Break and enter
#1
Break and enter
We woke this morning to find our barn door had been forced open. It normally open outwards. But it was forced in. With such a force that it wedged under the joists of the first floor. They are ruined. I have bodged them shut but don't really see the point in getting new double doors made as the barn is a wreck.
It looks like a bumper mark is on the door, so may have been forced with a car, which would expain how wedged it was and how they bent th esteel hinges. And it was only one of the doors, the one that is clearly not tied to the side wall.
Weird for such a sleepy village.
As I was trying to sort it out a man in a beaten up white van drove up and asked (I think) if there was machiery inside... Coincidence? I told him I didn't speak French and it was vide. Whicj it is aprt from our wood supply and our girls bikes.
Worst thinng is, they could have just opened it, it wasn't locked!!!
Not expecting help, just telling some news, as I rarely have any
It looks like a bumper mark is on the door, so may have been forced with a car, which would expain how wedged it was and how they bent th esteel hinges. And it was only one of the doors, the one that is clearly not tied to the side wall.
Weird for such a sleepy village.
As I was trying to sort it out a man in a beaten up white van drove up and asked (I think) if there was machiery inside... Coincidence? I told him I didn't speak French and it was vide. Whicj it is aprt from our wood supply and our girls bikes.
Worst thinng is, they could have just opened it, it wasn't locked!!!
Not expecting help, just telling some news, as I rarely have any
#2
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 10,551
Re: Break and enter
We woke this morning to find our barn door had been forced open. It normally open outwards. But it was forced in. With such a force that it wedged under the joists of the first floor. They are ruined. I have bodged them shut but don't really see the point in getting new double doors made as the barn is a wreck.
It looks like a bumper mark is on the door, so may have been forced with a car, which would expain how wedged it was and how they bent th esteel hinges. And it was only one of the doors, the one that is clearly not tied to the side wall.
Weird for such a sleepy village.
As I was trying to sort it out a man in a beaten up white van drove up and asked (I think) if there was machiery inside... Coincidence? I told him I didn't speak French and it was vide. Whicj it is aprt from our wood supply and our girls bikes.
Worst thinng is, they could have just opened it, it wasn't locked!!!
Not expecting help, just telling some news, as I rarely have any
It looks like a bumper mark is on the door, so may have been forced with a car, which would expain how wedged it was and how they bent th esteel hinges. And it was only one of the doors, the one that is clearly not tied to the side wall.
Weird for such a sleepy village.
As I was trying to sort it out a man in a beaten up white van drove up and asked (I think) if there was machiery inside... Coincidence? I told him I didn't speak French and it was vide. Whicj it is aprt from our wood supply and our girls bikes.
Worst thinng is, they could have just opened it, it wasn't locked!!!
Not expecting help, just telling some news, as I rarely have any
#3
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Joined: Jan 2012
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Re: Break and enter
"before they had got to our house they had killed 8 of our neighbours eating rabbits outside the hutch"
Mass murder! Or, the importance of the humble apostrophe.
Mass murder! Or, the importance of the humble apostrophe.
#5
Re: Break and enter
I won't quote the Viz characters name* but yes, I was thinking our travelling friends. No one ever parks in front of it, it's on a bend in the road.
*about 25 years ago
*about 25 years ago
#6
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Joined: Sep 2012
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Re: Break and enter
Where the barn's situated, could a vehicle have lost control on the bend and crashed into it??
#7
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Re: Break and enter
Surely if a vehicle had crashed, you or any neighbours would have heard it??
#8
Re: Break and enter
It could have, but it wasn't. The door had marks of a bumper, but not a dent from an impact. Also it was only the door that could be pushed. It was too well positioned.
#9
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 10,551
Re: Break and enter
Simplest solution is normally right. Ours was a sleepy hameau, Now even the rabbit hutches have locks on them. In the summer we left our car unlocked and in the morning the passenger door and glove box were wide open. They didn't touch the stereo or sat nag I would given them 10 euros to clean all the kids crap out.
#10
Re: Break and enter
Simplest solution is normally right. Ours was a sleepy hameau, Now even the rabbit hutches have locks on them. In the summer we left our car unlocked and in the morning the passenger door and glove box were wide open. They didn't touch the stereo or sat nag I would given them 10 euros to clean all the kids crap out.
#11
Re: Break and enter
At expense of closing said barn door after the CV has bolted. A word to wait to your inquisitive visitor, while you noted the reg or snapped the van's image may have acted as a deterrent if he was a guilty party.
Tattle up my neck suggests, crims go round a property at night, rattling the shutters. If light goes on etc., scarper, if not force shutters open and break-in. Hearsay, yes, but given the number of holiday homes around this neck a possibly lucrative risk.
Tattle up my neck suggests, crims go round a property at night, rattling the shutters. If light goes on etc., scarper, if not force shutters open and break-in. Hearsay, yes, but given the number of holiday homes around this neck a possibly lucrative risk.