Housekeepers do not sleep: what marks do thieves leave on the doors of Dnipro. The meaning of doors in mysticism and history What marks do thieves leave

06.11.2019

The door, as a symbol, is presented in many literary and cinematographic works of various genres: they try to open it, pick up the key, the road to other worlds can lie through it, it can be used as a portal. Writers dedicate entire pages describing the entrance to their heroes' dwelling. What are the doorways of bizarre shapes and sizes in the fantasy world!

Ancient and modern signs

And it would seem: why? In fact, even our ancient ancestors believed that the door has magical properties. She was protected by amulets and special herbs. They believed that this saves them from evil spirits that can enter the house. There were special conspiracies and divination on the threshold of the house. Moreover, in many ancient religions there were deities who kept the keys to the castle.

Even now, there are still a lot of signs about it. If the door suddenly slammed loudly - this indicates a desire to get married, if it unexpectedly fell off the hinges - to a long journey. The creaking of the door carries the coming misfortunes. It is believed that an open door symbolizes new opportunities. It is a transition not only between rooms, but also between different states of a person.

In the world of dreams

In somnology, the science of dreams, there is a separate section devoted to doors and gates, since these objects often appear in a dream. An open door carries reciprocity, both in relation to love and in relation to material gifts. Closed or creaking gates promise you a future meeting with an unwanted person; an unexpected breakdown from the loops - your friends and relatives are in trouble. If you crossed the threshold of your parental home in a dream, then joy and peace of mind await you.

Of course, we all know that if the door creaks, then this means that it needs to be lubricated, and if it falls out of the hinges, then they must be screwed on well. But there is still something mystical in this object. No wonder he gets so much attention. Although, maybe this is due to its ancient origin.

Historical finds

According to archaeologists, the first door was created in Switzerland from the bark of a German maple, people were forced to protect their homes from wind and snow due to the harsh climate at the foot of the Alps. This find dates back to 3000 BC. e. Also at various times in different countries stone and metal were found door leafs, which is not much different from modern materials. Interesting fact that an analogue of a modern castle was invented later - during the ancient egypt, and quite later, medieval scientists improved the mechanism.

I learned how burglars mark the doors of potential victims and how you can protect your apartment.

Preliminary check

First of all, thieves will find out if there is something to profit from in the apartment. Often they work on a tip. It is given by employees of housing departments, women checking meters, gas workers and so on.

Often, neighbors or acquaintances of the owners of the apartment give a tip to attackers. Last year, through the fault of former partners, a tenant of a house on Bogdan Khmelnitsky Avenue died.

It happens that they simply choose a specific entrance and try to find apartments in it where the owners are not at home during the day.

Once a victim has been chosen, burglars try to determine when is the best time to come for prey. They ring the doorbell, intercom, introduce themselves as employees of the post office, social services or a company that offers plastic windows and warming. The main task of burglars is to choose a good time for a robbery.

Invisible signs

The British police have a whole classification of signs that gunners leave in small pieces for burglars to rob desired apartment at the right time. There are symbols that mean that a single woman lives in the house or the owners are never home at lunchtime.

In the Dnieper, everything is much simpler. Our burglars do not have a generally accepted secret system of signs. They label the apartments as they see fit. One of the most common ways is multi-colored small stickers, which are often used as price tags in bazaars. They are glued either somewhere in the corner by the door, or on the mailbox. Sometimes a plus sign or a circle is drawn near the bell. Usually residents do not pay attention to this.

In the summer of 2017, an apartment at the intersection of Embankment and Voskresenskaya was almost robbed. The hostess returned home from work earlier than usual, because the lights were turned off in the office. Around two o'clock in the afternoon, the doorbell began to ring. She did not react, deciding that these were some regular sellers. plastic tableware. There were 4 long calls. Then some strange sounds were heard, someone was busy in the castle. The woman was frightened and ran to the video surveillance system. Indeed, two men in hooded windbreakers were bustling about at the door.

The hostess began to scream that she was already calling the police. The robbers heard her and fled. Soon the woman's son returned from school. Together they saw that there were two pink stickers taped to the bottom of the door.

Sometimes burglars stick pieces of tape or even human hair on the door. The latter is fixed in such a way that it breaks if the door is opened. This is a sign that the owner returned home earlier than usual.

How to save an apartment

Today there is a special type of locks that cannot be opened if a key is inserted into them from the inside. It's impossible to push it out. But even such locks have already learned to bypass with the help of acid.

Not so long ago it was believed that if there are plastic windows on the first or second floor, then you can not spend money on lattices. In fact, opening such a window is not difficult. All you need is a long steel screwdriver. It is inserted where the handle is near the window, picking off the plastic trim, and simply rotated. Therefore, the bars on the windows should not be abandoned.

If you returned home and saw signs of a break-in, do not rush to enter the apartment. Better call the police right away and wait outside. If you come across one-on-one with criminals in an apartment, they will not stand on ceremony with you.

You can try to close the attacker inside the apartment.

If you're at home and you hear someone picking at the lock, make a noise and call 102, alert the burglars that the cops have already left.

If the rustle outside the door has not subsided, do not waste time and barricade the entrance. A nightstand or closet from the corridor that blocks the door can save your life. It would be nice to store personal protective equipment (at least a gas canister) in the hallway. Don't stop screaming. You can open the window and turn to passers-by for help.

From time immemorial, criminals began to mark houses and apartments that are being raided. Remember the story of Ali Baba and the 40 thieves? From time to time, prosperous areas are seized by panic - they say, mysterious signs of various configurations appear on the walls in the entrances, mailboxes and even doors. And we are talking not only about Moscow, the Moscow region, St. Petersburg or, say, Nizhny Novgorod, but also about the cities of Ukraine, Great Britain, Austria and even Chile.

Infographics: "RG" / Alexander Smirnov / Mikhail Falaleev

Residents were frightened by advertising stickers pasted on doors with offers of 24-hour plumbing or computer services, drawn in chalk and charcoal geometric figures and other tic-tac-toe. There was a version that these notes are encrypted information for burglars.

Let's say a crossed out circle means that there is nothing of value in the apartment. A flower or a cross, on the contrary, indicate that good prey awaits here. An open book or a triangle is easy prey, a rich old woman or a lonely defenseless lady lives here. Three parallel lines - "colleagues" have already visited the house and taken everything interesting, a staircase - it is recommended to give this room to another gang. And two intersecting rectangles or the sun - the owner is on the alert, the house is guarded and thieves will be met fully armed. Rhombus - non-residential house. Maybe this is some kind of very numerous and branched gang, almost a mafia, where many of the participants do not even know each other? And they cover entire cities. Some are engaged only in tipping and leave secret signs, while others, having seen and deciphered these signals, commit thefts. Still others take out, store and sell the loot.

According to numerous posts on the Web, these "secret signs" are used by burglars in Chile. But our threat department believes that this is an invention of Internet bloggers, an attempt to arouse the interest of users. Infographics: "RG" / Leonid Kuleshov / Mikhail Falaleev

Where is the truth and where is the fantasy?

The detectives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told the correspondent of "RG" that such an encoding is a fictitious "horror story", a legend for naive inhabitants. There is no need for such ciphers - who will set them and for whom? In practice, a gang of apartment thieves rarely exceeds 10 people. They, of course, have a division of labor and duties, but they all know each other perfectly by sight. Therefore, it makes no sense to create some special, moreover, universal cipher. It is always easier to verbally agree among themselves what is what. Moreover, those "secret signs" that apartment thieves actually leave carry completely different information than rumor ascribes to them.

Modern burglars leave the so-called beacons exclusively for themselves in order to find out the life algorithm of the apartment owners. For example, they stick a match, a hair or a thread in the door, throw a coin on the mat, even put a piece of biscuit supposedly dropped by a neighbor. And they look to see if a match or a thread has fallen out, if a coin has been thrown away, if a cookie has been crushed - which means that the owners are not away. Then it remains to find out when they are at home, and indeed, how many inhabitants are here. To do this, visual surveillance is established behind the apartment, for which a whole mafia structure is not required at all, 2-4 people are enough, who replace each other. And they certainly do without graphic symbols on mailboxes, walls or doors to convey information. On the contrary, they in every possible way avoid at least something to attract the attention of the owners. They do have punctures though. For example, attentive owners may notice some suspicious marks and stains on the doors. It is possible that the thieves, picking up keys and master keys, made casts from the locks and did not erase the imprints of the thickening mixture in a hurry. Moreover, if they manage to clear one castle completely, then the second one is unlikely.

Often, "secret signs" for thieves appear as if by themselves. Criminal gunners will always notice letters, advertising booklets and other correspondence accumulated in the mailbox - evidence that the owners are away. They can check the readings of the electric meter if it is installed in the entrance in the old fashioned way. They can identify a rich owner by his car. It's simple. A certain gentleman parked in a Mercedes or Lexus and then went to his house. It is enough to bring it to the threshold of the apartment and, as they say, take it into "development".

The paradox is that the most convincing "secret signs" for thieves are left by the apartment owners themselves. And without suspecting it. Neighbors or friends, even grandmothers on a bench near the house, can become a source of information about the well-being of the owners. It is enough for the gunner to sit next to them, smoke and listen to learn a lot of interesting things. For example, what was bought from furniture a week ago and when the owners went on their next vacation to the Canary Islands. Often, we ourselves brag to our friends about new purchases and share plans for a vacation. And as for children who love to brag to their peers about the "coolness" of their parents, there is nothing to say.

But the most surprising thing is that many themselves invite the robbers to visit them. They do it in in social networks. Colorful albums with photos of where they are, what they buy and how they live well in general, literally scream: come and steal all this from us! What is happening is that experienced thieves have been literally living in social networks for a long time, pretending to be friends, liking photos and finding out addresses where you can “successfully go”.

How they steal in Moscow

Up to 2,000 burglaries are committed annually in Moscow. Of these, 80% on weekdays, when the owners are at work or study, from 9 to 17 hours. Every fourth is revealed. 90% of thefts are committed by non-working people, 60% by non-residents, and the same number by professional organized groups.

How to protect yourself from apartment thieves?

It is clear that it is desirable not to brag about your wealth, then there will be no criminal applicants for it.

But best defense- signaling, that is, centralized security, when a message about an intrusion into a protected object is sent to the control panel of the operational duty officer for the unit - either the police or the private security company. That is, the light bulb lights up, the address is displayed, and an immediate response group is sent there. These are well-trained strong guys, dressed in bulletproof vests and armed with automatic weapons. Representatives of private security, in addition, recommend installing an alarm button in their homes. Better yet, get a remote control that you should always carry with you. If there was a sudden attack, it is possible to press the button without the villains noticing.

Even the so-called false alarm, that is, its layout, can scare away thieves. After all, not every burglar will dare to check the authenticity of the equipment.

It will create fear for robbers and the presence of a dog in the apartment - no one needs noise and unnecessary trouble with an aggressive animal.

Dossier "RG"

Under the protection of non-departmental security today there are 1 million apartments and 166 thousand places of storage of property of citizens (mainly garages). There are 266,000 such apartments and houses in the Moscow region and 33,000 places where property is stored. Last year, there was not a single successful theft from an apartment, a private house and other objects, the owners of which entered into an agreement with private security. However, if this does happen, private security will compensate the owners for damage - this is separately stated in the contract.

How much does security cost

The average cost of installing security equipment in a 1-room apartment is up to 22 thousand rubles, in a 2-room apartment up to 26 thousand, in a 3-room apartment up to 35 thousand rubles. The monthly cost of maintenance, if the system is radio-equipped, is 212 rubles, if the scheme is adapted to telephone communications, it is 140 rubles. Security of a private house with an area of 200 sq. meters will cost 215 rubles.

Have you ever noticed that strange marks sometimes appear on some doors - as if a child, while playing, accidentally drew something? If you see marks on the doors, call the police immediately! Recently, the British police released a list of so-called "thieves' marks". These are special symbols with which burglars mark the houses and apartments of potential (and real) victims. More often […]

Have you ever noticed that strange marks sometimes appear on some doors - as if a child, while playing, accidentally drew something? If you see marks on the doors, call the police immediately!

Recently, the British police released a list of so-called "thieves' marks". These are special symbols with which burglars mark the houses and apartments of potential (and real) victims.

Most often they are applied with chalk on the outside of the house, which is clearly visible from the street. It could be Entrance door, garage wall or gate, gate, fence, etc.

Unfortunately, the matter is not limited to Britain alone. Similar warnings can be heard from the police in Spain, Chile, China, Cyprus...

The list can go on, but it won't help. If the police in your country do not report anything like this, this does not mean at all that local thieves do not put such marks on themselves in your city.

On the contrary: according to some reports, after the publication of symbols in the press, many thieves refused to use them. After all, the more people know about them, the higher the likelihood that a badge that suddenly appeared on the house will arouse them ahead of time.

We urge you to be vigilant, do not leave your home unattended for a long time and call the police at the slightest suspicion. Of course, the alarm will not interfere.

Residents were frightened by advertising stickers pasted on doors with offers of round-the-clock services of a plumber or computer technician, geometric shapes drawn with chalk and charcoal, and other crosses or tac-toes. There was a version that these notes are encrypted information for burglars.

Let's say a crossed out circle means that there is nothing of value in the apartment. A flower or a cross, on the contrary, indicate that good prey awaits here. An open book or a triangle is easy prey, a rich old woman or a lonely defenseless lady lives here. Three parallel lines - “colleagues” have already visited the house and taken everything interesting, a staircase - it is recommended to give this room to another gang. And two intersecting rectangles or the sun - the owner is on the alert, the house is guarded and thieves will be met fully armed. Rhombus - non-residential house. Maybe this is some kind of very numerous and branched gang, almost a mafia, where many of the participants do not even know each other? And they cover entire cities. Some are engaged only in tipping and leave secret signs, while others, having seen and deciphered these signals, commit thefts. Still others take out, store and sell the loot.

Where is the truth and where is the fantasy?

But the most surprising thing is that many themselves invite the robbers to visit them. They do it on social media. Colorful albums with photos of where they are, what they buy and how they live well in general, literally scream: come and steal all this from us! What is happening is that experienced thieves have been literally living in social networks for a long time, pretending to be friends, liking photos and finding out addresses where you can “successfully enter”.

How they steal in Moscow

How to protect yourself from apartment thieves?

It is clear that it is desirable not to brag about your wealth, then there will be no criminal applicants for it.

But the best protection is an alarm, that is, centralized security, when a message about an intrusion into a protected object is received by the control panel of the operational duty officer for the unit - either the police or the private security company. That is, the light bulb lights up, the address is displayed, and an immediate response group is sent there. These are well-trained strong guys, dressed in bulletproof vests and armed with automatic weapons. Representatives of private security, in addition, recommend installing an alarm button in their homes. Better yet, get a remote control that you should always carry with you. If there was a sudden attack, it is possible to press the button without the villains noticing.

Even the so-called false alarm, that is, its layout, can scare away thieves. After all, not every burglar will dare to check the authenticity of the equipment.

It will create fear for robbers and the presence of a dog in the apartment - no one needs noise and unnecessary trouble with an aggressive animal.

Dossier "RG"