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"it's a shame you can't train them to attack intruders"

train them? they are spiders

you have to train them not to attack people

i say make them bitches free range spiders and they'll probably have you an xbox 360 just like waiting in a web some time next week

with halo3 and shit

1/7/2009 4:08:35 AM

damn i hate crackheads

glad you were not injured

1/7/2009 6:42:00 AM

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"They tossed all the shit on the bed, grabbed the four corners of the comforter, and used it like a sack. In the criminal world we refer to it as a "reverse Santa Claus"."

this is obviously called 'The Grinch'

1/7/2009 7:11:32 AM

glad you guys are ok

fiona too


I live in Durham too and can't imagine what I'd do if I came home while being robbed

1/7/2009 9:09:42 AM

glad you're alright!

you should consider putting some webcams about cause they're cheap and you could have gotten a picture of the culprit

1/7/2009 9:24:59 AM

awwww! Dang that sucks, Kitty B.

1/7/2009 9:35:55 AM

My best friends boss was just robbed like monday, they live in durham. They got cleaned out. Yay durham.

1/7/2009 10:08:11 AM

so far so good in durham.

but i've only been here six months.

and we have big dogs.

i got robbed while living in raleigh though. I took julius hodge's advice and got a dog.

1/7/2009 10:35:57 AM

I live on the Brier Creek side of Durham

1/7/2009 10:39:28 AM

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"I took julius hodge's advice and got a dog."

when they hungry, they eat

that sucks though lauren- glad you guys are ok

1/7/2009 10:44:51 AM

that sucks, but

why did you have to wait for your husband to call 911? are you not capable of doing that yourself? that would have been the very first thing i would have done.

1/7/2009 10:46:31 AM

Use snakes to scare away intruders!

1/7/2009 10:52:50 AM

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"They apparently grabbed the samurai sword off my dresser (which I gave to my husband, who is a brown belt and is well-trained)"

That's pretty badass. It would be kinda cool if your husband was able to use the sword on them. I guess that would be one of the few times where you would legally be able to slice some people up and get away with it.

1/7/2009 11:03:29 AM

i love how you implied that Durham is the reason you've been robbed.

1 - what part of durham do you live in?

2 - i've lived in durham for 20+ years and never had a problem at all

1/7/2009 11:09:31 AM

glad you are ok

1/7/2009 11:16:39 AM

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"They tossed all the shit on the bed, grabbed the four corners of the comforter, and used it like a sack. In the criminal world we refer to it as a "reverse Santa Claus"."

weall know its really called "Black Santa"

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"i don't think i'm gonna sleep tonight. no scared of them coming back, just still too wound up. and i get ready for work in about 2 & 1/2 hours. i foresee being up for about 42 hours straight. YAY. "

you should be, i was watchin first48 and there was this one episode where there was this old man that got murdered and was found duct taped up in his drive way shot up. it turns out that a few days prior he had caught some guys invading his home and chased them off and called the police

well those guys came back and duct taped him up and shot him then left him on the driveway to send a message not to fuck with them


so yea be on your guard.

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"That's pretty badass. It would be kinda cool if your husband was able to use the sword on them. I guess that would be one of the few times where you would legally be able to slice some people up and get away with it."

just because he has a decorative sword doesnt mean he knows how to use it, that could turn out real bad had he tried...even if you are trained you just never know

its better to get the fuck outta there honestly...

[Edited on January 7, 2009 at 11:25 AM. Reason : r]

1/7/2009 11:19:47 AM

man if I lived and worked in Durham I would concealed carry at all times, fuck that shit

1/7/2009 11:30:11 AM

then youd be a criminal

which is ok because you are protected since the ineptitude of the durham police dept makes Durham a lawless state

1/7/2009 11:33:32 AM

i didn't call 911 because, like several people in stories given here, i didn't realize what was going on at first. it didn't sink in until i was already on the phone with mj, and by then he was going to call them anyway so why bother both of us calling.

i don't blame durham. i blame a certain population of people in this area. and that type of people can be found anywhere. i was a bit disappointed that it took 15 minutes for police to arrive when we said the people may still be in the house, but that's a common complaint.

oh, and i've got glass in my foot now. guess it got track through the house by us, the cops and the forensics lady.

1/7/2009 11:50:04 AM

five cats?

1/7/2009 11:51:40 AM

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"which is ok because you are protected since the ineptitude of the durham police dept makes Durham a lawless state"

i do have to lawl with this...

1/7/2009 11:52:55 AM

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"that sucks, but why did you have to wait for your husband to call 911? are you not capable of doing that yourself? that would have been the very first thing i would have done. "

2 things here... not everyone always puts the pieces together on a crime in progress... and this goes especially for alll the "i woulda..." people -- almost everyone isnt as tough/calm as they think they are

1/7/2009 12:27:54 PM

I live by Southpoint mall and love it.

Durham gets a bad wrap

OMG, Raleigh is so bad:

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/4204649/

So is Apex:

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/4157234/

Same for Cary:

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3630439/

Don't forget Garner:

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/3406940/


Point being, this shit happens everywhere, but we have a stigma associated with Durham because of the well known low socio-economic area in certain parts of the Bull City.

Get over it. This shit is everywhere.


On a different note, Kitty B, I am very sorry this happened and am glad you are ok.

[Edited on January 7, 2009 at 12:30 PM. Reason : CRIME!!!!11]

1/7/2009 12:29:41 PM

That's horrible, I'm sorry Kitty B.

There's a chance I'll be moving to Durham this summer (if not NEBRASKA) - I'll be sure to have webcams and a security system.

1/7/2009 12:33:54 PM

sucks that you got robbed yo.

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"the fuckin durham police department will not catch anyone"

but the city council is busy creating more stupid rules and raising taxes, all the while not adding more officers on the street.

i thought it was odd that they are charging you so much for adding alarm system components.

1/7/2009 1:23:37 PM

durham is not bad because there is crime but the police are underfunded

i got robbed by a dude that stood in fron of the ATM monitor and they still havent even made progress on the case

god knows how many more people he could have robbed since november 2007 lol

[Edited on January 7, 2009 at 1:45 PM. Reason : x]

1/7/2009 1:44:40 PM

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"maybe it was because the dog wasn't acting overly upset (I think she was just relieved that I was finally home). "

when our house was broken in to last april, they brought bacon to feed our dog. could've done that to make friends which would be why she didn't appear overly upset by the time you got there.

1/7/2009 1:52:24 PM

i just bust caps in the dogs, yo

1/7/2009 1:54:45 PM

^that was my main (and only) worry

[Edited on January 7, 2009 at 2:02 PM. Reason : ]

1/7/2009 2:01:48 PM

FTP Durham or Durham Durham?

1/7/2009 2:11:18 PM

north roxboro st. & east club blvd. durham

i live in one of the "nicer" ghetto neighborhoods. but i'm definitely not down by southpoint.

1/7/2009 2:29:59 PM

Roxboro is roxboro no matter where you are on it

roxboro isnt terrible but it connects with like everything

[Edited on January 7, 2009 at 2:30 PM. Reason : sd]

1/7/2009 2:30:34 PM

sorry to hear this.

glad you and everyone including the spiders are ok.

1/7/2009 2:32:40 PM

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"i just bust caps in the dogs, yo"

You can pacify most dogs by throwing them something to eat.

On shows like "It Takes a Thief" the families usually said that they expected that their dogs would protect the house but it never happened that way. The guy would break in, give the dog some food and the dog was their new best friend.

1/7/2009 2:39:33 PM

yea i really dont understandusing housetrained dogs as a burglary deterrent at all

youre asking for your dog to sacrifice one of the intruders bullets, or you are asking for intruders to have an easy time getting your stuff

people really are out of touch with reality, dogs are not humans yet we dress em up and ascribe them personalities and try to determine their temperments as if they are human


they arent, theyre animals and they have no business being assigned the duty of protecting the home. especially if its some god damn pooch you got off craigslist or from the SPCA that isnt trained worth a shit in home defense or anything of an aggressive nature


its really fuckin stupid

1/7/2009 2:45:15 PM

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"Roxboro is roxboro no matter where you are on it"

1/7/2009 3:15:52 PM

I think the most any reasonable person would expect of their dog is to bark if someone is entering their house. That might not do a whole lot if nobody is home, but I'm sure there are plenty of instances where a barking dog alerted the homeowner of an intruder. I mean, if a dog barks at someone coming through the front door why wouldn't they bark and someone coming through the window?

[Edited on January 7, 2009 at 3:19 PM. Reason : .]

1/7/2009 3:18:50 PM

so you can beat ADT by just breaking the window,

well that shit fucking sucks.

1/7/2009 3:21:36 PM

Dogs will also serve as a thief deterrent. Depending on the criminal, they could be scared of dogs, and hearing a dog going nuts inside after you've started messing with the door/window could be enough to make him try next door. Obviously, others just bring bacon, but it may have helped one of my friends who was living by herself with a huge dog. Someone started messing with her door knob really late one night and the dog went bat shit insane, and they stopped.

1/7/2009 3:23:46 PM

yeah depends on the temperment of the dog, my so's sister has huge mini-horse like dogs (great danes) and they are pretty good at being alarms, if they didn't know me and if i acted aggressive inside (or getting in) at all they would probably be on me, and ill be damned if i'm gonna fuck with a 160 pound 3-4ft tall dog.

1/7/2009 3:27:55 PM

Quote :

"Point being, this shit happens everywhere, but we have a stigma associated with Durham because of the well known low socio-economic area in certain parts of the Bull City. Get over it. This shit is everywhere."

sure it happens everywhere

but where does it happen the most?

1/7/2009 3:54:21 PM

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"but we have a stigma associated with Durham because of the well known low socio-economic area in certain parts of the Bull City."

by that you mean the entire city of Durham save for a few houses that nestled within crime ridden areas

its like building a low dike, that shit spills over once in awhile

1/7/2009 4:05:47 PM

club blvd def has it's bad spots, but it doesn't matter where you live. a friend of mine lives in hope valley (near the country club) and she got robbed a few months ago. funny thing (to me, anyway) was that they didn't touch a pair of UNC basketball tix that were sitting on the counter next to the laptop they stole

1/7/2009 4:14:37 PM

^^That's bullshit. I lived in Durham from age 9 to when I moved here for school and we never (and my parents still have not) had any problems. Downtown/North East Central Durham is not a good place to be, though.

1/7/2009 4:35:43 PM

damn, didn't know CC was illegal there

that explains a lot

1/7/2009 5:46:21 PM

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"Depending on the criminal, they could be scared of dogs, and hearing a dog going nuts inside after you've started messing with the door/window could be enough to make him try next door."

We talked about this in my social deviance class. Apparently they did a survey of robbers. The #1 thing to deter them was a sign marking there was a security system installed. #2 was dogs, the yappier the better

1/7/2009 7:04:18 PM

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"The #1 thing to deter them was a sign marking there was a security system installed. #2 was dogs, the yappier the better "

but yet these robbers weren't deterred by either...

1/8/2009 10:29:09 PM

I always thought the sign was kinda like a dare to some of em. I hope I'm wrong though

1/8/2009 10:30:12 PM

Glad you and all yours are ok.

Hopefully the cops catch them selling something and get them that way.

1/8/2009 10:32:25 PM

Wow, that sucks. Sorry.

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"i love how you avoid setting off an alarm by BREAKING the window instead of opening it"

Yeah, that seems really odd to me. And it sucks that it costs so much more to add the glass breaking detection.

1/8/2009 10:41:12 PM