Oxford is good too.
I got freaking burgled yesterday :( I'm the youngest in the family and was home alone at 7pm. I came downstairs for food (waffles btw :P) and heard someone come in through the front door, I assumed it was my brother or something. After finishing my food I left the kitchen to check who it was and said 'alright?' as I was halfway down the hallway, didn't get a reply.
Then a head poked round from my brother's room wearing a black balaclava with no eye or mouth holes. I just got confused and walked further saying, 'what are you up to?', thinking it was some joke. The guy stared at me and I realised it was real as there was another guy behind him raiding my brother's room. He said, 'Robbin' your TV, mate' in an oddly relaxed way, I proceeded to take in what was going on and continued to stare at him weirdly (I realise why people get so shocked in movies when I shout at them to stop being morons and run from the giant monster). After a second he lurched forward and I practically shat my pants, noticed the front door was open and looked at the guy scared out my head saying something like 'please don't', not really knowing what he would do. I ran through the door and he immediatly chased me out my house, us both sprinting.
I ran for my life in my fucking socks for about 100 metres, getting quite tired. He was about 10 meters behind at this point so I took a right and ran into some randomer's back garden to hide. He and his mate looked for me for about 2 minutes and I just heard their car rev off.
After that I knocked on the randomer's house and they called the police and my parents. When I got back my brother's room was a mess but I couldn't touch anything as the police needed it for evidence for later on. They left the TV, must've freaked out or something. I then gave the police a statement for a few hours. I'm still shaking now, t'was quite scary :(
But I'm chuffed that I managed to out-run a twenty-year old in my socks xD
It sucked though, they were both in their twenties by the looks of things and could easily destroy me :/ It's a fairly cool story to tell people in retrospect but I might have to attend court. The scene in investigators took fingerprints from the tv and used a UV light to check for hairs and such.
Meh...