have you ever had your house robbed?

[shanti]

such a horrible feeling....

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Many years ago,

and yes it is a horrible feeling. Luckily, they (?) were dumb and stole only a little money and a bottle of rum. Duh.

[Cha]

2. Yes!! Did you?

It was in Asheville, N.C. in the '70's... We were so bummed we moved back to California!

[corarose]

3. 2 months ago my Landlords Son robbed my apt.

He took everything. The police found out that he took everything out of the house and he was arrested.

I have a lawsuit against them but it won't bring back my possessions that I cannot buy back like baby pictures, my dogs & cats ashes, etc.

[Cha]

7. How sad! Poor thing! Couldn't you sue for compensation?

I've never sued in my life but it seems like a good time!

[corarose]

8. I am not into suing people but I have a lawsuit against them

It's the only way that I can deal with what happened.

I don't have silverware, plates, pots & pans, etc. The junkie took everything including my underwear and thats sick.

We came back home one day and everything was gone. He had his friends come in and remove the whole works.

My Moms things were in that apt. and my Dad's WW11 medals were there also.

The only way that I can process what happened is to think of it as a Fire in my house.

I sleep on the floor on blankets because I haven't had the money to buy furniture back.
Today I got a small check in the mail from mystery shopping and I went out and bought an Airbed.

[celestia671]

4. No, but...

I've had two cars stolen and my husband was mugged once, right in front of our apartment when we lived in Dallas.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

5. Yes. I moved.

It is indeed an awful feeling. My place was totally ransacked.

[Maddy McCall]

6. Let me tell you my stories...house was broken in by a crackhead...

He stole every piece of gold jewelry I owned, which wasn't much, and left the costume stuff behind.

Then, he went to my son's room--my son was just a baby--and emptied his baby bank which was full of dimes.

He took us for over $2,000 in just a few minutes. We weren't home--he slipped in through a cracked window while we were at the store.

He was a prior offender, and is now doing 9 years for it.

THE OTHER ONE:

A kid broke into our house as we were building it, and then into the travel trailer we were living in while we were building. He stole a bb gun, a cd player, a sleeping bag, and other stuff that belonged to my son. He took a glass out of the cabinets that had one of my son's baby teeth in it--the first ones he had lost.

In the house, he pissed in the carpets, and he muddied up the house with his doc martens. Shot out all the fixtures with the bb gun, and then broke a window.

He got off with reimbursing me for the damage and had to go off to a reform school. He had already beaten up his mother, and had a girl pregnant at the time...he was only 15. He had stolen 4-wheelers and vandalized other people's houses too.

I told him that if he ever set foot on our property again I would kill his ass. Sorry, but the cliche' that it is like being raped is so true. ONce someone breeches your privacy, you are always on guard that it could happen again.

The kid's problem was that his mother never made him pay any cosequences. She made excuse after excuse to protect him. She said that all the other kids in the neighborhood had four wheelers and nice clothes (he was wearing abercrombie while she said this) but his father wouldn't give her enough support to provide such luxuries to him. She failed to see he was a monster. Now he is under a protective order and isn't even allowed to visit her, because his step dad said, either he goes or I do.

Anyway, yes, I have been broken in on, and it is a huge violation of privacy and security. I never had a gun until after the second one, and now I have a 12 gauge shotgun--truly for protection--that I borrowed from my father--it is lying by my bed.

[TennesseeWalker]

9. Yep. Freaks you out.

Makes you really, really angry too. Then jumpy. Then just pissed off when the sorry ass insurance company only gives you 1,000 for 3,500 worth of stuff. Word of advice: DON'T go back and calculate how much you've paid in Insurance Premiums after you get such a shitty payoff.

[TheBigGuy]

10. my parents....and they where SHOOK UP!

fairly recently......actually the crooks only took a laptop (a gift from my brother in law, which they never used) and two cans of small change. But they ransacked the place...pulled out drawers and stufff....and they drank some of my mas special liquor, too....

....so they've got deadbolts now. They feel really violated.

There was a spat of burgalrys in the neighborhood, too...and they would get these hang-up phone calls. Not only that, a neighbor had a purse snatched at a shopping center...someone was hiding in the backseat while she was in the Walgreens and they just grabbed her purse and ran....

This is in a suburban area of Louisville...and a more or less blue collar area, too...so its doubly suprising that this happened or is going on.

[aquaman]

11. When I was sixteen......which was some time ago........

our house got broken into and the house was pretty trashed in spots. The cops had gone into my room and told my parents that the criminals had really trashed my room, worse than any other room in the house. When I got home that day, I walked in my room, the room looked fine, it was just like I had left it. It had been so trashed by me living in it that the jerks that broke in our house must have been scared off. Ahhh, the glorious world of a teenager, I miss those days, kinda. Anyway, the feeling that goes along with having your house broken into is creepy, I didn't sleep well for some time.