House marked by burglar?

[TheLightSideOfTheMoon]

Bit anxious.

A third of a box of chocolates was left on my doorstep. Weird.

Google suggests that burglars use this trick to see which houses are empty. I was in all day but upstairs as I was watching Maid upstairs.

We’re currently without a boiler so curtains are closed to keep in heat.

All of us are at work/college tomorrow so the house actually will be empty.

What to do? Worried.

[earsup]

Agree odd but there are so many urban myths about marking houses to rob...just bin them and ignore it.

[Justmuddlingalong]

Bin them and get on with your day.

[SilverHairedCat]

Load of crap. Google is not your friend. People have access to Google maps, texts, apps, cameras etc to make notes if they are so inclined.

[TheLightSideOfTheMoon]

But if it’s not a burglar who put them there?

And why?

[Justmuddlingalong]

I've no idea. But jumping to the conclusion it was a would be burglar wouldn't be in my top 10 presumptions.

[SliceOfCakeCupOfTea]

How far back is your front door from the footpath/road?

[Animood]

@TheLightSideOfTheMoon

But if it’s not a burglar who put them there?

And why?

What would you do even if it was a burgler? Call the police and tell them you've had chocolates outside your house?

[IncompleteSenten]

How would that work? If the chocolates don't disappear the house must be empty?
But the people in it may just have not opened the door.

I don't understand at all.

Off to Google this myself now

[ChaToilLeam]

They weren’t Milk Tray, were they?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3DWt39zk00I

[IncompleteSenten]

Well Google was no help 🙄
Do you have a link?

[AndSoFinally]

We had a weird bit of spray paint put on our front wall.

DH was at defcon one for about a week waiting for midnight intruders but nothing happened 🤷🏻

[PriamFarrl]

Has to be the milk tray man.

[Sprig1]

Maybe it was someone who knows that your boiler is broken and thought they would cheer you up. I would eat them!

[Hellocatshome]

Honestly its just one of those weird things you will never find out why it happened but it most probably wasn't burglars. For the most part burglars are not actually very intelligent and more often opportunists.

[Georgyporky]

Strange, what country are you in?
In Spain at one time, chalk marks were made on walls to indicate absent owners, nationality, guard dogs, etc

[WonderfulYou]

I wouldn’t think it was criminal as surely someone else could rob the chocolates and then they still wouldn’t know if it was empty or not.

Do you have a secret admirer?
Is there a card with it?

[singleandlooking]

I’d usually think it was an admirer or gift, but it’s weird only a third of the box were left.

[TwoLeftSocksWithHoles]

I think the theory is if whatever they leave on the doorstep is still there after a couple of days then the house is probably unoccupied.

[BleuJay]

Maybe they were a Christmas gift to the postman from a customer at the beginning of his round but by the time he got to your house he felt sick from scoffing them and just left them there.

[Ohbotherpiglet]

I would assume someone left them for a friend and got the wrong house.

[AlternativePerspective]

A mark was chalked on my wall coincidently the day after some very strange character came round trying to sell me some kind of energy contract, “because we’re aware that there is an energy crisis and many companies are going bankrupt, ah, you knew about this? So many people we’ve spoken to had no idea, well, let’s see, I can sign you up here and now to .”

I am visually impaired and to all intents and purposes I am considered vulnerable, esp as I spend a lot of time here on my own even at night as my DS works late hours.

I spoke to the police and they did take it seriously although there isn’t really anything they can do.

So I bought a ring doorbell, and I have a dog who will bark if someone comes to the door and I don’t stop him.

He’s a Labrador who would probably beat them to death with his tail, but if they only hear his bark they don’t know that, and no-one in their right mind would break in if they heard him.

[ForeverSinging]

Well it's not as sophisticated as the Wet Bandits operation, you've rumbled it already.

[WorraLiberty]

Literally everything someone finds on their doorstep is a burglar's marker according to Google.

I agree with PPs, just bin them.

[Muchtoomuchtodo]

Was it just the Turkish delights and orange cremes?
Then you know it someone who doesn’t like you!!

[TheLightSideOfTheMoon]

It was mostly the fudge fingers and the crunchy orange ones.

And one blue one.

I’m weirdly invested about where they’ve come from.