Morning all.
It's with sad news that yesterday, whilst asleep off a night shift my house was victim to an attempted break in. I say attempted, they got in.
They were after my car, (B8.5 S4).
I was first woken to loud knocking at the door, far more enthusiastic than any postman but I was awaiting a non-important parcel so just ignored it thinking it was a delivery.
As the knocking continued I thought I best just stick my head out to see if it was. I noticed a de-badged dart grey M235i outside next door but didn't think much of it.
A few moments later was REALLY loud banging at the back door. Now it's my first home, technically still young and I've never been unfortunate enough to be in a situation like this before. Not to mention coming off a night shift you're not really with it anyway.
Thinking my dog was running round like a **** I snook downstairs in my shreddies to see what was going on. I then saw a man outside my kitchen window - strange. Maybe it's the window cleaner I thought and the banging was the pole on the glass (don't laugh but like I say, I'm not awake yet).
A moment or two later, once I realise my Golden Retriever wasn't going mad, he was cowering under the table and the glass was being pushed through the door I legged it upstairs with the impending feeling of doom. Called 999, grabbed a knife (I would have done f*** all but survival instincts).
As the phone rang they had fled. I was technically lucky, I'm not a big person in ANY means. They were simply spooked I was home.
Now when the shops are open I'm re-doing all our houses security, despite being well secured originally, now going extreme.
But my fear is, I cannot sleep. Yes it only happened yesterday but every noise I'm at the window, what if my misses was home and I was out? What if I opened the door yesterday? What if I stayed in bed?
Will these fears ever go? The fact they didn't get the car should be good, but I can't help but think if they got it I wouldn't think they will be back.
We paid such a premium to live where we do thinking it's one of the securist places about and we work damn hard for what we have. But none of our lives are worth this risk.
It's with sad news that yesterday, whilst asleep off a night shift my house was victim to an attempted break in. I say attempted, they got in.
They were after my car, (B8.5 S4).
I was first woken to loud knocking at the door, far more enthusiastic than any postman but I was awaiting a non-important parcel so just ignored it thinking it was a delivery.
As the knocking continued I thought I best just stick my head out to see if it was. I noticed a de-badged dart grey M235i outside next door but didn't think much of it.
A few moments later was REALLY loud banging at the back door. Now it's my first home, technically still young and I've never been unfortunate enough to be in a situation like this before. Not to mention coming off a night shift you're not really with it anyway.
Thinking my dog was running round like a **** I snook downstairs in my shreddies to see what was going on. I then saw a man outside my kitchen window - strange. Maybe it's the window cleaner I thought and the banging was the pole on the glass (don't laugh but like I say, I'm not awake yet).
A moment or two later, once I realise my Golden Retriever wasn't going mad, he was cowering under the table and the glass was being pushed through the door I legged it upstairs with the impending feeling of doom. Called 999, grabbed a knife (I would have done f*** all but survival instincts).
As the phone rang they had fled. I was technically lucky, I'm not a big person in ANY means. They were simply spooked I was home.
Now when the shops are open I'm re-doing all our houses security, despite being well secured originally, now going extreme.
But my fear is, I cannot sleep. Yes it only happened yesterday but every noise I'm at the window, what if my misses was home and I was out? What if I opened the door yesterday? What if I stayed in bed?
Will these fears ever go? The fact they didn't get the car should be good, but I can't help but think if they got it I wouldn't think they will be back.
We paid such a premium to live where we do thinking it's one of the securist places about and we work damn hard for what we have. But none of our lives are worth this risk.
