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O-Trap

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Mar 11, 2011 11:36 PM
My parents are in the process of moving to Columbus. Tonight I got a text that their new house in Columbus had the copper piping stripped out of the walls today while they were up in Orrville packing up stuff. They also had their water meter stolen (I thought he said water "heater" at first). Dunno what you could possibly get for that, but hey.

Ever had your place broken into and burglarized?
Mar 11, 2011 11:36pm
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Curly J

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Mar 12, 2011 12:03 AM
Yep, got lots of CDs, a scanner, and a Company laptop. This was in 2002, when scanners were going for big bucks. He was nice enought to feed my Mutt though.
Mar 12, 2011 12:03am
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kayo

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Mar 12, 2011 12:33 AM
Curly J;708750 wrote:Yep, got lots of CDs, a scanner, and a Company laptop. This was in 2002, when scanners were going for big bucks. He was nice enought to feed my Mutt though.

Yer old lady was there and she didn't do anything about it?

Well, then again, what was it that he fed her?
Mar 12, 2011 12:33am
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Mar 12, 2011 1:03 AM
O-Trap;708685 wrote:My parents are in the process of moving to Columbus. Tonight I got a text that their new house in Columbus had the copper piping stripped out of the walls today while they were up in Orrville packing up stuff. They also had their water meter stolen (I thought he said water "heater" at first). Dunno what you could possibly get for that, but hey.

Ever had your place broken into and burglarized?

What area of Columbus?
Mar 12, 2011 1:03am
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Rotinaj

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Mar 12, 2011 7:29 AM
i used to go to Maumee Bay to swim inside and id always put my clothes and cell phone in a locker without a lock. Well 1 time i came back and my phone was gone. I called it and the guy answers it and when i asked him about stealing my phone he told me that he found it in the bushes outside LOL. He said that hed meet me someowhere to give it back but it was a garbage phone and i figured the guy was some weirdo(sounded like 1)
Mar 12, 2011 7:29am
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Belly35

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Mar 12, 2011 7:46 AM
I had one car stolen and one van stolen never to be found..... both from shopping malls ... Not a great loss

My house was broken into while my family was sleeping upstairs. I hear a sound and the dog moved to the top of the stairs. I know something was right.
At that point I hear more ..him was scamper out the front garage door side of the house. I had one option in hope to catch him. I run down the stairs straight to the front door .. hoping he would run across the front yard.. he didn't he took off the other way. He stole my wife purse but in the running out of the house he dropped the purse just out side the door. He got nothing
Mar 12, 2011 7:46am
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4cards

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Mar 12, 2011 8:10 AM
Q:Ever been robbed?

A: Ya, everytime I pull up to the gas pump!
Mar 12, 2011 8:10am
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Heelz

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Mar 12, 2011 9:13 AM
I was almost robbed once but I refused to pay the $12
Mar 12, 2011 9:13am
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thavoice

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Mar 12, 2011 9:20 AM
O-Trap;708685 wrote:My parents are in the process of moving to Columbus. Tonight I got a text that their new house in Columbus had the copper piping stripped out of the walls today while they were up in Orrville packing up stuff. They also had their water meter stolen (I thought he said water "heater" at first). Dunno what you could possibly get for that, but hey.

Ever had your place broken into and burglarized?
Yep. Few years ago. Didnt get anything that I know of. Someone had been taking loose change, cash and jewelrly, of which I had none.

I knew right when I got home before going in to the apt. I always had the right blinds closed. (the ones closest to the apt complex front door. I got home and it was open. I get upstairs and notice some things knocked over. A couple of things where I kept mostly pennies had been rooted through. "jewelry" box was emptied but there is ntohing in there but an old class rign and keychains.

I noticed a cop had pulled someone over so I went to flag him down. Told him about it....and he did not even get out of his cruiser.

I did some investigated work kinda. I had found out 2 other units in the building were broken into as well. They were on the other side of the front door. At first I thought the person who did this opened the left blind because it was closed to the front door of the complex. When I noticed the others when they were broken into they also had their left blinds open...but that is the one further away from the front door.

I had noticed also of the things that were dumped over, they all were dumped to th left. It led me to believe it was a lefthanded person who did this.

Few weeks later I saw a cop at a Kiwanis meeting and told him about it and this one seemed geniunely interested. He said they were actively looking at leads because 4-5 places nearby had also been broken into and just jewlery and money taken.

I think it was the grandson of the old lady downstairs. He showed up most days around 2-230 after school and was there for an hour most times. Would be a perfect time as teh other three tenants, and neighbors across road, work during the day.

I didnt feel that violated mostly because nothing was stolen, and that i was not home i guess. Dont know if they ever caught the person...but I never did see that kid after these breakins.
Mar 12, 2011 9:20am
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areyoukiddingme

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Mar 12, 2011 9:52 AM
That's being burglarized folks. Robbed is when someone steals directly from your physical body or has a weapon at you.
Mar 12, 2011 9:52am
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Mar 12, 2011 10:13 AM
thavoice;708893 wrote:Yep. Few years ago. Didnt get anything that I know of. Someone had been taking loose change, cash and jewelrly, of which I had none.

I knew right when I got home before going in to the apt. I always had the right blinds closed. (the ones closest to the apt complex front door. I got home and it was open. I get upstairs and notice some things knocked over. A couple of things where I kept mostly pennies had been rooted through. "jewelry" box was emptied but there is ntohing in there but an old class rign and keychains.

I noticed a cop had pulled someone over so I went to flag him down. Told him about it....and he did not even get out of his cruiser.

I did some investigated work kinda. I had found out 2 other units in the building were broken into as well. They were on the other side of the front door. At first I thought the person who did this opened the left blind because it was closed to the front door of the complex. When I noticed the others when they were broken into they also had their left blinds open...but that is the one further away from the front door.

I had noticed also of the things that were dumped over, they all were dumped to th left. It led me to believe it was a lefthanded person who did this.

Few weeks later I saw a cop at a Kiwanis meeting and told him about it and this one seemed geniunely interested. He said they were actively looking at leads because 4-5 places nearby had also been broken into and just jewlery and money taken.

I think it was the grandson of the old lady downstairs. He showed up most days around 2-230 after school and was there for an hour most times. Would be a perfect time as teh other three tenants, and neighbors across road, work during the day.

I didnt feel that violated mostly because nothing was stolen, and that i was not home i guess. Dont know if they ever caught the person...but I never did see that kid after these breakins.

I stopped right there. Thats called getting broke into, not robbed.

Ive had things stolen out of my car twice.
Mar 12, 2011 10:13am
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thavoice

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Mar 12, 2011 10:21 AM
coyotes22;708917 wrote:I stopped right there. Thats called getting broke into, not robbed.

Ive had things stolen out of my car twice.

My bad.
Mar 12, 2011 10:21am
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Mar 12, 2011 10:22 AM
I had one of my shotgun's stolen out of my house once. I figure it had to be someone I knew because there was a lock on it and they knew where the key was. Never found out who did it.
Mar 12, 2011 10:22am
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thavoice

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Mar 12, 2011 10:51 AM
Pick6;708922 wrote:I had one of my shotgun's stolen out of my house once. I figure it had to be someone I knew because there was a lock on it and they knew where the key was. Never found out who did it.
Did ya report it? If I have learned anything from wathing Law and Order for years...if you have a weapon stolen make sure you report it!
Mar 12, 2011 10:51am
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Mar 12, 2011 10:55 AM
thavoice;708945 wrote:Did ya report it? If I have learned anything from wathing Law and Order for years...if you have a weapon stolen make sure you report it!

yea reported, they checked out all the local gun shops and didnt find it sold to them. I dont really remember them doing much else.
Mar 12, 2011 10:55am
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thavoice

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Mar 12, 2011 11:06 AM
Pick6;708949 wrote:yea reported, they checked out all the local gun shops and didnt find it sold to them. I dont really remember them doing much else.
yeah..like many things...what can they really do? It just is to protect ya if the gun was used in a crime.....especially, God forbid, to someone ya know.
Mar 12, 2011 11:06am
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Mar 12, 2011 11:14 AM
Heelz;708887 wrote:I was almost robbed once but I refused to pay the $12

well done, sir. well done
Mar 12, 2011 11:14am
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Mar 12, 2011 11:20 AM
thavoice;708945 wrote:Did ya report it? If I have learned anything from wathing Law and Order for years...if you have a weapon stolen make sure you report it!

Also from watching similar shows, there is blood and semen on everything and that is the only way crimes are solved.
Mar 12, 2011 11:20am
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O-Trap

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Mar 12, 2011 11:21 AM
NNN;708812 wrote:What area of Columbus?
Grove City area.
areyoukiddingme;708907 wrote:That's being burglarized folks. Robbed is when someone steals directly from your physical body or has a weapon at you.
Semantics, but okay. Several definitions in the dictionary for "rob" express nothing more than the unlawful taking of something from the rightful owner, but I'll concede "burglarized" probably would have been more descriptive.
Mar 12, 2011 11:21am
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Mar 12, 2011 11:39 AM
I got robbed at the verizon store where I work at a few months ago. Guy stormed in with a shotgun

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Mar 12, 2011 11:39am
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se-alum

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Mar 12, 2011 11:41 AM
Came home from work this past summer and walked into a 90 degree house, went to check the central air unit, and it was gone. Never been so pissed!
Mar 12, 2011 11:41am
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yobro08

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Mar 12, 2011 1:19 PM
i got a broken cell phone stolen, jokes on them...
Mar 12, 2011 1:19pm
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enigmaax

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Mar 12, 2011 2:03 PM
I kind of got in the middle of an armed robbery a few years ago. I was walking into a Coach outlet in Barstow, dude runs out the doors and plows me over. I get up and give chase (not sure what I thought I was going to do) as he scampers through the parking lot (several purses flopping off each arm). Another dude, who just happened to be arriving for work at the store (had just gotten out of his car) runs up and grabs the guy. Thugboy shakes him off, pulls the gun and points it right at the worker's face. I duck behind a car, still watching. Car pulls up, door flings open, dude hops in and they take off. No plates on the car.

Come to find out he had pulled the gun in the store, spent about a minute grabbing purses, and then bolted (which is where I entered the story).

Got a nice discount for my trouble, even though I really tanked on the police report.
Mar 12, 2011 2:03pm
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Mar 12, 2011 2:48 PM
kayo;708793 wrote:Yer old lady was there and she didn't do anything about it?

Well, then again, what was it that he fed her?
I wanted to LOL, but it was not funny. Nice try anyway !!!
Mar 12, 2011 2:48pm
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Mar 12, 2011 3:31 PM
Somebody would always get into my work car. There was nothing in it, because I didn't keep it locked up, just always came out to the glove box and center console open and the contents sitting on the seat. Taped a note to the steering wheel for a couple of weeks that said obviously there isn't anything in this car, so if you're going to go through it, at least put the shit back when your done. Either they haven't been in it since then, or they are now courteous enough to put the stuff back like I asked!
Mar 12, 2011 3:31pm