So, my house got robbed last week while I was overseas, pretty much all my stuff gone including all my bike gear...got a call today from the cops saying they caught someone robbing another house. The cop asked me to describe any bags that were taken and after going though the list (they took at least 5 + my recycling bin) he said that’s the one, your card was in the bag pocket! He didn’t give me anymore details and I'm not holding out to much hope of recovering much of my stuff but it's nice to know the cops caught the bastard/s.
Also cops and robbers related...the day after I got back last week I took the day off work to sort out insurance and get new locks etc. I heard something next door that sounded like glass being tapped or broken. I can barely see the house through all the bushes but a guy over there sees me peering around the side of my house and says "Don't worry mate, it's just a paintball gun" and then heads off back down beside the house. I've lived here for over a year and never seen him before, only an older lady on rare occasions. After just being robbed I was more suspicious than I’d normally be so I was debating if I should leave it, call the cops or go over and check myself. While I was thinking about it I could just see him from my kitchen window walking in and out of the house looking like he was carrying stuff, including something in his arms wrapped in a towel. I thought this is all too bloody suspicious. So I called the cops for the first time in my life. There was a little bit of difficulty finding out the house number (that house backs onto another street) but within a few minutes or so there was a police cordon around the area (so the operator told me). I then saw and heard a couple of police dogs with handlers heading into the property. I didn’t see this, but apparently the guy walked out of the house with his hands in the air looking like he was about to shit himself. A few seconds later the police operator tells me that the guy was staying at the house, but you did the right thing calling us etc. Right about then I start to feel like an absolute idiot and I tell the operator that I’m going to head over to apologise. The operator said that they don’t tell the “suspects” who called 111 so I don’t have too but as I said I was feeling pretty guilty! I met my neighbour a few minutes later and he was still shaking and pretty white faced. He was a nice guy. He had just got a new paintball gun that apparently looks pretty realistic so when he heard the cops coming down the street he thought he was going to be looking down the barrel of an armed offenders squad member. Hence, the reason he walked very carefully out of his with his hands in the air when the cops showed up. He was the one who told me it was pretty close to brown trousers time! He was surprisingly Ok about me calling the cops on him. He explained that he was glad that I would call the cops if I thought his place was being robbed. My other neighbours thought it was good I called too, after they stopped laughing!
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Originally Posted by marty
Fortunately the cops didn't believe him. But from when I first picked up the phone till when the cops arrived was over an hour.
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