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Friday morning 5am three guys did a ram raid attack on my garage. My alarm when off and I was at the bottom of the garden within seconds. I ended up chasing one of them down the lane screaming while getting hit with a pipe. Adrenalin is a hell of a drug!
Car was torched minutes later 2 roads away. I ended up in A&E.
Taking them on was a stupid idea and could have ended much worst. I had assumed they would bugger off once challenged but they really wanted my bikes (this was their third attempt).
Stay save everyone and its not worth getting hurt over.
How did they get a car in there? Maybe stick something solid in between the gate and the garage once you get it repaired
Bloody hell, that's scary.
Heal quick - and next time don't go after them.
Blimey. That's a serious attempt. Glad you are OK.
They stole an old Corsa just for this job and reversed it into the door (2 attempts).
Get some annuals in that planter.
Hope you heal up quick. I can see a handlebar on one of the pictures hopefully they didn't get the bikes? Did they get caught?
wow. You really had the door secured well but ram raid is another level
Sounds like organised crime.
Omg that's bad, clearly desperate people. Whereabout are you?
Not an expert on such things but i would be surprised for serious bike thieves to **** someone over the head. Because that surely brings much more heat than a failed bike theft and run away.
Doesn't look like you need car access to the ped door so consider a planter on he other side and create a chicane. You can also reinforce the bedding joints in the wall when you rebuild.
Bristol. BS6.
After this thinking of making it easier to break in and just have better insurance.
Looks like you need a strategically placed bollard.
Glad you scarded them.off and didnt get too badly hurt, varmits.
Fair play for having a go. The pipe reminds me of this....
Blimey that’s bad, hope you’re not hurt too bad dogbone. Heal up quick fella.
Presumably the Police are now actually taking an interest as it is not just burglary, but assault,(gbh/abh?), stealing a vehicle, breaking and entering, and probably a few motoring offences. Considering the low life could have killed you with a direct hit on the side of your head, I’d hope the Police are taking it very seriously.
There really are some ****'s about!
Seems weird that they were so desperate to get at your bikes to try 3 times. I'm guessing from that they are reasonably local and have an idea of what's in there.
Hope you aren't too damaged and healing doesn't take too long for you.
Take care and watch out when you're up and riding again.
Adrenaline does weird things but not sure my bikes are worth a beating.
Be very interested how the Police treat this, it's a step up from a "regular" bike theft.
Do you play cricket? Baseball ? Ice Hockey ? Or gawd forbid, golf ? Or have particularly hard-to-remove wheel nuts on the car ? If not, do so - then you can have a legitimate reason to have a bat / club / 2ft long breaker bar, coincidentally right to hand in the porch or near the back door, when you go out.
Maybe time to take up grouse shooting?
Clucking bell! What absolute asshats. Hope you make a swift recovery and can deal with the mind side of things.
How long have you had the security door? It seems a strangely accurately targeted attack.
Heal soon,
Making it easier to break in seems like it might be better for your health in the future.
That and having some cheap bikes that aren't worth coming back for the 5th time
Or even ice climbing
Nah ice axes have teeth to stop them coming loose. One accurate hit and you are effectively disarmed.
Over the last three years;
The first attempt they broke a window, set off the alarm and buggered off over the fence.
The second attempt they unbolted a roof panel. Only to find out I have ply lined the ceiling.
The third attempt they took an angle grinder to the hinges to the rear door. They had cut through just one before waking a neighbour and were told to do one.
I had assumed that by making as much noise as possible they would just run off. I think as they had invested soo much in this attempt they held their ground. I didn't try and hit anyone of them, I just kept advancing while screaming **** off, police, help etc. I've got four stitches to the head, a left hand I can't close and some impressive bruises to the body.
I could have just as easy lost an eye or got run over. If I'd had a bat and damaged one of them, what would the other two have done? Would I be the one the police would want to talk to if one of them is in a coma? Reasonable force only isn't it?
Police have an idea of who it could be -based on it was three on them and their general space / height - and have been supportive.
Anyway time to get on with life and wait for Aviva to sort their shit out.
Afew years back, a mate's garage was targeted - in hindsight the scum had sussed out where it was, that there were pricey bikes to he had, probably tailed him home at some point previously.
6 bikes (as a few if us were staying with him for the weekend) in Yorkshire. Luckily recovered by sheer chance that the rossers drove through the village at 5am and saw someone pushing a bike towards the edge of the village (to the van with several more already in the back). All matching wheels to bikes correctly etc despite the wheels being off the bikes when put in the garage.
Holy smokes!
So sorry to hear that you got hurt.
and that’s a crazy level of commitment for bike thieves. You have way more secure bike storage than anyone I’ve ever heard of.
Usually when I hear bike thefts, it’s that they were sitting outside, or on the back rack of a parked car, unlocked, or with a cable lock.
I know easier said than done....but sorry OP I'd move. I couldn't be living somewhere that had that level of persistent crime.
Nicking a car to ram raid a domestic garage for 2nd hand pushbikes is extreme/desperate/lawlessness or just because you stayed one step ahead of them each time?
Nah ice axes have teeth to stop them coming loose. One accurate hit and you are effectively disarmed.
Got to use the adze but probably not easy on a modern curved tool.
I would like to think I'd have gone full mortal Kombat on them.
FATALITY!
Here's to you healing well and not suffering any further events.
Christ on a bike. Rest up and recover, OP
Sorry to read this OP. Healing vibes.
I'm slightly shocked no one's pointed out the state of the grass around the door 🙂
Anyway, what everyone else has said - get another planter, and get well soon! Going after them clearly wasn't the best idea - in hindsight - but with the adrenaline flowing I can certainly see how I would have done something similar.
That's insane. So much effort to go to considering you say they aren't particularly special bikes. Stealing a car, ram raiding a garage and then beating a bloke with a pipe. They must have no regard for any consequences (legal or physical) whatsoever. I honestly had no idea that this sort of thing happens to regular folk in normal residential properties.
Hopefully you recover quickly, I really feel for you. Such an awful experience.
Have you considered moving house? Because I'd be gone if we were being targeted so persistently by such motivated, violent criminals.
Heal up soon dude, must've been horrible.
I'm not intending to move and am quite 'ok' with things. It wasn't a random fight in a pub / mugging in the street. It was targeted and now their cost / benefit will kick in. They now know the police are taking serious interest in them and that my bike are locked to the wall (and aren't that expensive).
Thanks for all the kind words.
Shocking. Glad you're relatively ok.
Thanks for all the kind words.
I hope mine were taken in the spirit they were intended. But your grass definitely does need sorting 😀