Home Invaders Search for Gold

i think that the robber was probably very tired after his attempted getaway, and if it were up to me, and i was the victim, i would have made sure that that tired crook, got a well deserved dirt nap. i cant stand lowlifes like this. nothing bothers me more than when good people get violated by the dredges of society.

 

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If you have coin, gun, knife, camera, etc magazines delivered to your house and any stick out of a mail box, it is like having a sign stating hey look what I have.
If you have such items insured note the old days of a pesonal insurance person that is also a friend is gone. Now all your info is documented by a insurance broaker that could care less who you are. All your person info is now entered into a computer. Everyone in that company could have the ability to look at what you have insured. They have freinds that also use this info.
If you go to coin, gun, knife, computer, camera shows there are numersous things you never notice. You pay with a check or credit card. Someone looks over your shoulder and Presto, they have your personal info. You leave and your followed and don't know it. Nothing happens but they now know where you live so they watch your house.
You get a home security system installed. The word spreads that you have a security system and many wonder why. Ever see that stupid add for ADT? In real life that guy from ADT calling would be trying to call a dead person.
You tell everyone at work you collect coins and if they have any they want to get rid of let you know. Of course word spreads and someone that shouldn't know now does.
As our stupid news media continues to scream recession, there may well be one. If so and times get bad, home invasions will increase dramatically so learn what not to do and what to do.
I live in a high crime area and have learned so many things from the many individuals that do the wrong things.

 

This is all so creepy! I am getting paranoid! I had someone send me a private message from Coin Talk a couple of days ago. The person wanted to meet me at a local coin show to "exchange pleasantries". Even gave me their cell phone number! I thought that was a bit odd. I guess if I would have agreed he would have followed me home! Who knows!!?? I didn't respond to his message.

I am going to get a safety deposit box and keep the bulk of my valuables there and not in my home. I am also going to keep my mouth shut about my collection from hence forth. Especially locally. I don't make a habit of broadcasting it anyway, but I am not talking about it to anyone...anymore.

We recently had a local creep steal our mail out of our mail box. He tried cashing some of our checks that we were mailing out. We would not have known so soon, but the dumb dumb opened our envelopes, took out the checks and put the opened envelopes back in our box!!!! Now we NEVER mail anything important from our RR box. We take it to the post office. To make it even worse, he scratched through our payee and scribbled his name there. The local grocery store actually cashed it for him! But he got caught, and thanks to my wife who acted quickly stopping payment on the checks got no money. He has been in prison quite some time now and will be for at least a couple of years!!! :mouth:

 

That is why I NEVER mail anything - especially checks - from my home mailbox. I take all my outgoing mail to my local Post Office. And I have a PO Box where I receive the bulk of my mail. ALL my numismatic periodicals go to the PO Box; that way if someone pilfers my home mail box they won't find any clues indicating I collect coins.

 

About 10 years ago there was a group of cheap thug crooks doing this very same thing around here except they'd smash your mail box after they robbed it. A fellow over near the Farmingdale, SD community suspected who it was and was ready for them when they pulled this smash & grab on him.

He actually staked out in a large round haybail stack not far from the road and his mailbox. When the perpetrators pulled up to his and made their move to grab the mail (he had a small parcel tied to the door, and the mailman will pick up packages which don't fit into the box) he simply shot a hole in their engine block with a .308, 150 grain, Full Metal Jacket slug. They made it about 1/4 of a mile before the car quit.

The law picked up three and charged them accordingly since their car was full of torn open letters and unopened mail from others. These guys weren't the smartest theives in the world and were serious "huffers" of lysol and other canned chemicals.

Ben