Have you ever been robbed/attempted to be robbed/witnessed a robbery?

[Izzy Reincarnated]

Have I ever been robbed? No. But each of my parents have a story.

So my grandparents in China (keep in mind this is Mainland China), have been attempted to be robbed a bunch of times, but this one really stands out. When my dad was little, my grandma needed someone to watch over him when she was out to work. So anyway they found this random woman who was gonna do it, and so she was watching over my dad. Ok, then when my grandma comes home she finds this woman had like a lot of stuff hidden in her clothes, and so my grandma said "did you take anything?" (I remember the dialogue bc my dad and me talked about this a lot) and so she was like, "How should I know?!" and my grandmas like "How should you know?! Is it that you took it?" btw the thing she took was most of our kitchen utensils, and then after saying that, she ran off with a huge smile up to her ears lmao. apparently the lady looked really poor.

And on my mom's side. She and my grandma were attempted to be robbed a lot too, (Keep in mind this is in Iran). Ok so when my mom was a little kid, she was just chilling at home with the door like a couple inches open, and then she was playing right infront of the door, and then suddenly this huge hairy arm just out of nowhere appears from the open gap of the door and like tries to grab something in the home (ikr wtf). then the hand is like gone. and then like my mom tells my grandma and she goes out and follows the guy who did it to, all the way his house with his wife and asked them why he came to her house. They apparently say they were looking for their shoes bc they couldn't find them. ****tiest lie ever lmao.

As for me witnessing an attempted robbery to someone else, I was up late at night like 1am and trying to go to sleep and my bed was right next to the window so i was like why the hell not and tried peeking out of the blinds to see outside, when i saw this guy like around my neighbor's car and he was like trying to open it???/ Like, he was going around the whole car trying to open the doors and i was like wtf, then shortly after he went to my neighbors house like to their door and i couldnt see past that so i never knew what happened but i watched for like a good 20 mins and he never came back out???? and its weird bc ive never seen that guy before that or after in my 6 years of living at that house and he was white, and my neighbors were asian, so they couldnt have been related? weird...


Share your stories!

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

Well it wasn't so much "robbed" as being broken into, but we bought this abandoned house for really cheap when I was little, because it was abandoned it was used as a party house for all of the kids in the town, there were condoms and bottles and syringes and all matter of disgusting things, walls had holes in them, the whole interior of the house was spray painted and splashed with all colors of glow paint and ****, toilets backed up and filled with horrible mixtures of barf and other things... it was really really gross, the bathtub from one of the bathroom had been dragged out to the back yard.
So anyways we bought this house and worked really hard to fix it up, we had just done most of the interior and we had put up new fences in the backyard because the old one had a huge hole knocked in it so the kids could get in, and we painted the whole inside and we decided to spend the night there even though we hadn't moved anything in yet. So we all slept in one of the rooms in sleeping bags, and in the middle of the night we heard this chopping noise from the back yard so my mom grabbed the mag-light we had in the room, because the electricity wasn't hooked up yet and she walked to the back sliding glass door and saw a group of kids using a hatchet to hack a huge hole in the fence, it was just her and us kids at the house so she slid the door open super fast pointed the mag-light at the kids and in her deepest impression of a man's voice said "You kids get the **** out of my yard!" and the kids looked shocked, probably still thinking the house was empty, and they never came back. It sucked though because we had to re-do the fence AGAIN. But after we fixed up the house it turned out really nice.

 

[radioloves]

Oh wow nice story :j I never had a serious robbing incident (mostly because I did the robbing! xD jk) I do remember having my homework being robbed by someone, I had written my name in pencil and the culprit pretty much wiped out my name and replaced my name with theirs. I found this out because my work was thrown in the paper recycle and I had no marks yet, but I actually took it out of the recyling and erased the culprits name and wrote my name down again but in blue ink. After that never did I write my name in pencil again 3:

 

[Izzy Reincarnated]

Well it wasn't so much "robbed" as being broken into, but we bought this abandoned house for really cheap when I was little, because it was abandoned it was used as a party house for all of the kids in the town, there were condoms and bottles and syringes and all matter of disgusting things, walls had holes in them, the whole interior of the house was spray painted and splashed with all colors of glow paint and ****, toilets backed up and filled with horrible mixtures of barf and other things... it was really really gross, the bathtub from one of the bathroom had been dragged out to the back yard.
So anyways we bought this house and worked really hard to fix it up, we had just done most of the interior and we had put up new fences in the backyard because the old one had a huge hole knocked in it so the kids could get in, and we painted the whole inside and we decided to spend the night there even though we hadn't moved anything in yet. So we all slept in one of the rooms in sleeping bags, and in the middle of the night we heard this chopping noise from the back yard so my mom grabbed the mag-light we had in the room, because the electricity wasn't hooked up yet and she walked to the back sliding glass door and saw a group of kids using a hatchet to hack a huge hole in the fence, it was just her and us kids at the house so she slid the door open super fast pointed the mag-light at the kids and in her deepest impression of a man's voice said "You kids get the **** out of my yard!" and the kids looked shocked, probably still thinking the house was empty, and they never came back. It sucked though because we had to re-do the fence AGAIN. But after we fixed up the house it turned out really nice.

wow thats so wicked

 

[Celestefey]

The villa my family were staying in whilst we were on holiday in Florida was burgled, must have been 2009, I think. They stole my DS (you know like the big DS phat, the original one before the Lite came out), I was devastated. Gave me an excuse to buy a DSi though but we didn't get much compensation money. My brother had his DS stolen too which had Pok?mon Emerald in and he was so upset since we had spent ages trying to find a copy of it for him.

 

[Spongebob]

Yea back in 08 someone stole my frickin copy of new super marios bros ds and I was really sad r.i.p

 

[Soigne]

I've never been robbed or seen anyone get robbed, thankfully. I'm not sure what I'd do in a situation like that.

 

[Nightmares]

Well we've never been robbed or anything before but this drunk homeless woman kept trying to get into our flat one night. It was like 3 am and she kept buzzing us to let her in. Finally, she moved on to the flat next to us, and in the end they must've just let her in. In the morning, we found a blanket and an empty beer glass sitting in the hall by the entrance xD

 

[Paperboy012305]

No, no, and no. And i'm glad no one did.

 

[Tao]

When I was younger (I would guess around 6 years old) my mum had this friend. One weekend when I was staying with my dad this friend stayed over at my house for some reason (I think the woman was upset about something, so my mum was like "stay over, we'll do lady things and stuff").

Anyway, the 'friend' took stuff. I'm not sure what exactly, but I know she stole my Game Boy among a few other things. It was only when I came home like "where's my Game Boy?" that we knew she had stolen stuff. My auntie went to her house like "where the **** is the stuff" but she'd sold it. My auntie told her to get it all back, which she did, probably because my auntie is a scary woman.

Obviously my mum didn't speak to her again.

I've never been robbed or seen anyone get robbed, thankfully. I'm not sure what I'd do in a situation like that.

I know what I would do.

I would be all like "Hey, could you stop that?" and stand there awkwardly as they take all my stuff, because my country sucks and I would get in way more trouble for stopping them from robbing me than they would for actually robbing me.

 

[Nightmares]

When I was younger (I would guess around 6 years old) my mum had this friend. One weekend when I was staying with my dad this friend stayed over at my house for some reason (I think the woman was upset about something, so my mum was like "stay over, we'll do lady things and stuff").

Anyway, the 'friend' took stuff. I'm not sure what exactly, but I know she stole my Game Boy among a few other things. It was only when I came home like "where's my Game Boy?" that we knew she had stolen stuff. My auntie went to her house like "where the **** is the stuff" but she'd sold it. My auntie told her to get it all back, which she did, probably because my auntie is a scary woman.

Obviously my mum didn't speak to her again.




I know what I would do.

I would be all like "Hey, could you stop that?" and stand there awkwardly as they take all my stuff, because my country sucks and I would get in way more trouble for stopping them from robbing me than they would for actually robbing me.

What country do you live in omg

 

[Saylor]

One of my friends from elementary school stole my mom's iPod one time while she was sleeping over, and someone stole our lawnmower once, but that's about it. Up until then I was a little careless about leaving our garage open since I was naive and it never crossed my mind that anyone would steal any of our things, but now I'm super careful about it because even though it was just a lawnmower last time, I felt really sad and guilty about it so I wouldn't want that to happen again (plus I don't want anyone stealing my bike). If something more serious happened I'd probably be pretty distraught about it, if only for the emotional implications.

 

[Dae Min]

My family has been running our own private business for years, so shoplifting happens all the time. These douchebags are experienced and devious too, and mostly steal the small items so we don't notice until it's too late. Ugh.

Once someone gave us a counterfeit hundred dollar bill to pay for a ten dollar item...

 

[00jachna]

I had this toy as a kid that I loved, it made alot of noice, but that's why I liked it (my parents did not, however)

One day we had our house robbed, but the only thing stolen was my toy

Oh.. wait....

 

[Tao]

What country do you live in omg

The UK. I mean, I probably would attack a thief and nothing would come out of it, but there's more than enough examples where the 'victim' got pretty screwed legally from what seemed to me like reasonable force.

Guess it depends on what you deem as 'reasonable force' though.




I remembered another 'event', though I wasn't that involved.

A few years ago a friend moved into a new place. He was homeless for a few months, living on couches or in the his car, so he wasn't picky over where he would live. He ended up in this flat where when we first went in, there were drug needles and stuff everywhere and it was pretty run down.

A few months later (when he was settled in and the place was cleaned up), he was with a friend and two guys with machete's broke in, threatened them, ****ed the place up and took the few valuables he had (they also took my copy of Halo 3 I had left there, but, yano, I didn't make a fuss about it given the circumstances). The friend he was with is a really tough guy, the sort that would fight a bear because it looked at him funny (and win), so to hear he just sat there silently thinking (in his own words) "this is it" kinda put how scary that must have been into perspective for me.

I was around there most days (that was one of the few days I wasn't), and I was pretty on edge after that whenever I went around thinking they might come back. After they were caught, the police said they were looking for the previous tenant that had drug debts.

 

[Miii]

A guy broke into my house when I was like 6 and stole my VCR. Thankfully my family and I weren't home.

 

[pickle inkii.]

I got lucky the one time I was robbed, while I was on vacation a dude broke into our house through a window and tried to steal the computer my life and soul but he chickened out at the security system and ran away fruitless.

 

[X2k5a7y]

Someone tried to steal a refrigerator off of a trailer in my drive-way...Someone also stole my gokart that I never got replaced.
Oh! And someone stole a ****ing old water pump that didn't work and was filled with rocks out of my front yard! Wtf.

Other than that my family is mostly the ones that stole from me.

 

[santoyo.bay]

Once someone tried to break in while I was home alone, about 2 years ago. I noticed that the same car kept slowly driving by every couple minutes, I was a little suspicious but I didn't think too much of it. About 15 minutes pass by and the car pulls in front of my house. At this time I sort of start panicking, but calm myself down and convince myself that its one of my cousin's friends that didn't know he wasn't home. I peered through the window and didnt recognize the man and woman in the car, they sat in front of my house for about 15 minutes. Eventually a man gets out go the car and walks toward my door. (at this point I'm hyperventilating) he immediately begins shaking my doorknob violently back and forth, and hitting it with something (I couldn't tell what it was from my window.) Instead of calling the police, like I should have, I sat in the hallway holding my dog with my mom's bat. After about 10 minutes I see him walking up and down around the front of my house with a gun, looking through and trying to peer open windows. Finally he gets back in his car and they drive away. I sat holding my dog for like an hour after that, because I was so shaken. Looking back at that experience, I realize I shouldn't have just sat there. Oh well.

 

[MapleLeafKangaroos]

Remember how a long time ago car radios used to be removable? Yeah, well my mom had one of those in her car a loong time ago. Overnight someone broke into the car, like broke the windows and doors and stuff and stole her old radio. Thankfully that's all that's happened to me with robbery.