What Made You Want To Swear Today?

[caro]

If he's got your house keys you should get your locks changed DD.

[Dotty50]

Oh dear DD, that's really awful and scary, I hope you are ok an have some support around you.

 

I can only offer this and I am sure there will be lots of Caggers who will offer their support, even though it's 'virtual' x

[Desperate Daniella]

Hi everyone,

 

I really appreciate your replies and support and the group hug.

 

****** is right. I was watching him and gave the police a pretty good description. They had been driving round the local 'bad' estate before they came to me. They apparently went as soon as they got the call. Someone had come to mind for them and they rounded up two of his mates but the address they "had on file for him" (which says it all really) was not the right address. Honestly doesn't anyone actually check out that the addresses these scumbags give the police are accurate? Unfortunately there were no fingerprints so he obviously knew what he was doing.

 

My lovely builder came within the hour to change both locks and to board up the window in the door with a thick bit of wood all the way across. I'll get the door changed as soon as I can afford it. It's an almost solid door but with a half circle of glass at the top which is divided into four triangle-ish portions - bog standard front door. It was here when I moved in 16 years ago and unfortunately it's clear if you are a ****** burglar that if you break the glass you'll be able to reach the lock on the the inside. Obviously it never occurred to me, or anyone else who has been here - family, builders, anyone.

 

I am so careful. I always lock the Chubb as well as the Yale even if I am only popping out for five minutes. I have an alarm. I thought alarms boxes were supposed to deter burglers! I've also got a panic button and I'm afraid to say I didn't even think about pushing it. I've never had to use it, and if I heard a noise in the night I'd push it, but obviously the shock froze my brain.

 

My daughter is scared he'll come back and is now in my bed because she doesn't want to be alone - understandably - and I could also murder him for the distress he's caused to her.

 

First thing tomorrow I'm going to the nearest cash for gold place, and I'll call any others and also pawnbrokers. The police say they send out lists, but I bet the people doing that don't work over the weekend, so I'm going to do as many as I can myself. I've trawled the nearest bins and grassy areas for the bag itself - nice bag too, present from my sister - but no sign. I'll go further afield tomorrow.

 

Thank you again everyone.

 

DDxx

[sillygirl1]

DD, this is terrible, you would think now that the police would warn people in your area about this type of crime, we had a warning about leaving keys in reach of the doors, some bunch of scumbags were using a telescopic rod through a letter box to fish for anything useful, keys being a particular target.

 

I had a thing hanging in my hall where you put letters and hang keys on but it was easy for my brother to demonstrate he could do it so it was removed round to the other side of the L shape. You can't access

it via the kitchen window which is the nearest.

 

The local leaflet said that the **** were also after letters for ID fraud....

 

I think now everyone reading this ought to check where they leave their keys near the door.

 

Have you got any house insurance you can claim on?

[Janie1962]

So sorry to hear your news, DD. I really hope your things are recovered; I cannot believe how low **** like this will stoop. My Mum's flat was burgled a couple of years ago, and all they took was an old gold coin that had belonged to my dead sister. It wasn't worth a great deal money-wise, but it was priceless to Mum.

 

I sincerely hope you and your daughter get over the shock quickly, and thank you for the warning. I have to admit to leaving keys in the lock overnight in case of fire - I'll have to have a serious re-think now.

 

Very best wishes

Janie xx

[lexis200]

So sorry to hear what happened dd. Virtual hugs are winging their way to you as nothing else can be added to what everyone's already said xxx

[duckwaddler]

duck, I did not phone Sky, I spoke to a person on line through their site,everytime I get some none English person with a strange name

Ah, okay - try giving them a call on 151 (free from your sky landline, so are all 0870 numbers too).

[duckwaddler]

Oh DD!!!! What a terrible experience to go through!

 

Even though there are some wonderful people in this world, I think there are some vile people also! {{Hugs}} to you.

[Nystagmite]

DD - I am so sorry to hear that. Hope you get your possessions back and that they capture the ****** who did this.

[snowdragon]

Barclay, taking money from our account when we are already overdrawn,no idea now how we will pay any bills next week even though my JSA is supposed to go in on Tuesday

[caro]

Get a letter of appropriation to them pronto Bobcat. Just do a search on the site and you should find one.

 

You might have to be quite firm with them, but they should pay your bills rather than themselves!!

[HSBCrusher]

hello Caro.

 

indeed, these evil clowns are helping themselves as per usual.

they rather you and your family starve as long as the profits and bonuses roll in. Wicked people.

[duckwaddler]

Hearing that car fuel prices will be going up again in August by as much as 15p per litre! Fortunately for us, our car is new and very economical - but I know a few people who are already finding it a huge struggle to afford to run their cars!

 

And after reading the information on fair fuel site posted up here - it makes my blood boil

[Desperate Daniella]

Thank you for all your kind messages.

 

Sillygirl, my friend had their car stolen just in the way you describe. The keys were on a shelf in the hall and the thief hooked them.

 

Janie, I'm so sorry about your mum's loss of your sister's coin. She must have been so upset. What breaks my heart is that my jewellery wasn't worth that much either and it's probably been sold already and the proceeds snorted, smoked or injected by the ****** without a second thought.

 

Duckwaddler, lexis and nystagmite, thank you. I really hope they get this ****** too, and if they do I'll be going to the court with a really strong victim impact statement. Untill people get proper sentences reflecting the misery they cause as well as the financial loss we're all more in danger of getting robbed in this way.

 

DDxx

[Desperate Daniella]

Fuel prices make my blood boil too. The knock on effect of fuel prices is just awful. I always used to jump in my car and visit friends, go to the coast, country, etc. but now you have to add the cost of fuel to every journey as a specific item and it makes days out so expensive. Like many children my daughter wants to go the Harry Potter Exhibition near Watford, which would be a staggering £50 for two of us, but even if I could justify that which I can't at the moment as things are very tough right now, it's the cost of the petrol on top which means I wouldn't get much change from £100. Also, so many places are now charging for Sunday parking. It seems that for many of us life is no longer for living, it's just for existing. ,

[snowdragon]

Caro, thank you for the link, I do not think Barclays have an email address to send a letter to and I have no printer,also not sure what to put,supposed to pay the rent £40+ every two weeks as not entitled to full housing benefit, have Aprils council tax to pay, plus leccy and other bills,on JSA at mo.

[duckwaddler]

Fuel prices make my blood boil too. The knock on effect of fuel prices is just awful. I always used to jump in my car and visit friends, go to the coast, country, etc. but now you have to add the cost of fuel to every journey as a specific item and it makes days out so expensive. Like many children my daughter wants to go the Harry Potter Exhibition near Watford, which would be a staggering £50 for two of us, but even if I could justify that which I can't at the moment as things are very tough right now, it's the cost of the petrol on top which means I wouldn't get much change from £100. Also, so many places are now charging for Sunday parking. It seems that for many of us life is no longer for living, it's just for existing. ,

They say now that people are spending more money on fuel for their car than on food! Did you take a look at the fair fuel website? In Venuzuala petrol is under 1p per litre!

Caro, thank you for the link, I do not think Barclays have an email address to send a letter to and I have no printer,also not sure what to put,supposed to pay the rent £40+ every two weeks as not entitled to full housing benefit, have Aprils council tax to pay, plus leccy and other bills,on JSA at mo.

 

You sound like you're having a really tough time at the moment BobCat - so I thought I'd post up a link that a friends Husband used, he got a job pretty quickly from it http://www.indeed.co.uk/Driver-jobs-in-Ely

 

Good luck!

[caro]

Caro, thank you for the link, I do not think Barclays have an email address to send a letter to and I have no printer,also not sure what to put,supposed to pay the rent £40+ every two weeks as not entitled to full housing benefit, have Aprils council tax to pay, plus leccy and other bills,on JSA at mo.

 

Rent and council tax are priority bills, and your HB is for YOUR housing not ****ing Barclays.

 

A hand written letter is fine, but get yourself down to the bank in the morning. There's a template letter here. If you need more help start a thread in the Barclays Bank forum and we'll see what can be done. There's a sample letter here. http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/content.php?578-Right-of-Appropriation-Stop-the-bank-from-taking-your-money

[Dotty50]

Barclay, taking money from our account when we are already overdrawn,no idea now how we will pay any bills next week even though my JSA is supposed to go in on Tuesday

 

I thought they could only offset if the account was in credit?

 

They emptied my deposit account and left a fiver in it a couple of years ago so I make sure there's never a credit balance now!

 

I'd better have a re-think about where my pay goes, if they are starting to take from an overdraft!

[duckwaddler]

I thought they could only offset if the account was in credit?

 

They emptied my deposit account and left a fiver in it a couple of years ago so I make sure there's never a credit balance now!

 

I'd better have a re-think about where my pay goes, if they are starting to take from an overdraft!

 

Do you know, I thought the same but wasn't too sure as I don't have an overdraft, I refuse too lol! Perhaps BobCat has a case against them?

[snowdragon]

they have put the overdraft on as charges, we get very overdrawn with them due to me losing my job,am supposed to be paying it back at £10 a month.They know this and we wrote to them to ask for the £75 to be taken in bits as we only get £67.50 a week JSA (has it gone up yet?) but they not listend of course and decided to take it all making us even more overdrawn

[Nystagmite]

I have a 5th tooth coming through

[**Tilly**]

This made me swear:-x

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01gybn7

[duckwaddler]

 

I hope they're brought to justice properly Tilly! This is why I try to avoid the news and do not buy newspapers, makes me livid!!!!

[locutus]

There have been a few stories like this over the past few months. Why do these people go into the "care" profession when they obviously don't have the mentality or temperament for the job? My OH works in a council run residential home for people with dementia and Alzheimer's, and all of the staff there are caring people, you can tell by talking to them for 5 minutes. The majority of problems come when this is run as a business and companies get the cheapest labor in to do the same job, and cut staffing levels so no-one can supervise as they should.