how many CT people have had break-ins?

Julian, Charmy, JDS, collect89……Are we keeping track of how many CT people have break-ins? Just for the record, there was a burglary at my residence just before the New Year. Fortunately, we believe that the burglary was not coin related & my really valuable coins are at the bank anyway. The burglar was surprised by our countermeasures and all our friendly armed neighbors. The bad guy was witnessed coming & going.
The suspect spent 35 seconds inside our house. Three state police officers spent two hours taking physical evidence. There is a state police barracks in our town & the town’s resident trooper lives next to us. It is just the wrong house & wrong neighborhood for a bad-guy to visit. Apparently, the suspect was totally clueless about what he was walking into. He had removed the license plate on his car but that didn’t prevent him from being identified. I doubt the suspect reads CT but I’ve waited to post this until after troopers completed all their work & the guy was put away. The charges from my episode are criminal mischief (breaking a window), criminal trespass, burglary & larceny. The bad guy also has other burglary charges, drug charges, & domestic violence charges against him.
Fortunately, no persons were harmed during this episode. I’m glad to report that this is not a more interesting story. The bad-guy basically just sped-away in his car.

 

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Being a crook does not mean you are smart

Sounds like it ended well and you have good local support.

I trust in my local livestock to keep me informed of unusual intrusion.

& Being a crook does not mean you are smart.

 

we had a neighbor lose some stuff a few years ago, turns out it was his own son, what a sad thing for a father to face.

 

I know GDJMSP had a bunch of his coins stolen, but I do not remember him saying when it happened.

 

wow I'm glad it worked out well of you vs what could have been like.
I think about this too as my neighborhood is pretty safe to and I keep most at the bank.
But just the entry or attempt probably would make anyone feel pretty bad.

 

If I'm in town, I'd like to attend my guy's trial.

Here in Connecticut we had the famous Petit home invasion by Hayes and Komisarjevky. These two bad guys had more than 20 prior burglaries on their records & were both out on parole when they killed the Petit family.

 

Most people are rather on the lucky side if collecting anything of value and live in a decent invironment. Maybe not lucky, just smart I guess. Of course where you live sometimes dictates just how much of anything you can own. I'm in a rather high crime area. Two major robberies on my block some time back. Numerous garage robberies almost all the time and again, just in my block. Two of the major robberies were coin based and one was by a Grandson of the owners. The other one occured right after all the coins were documented to an insurance agency.
Around here if you are working on your car and your garage door is open, it's sort of like saying hey look what I've got. Help yourself tonight. My Son used to do that where he lived and had everything stolen from the garage.
Reporting crime? Yeah, right. Why? No one really does that stuff you see on TV you know. After a robbery around here, the cops stop by, ask what was stolen, tell you sorry, leave and there is a good chance it's not even reported.
Sort of busy avoiding the drive by shootings.
No one around me admits to owning coins at all.

 

WHAT? Someone missed out about that 3 time looser policy? The important thing is how much money the attorneys for those guys made.

 

Geez Just Carl, I think I'd move down a block!

sweet wheatz recently posted a break-in.

 

That was a tragic and horrific case that happened in a very nice town. Shows that anyone is vulnerable and precautions need to be taken regardless of where you live. One of those murderers is currently in a medically induced coma. Hopefully justice will be served. TC

 

I have, more then once. Not fun. Live in a lousy area...we don't even leave our house at night, not even to go into the front yard. Having a trained, licensed marksman in the house these days doesn't hurt...

 

Having someone break into your home/car, regardless if they steal anything or not, causes a tremendous feeling of being violated. Since my collection started getting large and hearing the stories of others' misfortune, I have since secured my collection at the bank. It sucks because I can't peruse it on a whim anymore. But I couldn't fathom losing my entire collection. It's not the money, it's the time that I have put into the collection and uniqueness of the items. If I lost it all, I don't know if I could do it all over again.

I've had my car broken into before and the thieves took the change from the ash tray and a few worthless CDs. I was p i s s e d because I would've preferred them to come to my door and tell me that they were going to break into my car to take a few things...I would've opened the door and gave them the stuff rather than pay $600 for the damages they caused for less than $7 worth of items. Not to mention having to shell out for a rental car while my car was in the shop...:crying:

-LTB

 

Haven't had a home break-in yet. (One attempted but they didn't get inside.) I've had a few things stolen out of my vehicle. My real problem has been with the vehicles themselves. In my extended family we have had three cases of a stolen vehicle, and every one of them has been mine. (One of them from the parking lot of a hotel hosting a convention of police chiefs. That one was frustrating because the police refused to take a report until I could produce the registration for the vehicle, which by law has to be in the glove compartment. So I can't report it as stolen until after it is recovered.)

 

I'm glad nobody was hurt and that you didn't lose any valuables. I will tell you that I am a big fan of the police department. Our house was actually broken into twice. Lucky us! The first time they caught the people, and both times they were extremely professional, sympathetic, just great!

 

I'm happy to say no break-ins here. 90% of my collection's $ value is in a safety deposit box at any given time, so my exposure is limited.

I'm genuinely sorry that people go through this. It's tough, I'm sure.

 

All good in my neighborhood, I've posted it before my neighbor's are Drunks with Guns and Rednecks.

 

Not yet, knock on wood. Mostly hunting cabins get robbed, mostly kids looking for a thrill while they're hopped up on something. Its not very often we here of a break-in, but when it happens its usually planned out.
I don't know of one who isn't armed, thats a good thing...

 

A good idea would be to have a bolted down safe. A shotgun would be wise.

 

I keep all my coins in one of my gun safes that is bolted into the cement floor. They will not get in those babies. The are all also fire proof (1400 deg for like 30 min). I dont have any supper valuable coins but if i did i would consider a safe deposit box.