Gurglary

This post was written on 26th august, the next day after an unforgettable theft from my house but retained from posting for some reasons. But now I've decided to post it.

Sunday, 24th August, in the dead of the night at around 12-1 a.m. a burglar broke into my house and stole my properties and it all happened while we were sleeping in blissful ignorance (gasp). It's shocking that somebody came so close to me presumably spent about five minutes yet I couldn't get a tinge of clue of his presence. It was a premeditated and a strategically planned act. And I can't believe that I have become a victim of such an act.

Upon analyzing the incident, I learnt that the act was planned long in advance. I also learnt that the stranger had spied on me for the past few weeks and waited for the right time to execute the plan. The person had sneaked his way into the school campus and observed me through the windows of my house for quite sometime. Scary! Isn't' it?

Sunday night was an unusual night for me. Normally I would go to bed at 9:30 p.m. but that night I wasn't sleepy till 11:45 p.m. as though God was trying to hint on me about the eminent theft. My wife and kids had already gone to bed after dinner. Till 10:45 pm I watched Manchester United-Sunderland football match. But even after the match I wasn't sleepy. Then I started to worry of oversleeping the next morning and getting late to school. So I decided to go to bed and force myself to sleep. I switched off the TV checked if the main door was latched and the windows were closed. I found them all closed. With a settled mind I went to bed. On the bed I still couldn't find any sleep. That night it was really difficult to beat my sleepless mind. I reached to my bookshelf and picked a book. Reading the book eventually put me to sleep. But it wasn't a peaceful sleep yet. I was half asleep half awake. I could hear the sound of the fan and feel the cold air brushing against my body. I could hear my little son coughing. Suddenly, the air was no longer cold and I was feeling hot. The room had become pitch dark. In the half awakened mind I knew that there was a power outage. The heat and the pitch darkness finally won over my sleepless mind and put me to a complete sleep.    

The next morning, my daughter woke up before anybody since she goes to school in the first shift which starts at 6:30 am. Suddenly she shouted from the sitting room 'Apa! There is a hole on our window!!!'. I quickly woke up to check. I saw the plastic net I had put over the window few months ago cut out to a size big enough for a man to get through. The sliding window was slid open and the main door was also wide open.  My wife woke up and she was horrified. We knew that a thief had broken in. Promptly, we checked for things in the house. Everything was intact in the sitting-room and alter-room. The last I checked was my bedroom because I least doubted anything to be lost from the bedroom. But to my utter dismay I found my laptop bag missing from under my study table. No sooner did we notice the missing lap top than my wife was aghast. At first we thought the thief had taken only the lap top but later we realized that we had some cash in the bag. Ngultrum nine thousand. That made my wife all the more frantic.      

The plastic net was cut out to a size big enough for a man to get through.

The cut out section of the net

I dialed 113 and informed the police. The man on the phone said that they were on their way. In the mean time I went out to check for any more destruction done to my house. I found that a chair had been propped against the wall and had been used as a climbing device. I also found the plastic nets had been cut in two more places. One in the bedroom window right above my head and the other one in the kitchen window. The thief had used these two windows to get a view of me. When I was in the sitting room watching TV he used the kitchen window and when I was in my bedroom reading, he watched me through the bedroom window. 

A chair was propped against the wall which was used for climbing 

One more cutting on my bedroom window 

Just then the police arrived and they examined the 'modus operandi' and they added one more case to the dozens they had already listed.     

On searching for any clue about the thief, I found an object that belonged to the thief in the kitchen-an amulet. I don't know whether it was left intentionally or unintentionally. It had an image of a Hindu God engraved on it and the first thing that popped up in my mind when I saw the amulet was that the thief could have been an Indian. But the police and I couldn't ascertain that the person was an Indian. We thought that the person might have intentionally left it to lure our minds to suspect for an Indian. People who came to see me speculated that the amulet thread might have snapped when the person squeezed in through the window and obliviously dropped the amulet in the kitchen.

The amulet

The incident has left my family traumatized. My wife and kids feel the aftermath. They are psychologically disturbed. My kids do not sleep without me by their side. My wife says that she feels haunted. But my wife and I agree that we are lucky in a way. The person, whoever it may be, just took away the lap top without inflicting any physical harm to anyone in the family. My wife often tells me that if anyone of us would have noticed the thief and woken up, it would have put our lives on the line.

Later that day, police were reported of two more theft cases from the college of education. That made three theft cases in a day. That day, theft became the talk of the town and it made people in Samtse stay hyper-alert at home. 

Lindsay Lohan sentenced to FOUR months in jail as judge rules she violated probation

By Daily Mail Reporter


-Lohan plans to appeal decision and will be allowed to post bail - set at $75k
-Actress in tears as preliminary necklace theft case reaches climax
-Judge reduces felony grand theft charge to a misdemeanour

Back to jail: Lindsay Lohan arrives at the LAX courthouse in Los Angeles today for the preliminary hearing into her necklace case. After hearing evidence against her a judge ruled she had violated her probation and sentenced her to four months in jail


Lindsay Lohan has been sentenced to 120 days in jail for a probation violation after a judge heard evidence against the actress in her necklace theft case.

The actress's lawyer Shawn Chapman said she will appeal the ruling, which will allow the actress to post bail, which was set at $75,000

Judge Stephanie Sautner also ordered Lohan to serve more than 400 hours of community service, including 300 hours at a women's center.


Pensive: A court sketch shows Lohan sat next to her lawyer Shawn Chapman as jewllery store owner Kaman takes the witness stand


The ruling came after Sautner reduced Lohan's grand theft case down to a misdemeanor and after prosecutors gave their case against the actress.

It will be Lohan's fourth jail stint.

Sautner refused to dismiss the theft case against Lohan, but said she often sees more serious cases that get reduced to lesser charges.

'I see the intent here,' Sautner said. 'I see a level of brazenness with "Let me see what I can get away with here.'''

Sautner ruled that prosecutors had shown that Lohan violated her probation, but also said in reducing the charge that she was going to give the actress 'an opportunity.'

Lohan formally entered a not guilty plea at Friday's hearing. She is next due back in court on May 11 for a pre-trial hearing with the trial scheduled for June 3.

The 'Mean Girls' star arrived at the courthouse wearing a black long-sleeve shirt, blue trousers and a scarf.

Her father Michael Lohan was also in attendance and took a front row seat inside the court - where cameras have been banned.

The news came during a dramatic day at the LAX courthouse in Los Angeles, which culminated in Lohan breaking down in tears.

Various witnesses were brought to the stand throughout the day, including the owner of the jewellery store, the store clerk and the investigating officer from the LAPD.

Judge Sautner dismissed the motion to drop the case altogether, according to internet reports.

But it seems Lindsay's lawyer, Shawn Chapman, has managed to persuade the judge that the necklace was worth far less than $2,500.

Under California law, a crime only becomes grand theft if the value of the stolen goods exceeds $950.

Preliminary hearing: The actress wore a black top, Navy blue trousers teamed with an off-white scarf and wore her hair in an updo. She was accompanied by her lawyer Shawn Chapman, who wore a red dress


During the hearing Chapman had aruged the necklace was worth less than $2,500.

Furthermore Sofia Kaman, the owner of Kamofie & Co. - the Los Angeles jewellery store which Lohan allegedly stole from - admitted the store's mark-up price was two to three times that of the wholesale price.

The district attorney in the case, Jeanette Meyers, has said she will appeal the judges decision to reduce Lohan's charge from a grand theft to a misdemeanour, RadarOnline reports.

Solem: Lohan made no comment as she walked past photographers and journalists, seen right her father Michael Lohan who bagged a front row seat inside the court

Media frenzy: Photographers watch as the U.S. actress rides the elevator to the court room

Earlier, jewellery store owner Ms Kaman told the court she waited a day before reporting the necklace as stolen because the actress told her she would return later.

Taking to the witness stand she testified at Lohan's preliminary hearing, telling the court it took 10 minutes before she realised the actress had left wearing the necklace.

She said she waited to report the necklace missing to polcie because Lohan had told her she would return the next day to buy a ring.

Lohan, 24, has been accused of taking the necklace in January without permission.

Lohan has been a courthouse fixture since last May when she missed a hearing in her drunken driving case.

Since then, two judges have sent her to jail twice and rehab, also twice.

On Wednesday, Fiore Films announced it had cast the actress to play the wife of John Gotti Jr., the son of the infamous mob boss dubbed the 'Teflon Don,' in a biopic of the family.

The project, title, 'Gotti: Three Generations,' is scheduled to begin shooting later this year in Lohan's native New York.

In an interview with the AP, Lohan said she was eager to put her court cases behind her and once again be known as an actress.

'I'm really excited to be back on set and clear up all the misinterpretations about me and show this is what I love to do,' Lohan said.

'I think in the past, I had a lot of distractions,' she said. 'I've learned a lot. I've lived a lot. When I'm on set, it's about the film.'


Scene of the incident: The Kamofie & Co jewellery store in Venice, California


source:dailymail