Burgled once in my bar in 2011.

Partly my fault; I had five padlocks but they were the shite ones. Thieves had obviously been watching the place as they hit 30 minutes after closing on a Monday night around 1.45am. I had stopped at the Cavern for a bite on the way to home in chruoy changavar and just as I had got from there to home and smoked a spliff I got a call from my neighbours telling he to come quickly.

Got there to discover Sinan, pretty woman with a small cafe across the road had heard them busting my locks and screamed at them, causing them to flee, then she and Che Deth Navy's family blocked the entrance until we got back.

Very, very lucky. Had around a grand in cash, visa, passport, Xbox 360, LCD TV, two dirt-bikes, all my stock and some jewellery there; but because they were disturbed they just grabbed a $300 computer and fled, leaving flipflops behind, but taking the broken locks.

We almost caught them, in fact, through police/tuk-tuk grapevine but lost the trail near central market.

Spent $150 on high quality locks next day, never had a problem since.

Robbed here once, very skilfully, by a former crooked Naga croupier/ bar cashier named Nara. Skinny skanky bitch managed to take a silver band off my finger during a handshake so craftily it was an hour before I realised it was gone. Too late to accuse at that point.

Only once was I robbed here. I lived near Wat Botum about 8 years ago, down a small lane way but in a nice enough place. I stayed up late and then neglected to close the balcony door. I thought we were safe enough, and it would take a spiderman to reach there. Unfortunately a spiderman climbed up. He managed to grab 2 phones (one expensive Motorola flip phone, they were popular then), a $400 camera, a couple of hundred dollars and various other stuff. What freaked me out about it was realizing how close they had been to where me and the misses where sleeping at the time. A friend had been stabbed to death when he disturbed a burglar about a year before. My house now is a lot safer, more razor wire, a big dog and good neighbors etc. Take care out there.