I can still remember the time when our house was burgled. I was 5 years old so the only annoyance was that they’d taken the TV, and with it my stream of daily cartoons, but I’m sure the experience was far more stressful for my parents.
Thankfully, I haven’t (yet) been the victim of a burglary as an adult, but not everyone is so lucky. My auntie for example lives in a nice, quiet neighborhood but has seven locks down the inside of her front door as a result of multiple burglaries the first year that she was living there.
The statistics are shocking, with a U.S. home being broken into every 15 seconds and a UK home every 37 seconds . The damage is not just a financial one either. While the first thing that springs to mind when you hear the word ‘burglary’ is obviously a loss of often very expensive possessions, for many people it also results in a loss of confidence. [Read more…]