What Do You Think Sleuths???

[Rtaxron]

I live in a small quiet cul-de-sac of, 4 houses, & 3 bungalows, with no front gardens, only small plots under the windows.

When my daughter visited yesterday afternoon, there was a house brick, close to the right side of my front door.

There are no building sites near, hardly any kids, so was wondering if this could have been placed there, as a sign for thieves, like some do marking walls with chalk.?

[Buenchico]

Your house is clearly an investment for you. It's earning interest on itself, at a a rate of one brick per year ;-)

[Tilly2]

I should move it, TWR. Next time, it might be thrown through the window.

[fiction-factory]

TWR, Tilly? Has TRT changed user name again?

[TWR]

Hoi No Guilty Honest, I'm an honest thief.

[Rtaxron]

## TWR, Tilly? Has TRT changed user name again?##

No FF, It was TRT, but now rtaxron, due to probs with trt, which is still there, but dont want to delete it, or I will lose all my previous post.

[Tilly2]

Sorry, got you mixed up with someone else. :-(

What do we call you now?

[ducksie]

trt - looks like someone could be watching your house, that's one of the things they (thieves) do, something like if a lady lives alone with cat, a chalk cat or the like is scratched on wall with bit of chalk, looks childish but them in the know -know, during the summer just gone a local gardener seen similar near a house close to me in the same kind of setting like you and he informed us to protect our homes that someone is watching - we've cctv all around anyway but it was good to know. Maybe it was just simply left there but I don't think it's coincidence

[fiction-factory]

Sorry Rtaxron, yes I knew that really. I did see you posting as trt the other day- i think it depends on which browser you use.
I'd move the brick and see whether it is replaced

[TWR]

Do you have a neighbourhood watch in that cul- de- sac? I would be having a word or organise a meeting with your neighbours.

[Buenchico]

>>> that's one of the things they (thieves) do

Rubbish! I'd be prepared to bet that, if you spoke to every CID officer in the country, not a single one of them would ever have come across a situation whereby thieves had marked out a property in such a way. It's an urban myth and it simply doesn't happen.

The vast majority of domestic burglaries are carried out by opportunist thieves operating alone. Even when two or more offenders work together, they don't go around marking properties in advance. If they wanted to remember a particular address, they could simply take a photograph on their mobile phone. If they wanted to tell someone else about it, they could send them a text. However nearly all burglaries have no planning whatsoever. The burglars simply look for easy targets and break in there and then.

[aelmpvw]

i would have thought that there were more subtle ways to 'mark' a house than to leave a house brick next to it

[fiction-factory]

I think Buenchico is almost certainly correct. Do you have a window cleaner or gardener who could have used it for something?

[Rtaxron]

Thanks folks.

Its just something I have never experienced before, and unusual for where I live, which made me think, who would carry a brick around, and leave it at my door.
My w/cleaner has not been for 3 weeks, nor the gardener, so its strange.

[woofgang]

As Chris says, the burglar/traveller/tramp codes are a load of hooey
https://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/housebreakerscode.asp

[weecalf]

Somebody is in the process of stealing a wall and have been disturbed ,so panicked and left it at your house in the hope of collecting it later .

[douglas9401]

It could be The Donald starting his wall in a stealthy stylee to throw the Mexicans off the scent.

[-Talbot-]

Be careful, Rtaxron ... I think there is mortar this than meets the eye.

[Prudie]

^ he could have a point

[-Talbot-]

I definately think the brick was left there on perpose

[douglas9401]