Burglars Find Easy Pickings In Montclair

Seems to me that they key word in this story is unlocked.

Burglaries not robberies

were these considered "false alarms" when the burglers couldn't get in but tmapered with the locks?

Why on earth would anyone leave a car unlocked?

I don't condone anyone entering private property uninvited...

But honestly, why must 'we' alter our style of living to succumb to the idiocy of others?

I have 3 large dogs, and do not worry about someone entering my property (car/house), whether locked & tampered with, or unlocked and welcoming...

If anyone needs to pursue the option of having a dog - as opposed to hiring alarm systems, put out a post, and I'll be happy to assist placing animals that need to be adopted or re-homed.

(just got word this a.m. that 2 purebred pugs need a new home as their owners home perished in a fire, and the family is just pulling their lives together, and would like the dogs to be adopted by a stable family)... There are so many circumstances like this and just think - the damage these 2 ankle-nippers could do, if those thieves-in-the-nite were to step foot in the home uninvited!!!

I like dog. good for food. good with crispy noodle

How is locking your car door altering your style of living?

Do post more information on these dogs and contact the local shelters for help. These dogs need to be *pets* (not watchdogs).

Doree, Please post more information about these Pugs.

I don't have watch dogs - alot of people who know me on this site can lend a voice for me.... I only deal with family pets, who are rescued and are LOYAL...

But still serve the purpose of a deterrent.

The house that makes the noise, is going to be the last house on the block targeted...

and my way of thinking - the block that makes the noise (i.e. all houses having dogs), makes the thieves find another neighborhood!

I like to have people that I know knock on my door and enter (a-la Lucy & Ethel)...

I want people to check in on me and my family to be sure we are doing well... and I do the same to my close friends as well.

Dave,

I am waiting for an email with a picture and more details... as soon as I have that, I'll post the info on this thread.

I do know that it is one male and one female from the Freehold area. The vet papers were destroyed in the fire, but I'm waiting for the vet's phone numbers to be sent to me, so I can get their medical history...

more to come...

Hey, Duh! I'm with you on this one. What's wrong with locking your car and your home before saying good night? For goodness sake...just do it!

I know of at least one of the houses that got broken into owned a dog. Didn’t do them much good.

Also, whoever is doing these robberies could be working from a calendar to determine which areas to rob. This exact area was hit almost exactly one year ago. The robbers had the exact same MO last year.

I can't understand why people don't lock their houses and cars. We are not living in Mayberry, circa 1955, people.

And the Town wants us to pay $50 a year to register our alarm system, otherwise the Police won't anwser the call!

We should not blame the victim though. They did try to enter locked houses as well.

As a neighbor of dog-owners, I can do without all the barking.

I can't tell you how many times I have woken to the sound of barking. Do dog owners not even think about their neighbors regarding this?

i live in the stated neighborhood, but was not burglarized, this time.

any lawyers out there?: what are my rights at the moment my home is broken in and entered by a perpetrator?

Once they are in your house it's my understanding you can do whatever you want since it's in "self defense"....I'm not a lawyer though

Not "blaming the victim", just urging people to exercise a little common sense. the locked houses were not burglarized.

You cook in the kitchen.
You sleep in the bedroom.
You crap in the bathroom.
You entertain in the living room or den.
THE CAR GOES IN THE GARAGE !
D--U--H !! Mine's in the garage, alarm set, doors locked, brake-club on and garage door locked !
You leave car in driveway, locked or unlocked, it doesn't mean very much to you....that is until it is gone !! (and it will be, it's only a matter of time !)

Latebloomer - these scumball creeps will break into locked houses and cars without a second thought - don't kid yourself!

It happened to me very recently!

I'm sure they do.

That doesn't mean you don't lock your doors, and reduce the risk!

Jeez Louise!

Sanford--
For those of us who aren't as lucky to have a garage, do you mean that we don't care about our cars/property? PLEASE. And why do you need the brake-club on it in your garage when everything is locked/alarmed? Seems a bit extreme, imo.

It's outrageous that we should have to lock the doors to our homes and cars. Don't do it! Especially if you live on my block; and especially if you live on either side of my house.

Catch em and FRY EM!

Dear tax on crime,

Did you think of your neighbors when you had kids?

Sanford--
For those of us who aren't as lucky to have a garage, do you mean that we don't care about our cars/property? PLEASE. And why do you need the brake-club on it in your garage when everything is locked/alarmed? Seems a bit extreme, imo.
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I was thinking ofpeople who DO have a garage or 2 or 3 and who do NOT use them for their intended purpose. Of course some houses & apartments &/or condos do not. I realize that.

My cars are worth alot and I own 2 collector "Show" cars - thusly the triple protection. I also had the windows and pedestrian door removed.
I knew of a person with a 1957 Thunderbird, concours show 96 point condition - he came home from a show, put her in the garage and the next day - she was gone! The thief? I guy driving by as he pulled the Bird into his driveway ! (He got it back in 20 hours, unharmed.) Can NEVER be too safe.

that's why concerned homeowners should be packing heat...don't be afraid to shoot and protect your property.

or u could try the liberal response and talk with the robbers and ask them to express their feelings. Let them know you feel their pain.

Gee Auntie Em, guess we're not in Canada anymore!

A person could sit by the window 24/7 with "heat" ~ take a break to eat or whatever, and that's when the thief strikes !

I think I'd go with the Liberal approach:

Me: "Hello, out late tonite, are you allright? I see that you appreciate my collector Cadillac. So much so that you are trying to borrow it for the night"
Thief:
Get out my face. I'm taking this Cad and driven' the crap outta it, NOW
Me: Oh, no, you can't do that to it - it's very special and a show winner.
Thief; Get out my way or I'll blow your brains out.
Me:
Tell me, what happened in your childhood to make you so aggressive?
Thief: BOOM !

IN my experience it takes a bit of balls entering an occupied dwelling---which frightens me, and you should be frightened as well--

--It's one thing to come
home and find you've been burgled, rather shocking actually for the victim. But to have been done so while you were sleeping --should make you think twice about blatantly leaving doors unlocked.

What if a confrontation accidently occured--You live in Essex County, by God. Snap out of it!--A jury would probably convict you knowing you assaulted some "poor" thief wandering into your unlocked home. And the Insurance Companies don't think too kindly at this practice as well.

God Forbid you shot them--you'll be looking at charges, no doubt and costly lawyer fees. Lock your doors and cars and garages while you sleep.

It obviously deters them--I am not blaming you for wanting to live like that but the practice is not worth the consequence or possible consequences.

Just think of the Jury pool-the civil liability...like I said think Essex County.

On behalf of the liberal point of view, I don't own anything that I value more than a human life. If I did, I'd make sure Iceman, Cathar and ROC were sitting on the roof of my neighbor's house guarding the block with their favorite weapons of individual destruction and the best bottle of vodka so they could work themselves into a rabid froth about how no crimes were ever committed when Republicans ran the country (oh, wait, they do run the US and Iraq). Maybe instead, I'd make sure my tax dollars were going to an adequate police force to deter crime.

And if I truly valued your amazingly petty and mean-spirited brain, letthemeatwords, I'd soak it in the vodka, shake it up a bit to get a froth going and then toss it off that roof so the neighborhood feral cats could play with it.

And this would be on behalf of a non-partisan, but intelligent and nuanced, point of view.

What a truly dumb post, in other words, based on zilch knowledge of any of us, or even of what constitutes "adequate" community policing, and what can and cannot be prevented or deflected in such situations. If there's such a thing as a "liberal Neanderthal," you're it.

I also drink Irish whiskey and single malts, but never vodka, you hopelessly declasse weasel.

I apologize, Cathar, for assuming that Iceman did know you when he queried:

cathar....did u stay home and contemplate if 'there is a there there?" while drinking a vodka neat?
Posted by: The Iceman | January 1, 2006 12:51 PM

With regard to community policing, a member of my family has worked in police departments in two states plus the court system of a third state, and is a consultant to states on crime-related matters.

Sanford:

LOL with your liberal approrach!!

But honestly, you have to lock your homes up if you truly value it. I could go to the Wachovia on Bloomfield Ave in Glen Ridge and guess what? My car will be locked. It is 2006.

"On behalf of the liberal point of view, I don't own anything that I value more than a human life."

I know of only one thing that I value more than the human life of a perpetrator who breaks and enters my home - the lives of my family.

So, Montclarians, how do we feel now about the effort that went into busting that poker game?

Are you saying that

poker players = burglars

Why tempt fate? Sure, burglars will sometimes break into locked homes, but leaving the door unlocked is just asking for it. Stupidity, plain and simple. Even if you don't get robbed, leaving your doors unlocked makes your neighborhood a soft target for opportunistic burglars.

doreen:

we might be interested in those pugs...i can get you my contact info if you need it...let me know.

my email is here - I got one picture, waiting for the vet's phone number to confirm med. history...

And I, letthemeatwords, have been rousted (t'was long ago) by the forces in justice in, as best I recall, four states. So I too have "experience" with the legal system, and even more first-hand than your own. (We also both know the high value so many here place on consultants, eh?)

Yet that you recall and hold close for your later use a post that dates back to January, however, kind of boggles the mind. Do you actually have an "Iceman-ROC-Cathar" file of some sort? (I don't even have one for lasermikey's offenses against logic and our supposedly mutual mother tongue.) We're really not (particularly since I doubt any of us know each other) worth either that much obsessiveness or that much agita.

if there is any obsessing going on, cathar, it is iceman's obsession with you (and miss martta).

The only thing Iceman is obsessed with, Read, is his girlfriend, the Mets, the Giants, and golf. And, maybe, a good cold one now and then. Did I leave anything out, Ice?

Cathar whined:

"...based on zilch knowledge of any of us..."

Here you go:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Richard+szathmary

Read the Garfield defense. Precious!

"Garfield defense"?

Is that the cat, the president or the town?

Oh yes....

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Richard+szathmary+garfield

somebody needs a job...

Iceman obesses about a good cold one. Is that you martta?

Iceman obesses about a good cold one. Is that you martta?

Iceman obesses about a good cold one. Is that you martta?

Is there an echo in here?

are you the cold one that Iceman obsesses about?

like you haven't been multi-posting alot yourself recently?

Well, at least I know to spell "a lot."

If my memory serves me right, at one point didn't enough people insult cather that s/he finally stopped posting for a while? If that is indeed true, I wonder if it would work again?

As the Iceman sits here listening to Mark Levin, drinking a cold one, filling our my football pool glancing at a picture of my sweethear, I thank the Lord I don't have the brain mis-fire that causes Liberalism

our = out

sweethear = sweetheart

Liberalism:

...a political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties.

Yes Iceman, it's obvious that you don't have a brain.

Iceman,

When you're finished drinking that beer, don't forget to wipe cathar's butt. It is your job, isn't it?

"and the autonomy of the individual"...hiding, are u writing with your head up clinton's butt? the liberal wing of the dem party believes in socialism and everyone being equal...there's no room for autonomy under the cloak of socialism. You need to review your political philosophy.

I got so fired up I forgot to sign my name to the last post...ICEMAN

Iceman,

You're a dope:

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/liberalism

It's your word, not mine.

That is a definition of what today is better referred to as "classical liberalism." The people who have absconded with the term today are illiberal statists.

Let's see here: according to one child who posts under multiple names, I'm harmless, a shut-in. He even knows my name and makes fun of it. But he never, ever "shows me his own" in return.

Perhaps he's afraid that if we ever meet I might put multiple dents in my walker with his head?

Or that I'll ask his mommy to restrict his play time on the computer?

I thought it was only kids who play "show me yours and I'll show you mine".

At your advanced age it could be regretable, suicidal,or criminal.

Ice,

we all know that your brain was injured banging around in your skull when you played Columbia Football.

Wow cathar, you OK?

Chill dude, chill.

4: 14 and 5:16 on a chilly, wet morning when one should be snuggling against a loved one (at least a pet) and someone is posting out of loneliness? Speaking of "chill," that is?

And is this because he doesn't have enough money left over from the allowance his mommy gives him to get into the porn sites he usually visits in lieu of an emotional life?

Too easy...

Here fishy, fishy, fishy!

Watch:

Cathar=Loser