erm i just let some random person come in and read the meter thing?

[Stephanie]

:conf2:

if he was just a normal person, he can't like do anything with the number things from it can he?

[Smithy]

Did you check he had ID?

[Stephanie]

no :shocked:

[Smithy]

:s

ohooooooooooo

[Stephanie]

uh oh.

[Billy]

hes going tokill you.

[Lucy.]

Did he have a british gas uniform or id badge? And a little black device thing

[Chels]

oh dear

[Iceman]

he could poentially run a drug smuggling ring from your adress now...

[Smithy]

Steph!

He's Behind You!!

[bettiepage]

she's gone. is that a good sign?

[Jack_]

It was Bin Laden, he's come to hide...and blow your house up.

[Smithy]

Oh dear, she's offline :S

[Shasown]

:conf2:

if he was just a normal person, he can't like do anything with the number things from it can he?

Well if he just wrote them down in his notebook, he could do some really devastating......... maths problems.

Did he store them in a handheld PDA type thing?

[Shasown]

Anybody up for volunteering to be the intruder after all those stupid posts asking for peoples details? Say something like I got your details from all the posts you did giving out your address etc, here is the number go check 459043 low 756930 high.

[Ramsay]

aw
man
thats not good

[Stephanie]

Well if he just wrote them down in his notebook, he could do some really devastating......... maths problems.

Did he store them in a handheld PDA type thing?
yeah it was a little machine.

[Shasown]

The visitor was probably genuine, mind it may be better in future if you did ask for ID before letting anyone into the house steph.

[Mark]

I had this happen when I was in my second year of uni. I wasn't really thinking, let him in to read the meter. I didn't ask for ID since he had a british gas jacket on, and a clip board. He seemed nice enough, and wasn't in for long.

To cut a long story short, the next week my house was burgled while I was out and loads of my things were stolen. I didn't click originally, but then it came to me that maybe he wasn't really a meter-checker, and he was just an imposter eyeing up the house for things to steal (xbox, laptops etc). The police told me to ring british gas to see if they had dispatched someone to read the meters the week before, so I rang them and they hadn't sent anyone. The police said its a fairly common scam for people like that, they just attach a british gas logo to their clothes to make it look legit.

Get you or your parents to ring and see if someone was meant to visit your house, the company will have a record of it if he was legit. :)

[InOne]

I had this happen when I was in my second year of uni. I wasn't really thinking, let him in to read the meter. I didn't ask for ID since he had a british gas jacket on, and a clip board. He seemed nice enough, and wasn't in for long.

To cut a long story short, the next week my house was burgled while I was out and loads of my things were stolen. I didn't click originally, but then it came to me that maybe he wasn't really a meter-checker, and he was just an imposter eyeing up the house for things to steal (xbox, laptops etc). The police told me to ring british gas to see if they had dispatched someone to read the meters the week before, so I rang them and they hadn't sent anyone. The police said its a fairly common scam for people like that, they just attach a british gas logo to their clothes to make it look legit.

Get you or your parents to ring and see if someone was meant to visit your house, the company will have a record of it if he was legit. :)

Sounds like an episode of The Real Hustle lol And yeah, people are pretty ballsy with that kinda stuff

[Tom]

^ Some other people do the same scam by saying they're security surveyors asking who has alarms fitted etc.

[Stephanie]

D:

[Zippy]

So basically youre about to get burgled.

[Lucy.]

Or you are about to get a gas bill.

[commando narf]

yeah thats pretty strange but i would worrie 2 much just tell a grown up or talk to your local police better safe than very sorry

[GypsyGoth]

Or you are about to get a gas bill.

:laugh: