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Tag Archives: burglar
Burglars target tech indoors, and hunt buried treasure in the garden (Rousse)
From the far side of my bedroom, I saw a black form bound across the patio to the flower bed in front of the window. A black Labrador was set to dig up my plants! On closer inspection, however, I … Continue reading
Burglars in a pink Beetle (Rousse)
I raced down the stairs, across the lawn, and through the back door of my maternal grandmother’s house, in a bid to apprehend the interlopers. I was keen to discover answers to two questions: (1) What were they looking for? … Continue reading
Christmas 2020 in June 2021 (Rousse)
Finally, six months later than anticipated, at the end of June 2021 we were permitted to host our annual Christmas party (2020). But first, I had to remove AD from the kitchen. JS, who knew exactly who he was and … Continue reading
A failed escape from a crime scene (Rousse)
We were staying in a beautiful tall detached house that was second from the end of a row of similar buildings squashed together in a densely populated part of the city. If you glanced up at the skylight over the … Continue reading
Edinburgh New Town burglars strike (Rousse)
It was a joyful experience of being carried high above everyone else through the Edinburgh New Town on the shoulders of my 8 feet tall university pal MH. Ten minutes later my world fell apart. When we reached my street … Continue reading
Fried eggs and a friendship fractured (Rousse)
My friendship with Belle was over, and it was all my fault. I invited two extra women that I barely knew to visit, even though Belle was meant to be my guest of honour. At the time we were also … Continue reading
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Tagged alarm, angry, ballgown, breakfast, burglar, cook, corner, door, Dundas Street, egg, fix, flat, fracture, fried, friendship, fry, furious, green, guest, honour, Indian, lose, man, Nantes, pan, promise, punk, red-haired, swear, thin, toast, undergraduate, work
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Bicycle thief Mr Almond’s attack (Rousse)
Every time that we returned to our house there was further evidence of attempted break-ins. We knew that it was only a matter of time before we would come home to a crime scene. The day finally arrived when we … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, accomplice, Almond, attack, attempt, attic, avenge, £50, baby, bicycle, bike, black, break-in, broken, burglar, crime, dark, door, dress, fat, fear, front, glass, green, hat, house, insult, man, middle-aged, notes, roof, scene, smash, spotty, thief, wad, wedding, window, woman
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Miniature schnauzer makes a hopeless guard dog (Rousse)
The burglar worked his way around our room helping himself to bits and pieces from the dressing table and cupboards. Meanwhile our miniature schnauzer lay happily on our bed with his legs in the air, willing us to tickle him. … Continue reading
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Tagged air, burglar, cupboard, dog, dressing table, guard, hopeless, legs, lie, miniature, Schnauzer, tickle, TPR
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Sledgehammer attacker and accomplice break in through bathroom window (Rousse)
Why was the bathroom window open? Why was the burglar alarm ringing? I looked up and caught sight of the man with the sledgehammer. His accomplice was right behind him. ‘Oh my God!’ muttered my husband under his breath. I … Continue reading
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Tagged 999, accomplice, alarm, attack, attacker, bathroom, bludgeon, break-in, burglar, death, dial, husband, man, phone, sledgehammer, window
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