Home break-in / robbery?
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- orrinward20
I've had my house smash-grabbed once. All of my housemates were at work except for my girlfriend. She popped out to the shops and after getting about 10 minutes of the walk there she realised she'd left the back door unlocked and went back to lock it. he got back to the house and all the electronics in the downstairs except for the big TVs had been nicked.
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A similar thing happened in Uni when I went to stay with a friend in Cardiff. We had a party at his place then went off to the student union. When we came back everything was cleared up and the police said junkies in the area hop over back gardens at night checking back doors, and we'd probably left the back door unlocked.
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When I was in Bethnal Green I lived in a nice new block of flats neighboring some council flats and the angry kids were always trying to rob the new rich-invasion. I caught 2 kids stealing our post and parcels one day (the postboxes were stupidly outwards facing and easy to steal from with a coat hanger) and I lost it. I remember seeing them and then rage-blackout...Next thing I knew I was about 50 metres down the street holding one of their faces to the ground outside the Beyond Retro on Cheshire street with blood on me. The other guy was standing and told me to let his friend up or he'd stab me. I let him up because I'm fucking scared and didn't realise what I'd done.
They then call two mates over on bikes from around the corner and start to surround me. I scream for help and people go to their windows to watch. Two of them start trying to punch me and I keep running and screaming.
FInally some heroes call me to run around the corner and then they jump out of their flat with makeshift weapons and the kids run off.
I then went about my business (I was meant to be going out to pick up food) and 10 minutes later I see the same kids in Tesco on Bethnal Green Road and point out to the security guard that these guys have just tried to rob me then mug me, and one of them pulled a knife (they hadn't seen me yet). The security guard says that it's not their responsibility. I ask them to call the Police and they asked if it happened in the Tesco. I said no, so they said it's not their problem.
When I got home I called the Police and they spent most of their time saying how I was most likely the one that would get in trouble for attacking a kid (I had no bruising from their punching etc). They understood I was the victim though and one of the officers wrote down exactly what I needed to say in my statement if the kids reported me to the Police. Something to do with using physical force because I felt my life was in danger and there was no other feasible means of resolution. Apparently not saying that magic saying means I could get done for assault.
After that incident I was just harassed by the punk kids in the area until we left Bethnal Green.
Wow that was meant to be a brief description...
TLDR; Kids were stealing post regularly. I reacted when I caught them and ended up in a 4-vs-1 street not-quite-fight and no-one would come out to help. Guys came out to help. All fine.