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So Sorrythis happened to you...

When I was in college I actually came home to an intruder in my parents house. The cops think I must have come home right after he got there because nothing was taken and I yelled at him and chased him out of the house (which was incredibly stupid I might add and I'm lucky he was just there to rob us and not interested in hurting me).

yikes i'm so sorry!!!!!! that's horrible.

our home has never been robbed, but my parents' office has been broken into several times. this was back in the 80's/early 90's in la.

Yes. The first summer we moved into our house. One night Hubs and I heard noise coming from next door and saw 2 people trying to break into our neighbor's house. We called the police and reported it. They took off when the cops showed up. The next day, Hubs called me saying that that police had called him because a burglary was reported at our house. Turns out a different neighbor had seen the same 2 kids breaking into our house. The police showed up and chased them out of our house. The only things they took were an old watch and an old digital camera, which we got back. The cops caught up with the one kid in the creek behind our house and tazed him; they found the other one hiding in his shower. We had to go to court and testify that they were the ones we saw at our neighbor's house the night before.

So technically, nothing was taken, since we got it back, but it was the worst feeling. I still feel a little unsafe when Hubs is gone overnight.

Wow, scary....I'm so sorry you lost all of those items

A home I've lived in has never been broken into. But I am a little nervous right now, we just bought a house and it's not in a bad neighborhood, but we are bordering a pretty sketchy area. So some of the no-so-great people are close to us.

Yes! My house was robbed. They took a lot of stuff and carried my pica around from room to room. I lived by myself and it scared me to death. My parents had to come stay with me while I cleaned up.

So sorry this happened to you and everyone else who commented too. How terrible...

My SIL's car went missing from the high school parking lot. We just thought someone was playing a practical joke on her. Later that night we were out to dinner and DH started getting phone calls from the credit card company saying his card was being charged which we thought was weird because he had his wallet on him. All of the sudden something clicked in his mind and he realized it was the credit card that was in our dresser. We raced home to find anything and everything valuable to us had been taken. They had taken my SIL car, found the garage door opener in the glove box and then looked at the registration to find our address. They then pulled her car into our garage, loaded it up with all of our things, and took off. They then used DH's social security card to get a fake id and open more credit cards. A year later the guy got caught trying to steal another car and pretended he was DH. It was a mess, but we eventually got it all figured out (3+ years later!).

Oh no! That is so scary and invasive Once when I was around 9 or 10, somebody broke in but we were all home. We think they knocked and nobody heard it because I was in my room watching TV, and my dad was in the shower and both dogs were in the bathroom (they really liked laying in there with the steam), so they didn't bark either. So then they kicked in the front door, and we heard THAT and hearing us spooked them away, thank God. It was in the middle of the day on a weekend.

We had a couple of break-ins on our block last month after we moved in, so we decided to get an alarm system.

oh my goodness! i'm so sorry that happened to you! thank goodness you were home when they broke in, it's terrifying when you think about the number of weapons that are used against their owners. loosing all of your videos/pics must be heartbreaking =( have you sent them to many people? maybe you could ask people to resend them back to you so you have some.

my place has never been broken into, but my brother's place was recently. he was home, asleep, and woke up to a man standing over him. i can't even imagine

Wow that is so scary! Did you install security cameras or an alarm after this?

I haven't had my home broken in but there has been peeping toms in my neighborhood and men who knock really loud and jiggle your doorknob at the same time to try and break in. So freaky! When I was in college I had my car broken into and all my books and jewelry were stolen