Burglar Quotations

Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim of a fatal dog attack will be a burglar or human attacker are 1-in-177. The odds that the victim will be a child are 7-in-10.

One time, a burglar came to my apartment, so we called the police. My son was here, so I think they left before they tried to steal something. So the police come to my apartment, and they say, 'Oh my God, did they steal everything?' I was like, 'No, it was like that!'

Miserable man! Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn; with slouched hat and guilty eye, skulking from his God; prowling among the shipping like a vile burglar hastening to cross the seas.

One of our biggest concerns is to find the burglar and to recover these items as well as the keys.

Obviously, he was specific in looking for electronics, and this church has them. It's unusual for a burglar to return to the same place. We are fortunate that this church has such great surveillance.

One of the sheriff's deputies was riding around in this area. He pulled up and saw the burglar jump the fence. I walked out of my house this morning to get the paper and check the mail and never saw or heard a thing. My son's house was trashed. The man even stole a beer out of his refrigerator.

The number one entry point is the front door because the burglar simply walks up to the door and see if it's unlocked, and in a lot of cases it is. It's like inviting a crook into your home.

That's one lock he won't be able to pick for ten years." (referring to a lock-picking house burglar who received ten to 20 years in prison, as reported in Reader's Digest, February 1996.)

It works like a burglar alarm, a beam that goes across a doorway. Once the beam is broken it triggers the bomb.