Leaving a light on when you go out

[Secret Visage]

Will help Belinda Carlisle burgle your house.

 

[mad cyril]

I have a life size cut out of Michael Jordan which I attach to a moving train set.
Fool proof

 

[Mexico]

I usually leave a cardboard cutout of Michael Jordan going around on a train set to put burglars off.

 

[Deleted member 27423]

Does that really stop people attempting to burgle your gaff?

Perhaps not , good nosey neighbours and a sense of community do though.

 

[Bob Fleming]

f***ing hell... remember doing that haha
Along the same lines....me dad used to put a lock on the dial phone so we couldn't use it when him and me mam were out

Them 0898 numbers advertised in the back of the Sun were too tempting like!

 

[mysticmackem]

A feckin big snarling dog helps them consider their options

 

[dcl0sc]

It works if you use lamps which are running off timers that switch them on and off at preset intervals.

 

[MackemSmokey]

Them 0898 numbers advertised in the back of the Sun were too tempting like!

I remember when i was a kid we used to tell our mates to phone us when u get home see if were coming out my numbers 0800 28 29 30, wonder what their mothers thought when that showed up on the monthly statement

 

[Jon Dough]

Used to live in fear of burglars back in the sunderland of the Mid 1980's,i think it was an arrational fear fuelled by The Echo court reports and rumours.

 

[Fred Secrets]

Burglars are getting very clever these days.

Last night my wife woke me up - "Darling! Darling! There's a burglar downstairs!"

So I go down, check every room and didn't find anyone.

Then I realised I don't have wife, and when I went back upstairs, my bed and TV were gone.

I'm starting to think you're full of shit.

 

[dangermows]

Nah but covering the display on the VCR does

i remember putting sellotape over the snap off thing so we could re-record over the tapes

Did that anarl

I remember walking around Gateshead college with a full Kenwood car cd/radio... reet pain in the arse.
Godsend when they changed it to just the front panel

ffs

It works if you use lamps which are running off timers that switch them on and off at preset intervals.

Do they not just think you've got lamps running off timers?

 

[dcl0sc]

Did that anarl


ffs


Do they not just think you've got lamps running off timers?

You seem to assume the average burglar has an IQ greater than 5!

 

[Gillythedilf]

Used to live with me ganny a lot when I was young .She would leave the light on with the wireless if they went out on a night,she would also shout “TARA!!” Back into the house as she was shutting the door .To make on someone was in the house

 

[EDGE]

Used to live with me ganny a lot when I was young .She would leave the light on with the wireless if they went out on a night,she would also shout “TARA!!” Back into the house as she was shutting the door .To make on someone was in the house

We used to do that with the addition of putting on Radio 2......loudly.

 

[bobster999]

 

[Gillythedilf]

We used to do that with the addition of putting on Radio 2......loudly.

Eye theirs was loud like ,if you knocked on and there was no answer we would go to the living room window and if the wireless was bleezing you knew she was out and not on the lavy or owt.

 

[EDGE]

Eye theirs was loud like ,if you knocked on and there was no answer we would go to the living room window and if the wireless was bleezing you knew she was out and not on the lavy or owt.

You could always tell the house was empty as the radio was on too loudly. Never listened to it otherwise.

 

[mad cyril]

I usually leave a cardboard cutout of Michael Jordan going around on a train set to put burglars off.

Post 22 mate

 

[cornish mackem]

Anyone still remove the car radio and take it with them?

I had a car broke into to and I’m guessing it was to pinch a stereo with a front you could take off, which I had.
They broke the window and caused more damage than the radio was worth so I now don’t lock the car most of the time.

Used to live in fear of burglars back in the sunderland of the Mid 1980's,i think it was an arrational fear fuelled by The Echo court reports and rumours.

Car crime was real at that time though

90s. Why did people do it?

Because they cost a couple of months wages and there wasn’t many around. It was a very sort after prize

 

[muggboots]

Nah but covering the display on the VCR does

Because if they're chewing gowie when they come in they'll think the display is haunted?