Couple heartbroken after honeymoon cash and wedding plans stolen (From Echo)

Horrible thing and we shouldn’t live in a world where you have to protect your valuables, but at the end of the day … we do!!! Therefore the cash should have been in a bank or safe and the laptop data should have been backed up to USB (if it was that crucial)!

The way the story is written it sounds like the cash was in the Laptop, surely not.

upset wrote:
The way the story is written it sounds like the cash was in the Laptop, surely not.

i was thinking exactly the same . . . . and no doubt the police would be somewhat curious as to why other things weren't stolen if it is the case that it was just these 2 items

Any very important documents/info should always be backed up, it doesnt need professional software but at least backup important stuff you cant do without onto another computer (friends, work one ?), or a USB/Hard Drive or onto one of the many cloud systems, many offer a limited amount for free.

This isnt just in case of theft/fire, hard drives are not indestructible, they do have a limited life and will fail at some point.

Leaving large quantities of cash around is just bizarre.

Anyway, hope the couple can try and sort something out and have a great wedding.

Andy

R85 - hindsight is a wonderful thing! But be fair, you don't ever expect to be broken into especially when you and your baby are asleep upstairs!

The money was not in plain sight or obvious (and wasn't in the laptop either).

Other things were stolen including the baby's changing bag full of her favourite rattles, clothes etc. As it states, full story in Friday's Echo.

All I can say is that my friends are devastated but are greatful that it wasn't worse than a burglary with the baby upstairs and luckily they have great family and friends to support them.

I-say-you-say wrote:
R85 - hindsight is a wonderful thing! But be fair, you don't ever expect to be broken into especially when you and your baby are asleep upstairs! The money was not in plain sight or obvious (and wasn't in the laptop either). Other things were stolen including the baby's changing bag full of her favourite rattles, clothes etc. As it states, full story in Friday's Echo. All I can say is that my friends are devastated but are greatful that it wasn't worse than a burglary with the baby upstairs and luckily they have great family and friends to support them.

Yes I feel very sorry for them but I have been burgled myself, the day after Boxing Day, all the family presents, irreplaceable valuables, heirlooms, computers etc …. The lot! So now I do expect to be burgled and I can’t help but feel that everybody else should too – it’s the only way to safeguard against it. It’s largely a pretty cr*ppy world we live in!

I do hope it works out as well as it can for them though – I know how it feels and there’s not much worse! Burglars are pure, total and complete vermin and destroy parts of peoples lives!

I do agree with you R85 but I guess that no one wants to believe it until they are forced to by either being a victim or close to a victim.

It will work out fine, thankyou. We're all pulling together to ensure the wedding goes ahead as planned and that the little one is spoiled rotten. Luckily she's young enough not to know anything about it.

I hope that they are caught although if they're the same ones that have been targeting other houses in the area, they seem to be getting away with it thus far....

I-say-you-say wrote:
R85 - hindsight is a wonderful thing! But be fair, you don't ever expect to be broken into especially when you and your baby are asleep upstairs!

The money was not in plain sight or obvious (and wasn't in the laptop either).

Other things were stolen including the baby's changing bag full of her favourite rattles, clothes etc. As it states, full story in Friday's Echo.

All I can say is that my friends are devastated but are greatful that it wasn't worse than a burglary with the baby upstairs and luckily they have great family and friends to support them.

I am afraid that, in this day and age, hindsight has nothing to do with it. However, common sense has.

and their honeymoond cash

Editor out of the office again?

No-one to proofread these 'articles' before they are uploaded for the world to see?


Shocking!


My sympathies to the poor victims of this horrible crime

Remove cash from society and you remove lots of crime. If all transactions are electronic then they can all be traced. The thief who stole your laptop would struggle to sell it, and you would have money on a card rather than cash.

I do feel sorry for the family as this is a dreadful thing to happen, someone breaking into your home and stealing your stuff is a horrible feeling, not just because of whats been taken, but also it's an invasion of your own personal life.

Unfortunately this happens more and more so everyone should do what they can to protect themselves.

1. Install a burglar alarm, if not get a large dog or two.
2. Make a copy of all important documents and store them somewhere else. A friends house or another member of the families house.
3. Copy all of your irreplacable photos, and again store them somewhere else.
4. If you keep money or other valuables in the house like jewellery have a fireproof safe installed and use it.
Also make sure you have decent house insurance that will enable you to replace everything that can be replaced.

You can't protect against everything, but you can reduce the likelihood, and the anguish should it occur.

Household insurance would cover most of this wouldn't they? Who leaves large wads of cash about these days when you don't need to. Honeymoon cash should be in a bank account and collected by way of a debit card or cheque payment. Just find the whole thing a little baffling and naive to hold cash of any great amount in your house. Surely common sense rather than hindsight.

all sounds a little bit suspect to me......

Certain high street businesses need burglars to supply their wares don't you know? You know the ones I mean.

Can I just say that everyone is commenting on the "large wads of cash". I can assure you that this is not true, there wasn't a "large wad" however there was enough to make a difference and there are circumstances as to why it was in the house rather than in a bank which in all fairness are nobody's business but the people involved and the insurance company.

I can also assure meldrew84 that there is nothing "a little bit suspect" about it at all and the implication is very offensive. Please be reminded that this isn't the full story and my friends are having to deal with a lot more stress than it is worth for them to be doing anything suspect.

My friend is very upset by the implications made and I would like to ask on their behalf that you take the situation at face value and accept it for what it is - a burglary plain and simple.

Common sense does not state that your house will be burgled and therefore every time you get in you have to lock your keys in a key safe, your purse/wallet/jewelle
ry in a safe and every time you use your computer you back it up, just in case, it's not practical.

I-say-you-say wrote:
Can I just say that everyone is commenting on the "large wads of cash". I can assure you that this is not true, there wasn't a "large wad" however there was enough to make a difference and there are circumstances as to why it was in the house rather than in a bank which in all fairness are nobody's business but the people involved and the insurance company.

I can also assure meldrew84 that there is nothing "a little bit suspect" about it at all and the implication is very offensive. Please be reminded that this isn't the full story and my friends are having to deal with a lot more stress than it is worth for them to be doing anything suspect.

My friend is very upset by the implications made and I would like to ask on their behalf that you take the situation at face value and accept it for what it is - a burglary plain and simple.

Common sense does not state that your house will be burgled and therefore every time you get in you have to lock your keys in a key safe, your purse/wallet/jewelle

ry in a safe and every time you use your computer you back it up, just in case, it's not practical.

Quote I-say-you-say: "Common sense does not state that your house will be burgled and therefore every time you get in you have to lock your keys in a key safe, your purse/wallet/jewelle

ry in a safe and every time you use your computer you back it up, just in case, it's not practical."
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In this day and age you must ALWAYS assume you may be burgled and, thus, common sense dictates you must take security very seriously and secure ALL valuables. Also, common sense dictates you should ALWAYS back up important data/photos in case your laptop/computer (or camera) is lost or damaged. Being part of todays society means you only have yourself to blame for any losses if you do not follow these simple rules of common sense.

So many burglaries could be prevented if folk made sure they had good secure locks of their doors.

Put locks on internal doors as well, anything g that delays a burglar making a quick grab of anything they get their hands on has to be good.

Homes today are designed to keep burglars out so we must do all we can to protect our homes and the contents.

Basildon news ... Standford Le Hope?
Since when was Stanford Le Hope in Basildon?

Nebs wrote:
Remove cash from society and you remove lots of crime. If all transactions are electronic then they can all be traced. The thief who stole your laptop would struggle to sell it, and you would have money on a card rather than cash.

Remove all cash from society?

I believe thats called lemming-ism!