It's been years since I heard this, at the time I was a member of at least 4 forums, and a guy (embarrassingly) admitted that while he was sleeping someone broke into his house and stole the gun off his nightstand. I'm not saying it couldn't happen to me, but I'm a pretty light sleeper. I have to say the guy must not have had a dog.
I don't even remember what the topic was, but I can see someone breaking into someone's house at night, but I don't believe it happens with someone in the house very often.
I personally know people that had their houses broken into and never woke up because the Thief was actually that good.
A good number of years ago one young man was so skilled he even made friends with the house dogs by feeding them so he could break in. He never stole anything, he just was crazy and he liked to see people sleeping and not know he was watching them. Eventually one homeowner did wake up and shoot and kill him.
I might add I also read of a case where a guy was mowing his lawn but left his door unlocked and a thief broke in and ransacked his house in broad daylight. The only think the guy ended up taking was a box of popsicles. The Cops followed the popsicles sticks down the street and found the guy eating the last one while sitting in his car.
In a South American Glue factory a thief broke in by jumping in from an open window and fell onto a barrel of glue and knocked himself out cold and the plastic barrel had tipped over and broke and glued him to the floor by the time he woke up. He was discovered the next day still stuck to the floor like a human fly.
Another guy broke into a home and ate a good lunch and then took a nap on the couch while the homeowner was sleeping. The dummy left without his shoes and when he realized it he came back and asked the home owner if he had found a pair of shoes in his house that did not belong to him.
A group of teenagers tried to steal a car after robbing a jewelry store but none of them knew how to drive a stick shift and the cops got them while they were still sitting in the car.
Another guy attempted to rob a pizza store. When he walked in he slipped and fell on a pizza that had fallen off the counter. The crook hit the floor so hard it knocked him out and the cops were there in minutes. When the Cops asked the Crook why he was laying on the floor the Crook thinking fast said "I was just looking for some spare change".
Another guy broke into a Warehouse which happened to have a viscous Police Dog there to guard the place. The crook crawled up a pole and called the Police and asked the Police to come and save him from the dog.
