To think this a bit Fishy????

[PartyFops]

OK, Nowt on telly tonight so I thought i would throw this into the nest of beloved vipers!

My neighbour has just been and knocked on my door asking for a number for a taxi. She has stated that she has been broken into, well, apparantly she was in the garden with her front door open, doing whatever and she has come back in to find that the upstairs of her house has been trashed and only one thing (one of those baked bean cans with a sticker on saying "non smoking fund"containing £300 cash) has been taken, it was next to wallet keys laptop etc.

Her house is basically the back half of my house, it was an old farmhouse and we have the front which has been extended and hers is the back half. To enter her property you have to go down a drive at the side of my house and then go across a parking space (which her car was parked on) or past my dining room window.

Behind her property is a field with 5/6 foot high brambles, these have not been pushed aside etc.

Now she came around asking for a number for a taxi so that her son can get back from golf as she waits for the Police.

I told her I was shocked to hear this and told her I had heard some bumps next door but didnt think anything of it as her car was there.

What I think makes this a bit fishy is that she didn't ask if we had seen anyone going past the house or window, nor did she ask what time I heard the noise from her house. Yes I do understand that she may be shocked and upset hence not asking questions, but it would have been the first thing I would have asked. Also, why did she ask for a taxi number when she has a laptop etc???

We live in a rural sleepy village and random people can look out of place. We were expecing someone to come and view our house which is for sale and they never turned up, so I have been constantly looking out for people incase they were running late.

Its all a bit odd to me!!

She might have come for a number because she's scared/freaked out....wanted to be with someone else. Did you send her back to her trashed house alone?

I offered her help, offered her dh's help to help put things back etc, I even offered to pick her son up, but she said no, she didnt want anything touched before the Police came. She didnt seem particularly traumatised either.

We are neighbours that help each other and talk to each other etc.

Did you not invite her to wait for the police. She may have been in shock/scared

I thought that Butch...I would have sat her down.

Let the police sort it out. Burglaries can be very idiosyncratic.

Perhaps she thought you were the one that nicked it!

Well, you all made me sufficiently guilty to go and check on her, I went and so did another neighbour. But, the story has changed which makes it even more fishy. She doesn't seem very traumatised either.

She told me that she had been in the garden and came in to find it trashed. She told my other neighbour that she had been out for a walk , (she never goes for a walk - ever).

She also told me her money tin had gone, she told me other neighbour that nothing was stolen.

Police are there now, scenes of crime too.

What also makes it a bit odd, she told both me and the other neighbour that she went out/was in the garden with the front door open. But she said to us that she wasnt going to tell the Police that the door was open incase she finds something has been stolen. Surely the Police are going to question how this person got in?