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Several neighbors witnessed the thieves both entering and exiting through the front of the home. They called the carabineros. ADT showed up 20 minutes after the carabineros. The street I live on has an electronic gate, which apparently the thieves entered through, on their own. They even knew exactly which rooms to break into, grab and stroll out. After interviewing the neighbors I learned that there have been 6 break ins on our little street and the folks doing it all seem to know the layout of the homes. Nobody has wasted their time searching through the homes. They have been very efficient in finding the master bedrooms. The break ins happened during the day while everyone was at work. They broke the window glass or sliding glass door to unlock and get in. I went to Sodimac and had them show me any security devices for windows or sliding glass doors. It was a joke. They showed me those cheesy little door chains I used to see on low budget hotel rooms in the 1980s. I wanted a bar across the sliding glass door and some sort of latch for the windows. It still wreaks of the construction workers, working on the new condominium across our street. They literally watch me go in and out of my home from their perches. I am sure they know my schedule. I already complained to that condo's security guard after the fellows added comments to their hoots and hollers. You see it pisses me off that they do it in front of my children. The guard blew it off as a chilean thing. I am thinking of openly taking photos or filming the guys, just for the record. Maybe knowing I have their faces recorded... maybe for future review by witnesses of a local break in...

In Chile, construction season = robbery season.

If someone has a long wrap sheet, they essentially can not get much more in terms of work other than construction. So you get a bunch of low class, criminals being paid to watch a typically up-scale neighbourhood day in and day out, with all the tools they might need to break in. Often they know the houses because they built the suckers, as the track homes in Chile tend to have one floor plan and the same stock windows and doors for the entire development. They may even have gotten the gate codes from the construction company just in the course of going to work.

What you really want to watch is when the construction in your neighbourhood is starting to wrap up. That is the time they need to collect their bonus.

It is also the case that construction workers will sell information on a property to others. They do not consider themselves thieves. Admin is right. The time we got cleaned out in Viña was just as the construction across the road was wrapping up.

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Mom and kids bound and robbed in our area. Last week the neighbors next door were robbed. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! I called the electric fence company today.

admin wrote:What you really want to watch is when the construction in your neighbourhood is starting to wrap up. That is the time they need to collect their bonus.

Thanks for the tip. Now if someone can invent some sort of security device other than a set of bars on the exterior of our windows I will try it. We have those European/San Francisco windows that open like doors....conveniently for the robbers.

I would think some goverment crime stats would be available and give a much broader picture country wide. Living in one of the safest places in the states, we
have almost no violent crime, however a few hours drive to the "big city" is an entirely seperate story, this may be true in Chile as I have spent little time there.
We still plan to call Chile home.

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Just the other day outside the hiper, I was confronted by a pack of flaitesaurs who made off with my daypack while the GF was inside at the dairy section shopping for Midol and cheddar.

momof3 wrote:http://diario.latercera.com/2011/12/22/01/contenido/pais/31-94805-9-victima-de-asalto-en-chicureo-nos-podrian-haber-matado.shtml

Mom and kids bound and robbed in our area. Last week the neighbors next door were robbed. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! I called the electric fence company today.

OMG scary stuff, seems to be risky living in parcelas.

The police always recommend to get to know your neighbors, it sort of improves safety (so they say, or paz ciudadana). Maybe you can go to the 'junta de vecinos' and organize something for the small community. I have heard of places in Santiago where the neighbors hire privately a sort of 'guard' to watch the cars and homes over night, for example if you have 100 neighbors and each puts 3 thousand pesos they can higher someone who will be willing to do it for 300 thousand (or if you have 10 neighbors, 30 thousand each, I would be willing to pay something like that to feel safer)

patagoniax wrote:.

Just the other day outside the hiper, I was confronted by a pack of flaitesaurs who made off with my daypack while the GF was inside at the dairy section shopping for Midol and cheddar.

I want me some guard velociraptors in the yard. They can snack on the neighbor's german shepards or whatever was in that daypack mmmm yum.