Successful Theft :o(

Right, On Wednesday night I got woken up to some noise coming from the gap between mine & my neighbours house.

I got out of bed & looked out of hte window but couldn't see anything.

We've got a huge metal door that's always locked so I figured that my neighbour had just got back late from "wherever" and was putting his mountain bike away.

Checked my alarm clock it was 1.20am. As he's got kids I figured that was a bit late so I had another look & still couldn't see anything. The only thought that crossed my mind was maybe they're setting off somewhere for the school holidays & getting an early start. (at 1.20 am this madeperfect sense!).

Spoke to my neighbour today. Seems that someone stole one of their mountain bikes on Wed night/Thurs morning.

Bugger, I could have stopped this.

Now the question is, and this is bearing in mind Nutty Tart's attempted theft:

Should I tell my neighbour I hear something yet did nothing? (although to be fair I did look out my window twice locating a) my mobile phone b) my digital camera just n case it was trouble)

My neighour does look out for my bike from time to time & if I say I did nothing then maybe she won't in future.

When she mentioned it earlier I just feigned ignorance thinknig that there's nothign that can be done about it now....


D.

oh my god can't believe you didn't tell me.

Say nowt and maintain good relations with your neighbour. Be a bit more "active" should there be a next time.

keep scthum now matey

wot she dont know wont hurt her...

and dont feel bad... maybe you lucky you didnt go down and confront the thieves--

you just dont know these days what they will do.

Being honest mate it wont make any diffrence at all telling or not telling her.

You could talk about fitting a security light or cheep simple cctv system and splitting the cost or something though!

move your a rubbish neighbour only joking. i wouldnt say anything though

Wouldn't say anything now. But they'll be back, so be prepared.

I hate thieves

Our security light came on in the courtyard a couple of months ago and being paranoid about the bike had a look through the window. Saw a couple of 'chavs' walking out of the courtyard but it looked like they had come over the wall for a short cut so thought nothing else of it. Next day when i got home from work the guy from downstairs was having his car window replaced, turns out it had been broken into and i'd probably seen the culprits. Anyway, made the fatal mistake of telling him this and the relationship has been frosty since
My advice - DEFINITELY SAY NOTHING

[northwind]

You never know, that might be information that'd help a police investigation... Myself, I'd be inclined to just tell them the truth- just say that you heard something but it didn't occur to you it was thieves, you just thought it was the neighbour going about his business...

Personally I agree with Northy - apart from the fact that you've already played ignorant. So I'd advocate staying schtum - but bear it in mind next time!