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"This just adds insult to injury," Robert Bainbridge told the New York Post of the break-in at his home, which was flooded by Superstorm Sandy.
"Whoever did this is not thinking, 'This could happen to me'," added Bainbridge, whose family saw floodwaters swamp their recording studio and destroy two cars.
Bainbridge, who lost the two change jars, later taped a sign on his door stating: "I am here and armed -- come on in".
A neighbor lost the coin collection and two watches, one a retirement gift.
"We've lived here for 30 years, and nothing like this has ever happened," the neighbor, a woman who asked not to be identified, told the Post.
In a neighborhood hard-hit by Sandy, even people who are storm victims themselves find ways to bring Thanksgiving to others. NBC's Kate Snow reports.
A third homeowner who also remained anonymous returned to find many of her drawers had been rifled through. A laptop and jewelry were taken from the home, which is still without power and whose living room, dining room and bathroom were destroyed in the storm.
PhotoBlog: Cooking a Thanksgiving feast in Breezy Point
The owner at first did not realize she had been robbed since so much of the home was damaged.
“Our house is in bad shape," she told the Post. "It looks like an earthquake hit it."
Breezy Point saws 14 break-ins from Nov. 12 to 18, the Post noted, compared with none a year earlier.
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More than what Hurricane Sandy caused or could ever cause, is the never ending supply of human trash already in existence that would do this to these people. It's incomprehensible to me how low on the evolutionary ladder these maggots must be.
sad to say there are lowlives everywhere.so much for being civilized.
WTF....
that's why robbers are 'criminals'
What's the problem?! They are just evil rich people who are hoarding stuff. I mean who needs a 25K coin collection? They didn't build that. So the coins weren't theirs anyway. Besides, Baraka Claus will bring them more goodies and give aways to ease their pain. So stop whining.
I'm not blaming the victims here but I wonder why they did not gather up the valuables and put them in a safe place before leaving a storm damaged house for vacation.
To bad there was nobody home to tag them with a round of rock salt.... This type of crime would end in a heartbeat around the area.
just unbelievable. sometimes just cant believe our society.
Really?! Let's think about this. The left wing, the deadbeats, the entitlement class, the welfare puppies, the underachievers, etc etc have been stealing our hard earned money for the last 60 years. Just because they couch it in fancy named programs and misnamed laws doesn't change the fact that they are stealing from us and our children. At least the looters don't lie to us or try and convince us they have our best interests at heart.
yes, we've steered ourselves, over the decades, towards an untenable economic climate. i wish there was someone i could trust making laws, unfortunately, i have no confidence in anyone at this point. within a couple weeks ill know if i need to begin shutting my shop down.
as for the looters and their planned attack, that was dirty. no debates, no discussions, no compromises, just those home owner properties were invaded and robbed.
@ Zathrose
Hey!! Don't forget the "right wing" in that list of yours!! After all, we must all be balanced when pointing fingers!!
Zathrose. A bit Bitter are we? The Republicans are finished. W, Chaney and Rove, all belong in Prison and you know it. As for the people who got robbed, I hope that the authorities catch the people who did this and recover there items. Its funny how Re-turds always bring Obama into any thing that happens when everyone with a brain knows that it was the Re-turds fault tht the United States is in dire straits.
why Zathrose what a real peice of work you are. you know you @#@#@ rightwing scumbags just never cease to amaze me with your racist party of hatred idiots who are the real problem we have you guys have been stealing and taking from all of us and this country for to dam long. its ok when you steal billions & billions & billions of dollars and never have to pay in any way. or have billionaires steal the election as long as your idiot racist rightwinger that gets in there or you cry foul huh! you know what gets me the most is i worked for a @#@!@ scumbag like you and after your flip flopin racist scumbag Romney lost by a lot in case you didn`t see the results i got fired cus i voted for Obama and was told that thats the reason why. what kills me is you and the rest of the rightwing scumbags never even thought that you could ever lose. but guess what there is still enough sain people left in this country and your party is soon to be a thing of the past no more i got mine so @!@!@you.
nothing wrong with taking things that belong to everyone. This is wealth distribution. We all agreed on this when we voted. Everyone just be happy.
mrindependent-1551337.......
I have a strong feeling the police will not respond to your call for help when your home gets "invaded" by a pack of thieves.
I guess for the others to prevent problems, maybe some banks can give these people a break on cost for safety deposit boxes.
Zathrose, duuug, wascigarman, albo-knows - when are people like you going to GROW UP and stop trying to bring politics into every conversation? The election has been over for several weeks now. Whether you voted for Obama or Romney, GET OVER IT!!! You are the reason this country can no longer compete with the rest of the world. You are all pathetic losers.
If you have a coin collection worth $25,000, you should put it in a damn safe deposit box at a bank. Like they say, a fool and his money are soon parted.
Yeah, as Obama says: Spread the wealth, folks! Yippee!!!
The National Guard and police need to continue to patrol. Many neighborhoods, not just Breezy Point, are very badly damaged. It is hard to convince people to go to warm shelters because they are afraid of break-ins; the only way to help them is to bring back their utilities so that they can live in their homes, if the homes are not too badly damaged. I would like to see some of the rich charities give these people new appliances if needed too. The disaster is not over, and the cold weather is starting.
It may be freezing now; New York City has been 0 degrees F (that's -17.8 C) at Christmas some years. People will die if help doesn't come quickly.
zatrose...It is as if you are condoning looting someone's home and taking what does not belong to you. You have a serious problem. So; someone decides to have a coin collection worth $25,000. This does not mean that is what the coins cost...Coins can be an investment just like anything else that grows in value the older and rarer it becomes. You bitch about Romney and his wealth, but nothing about the mega-rich Kennedys. Give it a break...These are people that had their homes destroyed...That coin collection may have helped in starting to rebuild. Shame on you!
Can't decide who's fault it is, alan? How about blaming the looters, or is independent thought just too much for you?
UNfortunately theses types of disasters bring out the best and the worst in people..
Yep, this is the same human trash who overwhelmingly voted for Obama and who continuously vote Democrat! The same human trash who don't comprehend the concept of cause and effect. Here's a hint: keep voting for the same policies and you're going to almost always get the same results!
WTF? How did we go from damning looters to politics? How do we all of a sudden assume the looters were Democrat? And if so, who gives a rat's ass what their political affiliation is!? I would venture to guess many pathetic low life criminals don't vote and have no idea of the differences between the parties in the first place. Can we just move the F on already? Jeezus..give it a rest.
I understand why looters get shot...
They must had it planned out. But then again, cops don't do anything except hand out ticket violations.
Agreed, more and more they are more worried about tickets rather then hitting the beat.
Losing a life for material things is not the same. That would be like having capital punishment for any theft. Lets crucify them for stealing bread. If they had relatives why not take to the relatives and have them hold it. Coin collection is very transportable.
I cannot believe this headline. For one veteran to say that he had it harder than another veteran smacks of jealousy and pettiness and ridiculousness. All veterans had it bad. All wars are horrible. No one had it worse than another.
JannieM1,
Ummm, wrong story !!
You may want to post this on the correct thread.
...and a lack of attention.
these are not thiefs this is just an example of wealth distribution everyone voted for this kind of society so be happy
mrindependent-1551337....
I an NOT one of the "everyone" you speak of, nor were most of the posters on this thread.
Back to the article.....
I hope they catch these guys/girls trying to pawn off the coins. Then they can be tarred and feathered.
Taxing is done by rule of law when the majority votes. Stealing is the forcible and illegal removal of personal property for personal gain. Society as a whole benefits from taxes. The looter benefits from stealing. You'd do well to recognize the difference. I think you're buying into the BS hyperbole too much.
How low can a person sink? Talk about kicking a person when they're down. I hope the low life piece or pieces of sh!t are found and dealt with severely!!
I doubt the wealth distribution you speak of will have very many sharing in the wealth. Stupid comment, and who knows who the looters were? Doubt the coins were being dropped in the collection basket at church on Sunday.
Jannie...you posted in the wrong site. This is the low lifes who steal site.
Scumbags. That is all I can think to say. Everyone has it tough and to steal from someone that is going through something as horrible as this is unforgivable. I hate thief's. They are the lowest form of human beings. Just scumbags.
Talk about scum balls and bottom of the barrel LOW LIFE SCAVENGERS!
Buzzards have more of Moral Code than this pile of steaming Crap!
Anybody got a baseball bat or a rifle,so next time they try to ransack a place,especially under these conditions,it'll be the LAST TIME?
I'd just love to beat these people over the head,or use them for target practice.Nothing would give me more pleasure!
Somewhere in the U.S.A. Scumbags that do these types of things are not afraid of being caught. Unfortunately, our Laws Protect people like this more than they protect the innocent. You beat someone with a bat, You, are more likely to go to jail than one of these scumbags. You shoot one of these scumbags, you are definitely going to jail.
8 deleted, Dave-2664536 with the 'Sounds to me like all the obama voters are back to work.' Take it to politics, that's a lousy derail and not your first.
You're suspended for a week for violating #4 of the Code of Honor.
To the low life POS responsible. I only can hope that whatever drugs or other $hit you buy with the stolen property is sufficient to terminate your pathetic life.
Oh, Mr. Bainbridge, I would REMOVE that sign.
You're doing two bad things.
1) Advertising that there are firearms in the house. Which is obviously making your residence a target.
2) And even more importantly, advertising your willingness to use said firearms against thieves, which to a prosecutor could indicate premeditation.... and prosecutors DON'T care about truth or right and wrong. They're concerned with one thing, a conviction rate and how that will advance their political agenda/career.
beat me to it, agree 100%.
Yep, take the sign down, then blow the dumb ass away when they break in. That's better and no one can claim premeditation. Just simple self-defense. And another criminal turned "good".
Move to texas and you can shoot all the intruders you want. It legal to use deadly force to prevent someone from fleeing with your property. At "night" you can pretty much shoot someone for just being on your property.
Of course you get run thought the court system to make sure you aren't abusing the law but no texas jury is going to convict you for shooting a looter.
If my car ever breaks down in TX I guess I'm just going to sleep in my car until morning. And then approach wearing kevlar. So much for southern hospitality!
Prag- just don't sneak around, walk right up to the front door and knock, you'll be okay. =0)
Low-lives like this thief have nothing to do with politics. They're just worthless people whose only means to get by is to take what others have earned. They're parasites, and a complete waste of humanity.
That is exactly a definition of obama,What do you mean it has nothing to do with politics?
dave, your a poopey-head, a bigooted poopey-head!
M, Thank You, :)
dave-266 To inject Obama into this story is absurd. It is obvious you are a political hack who can only think hateful things.
Don't blame Dave its all he know bigotry, narrow mindedness and the reason the political party I have supported since Reagan will never win another national election. Dave get over yourself and leave the republican party go back to your KKK meetings and cry along with your hooded brothers.
lol. lets keep the dave's here separated. im dave269; a much happier number.
Dave 269 seems you live in the same neighborhood and belong to the same clubs as the other Dave. Try separating yourself with an intelligent comment and you might not get confused with him
Apologies to Dave 269 misread a post
no problems. thank you.
back to the point of the discussion, you think of these people who are going through a very tough time, they have a day when they think they can get a rest bit and it turns out someone saw a golden opportunity to loot.
very tough, very tough situation for these families in that area.
Um, sounds like the typical stay at home welfare leach to me.
Sounds like an inside job, people who were familiar with the area, or working to clean it up, now they cleaned it out. People have to be viligent in times of crisis, all the valuables should have been taken somewhere safe, to a bank or something. No use cursing the criminals, that's what they do. I do like the phase, "looters will be shot" though!!
It's no excuse, but the looters are probably people in the same situation. They could very well have been people from the same area, even neighbors.
Feaking people! Dear robbers - get a job!
This incrediably sad for those homeowners to have more of their belongings taken away from them first by natural disaster and following that by human beings with absolutely no morals.
It is my prayer that the public can keep their eyes open for the identifiable items and whoever is carrying them turn their asses into authorities.
How does Obama and or any other politician play a part in peoples' terrible morals go to the source the parents, society in general who will either cater and or ignore bad behavior and or lastly to the theif themself.
Lastly, I believe what goes around comes around and believe those who stole will get theirs back and more.
Odds are good the looters are drug addicts looking to finance more self-destruction. They've already got what's coming to them with the miserable existences they must lead.
I'd love to have someone try to burglarize our home, and to be home at the time it occurs!
It might cost me a dollar or two in shells, but it would be a heck of a deal in the long run for tax-payers and insurance companies (they might even let me claim the deduction).
Low-life scum like these have no place in our society, and I don't believe in their purported rehabilitation in jail.
As for Dave-2664536, you're an AZZ and no doubt a tad bitter... get a life or take your own, one way or another, get over it!
But what if the thieves were armed gang bangers who knew how to kill people with weapons?
I would not keep 25k in my house, why would anyone keep a coin collection worth that amount in their home? Not excusing the robbers, they are scum, but did they break into a safe or what?
Well it is pretty hard to build 25K of saviings on welfare, isn't it?
what a @!@#@ scumbag you are Terry from scumsville TX i thought you freeks quit and left the country if not hurry TFup would you this country done with azz holes like you
Terry...How dare you insult someone that you don't even know. He doesn't need to give a reason why he prefers to keep it in his home. Hopefully they will catch you when you try to bring them to the local pawnshop to cash in to buy your next 100x100 feet trailer trash home.
Good reason for the death penalty. Don't need that scum.
I don't know about the death penalty, but who does that to their neighbors? Why do I even ask, it happens all across the country every day.
Drug addicts have pretty loose morals when they're looking for a hit.
aungie2012 banned for making personal attacks.
Sally is a sparkling, golden goddess of Truth, Beauty and Light. Thanks, Sally.
I bet some of the same people posting here about wanting to shoot looters are some of the same gun grabbing libs who post about banning & taking away all guns in every article about a shooting that takes place. LOL Hypocrites.
$25,000 coin collection.. These people are obviously not as hard hit as some of the scum living on the street with their family after losing their home and job to the very same people. At least crime tends to redistribute the wealth that is horded.
you have no idea what and how that coin collection played into the plans of retirement for those folks.
using your logic, do you mind if i go into your 401k or any other retirement account and help myself to $25k ?
I just hope they documented the coin collection for insurance purposes. Years ago a lady in our town was robbed of 10k cash from her home. She filed an insurance claim, but I bet you can imagine how that turned out. I really believe this woman had that amount of money but she still lost it and was not reimbursed for it. That's what a bank account or lockbox is for.
yes, hopefully they had it documented. unfortunately, i wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't.
Documented hell they probably took it with them..
Such a cynic. I guess it could happen, though.
i couldn't imagine anyone keeping an inventory register for something like that in an obvious location.
After Being Robbed ???
Well they sure as hell are now ???
Do we Not Have National Guards or Some Org to PREVENT THIS ???
The question to ask is this: If Mayor Bloomingnuts boasts of his own private (police) army, why doesn't he deploy them where they are needed?
He has the entire city under the Orwellian Eye, but can't stop simple looting?
It's a screaming joke!
One more comment... It seems the good Mayor is so busy guarding Wall Street, he can't be bothered with the local Main Street.
Damn those sorry-ass 1% ers with their millions of dollars! We all know that none of the forgottten 47% would EVER do something like this, would they? No liberal would ever steal from someone down and out, eh?
(Sarcasm off!)
Turn your sarcasm back on. I can almost guarantee the people who did this do not vote. It doesn't sound like they are civic responsible, therefore, they can be neither liberal nor conservative, just the fringe.
You might want to have a once thru for valuables..........You know before two or three weeks after the storm.
While your at it, claim a Rembrandt, Picasso and a quarter billion in gold was in there too ? Might as well bilk the Ins. company for everything you can get right ? Victimless crime eh ?
Are you trying to be funny? If so, you suck at it.
Mostly everyone said it for me, these people who steal are very disgusting and super lowlife. It's bad enough stealing from anyone, but when you steal from people who have had bad luck because of the weather, this puts the lowlife scum into a level lower than low.
Need to do like we did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Neighbors got together and created a series of checkpoints to control and monitor access, especially after dark. If we were going to be out of the area overnight, other neighbors were informed. Of course, with curfews, several strategically placed signs made it clear that residents in our neighborhood were armed, and since most of us were too tired at the end of the day, anyone moving about at night was obviously not a local, and clearly subject to challenge.
But theft at this point makes me wonder about security. We had National Guard and a ton of law enforcement folks on the coast - most from out-of-state. The check point leading into our subdivision was manned by Flordia & Georgia Highway Patrol officers, who we treated like royalty, and they were in place through the night. The National Guard made 3-4 runs through our housing area everyday. Law enforcement and National Guard stopped nearly every vehicle in the area to determine if a local resident, and if not, who they were visiting and most of the time they escorted the vehicle to the home site. If the visitor was determined to be uninvited, they were detained until a background check could be done. I had my ID check daily. It was like this for about 4 weeks, which gave most of us time to secure our damaged home site and remove any valuables. Maybe Southern neighbors are more connected amd willing to watch each other's back and property. But, it sounds like Law Enforcement and the National Guard are just not checking ID to determine residency in a given area, not sufficiently enforcing curfews and restricting traffic after dark. Guess it is different on the East Coast.
Let me guess: Algiers Point.
After the first, second or even the third night why wasn't someone patrolling the area? 6 days of break-ins is 6 days to many. If you don't own a gun but want to protect your family go buy one. It doesn't have to be a hand gun, a shot gun will work if you want to scare the hell out of someone.
So where was the National Guardsmen/women called out to protect the victims! Where was the police, FEMA, and emergency teams, promised by POTUS? Kinda like POTUS funding to protect our Diplomas overseas - not there! And the current administration says our boarder are safe - and willing to sue States that disagree? {:-(}
yup . all of obamas voters are responsible. You give the @!$%#s everything and they go out and steal more. As far as rocksalt , bull@!$%#, buckshot is better. stop kissing these bastards asses, anyone breaks into my house,i dont care if they are juvies, they are going out in a friggin body bag.a disabled USMC vietnam combat vet
You are a disgrace to the Marines !
Do you really think Romney is any better? They are all corrupted and won't give a damn about ordinary citizens. They said they cared just to buy your votes. Nothing has changed and nothing will change unless we are bringing down the current system and then rebuilding it.
Of course Obama's responsible. After all, according to Fuxnews and its devoted masses of brain-dead viewers, Obama controls the weather.
My goodness what has happened to my country? So much hatred, and it is coming from both sides pretty much even so no one get up on your sanctimonious high horse. I remember a time when we could debate our differences with a degree of decorum, we need not compromise our own personal norms and standards, just voice your opinion and let others choose to disagree and voice theirs. It is called freedom of speech. In voicing our opinion we give our reasons and do not attack them personally. I fear our country is in a sad state.