s) took some antique jewelry and a laptop, but they didn't touch her other laptop or her ipod which were right there also. I feel so bad for her because some of the jewelry was from her mother and it can't be replaced.

I can only imagine that you would feel violated. Does that feeling ever go away? I would think that for a long time you would be worried each time you leave the house that it will happen again.

 

[Swan4Me]

No-but my son's old neighbor was- a year after son moved away
Their alarm scared them off and all they took was an IPod

 

[DaisyLynn]

It happened to our family when I was a teenager. It was a horrible experience for us, my parents especially.

Other than the headache of the financial stuff (stolen checkbooks, bank account cleaned out - luckily the money was recovered eventually), the jerks stole a safe (dragged it out of the house, tearing up the floors all along the way) which included all of our birth certificates, military papers, and irreplaceable home movies of us as babies and kids, as well as some photos and other documents.

I'm very sorry that your friend is going through this right now. The feeling of being violated does go away, but once in awhile when you think about those sentimental items that you have lost, while they are just items, it does make you sad.

 

[bunkkinsmom]

My apartment was broken into when I was 17. I was living with 4 other people and 5 guys broke in with shotguns and busted the place up. My other 4 roommates were there at the time. I got home before the police showed up, missed it by about 3 minutes.

 

[emma'smom]

Our house was broken into a couple of times during my childhood..

The first time I was actually asleep on the same floor. They came thru a 2nd floor window in the master bathroom and basically stayed in the master bedroom-- took jewelry, a coin collection, etc.


The most amusing time was during the day-- they came through the kitchen window while everyone was at work/school. They must have had fun going around the house gathering up their take-- we found a few television, the VCR (this was the 80's) all piled in our dining room.

However, we had dead bolt locks that locked from the inside with two different keys-- and a key basket full of all kinds of keys (car keys, house keys, back door keys, old keys, etc). My family knew which key was the correct one--but it wasn't clear to a stranger. The thief must have had fun trying all the keys--but never found the correct combination.

Eventually, he went back out the window he came in...but it was a small window--so most of the stuff was left behind.


I was too young to feel violated, but I never liked to stay in that house alone when I was a teenager.

 

[Tinkerbelle's Mom]

My house was broken into about 6 and 1/2 years ago. It was a difficult time for me as I just seperated from my now ex husband and my mother had died just a few months before.

It was an awful feeling and while things can be replaced it takes time to get over the loss of some sentimental items.

In truth I did not feel truly safe living in the house and moved out about three months later.

 

[castmember19]

Yes, two years ago or so. They came in while everyone was at school/work, stole a tv, some of my mother's gold jewelry that belonged to her mother, and some cigarettes (of all things...)

They tried to take our living room television but had trouble, apparently, because they left it. They pretty much left the house a wreck with things thrown around. None of my personal items were stolen, though my old phone and video camera were thrown around. I guess they were too broken for them to want.

Since then, we got an alarm system and a gate over the door. My mom wouldn't let me stay home alone for a long time.

 

[LuvOrlando]

yes, and I was in it and alone. I know I was very lucky that day, most women don't walk away unharmed from a home invasion with a wasted addict

Yep, one of the reasons we left to raise a family in the burbs.

Very scary, I don't live there any more but the experience left its mark, we have adt and it's always on for me to feel safe.

 

[hereyago]

Twice.

Well the first time I was 5 and we had moved back to the States-my DF was in the military and we lived overseas. They had an apartment and ran off when they heard my parents coming in, so they didnt get a chance to steal.

The second time: i was about 12, we had lived in this house for about 6 months. the guy tried to break in via my bedroom with me in it. the other guy was waiting in the car and I can still remember the car and everything. my dog started barking scratching to get into my room, i was sound asleep. we had no air conditioner and had the windows open but screens down.

So he was unsuccessful in whatever he planned on doing.

 

[shortbun]

Years ago, I was 18. My roomate and I awoke with a man standing in our room. We yelled and started beating on him until we chased him out the door. He, or someone else, had already stolen our stereo and television. We lived in a horrible part of town and on the ground floor. Our windows had bars on them but they had broken in our door. The police said they used a crow bar. We stayed with friends until we could find a safer place to live.

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

We lived in an house with 2 appts. Up/Down. We lived in the down and an alcoholic father and two very street wise children lived upstairs. We had bad blood between us as we had infants and had called the police on them for loud music past midnight.

One day the young boy broke into our apartment and took one of every shoe we owned, cracked our TV, and took some jewelry he thought was expensive.

He admitted it to the police and we filed charges. Believe it or not the largest cost was the loss of one of each of our shoes. We were awarded in court, but never did see a penny.

We moved back home with my mother same day of the incident (Halloween) and never looked back. The father had guns in his apartment. We had no clue what we would come home to.

We had to move in with my parents (not much to choose in a 4 hour period) and stayed until we closed on our house January 2nd. so not too long.

I still get upset when I drive by the house. I also feel bad for the people who moved in after us, as we were not allowed to disclose anything.

 

[pospisil]

Last April, while we were at school/work. They took a lot, computer, cameras, wii, all the wii games. They took the gun safe, along with the part of the wall it was bolted to, of course all the guns in it. The most upsetting thing to me was my jewelry. They took a pillowcase off the bed, and filled it with jewelry. I only has a few expensive pieces, but they were replaceable. I had a cheap locket that was a gift the day DS was born, engraved with his name and birthdate, a thin silver wedding band that belonged to my great great grandmother that was my "something borrowed" on my wedding day, and a couple of macaroni necklaces that DS had made for me when he was a liitle guy. None of that stuff was worth anything, except to me. I have tears in my eyes writing about it.

The whole thing affected DH much more than me. I was freaked out for about a week, thats it. They took the important stuff, if the sobs want to come back, have at it.

 

[pospisil]

Oh, and a small piece of advice. If your DH records any of your, um, bedroom activities, then swears that he erased it, make sure he actually has. Leaving the recording in the camera is a bad, bad idea.

 

[Princess_Meghan <3]

When I was 7, my mom, sisters and I came home in the afternoon from running errands. One of my younger sisters pointed out that there was a truck in my neighbor's backyard that sped out very shortly after we pulled into the driveway. We went into the house, and a window in the family room was opened, with a ladder leaning against it. I remember my mom rushing us out of the house and into the front yard while she called the cops- the guys had parked in the neighbor's yard, hopped the fence around our backyard, found my dad's ladder under the deck, and used it to get to the window, then pried the window open. They didn't take anything at all, but there was jewelry in my parents room scattered all over the floor. My parents think that they must have just gotten into the house when they heard us pulling up, got scared, dropped everything they had in their hands and left.

We moved when I was 12, and a few years later ended up having people creeping around our property, and our neighbors' properties as well. One neighbor(a few miles through the woods) had a mattress stolen along with a few tools that had been in the garage, and another neighbor who is a lot closer found footprints from boots in his backyard, but nothing was stolen. My sister told my parents that about a day later she had been getting dressed and she happened to look out the window and there was a truck with people in it watching her. Nothing was ever stolen from us, but it still creeps me out to be in the house by myself, especially since the family room doesn't have blinds.

 

[fall08CP]

Nothing from outside our house, but stuff from our cars in the driveway and in our garden.

My brother left his wallet in the car for literally 2 minutes while he ran inside to use the restroom, and when he came back out the wallet was gone. We've also had a GPS go missing, but we're not sure where or when that happened. A few weeks ago we had a car in our driveway get egged overnight. I was still up at the time and thought I had some commotion outside (around 2am) but I thought it was the neighbors. Lastly, we've had a few lawn ornaments stolen- nothing particularly eye catching or worth more than $15 However, just knowing that someone was creeping around our yard gives me the heebie jeebies!

 

[SouthernExplorer]

My house was robbed when I was a kid, and my parent's safe was broken into and some family jewelry was stolen. My dog Pepper was not happy about the intruders My boom-box was dropped in the hallway, I was so proud of Pepper for defending our home. I was never afraid after that, I was just angry that we had been burglarized.

Have you seen the Staples commercial where a couple comes home to see that their home had been burglarized and the burglars left the old computer, but took the flat screen?

Yeah, I'm pretty much over it.

If an intruder ever comes through my door then they will leave in a body bag.

 

[agnes!]

My sister has had two homes broken into. The first was years ago, the worst thing for that was they took VCR tapes which had irreplaceable memories on them. More recently, about a year ago and in another house/another city, someone broke in by prying a door off its hinges with a crowbar (luckily while no one was home, there have been some burglaries within a few miles where people *were* home and some homeowners were injured or killed). And what was sad about this burglary was they took a laptop and a complete desktop AND the backup CPU. DSis lost a personal database of research articles.

agnes!

 

[J3nn78]

twice
Once when I was about 10 years old. My dad was away on business and they broke into our house, moved some stuff around, and then went for a joyride in my moms car-thought to be kids

The other I found out about when I checked into Disney. I had a message from a neighbor that my car was found crashed in the woods near their house. Someone broke in, stole a few minor things, and then stole my car. Abandoned it when they crashed it. Never found who it was.

 

[FormrCastMbr]

When I was younger my house was broken into when my parents and I were in Disney. They took some jewelry that could not be replaced. Eventually the uneasy feeling went away.

Funny part of the story is that my sisters did not go away with us since they were working. As the police were investigating the house, they walked into my sisters room and asked if the robbers made the mess. She said no, I just have not cleaned my room in a while.

 

[ilovemk76]

Never and I hope it stays that way. I have had things stolen but not from a break in.

People who have had a home broken into say you feel so violated and no longer safe. That much be a terrible feeling.