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Sorry to hear about that Bandy, being burgled is never fun. Also, I don't see how your insurance company can insist on receipts for everything - nobody keeps all their receipts unless they're particularly anal. Several years ago I claimed for a camera that I'd "lost" (I dropped it and it broke) and I was never asked for proof of ownership - they just sent me the same model, but brand spanking new.
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One of the things that worries me most is having my DeeVeeDees stolen. I even took a photo of the shelf, in hi-res so you can see all the titles, so I could use it as 'proof of owenership'. I don';t know why that particular thing bugs me so much, but it does.
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quote:Originally posted by Bandy: They've also stolen all (3) mobile phone chargers from the house. I know this because my phone has just died. Fuckers.
Jeez! What did they leave, your toothbrushes and and old camera with some film waiting to be developed inside it?
der, bandy only has digital cameras. why would he want antique trickery...
I will sort some insurance out for my house, I will now, honestly.
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quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: I will sort some insurance out for my house, I will now, honestly.
This is exactly what I thought too, after meaning to do it for months. However I am stumbling at the first block of filling out online quote forms, since I have no idea when my building was built, and cocking Peabody Trust are useless. Is there an easy way to find out these things?
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FAO Bailey:
Presumably you're going for a combined buildings and contents policy as otherwise I have no idea why they would want to know the building's age. Do you own or rent? If you own your flat your purchase documents should help so phone your solicitor. If you rent I don't know why you would need buildings cover.
Failing any of the above, you could try and check with the Land Registry but they might charge you. I'd just guess a ballpark date.
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: FAO Bailey: If you rent I don't know why you would need buildings cover.
That's what I thought, but apparently even for contents insurance they have to know when the building was built. I have managed to find out that my flat was occupied for the 1901 census, so that's something I suppose. If Peabody were any good it would just take a single phone call, but they're not.
Thanks though!
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I use Endsleigh insurance - contents only as i'm renting. At the moment I think they're fine (easy to apply over the phone) but i'll reserve full judgement until I see how long it takes for me to get my stuff back.
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Maybe the want to know the age of the bulding because you can break through the chipboard and plaster walls of modern buildings with a spoon?
I have been working on sorting out my insurance for a while...the form is filled out now...I was wondering about the whole recipts issue since we dont have any recipts for anthing. Hmm.
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quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: God, NZ'z gReAt, isn't it?
no. did i tell you i had some friends who went to new zealand? maybe on your camping hosteling trips you met them? or maybe you bumped into them in thailand, or singapore, or san francisco. or maybe vanuatuu, or anywhere else on the fucking scheduled round the world ticket that includes 4 stops. what about jo'burg? did you see them there?
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Bastard cunting fuckwads.
They took our passports, man. Our passports. This is the only thing that really bothered me - anything else was replaceable, or in the case of the laptop, frustrating but karma as Kovacs said. Everything else was also in the living room. Everything else was clearly visible. Stealing our passports, on the other hand, means they had to go through all the drawers, including my underwear drawer, in our bedroom.
Dirty fucking bastard CUNTFLANGES.
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quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: Jeez! What did they leave, your toothbrushes and and old camera with some film waiting to be developed inside it?
Which reminds me. A friend was burgled 20 (TWENTY!!) times over a two year period while living with her mother in Joburg. She now lives in NZ and her mother on a mountain in Malawi.
During one of the 20 break-ins they even nicked the dirty laundry.
quote:Originally posted by scrawny: Bastard cunting fuckwads.
They took our passports, man. Our passports. This is the only thing that really bothered me - anything else was replaceable, or in the case of the laptop, frustrating but karma as Kovacs said. Everything else was also in the living room. Everything else was clearly visible. Stealing our passports, on the other hand, means they had to go through all the drawers, including my underwear drawer, in our bedroom.
Underwear aside, which I guess is a particular violation for girls -- I wonder, do men feel the same disgust and horror at the idea that burglars have gone through their boxers? probably not -- this does seem grotesquerie in a different league.
As you suggest, it implies motive, deliberate malice instead of just random opportunism: perhaps the bile-in-mouth feeling that arises from this idea is the sense it gives you of the burglars' psychology, the engagement with their twisted way of thinking. In discovering where they've been, you gradually and after the fact seem to be following their clues, building up a picture of their behaviour in your house, their passage through your own intimate space, and can imagine their decisions, even their conversations. It is a repulsive thought, as though discovering what's gone, objects found to be absent, brings the intruders into a presence.
quote:Originally posted by scrawny: Bastard cunting fuckwads.
They took our passports, man. Our passports. This is the only thing that really bothered me - anything else was replaceable, or in the case of the laptop, frustrating but karma as Kovacs said. Everything else was also in the living room. Everything else was clearly visible. Stealing our passports, on the other hand, means they had to go through all the drawers, including my underwear drawer, in our bedroom.
Dirty fucking bastard CUNTFLANGES.
That's awful. I know it's almost a laughable question, but do the police have any ideas?
My sister got burgled once, and they stole a washbag of tampax, and selectively rifled through her tapes, adding insult to injury implying that her taste wasn't good enough either. Thieving fuckers.
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Don't take the passport theft personally, Scrawny. I would imagine that passports are as good as cash in criminal circles since they're probably difficult to forge from scratch, but perhaps relatively simple to de-laminate and replace a photo so that someone else could use them.
Probably of little comfort, but perhaps better than feeling singled out.
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quote:Originally posted by damo: [did i tell you i had some friends who went to new zealand? maybe on your camping hosteling trips you met them? or maybe you bumped into them in thailand, or singapore, or san francisco. or maybe vanuatuu, or anywhere else on the fucking scheduled round the world ticket that includes 4 stops. what about jo'burg? did you see them there?
What the fuck are you talking about?
The passports thing is fucking ill. It does seem so much more personal, as well as the hassle and expense of sorting out replacements. I'm quite fond of mine; I like all the stamps and visas in mine, in my sad squirrelly hoarding way it's a compact reminder of places I've been.
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That would really piss me off too - electrical equipment is pretty impersonal stuff (it's hard to get emotionally attached to a VCR, for example) but a passport is something that is completely unique to you. Ugh. It makes you wonder what goes through a burglar's mind, doesn't it? My parents' neighbours were robbed and, along with all the electronic goods, they stole their country & western CD's but left all the others. I could just picture a burglar rifling through their CD collection and taking his time to nick only the ones he could use for his line-dancing club. Very strange.
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I'm actually a bit concerned at the number of you who don't have contents insurance. I know it's not compulsory, but surely even if you live in a "safe" area, you'd have it for things like burning a hole in the carpet with your iron or accidentally setting the curtains on fire.
[The whole burglary thing totally sucks - sorry Bandy and Scrawny. Disrespectful little fuckers (the burgliers, not you)].
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I'm sorry to hear that this has happened. Being burgled is horrible.
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Hey ya'll, like Sidney, I just read this thread. Damn. Sorry to hear what happened.
On the other hand, possession is 9/10th yada yada...so the laptop was yours, ect ect...C(they don't need to know the history) just get rightously aggrivated when the ins co tries to dispute.
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If possession is indeed 9/10ths, then all of Bandy's and Scrawny's stuff is now the legal property of their burglars and they have no grounds for any form of complaint.
Do try and be a little bit sensible here.
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H1ppychick
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Leaving aside B&S's valid feelings of their space being violated and anger at the loss of their own (legal) possessions, I just have little patience for all this guff about feeling hard done by for having a laptop nicked when it was never yours to start off with. And G's "possession is 9/10ths" argument therefore seemed to have a huge gaping logical hole right in the middle of it.
Sorry if my wording sounded harsh, but there you go.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: One of the things that worries me most is having my DeeVeeDees stolen. I even took a photo of the shelf, in hi-res so you can see all the titles, so I could use it as 'proof of owenership'. I don';t know why that particular thing bugs me so much, but it does.
I did exactly the same with my CDs Thorn, specially all the rarities. Not a bad idea to do that.
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