[Blue Frog Systems]

Customer told me today that she got burgled last week - wasn't me.

You won't believe this...

She got a phonecall while she was in London saying she had been burgled. So she came back.

This wasn't your standard burgular.

1) He too the french doors out and put them back - not well though. He tried to smash a window but failed (reinforced glass)

2) He didn't trash the place - every item was either stacked as it was taken off shelves or orniments were in their place - but on their side.

3) He shut all the curtains before he started

4) He left a Wii, Ds, 2 x 50" tvs, 2 credit cards, £500 in cash, various rings etc.

All he took was a laptop and an external hard drive.

Turns out my custys neighbour is an MP for climate change. The police reckon this was a pro from an energy company, greenpeace or some orginisation similar.

They reckon he got the wrong house because from the back my customers house looks like the last house (the one he was after was the 2nd to last) and from the front my customers is the second to last as their is a house that Is hidden from the back.

My custy is ok, she's just cheesed of that her laptop and hard drive have gone (its got her business stuff on there) .

[Frankybadboy]

did he leave the bill for the window cleaning

[amayze]

Yeah right, next you're going to tell me that several Israeli secret service agents took the identidies of several British citizens to carry out a James Bond type killing of a policital leader !!

[gerard mcmanus]

I had a custie burgled just before christmas there, shocking. Its a OAP in a supposedly secure building but factors failed to fix a security door and is still broke now, so they walked straight in and kicked his door in mid afternoon when he was out.

I think it was for xmas presies but they went away empty handed as his daughter sorts it out for him and had everything at hers. But since there has been a few dodgy characters checked doors during the day in the same building, police called out every time and the factors still making excuses about a part? 

[bumper]

Did they not rope you in aswell, window cleaners are first on the list.

[gerard mcmanus]

I do all the houses in this building bar one or two, if I was going to rob someone, I would do it where nobody knows my face, I guess there is allot of fairness in britains innocent until proven guilty, unlike the US have you every seen cops, they jail them and when they ask what for for they say "we'll decide later".

Then again, they are allowed to bear arms over there, so its a crow bar and a bullet proof vest for the burglars must have tools over there.

[Blue Frog Systems]

They didn't even consider me.... I have trouble opening gates sometimes, let alone taking doors out.

[Sapphire Window Cleaning]

Was it FTP?
he clears out the wrong guttering and has been known to clean the wrong house before.
 


Only joking FTP



 

[paul rulton]

sounds like a rite muppet 2me that robber cause he left all the good stuff : i would of bought a few things off him   LOL

[Craig 72]

I've been wcing about a year now and I'd never have believed people can be so lax with their security.The amount of people who leave windows open,keys in front doors is a joke.No neighbour has ever batted an eyelid about me jumping over gates to get to the back.A bucket on a belt and a ladder would be the perfect disguise for a burglar.Nobody gives a second look.

[gerard mcmanus]

there was a show a while ago and it was burglars turning up with high viz jackets and clip boards and nobody notices. Its a mazing how much attention you pay to someone lurking when they look dodgy but if they look unthreatening nobody could remember a thing about them.

i know what you mean though, there are load of my customers that just dont do enough checks. It is frightening when you see how vulnerable they really are. Its sickening but these are the people burglars go for, if its a young guy, or bigger guy they wont go near encase you return.

I have had some customers over the years, that have said I have to go out can you just lock the door behind you, when doing there windows in and out, and never though anything of it.

I do wear uniforms and make a point of disclosing things like my address on letters etc, so expect people to be more relaxed with me, but for all they know it could be just a front, just look at that guy on that show about con artists that was posted the other day.

[Blue Frog Systems]

This guy was getting paid for certain information and anything taking anything else could have tied him back.

No one saw anything at all, he was a pro big time and must have been paid BIG bucks to leave the cash at least.

[Susan @ MB Window Cleaning]

Matt and I were putting out flyers in a nice area yesterday and someone told Matt that recently there were some dodgy people saying that they were window cleaners who were just looking for some where to rob! Hopefully they'll see from our flyers and website that we are genuine!

Susan

[Londoner]

One of my customers, an old girl, was sitting watching TV A few weeks back and two men took the back door OUT - FRAME AND ALL and she never heard them. They ransacked the house, and she never heard them. The only way the police knew it was two men was because they left footprints round the back. She came out to find out why the house was so cold and there was just a big hole where the back door used to be.

Incidentally, a neighbour has just told me there was some bloke shining a torch into the back of my van last night about 12.30. Time to get a security light I think.

[s.w.c]

to the right person a laptop is gold, thinks all that hidden data, passwords bank details, think what they could do.

or it was just some chancer an got spooked.

[daztheger]

we had a mob come down from glasgow  in red vans(36 miles one way), all of a sudden house-breakings are soaring in new estates, with a few witness sightings of red vans , its not brain science but the police do nothing to the junkie scumbags

[Craig 72]

Saw this story the other day:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1033440/Judges-told-Dont-jail-burglars--offence.html

Unbeleivable.I've seen debates on telly before where people have been arguing that prison sentences are too long for burglary.Here's a thought,if you don't want to go to a long prison term don't burgle.I've never been broken into thank god but I would be sickened if it happened.It's more the fact that scumbags are rifling through my familys stuff rather than the actual loss of anything material.Jail terms can't be stiff enough imo.

[Londoner]

I have had the police round to my house about burglaries in the local area but it was just to eliminate me and to ask if I had seen any suspicious window cleaners around. What a silly question, I see dodgy looking window cleaners quite often. Now, because of what the police said I tend to write down the registration numbers of  any WCs who look dodgy to me.

[s.w.c]

good idea vince i use the camera on my phone,

[Clive McDonald]

I don't believe it. For one the police wouldn't be bright enough to make the connection, two they wouldn't disclose it if they were, and three the mps politics wouldn't be an issue- much less why does it have to be an operative of green peace or the energy companies.

What are you lot on?