Is+Your+House+Safe?+++By+Macka+H

Is Your House Safe?? People’s houses have been getting robbed for years and years and a stop needs to be put to it. Robbers are very sneaky about how, who and where they target and a lot don’t get caught. So if you’re going away, do whatever you can to prevent being next in the chopping block.

A family from Highton were on their family holiday 8 hours from when they live when they found out that they had been broken into. The dad of the family, Kelvin Heard said that they got the phone call when they were relaxing at the beach. A friend of theirs who didn’t know that they were away had come for a visit and realised that the front door was open and no one was home. She rang up to ask them about the situation. They said they were in Pambula Beach and asked if she could check the house just in-case the house had been broken into. The friend went into the front room and gave them the all clear. She went in the main living room and there was no Plasma. The friend told them but at first they didn’t believe her but then went on to realise that their house had been broken into. Kelvin Heard said that in hindsight he probably should have hidden the car keys so they didn’t steal the car and also should have activated the deadlocks so they couldn’t have got the plasma out. Although getting robbed, Kelvin Heard said the worst part of this was by far the insurance companies. He was with Comsure and described them as “Not very considerate at all.” He said to get everything replaced t took 10 WEEKS!!! But they didn’t get their Mac Book back. On ANZAC day, a family went out for the dawn service and returned to a robbed house. One of the children from the family, Brittany S, said that there were 2 pages of stuff that was stolen but the things that she owned and that affected her the most was her Wii, DS, I-Pod, and X-box. Her family was with AAMI and said that they were terrible. It also took them about 10 weeks to get there stuff back.

Phillip McCup said that house robberies are made too much of a deal about. He also said that “If someone wants to break in to your house, the **__will__.”** He said that when you get robbed you get everything replaced brand-new!

House robberies keep happening and show no sign of stopping but to prevent you getting robbed, ask yourself, are the locks on your house Australian standard, do you have timers on your TV and lights and do you have a close friend checking your house every now and then? If you do all that then your house is a lot safer.