Sims 1 keeps crashing when I have a Burglar?

Yeah I'm not sure what the problem is but it's a shame. I really hope it can be fixed somehow. 

I've encountered the same issue, but instead of crashing, my game freezes and then displays a black screen while the background audio continues. I can still pause the game by pressing the 'P' key. To recover, I press CTRL+S to save and then ALT+F4 to attempt to exit—this ensures that the game is saved. If the game doesn't close, I use the Task Manager. When I restart the game, a black rectangle appears where the house in the neighborhood view should be; however, once I enter the lot, I see the burglar being arrested. This indicates that the issue seems to be triggered by the burglar stealing something.

I have the same issue. This bug messed up my save file. 

Can confirm this has happens to me as well. I haven't had any big problems besides this.

Burglars causes freezing and the game becomes frozen after the burglar steals an item, but the audio continues to play. The game becomes uncontrollable. This has happened multiple times.

4/4 times this has happened. It occurs when the burglar is about to steal an object. In all cases, the lot had a burglar alarm.

This seems to be a universal issue with the game.

My Burglar instantly vanishes as soon as he appears. I'm sad, it's as if he was completely removed from the game for me, aside from the brief creepy music that plays when he normally shows up

Is this still occuring for everyone with the new patch? I haven't encountered a burglar yet.

https://forums.ea.com/discussions/the-sims-1-en/bug-game-crashes-when-burglar-steals/11895721/replies/11900133

Had this issue too.