What do robbers steal when they break into homes

[Anonymous]

Saris with gold threads
Gold jewelry

Our burglars stole a laptop. I told spouse not to leave the laptop out but they didn’t listen. Mine was not stolen bc it was hidden.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VCRs and the hi-fi stereo.

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VCRs and the hi-fi stereo.

No one is stealing a vcr

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone remember the thieves that hit Indian neighborhoods because they were looking for gold jewelry?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/11/burglaries-crime-tourists-target-asians/

I've always assumed they would be after drugs or jewelry. Although I disagree with OP that nobody has cash. Most people I know have an emergency stash in their house. It would just be a matter of finding it.

Yes. I said saris bc I remembered thieves stole them for the gold threads and knew South Asians are known to wear a lot of gold.

Where I live Latinos were being robbed because there were known to carry cash.

Being unpredictable may help.

We do our best to look boring and have no flashy items.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does this mean that as someone who looks super healthy in a middle class house with no luxury goods around nobody will rob me?

What in the works does your appearance have to do with this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this mean that as someone who looks super healthy in a middle class house with no luxury goods around nobody will rob me?

What in the works does your appearance have to do with this?

No meds

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People don’t really have much cash around anymore and tvs are mounted to the walls. Laptops and tablets may be all sorts of random place and aren’t like a desk top that’s obvious and quick to grab. Phones are with the person. Jewelry obviously but at least among my friends - “real” valuable jewelry is so much less popular than for our mothers and we have little valuable jewelry beyond our rings.

I hear about bikes and strollers being stolen from open garages bc they can be a quick resell online.

Just curious what robbers actually take now that cash and tvs are out. There have been a couple attempted breakins on our street lately. We have a nice home but practically speaking our cookware is probably the most expensive thing just sitting around and I doubt they’re stealing cookware! But maybe they are?

With cameras, voice recognition technology, thumb printing, and smarter security systems, robbers are more likely to get caught than ever.

Doesn't matter when politically motivated D.A. refuse to prosecute them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VCRs and the hi-fi stereo.

C'mon man! Get with the times duuude! Contemporize maaaan!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People don’t really have much cash around anymore and tvs are mounted to the walls. Laptops and tablets may be all sorts of random place and aren’t like a desk top that’s obvious and quick to grab. Phones are with the person. Jewelry obviously but at least among my friends - “real” valuable jewelry is so much less popular than for our mothers and we have little valuable jewelry beyond our rings.

I hear about bikes and strollers being stolen from open garages bc they can be a quick resell online.

Just curious what robbers actually take now that cash and tvs are out. There have been a couple attempted breakins on our street lately. We have a nice home but practically speaking our cookware is probably the most expensive thing just sitting around and I doubt they’re stealing cookware! But maybe they are?

With cameras, voice recognition technology, thumb printing, and smarter security systems, robbers are more likely to get caught than ever.

Doesn't matter when politically motivated D.A. refuse to prosecute them.

That describes the D.A.s in Fairfax, MoCo, Arlington, DC, etc. They all receive massively oversized campaign funding from the Open Society Foundations.

[Anonymous]

I would assume jewelry, prescription drugs, tools (popular theft items in my semi rural area) and GUNS. That's a big one.

[Anonymous]

They are going to be very very disappointed at my house. They will find a 17 year old TV. No guns, pills (except Advil and Allegra), extra jewelry, designer anything, or cash.

[Anonymous]

My jewelry. And if you had asked me if I had expensive stuff I would have said no. But when you look at a collection of semi-valuable pieces accumulated over a lifetime, it was a tremendous sentimental loss. My wedding ring. My class ring. I ring I liked and saved up for from one of my first jobs. An expensive necklace my husband had bought as a birthday present just three weeks before. They went straight to the bedroom. They did not get a few pieces I had in an unusual spot (so now I always move my jewelry elsewhere when we travel). They ignored Xmas presents under the tree. It was what they could conceal easily and move with (they were on foot).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband is a LEO and he says 9.5/10 break ins are by people the homeowner knows. (I say 9.5 because there’s always that one where they can’t prove it but the homeowner has every reason to suspect the person.) The person is familiar with the home and knows what they want to take and where it is.

Does your husband say it's the cleaning service or the lawn people (or someone they are in cahoots with?)? I suspect one of those for the burglary we had at our home (they took jewelry, only jewelry).

I think our burglary was neighbors (see my post on the Neighbors thread). I have been ruined from having cleaners now. I cannot trust anybody anymore and I don't want people in my house. I also now don't want to accumulate jewelry or expensive items for fear of theft. Re prosecution: I disagree. The cops don't care. My sibling, who is LEO in another county worked my case tirelessly because the Moco cop could not be bothered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you mean “thieves,” “housebreakers,” or perhaps “burglars.” “Robbery” requires force or the threat of force. It is impossible to “rob” a house.

In any event, people who break in and steal from unoccupied houses typically are looking for cash, drugs, firearms (as noted by a PP), and other easily unloaded items, but they will steal anything they can carry that they think they can sell quickly or use themselves.

Pedantic much? You know full well what OP meant. Don’t be that douche.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People don’t really have much cash around anymore and tvs are mounted to the walls. Laptops and tablets may be all sorts of random place and aren’t like a desk top that’s obvious and quick to grab. Phones are with the person. Jewelry obviously but at least among my friends - “real” valuable jewelry is so much less popular than for our mothers and we have little valuable jewelry beyond our rings.

I hear about bikes and strollers being stolen from open garages bc they can be a quick resell online.

Just curious what robbers actually take now that cash and tvs are out. There have been a couple attempted breakins on our street lately. We have a nice home but practically speaking our cookware is probably the most expensive thing just sitting around and I doubt they’re stealing cookware! But maybe they are?

With cameras, voice recognition technology, thumb printing, and smarter security systems, robbers are more likely to get caught than ever.

Doesn't matter when politically motivated D.A. refuse to prosecute them.

Whatever are you prattling on about