I'm from the Tamworth area and I had my 55 plate STi nicked on Saturday night. Lying in bed at half one, heard a car pull up and a couple of car doors slam shut. Went to front bedroom window, opened the window and there were 5 men wearing balaclavas standing on my drive by the front door. I asked them what they effing wanted and one said "give us your keys otherwise we're gonna bust your door down". Shut the bedroom window and by the time I got to the top of the stairs, a few kicks and the door was in. They were standing at the bottom of the stairs with crow bars all shouting "give us your keys or you're having it". One of them was running around downstairs looking for the keys but they're always kept upstairs. The alarm was blaring and I'd turned all the lights on upstairs by the time they'd got in.
I said "you can have my keys, have my keys", I chucked the scooby keys downstairs and then they asked for the other set of my missus' car which is a new BMW convertible. I threw them down too and away they went.
And yeah, my 10 year old daughter heard it all too.
Basically, want to let anyone in the Midlands know what these gangs are capable of.
They used the scooby half hour later for a robbery in Birmingham.

Found out today that they've found the BMW unmarked.

No luck with the scooby and don't want it back now anyway.

 

sorry to hear that has happened to you, and your daughter had to hear it happening, hope she has not been to badly affected by it all.

 

you need to get your doors reinforced and get some big **** off dogs

 

Sorry to here about this

Nothing much you can do about fcucking scum like that, a couple of them and personally I'd chance taking a bat to them - I think you did the right thing with that many of them though.

Pity they didn't crash the car and die........

 

really sorry to hear that...stealing a car is one thing but breaking in2 your house with kids in is taking a f**king liberty...

 

Or an Audi, that no one would want to steal, eh?

 

dear me m8, thats bad news, as long as you and the family are ok, the cars are replacable items.

 

Firstly glad everyone was left unharmed.
Secondly you did the right thing chucking the keys at them.
A have a go hero against a few lunatics would always come off worse.
If that happened to me there's no way i would want the car back or another for that matter.
Its one of the bad things about Subarus that justify my decission to go for something more run of the mill and a little less in your face.
Nik.

 

Reinforced doors are on order already.
Until it happens, u don't really know how you'll react.
Having a scooby, I always expected a visit, but this was extreme.
My plan was anyway that if they did get in, I would give them the keys.
Never in a million years did i think they'd bust my door down. No way

 

mo fo's - glad to hear your all ok

 

Bad news mate hope they catch the scum.

 

This country is just getting worse and worse.
how long till we hear of someone being killed in there own home for the
keys to there scooby?
glad your all ok mate.

 

i say lets make guns legal, so at least people can get some good home protection.

 

Sorry to hear about this happening. I at times leave my car with my parents I would hate this to happen but hopefully the have the sense to give the keys and pick up the phone.

Who's to say no body has been killed already. It just proves that the politically correct (B00!!o(#$) brigade who say you should not smack your kids if they do wriong are speaking from where the sun don't shine. Since these laws were passed the country has gone down hill. It says it all that Schools are being given the types of detection systems to use that a airport has to protect teachers and other kids from the ones who bring knives if not guns into school.
If I did wrong and got caught I knew what was coming and that was quite a deterent and made me think twice (some of the time).

 

With our great country if you shot a masked intruder you would be sent down for life and to top that you would be sued by the family of the **** that was hell bent on taking your property.
Justice
Nik.

 

Get a front door that opens outwards as well.

 

its a f**kin joke, sorry to here that mate, glad your all ok, theres no need for your daughter to be goin through them sort of things at her age, or any age for that matter, they wanna go out and get a f**kin job like the rest of us.and earn there money to**ers.

 

Thats terrible, Glad you are all physically ok, but I should imagine it will be a while before you can sleep well again.

Sometimes I think i'm better off having to park on the street, the car gets a few minor scratches and light kiddy footballs bounced off it, but hopefully it shouldnt attract attention as they probably wont know what house to hit. I would definately just hand over the keys straight away.

 

**** me, Thats awefull, glad you and the family are okay.

I'd be looking at getting a shotgun for clay shooting If that ever happened to me. They wouldn't get off my property alive

 

Bloody hell!

 

its not on! its awful what they did.

why do they target scoobys?

i sometimes leave a car cover over my car when am away from home.

 

really sorry for you mate also not a good thing you little girl heard it all there really is some scum in this country!! i leave my scooby with my parents and would hate to think some one would try this with them but i think they would get a shock as my parents have two masive german shepards and my dad is a bit of a big nasty barstad we also do clay shooting!!

 

Because they are fast, have room for four/five hooded robbers and reasonable boots.
Nik.

 

Main thing is that you and family were unhurt. The cars are insured at the end of the day.

This type of thing is really worrying though. I'm glad that the area I live is crime free.

Maybe it's time you got yourself a big nasty f*cking dog or two.

I hope the thieving scum end up with cancer.

 

Blimey mate, sorry to hear about your incident, thats not nice at all.
Hope the lil one is ok, and in some way that the cars are total losses and never recovered so you get replacements rather than returns.

Shocking what can happen

 

Absolutly shocking . .

I live in Solihull a couple of junctions down from Tamworth - It really makes you think is it worth it all ?

 

glad every one was ok! makes me shudder reading that

 

as already said Glad nobody was hurt and certainly good job you gave them the Keys

My mate in Brum had his wrist broken during a Hi Jack

Tony

 

Hi mate, sorry to hear about what happened,you did the right thing by throwing them the keys.

 

im glad u dd the right thing for yourself etc and no one was hurt.
BUT, i feel in giving these people our keys this will continue to happen,what u gonna do when some1 smacks u in the chops (not u personally i mean us as a whole by the way) up town and demands the same.

i dunno,maybe im wrong, but if and when this happens to me, i`ll prob end up in hospital over it, on prinicpal,but maybe im daft, dunno,cant say until it happens like

but hey,ur o.k and the family,thats the main thing !!