More low acts - thieves sinking to new lows.

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Shannow

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Latest trend is to rob houses while family attend funerals...Joe Bloogs, late of Bayonet Street is to be buried at church x, on wednesday at 10AM...gives them everything that they need, including roughly how long they've got to do it.

Tonight's news is lower even than that.

Darwin nominee was testing his new outboard dinghy in swollen flood waters, flipped and went under...pretty well certain that he's no longer with us.

His family were waiting at the water side, watching the Police search, while burglars cleaned their house out.

Scum.
 
Actually this has been happening for decades. My journalism professors said that up until the early 1900's or later newspapers quit putting funeral notices such as " David Jones of town street and address funeral this Friday 1st Church 8am". "It was a neon red hey we are gone today come rob us sign". This is also now happening with people who are posting that they are having a great vacation on facebook, etc while they are gone. Thieves are now prowling Facebook just for that reason more opportunity in a bad economy. One other one, never leave advertisements hanging on your front door or newspapers in your driveway. One of my professors told us of a story where a guy made up several dozen fake "Pizza Delivery" menus and went around to neighborhoods and hung them on peoples front doors. He's come back in a day or two and if it was still hanging up would know that you were not home.
 
New one around here is switching the power to a house off.

If the power is on in the morning, then people are around. If still off, then get to work.
 
They don't even bother about an empty house - someone in town woke up monday night to hear both their cars peal out of the drive. They took a 42'' TV, computer and other stuff too. There was a storm that night, best time for burglars - lots of noise to cover theirs, dogs hiding in kennels, no one on the street.
 
Can you put a lock on yuor powerbox?

We have the power company lock, which they open with a master key, but my concern is with emergency services.
 
Originally Posted By: Shannow
New one around here is switching the power to a house off.

If the power is on in the morning, then people are around. If still off, then get to work.


In the US for the most part, one would have to snip a locking band and then pull the meter. I think that would be a give away to call at least the power company.
 
The funeral/obituary bit is nothing new.

I thought the new lows was going to be something akin to the wet bandits in Home Alone I.
 
My daughter and son-in-law own a lot of commerical and residential property and have had 6 central AC units stolen in the last two years.
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To the thieves.
 
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A tradition around here is for a friend to stay in the home of the widow/widower/family if there is a funeral for this very reason.
 
Originally Posted By: javacontour
A tradition around here is for a friend to stay in the home of the widow/widower/family if there is a funeral for this very reason.

This.... When both my grandparents died, different times, one of my mom's coworkers volunteered to stay and get the house ready for the reception after. She hates funerals and loves party planning so it was a win-win.
 
When we had the funeral for the FIL the neighbor came by and asked if it was OK for him to stay at the house. He came out and said it was no disrespect, but simply that there had been houses robbed while people were at the funeral and he wanted to make sure that it didn't happen here. Since he had his grain truck ready to block the driveway and shotgun I think he was ready.
 
Criminals targeting the deceased isn't anything new around here.

While it used to be property they were after, now they're going after the drugs that the person was on before he or she died.
 
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