On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:55:51 +0100, Deeply Filled Mortician
wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:38:45 +0100, Martin wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:37:16 +0100, Deeply Filled Mortician
>> wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:36:54 +0100, Martin wrote:
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>>>>On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:33:56 +0100, Deeply Filled Mortician
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:27:32 +0100, Martin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:01:50 +0000, this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.co.uk (David
>>>>>>Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Tim C. wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> >Another good idea. This all got me thinking though, how many UK people
>>>>>>>> >travel abroad and worry about theft,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I worry more about theft when I visit the UK than when I'm "abroad".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Maybe you're paranoid. I don't really worry about it anywhere.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>but we are all paranoid on rte. :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>If you have ever been burgled, you never feel quite the same afterwards.
>>>>>
>>>>>It's mostly in your mind, like ..
>>>>
>>>>Is that the voice of experience?
>>>
>>>Not personal experience at least.
>>>
>>>>Most of the contents of our house disappeared forever, including the carpets.
>>>
>>>Didn't you have insurance?
>>
>>Of course, financially we did well out of all four burglaries, but a lot of
>>stuff was irreplaceable. We still occasionally look for things and realise that
>>they were stolen too.
>
>Four burglaries! Was it all in the same house?
Yes, all in three or four years and then never any more since.
The local police can hardly be described as shit hot. I think every corner house
in our street was burgled several times.
They caught one bunch of kids with some of the stuff that we had had stolen
about 3 months after they stole it. The police phoned to ask if we wanted the
kids to be prosecuted. Since trials are rarely reported in NL we never found out
if they were.
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Martin
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