Comments on: The Best Place To Hide Money: Conversation With A Burglar

By: D'Lorean

D'Lorean — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:24:30 +0000

So why did the burglar leave this business after 7 years of success? Did he find a more lucrative career?

He became an Investment Banker!

By: catherine

catherine — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:57:52 +0000

Put NRA stickers up–even if you don’t own a gun.

By: SweetRiver

SweetRiver — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:41:19 +0000

Very very interesting, I’ve translated this to Chinese and put it on my site here: http://www.isweetriver.com/2009/professional-thieves-tell-you-how-good-the-money-hidden-at-home, which brings me a great deal of traffic.

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:01:21 +0000

Wait isn’t this whole article flawed? Hum… where should i hide my gold bullion so the burgler wont find it… wait i know ill ask one specifically where he always forgets to look

By: tomas

tomas — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:08:01 +0000

My great grandparents didnt trust the banks, one hid the money and died. It wasn’t until the home was going to be sold the other found the stash sewn into the curtains, after almost being thrown out.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:52:06 +0000

When I was a kid, I tore up a corner of carpet in my closet and cut a square into the floor to hire stuff in. Still probably one of the safest places I’ve seen in a house to hide items.

By: trebenaid

trebenaid — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:16:34 +0000

Good advice from “Ben” above, the former security guard. Better advice than the original content, in fact!

By: Lazlo Toth

Lazlo Toth — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:58:27 +0000

“Always be sure to tip your burglar!”

Also, be sure to hide your money in your child’s room. Nobody would ever think of it unless they have Internet access and lots of people start telling each other to hide money in their children’s rooms.

Oh, wait.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:09:23 +0000

Comment from the opposite side, a former owner of a security company.

What he wrote is very true. The ‘typical’ burglar wants in and out in the minimum time. There are exceptions, if they know you have a particular valuable item, such as guns. Or if they know you keep a large amount of cash (to a junkie $50 is a large amount) Then they look until they find it. And can rip out walls in their search.

They will get in, No alarm will keep them out. It usually takes the cops about 20 minutes or more to get there when an alarm goes off. They will break things, kick in a locked door, shatter a window.

They will look in the kitchen cabinets, bathroom cabinets, and under the mattress and in your books cd cases and pictures – they break the picture frames.

Never stash valuables in anything that can be picked up. They just might grab your entire video collection, along with the one with the cash in it.

I saw lots of recommendations to tape an envelope under a shelf or drawer, they pull out every drawer and dump it upside down. They really do look under shelves.

If they break in, they are going to trash your place and they are going to take something. The quicker they load up, the less damage. They rarely steal more than they can easily carry.

Usually the cost of the damage exceeds the value of what was stolen. I saw one burglary where the estimated value of the stolen items was about $300 and the cost of repairing the damage exceeded $3000.

By: urallidiots

urallidiots — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:15:44 +0000

You stupid people
now that a former burglar told you where to hide ur money, the real burglars now know exactly where to look
have fun getting all of your money and valuables stolen because u took tips from a burglar to stop burglars