to hunt down this bastard ,,,,,,

[furbaby]

My d parents have lived in a sleepy village for last 30 years.,,, NO crime what so ever .
Yesterday they got home and some scumbag had broken in and ran sacked bedroom and stole money and my fathers special cufflinks and my mothers engagment ring and her eternity ring .....
I am so very bloody angry , how dare they ! My parents have worked so hard all there life , they even built the house themselves to get the house they wanted at a price they could afford .
I am going to go round all pawnbrokers in area to try and find dm , s rings .
How could they do this to such decent people Grrrr

Will be more than cake , got a full day of retail therapy with laxy lunch and wine :)

I know it won't make you or them feel better but I would probably guess the kind of people that would steal from a person's home would never be the kind of people that would have a daughter as caring as you, who will do her best to be kind and supportive like you, so your parents are lucky to have you look after them.

Enjoy your wine.

Have a lovely time with your mum tomorrow furbaby.

She's a youngling. With any luck you could have her for ages

Thank you , will do my best to give mum best day out :)

So sorry for your parents OP, it really is crap. We were burgled about a year ago, they had even gone through my handbag and placed all my "stuff" in a neat pile on the kitchen table (very bizarre).
We were freaked out more by the fact that they were creeping all over our house whilst our DCs were in bed asleep.
The police eventually caught them. Turned out to be a teenage girl who had basically broken into the whole street!

Fantastic news , robbing bastards did, nt have mums rings or dads cufflinks :) when they tipped out drawers on floor the rings must have rolled on floor and mum found them today hidden among the mess . So happy so the druggy scum only got cash :)

Fantastic. I'm so glad. Not for the money and the fact that they've marched into the house though.

Get them a small safe. Bolt it to the wall and ask them to put anything valuable in it instead of using a jewellery box. It's what I do and it's easy to get into the habit.

Saw your thread last night and didn't know what to say that hadn't already been said.

Really pleased to come back today and see you've at least some good news.

My dad had his clapped out Escort stolen by a bunch of joyriding twats who wrote it off less than two miles down the road for the hell of it. He'd just been retired on medical grounds and the car was worth sweet fa but it was his little bit of independence and meant he could keep his allotment going.

If I'd ever laid eyes on the little shits I wouldn't have been responsible for my actions, so I know how you feel.

Hope your parents are still going on OK and you have a lovely day out tomorrow.

Seriously - make sure they secure their place as soon as possible. My friend is a crime researcher for the police and she says offenders often return to the same property because they feel safer there as they know the layout, where valuables might be kept etc. Make sure the neighbours know too because again, statistically, they are more likely to be broken into by the same burglars.

How shitty for you all. I'm really sorry. Glad those lovely bits were not taken.

Sorry to hear about your dad spiro :( thanks all for good wishes .
Had a lovely day with mum , she seem to be coping well . Dad is sorting security , as he works in the trade .
Lets hope this never happens again .
I did say to mum today that lots of lovely mums netters sent good wishes x

Very sorry to hear that you and anyone posting on here has been the victim of a burglary - very sincere thoughts to all those who have lost valuable/sentimental belongings and had the feeling that their home has been violated.

However ...can we please not refer to alleged perpetrators as "druggie scum" - that helps no one's cause and makes you sound like reactionary rednecks.

The vast majority of burglars are drug addicts who end up committing crimes to feed their addictions - in some ways they too are victims.

Please look on the other boards on Mumsnet and see how many people, their children and/or parents have to struggle with addiction and problems...

Whatever you think about the people who have robbed you or your nearest and dearest, please spare a thought for those whose nearest and dearest are struggling with drug problems - they are not druggie scum - they are human beings like you and me.

They have done wrong - I am not apologising for that - but they should not be labelled by MN as being "scum"

Awww that's horrible furbaby - it's such a nasty feeling to think people have been in your house.

Agree about the 'druggy scum' comments though, feel uncomfortable with that.

And also, please please don't ever use a line of commas like this ,,,,,,,, - it should always be these ..........

Agree about the return visits thing.

We got burgled last year - my & dh's netbooks & quite a good camera; my jewellery tipped all over the floor but nothing taken, probably because it's all either silver or junk.

Hey ho - scary coming back & realising I'd been done over (dh working away, kids with me, worried they might still be in house & need to deck me to get out!) but financially no big deal - they hadn't bothered with the basement where they would have found all dh's expensive musical gear , & we had our clapped out netbooks/camera insured for 'as new' so actually ended up quids in, if anything.

Then 6 months later we were done over again - again, laptop/netbook - this time they didn't bother investigating my jewellery etc, which suggests same guys according to the police - not worth claiming a second time because of insurance excess & likely subsequent premiums.

Normally I'm fairly anti 'druggy scum' comments myself, but a couple of weeks of 6 yo dd1 having nightmares (my netbook had been in her room & they'd kicked their way through her stuff on their way to get it) & I was quite happy to call them that & worse, tbh. Bastards.

Cunts. Absolute fucking cunts. Very few things make me angrier than theft. How dare someone decide that they have the right to take someone else's possessions and destroy memories. I'm so glad your mum's rings weren't taken but your poor parents must still be upset.

Frankly someone who rips up an old man's wedding photo is scum.

My poor mother had all her underwear on washing line when I went to get her today , she said she can, t get over someone going through it and just throwing it on floor and could, nt wear it again until it was washed .. Was made worst that they could, nt clear up mess until police came to photograph today ....
Great just what you need police taking photos of your undies scattered around the bedroom :(

I am so sorry to hear of all your experiance of robbery .
To be honest living in such a crime free area I never thought this would affect me or my loved ones ... god how could I be so wrong .

Agree Euphemia, what a fucking atrocious insensitive thing to do - OP posts in a state of upset and high emotion and someone picks them up on their use of punctuation????! Unfuckingbelievable.

furbaby I am very sorry this has happened to your parents.

A similar thing happened to my parents last year when they were on holiday. Friend keeping an eye on house went round and found front door literally smashed in (not visible from road). All jewellery taken. Can't believe no-one heard anything. Incredibly the police did catch the people concerned. A car was stopped in adjacent county and some jewellery found in the woman's bag - the police managed to trace it. It was only the cheap items of course, all the expensive things (engagement ring etc) had gone. The woman eventually admitted the jewellery was stolen so the police decided to prosecute having checked my parents wanted them to proceed. They said they couldn't prosecute the man in the car as he denied everything and they couldn't link him with the crime scene (no fingerprints) or the jewellery. Later the police came to tell my parents the outcome of the court case. It turned out the 'woman' was a heavily pregnant 14 year old girl....She got a supervision order or something similar. Can only hope the probation service will help her get away from the man and make something decent of her life.

Thieves are victims of crime too?

OP I glad that your Mam found the rings et cetera.

But at times like this, I wish every county could administer their own "brand of punishment" like:-

Rock breaking/salt mining/sewage farm dredging for a minimum of 12 months or 2 years min. in the stocks on the High St. for 12 hours a day in all weathers (with thrown rotten fruit/veg optional).

AFAIK, sentencing rules are from the govt. damned bloody do-gooders

Sorry, if the above sounds very DMish.

It happened to my DM about 10 years ago and she still isn't over it now. I hope your parents get over it a lot quicker than she has.

People who target the weakest in society knowing their crime will probably have a far greater effect on the victim than simple theft are scum.

I'm quite comfortable with using that label.

Arf at our punctuation hound

What I'm going to do today is get all my valuables, lay them out on the table and photograph them, then email myself the picture.

At least that way if I get done I have real pictures to distribute.