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Live blogging a crime scene: Distilled offices broken into

By: Will Critchlow

So it’s not entirely the way I’d choose to spend a Saturday afternoon; sat outside our offices waiting for the police scene of crime officers to arrive to do their forensic stuff after some !*?!! smashed our lovely new front door and stole (at least) two 24″ iMacs.

Our front door at the moment:

Our front door after break-in

We only moved in on Monday – I haven’t even been able to write about our move yet (you’ll have to be patient at least another day!). We love our office – it’s such an improvement over the old one in so many ways. Except security, apparently. While we have off-site backups of everything crucial, it would have been a pain if our office servers had been taken – just in terms of restoring etc. As far as I can tell from outside (sitting on the floor, connected to WiFi!) it’s only our two big expensive 24″ iMacs that have been stolen – and since they shouldn’t have too much on them in terms of data, they should be very easy to replace. Thankfully, they are insured (though I don’t know the excess yet).

There are a few things that are very annoying about this. The main one being that the premises are supposed to be protected by a security company, Anco Security, the security guard was on-site (we don’t employ the security guys directly, so it will be up to our landlord to look into this in more detail). I can’t believe it happened in broad daylight at 2pm on a Saturday!

Anco Security

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7 Comments »

  • Leonie on Sun (7 Oct) @ 10:07 am

    &nbps;

    Oh my goodness I am so upset! I can’t believe this! So much for security! Let me know if there is anything you want me to do to help? – My dad wonders whether metal shutters might be a good idea! – In future. :( I hope you are both ok.

  • Will Critchlow on Sun (7 Oct) @ 11:19 am

    &nbps;

    It’s going to be fine. The landlords are already talking about metal shutters – I think that’s going to be the best solution…

    See you tomorrow.

  • Christophe on Sun (7 Oct) @ 11:46 am

    &nbps;

    This is incredible how we could not prevent something like this to happen…

  • Adam on Sun (7 Oct) @ 11:55 pm

    &nbps;

    Ah gutted guys, sounds like it could have been worse though…

  • Stephen Davies on Mon (8 Oct) @ 9:07 pm

    &nbps;

    Bummer. Hope things are sorted now.

    If this is the worst thing that happens to you and your business in the next year then hey.

  • Stephen Davies on Tue (9 Oct) @ 3:20 pm

    &nbps;

    Stephen said: “If this is the worst thing that happens to you and your business in the next year then hey.”

    Sorry, bit of a dumb ass comment to make in retrospect. I meant it in the ‘Eric Idle/Monty Python/Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’ kind of way.

  • Will Critchlow on Tue (9 Oct) @ 5:07 pm

    &nbps;

    And it was taken in the best possible way, Stephen ;)

    You’re absolutely right – I hope this is the worst thing that happens to us…

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