I was robbed

Sorry to hear your news Clarky. It happened to my sister a few years back.

Scumbags!

If the b*****s get caught will you be allowed to put some of those more alarming spiders down their trousers?

I'm very sorry to hear this Clarky, hope the insurance comes through quick so you can at least replace the things which can be.

Want me to turn the weather machine on them?

Spiders and venomous snakes sounds like a good idea But i was thinking more along the lines of staking them out on a bull ants nest in 35degree heat with thier eyelids removed

Thanks Mongoose and everyone else for thier kind words.

Leave your weather machine until after the weekend i am off down the coast for some trail riding

As for the insurance i'm not sure how long it will take (it;s my first claim)
The assessor is coming out today so thats a good start i suppose.

There is something to be said for the Saudi way too. Cut their bloody hands off.

It is high time we stopped pussy-footing about with such scum in the west, or we will lose the freedoms that we all cherish.

One of the Western freedoms I cherish is not having my hands cut off.

G

PS: Sorry to hear this Clarky.

Real sorry to hear about that.

It's also an invasion of your personal space.

I often wonder who raises these pieces of crap.
Hope they catch the bastards.

Cheers, RG.

Hi Clarky

Sorry to hear of your bad news

Hope it does not take too much of your time to sort things out.

Our hearts go out to you and your wife.

Sally and Ron

One of the hardest challenges after having your home (and therefore your Family) violated, is to recognize that healing and forgiveness is a gift you give to yourselves, (not the person who robbed you). If you give that criminal the power to change your lives, and change who you are, then you lose something more valuable than some worldly goods.

I, personally have a method of dealing with such matters...
I take sensible measures to prevent...if that fails, I hunt them down....

A) if I find them...I find out why....if it was greed, I take back my stuff, or something of equal value, by ANY means necessary.
B) if it was desperation (like trying to feed their kids after some bad luck) I call it charity and call it a day.
C) If I don't find them, I try to believe it was B rather than A.

I like your attitude Don, but sadly, in all probability the theft was to feed a drug habit, not children.

Bad luck Clarky. I feel for you. It almost happened to me once. In bed, at 4AM, myself and my family were sound asleep (that's the scary part), somebody removed a double glazed unit from a kitchen window. Fortunately, they hadn't reckoned on coming face to face with my dog who started barking at that point, and leggged it.

Don,

Sorry, no excuses.

1. If by some remote possibility I found the garbage, I wouldn't be asking any questions as to why they did it. I don't care.

2. If they broke into my home and I was present, there would be no interview, other than with the police as to why I shot them. The simple answer, because I felt our lives were threatened. End of story.

An invasion of our home, or our person is just that.

I feel very sorry for Clarky, but at least the morons didn't take his camera gear.

RG.

Sorry to hear about this Clarky.

I can emphasize with you as I had this happen to me some years ago, they even had the gaul to came back the next day for a second helping. I mangaed to keep a hold of the little one till the law came, and you know what, they never went to court as thewy were under 16......... justice....PAHAAAA!!!

I knew that no good would come of shipping all those criminals off to Australia.

I'd like to take this opportunity to celebrate some of the values we have in the West, in which I naturally include Australia and New Zealand.

Personally, I think this comment is in slightly bad taste, but I know I've said things in the past that I regret, and I also know how difficult it can be to say the right thing in difficult situations, and as a consequence have shoved my foot right into my mouth once or twice in my time.

So living in a glass house as I do, I am in no way throwing stones.

However, it does occur to me that there are other places in the world, where an imagined, rather then actually intended, offence, seems to give rise to the most horrible reactions, and I am very glad I don't live in any of those places.

So, Friday night as it is, I raise my glass to Western Civilisation. It might have its faults, but we don't imprison people, or as some would prefer, shoot them by firing squad, if, as I've been known to, they say or do something that comes across a bit differently from the way they intended.