Stunning police response to car theft

[oldbanger]

chrisj_abz said:

Defintely not made up, there may have been a few more sweary words used but its pretty accureate (amazingly for the Record)

as described in the thread linked above, its the work of a few wee chavs who openly brag about their spoils on Facebook. one was lately charged and recieved the grand total of 200Hrs community service.

Grampian Police's response to this was to this morning tell everyone via their facebook page to lock their doors. they also stated that of the 100 cars stolen since Oct, 90 of them were stolen using the ignition key and none of those keys were obtained by forced entry. I find that a bit hard to believe...

Generally true, I'm afraid. If you want the keys you have to go in whilst people are in, therefore you only go in if the downstairs window/doors are unlocked, rather than smashing your way in and announcing your presence.

Prestige cars in particular are stolen to order, so ciminals already know how much they'll earn, and how much time they can invest in finding the right targets. Very little smash and grab in that line of work these days.

The smash and grab artists tend to be addicts after smaller items such as jewellery, electricals etc that they can quickly sell on/swap for drugs.

[NDA]

Grampian Police..... The charming souls who have sided with Donald Trump against the locals.

[otolith]

"Please stop drawing public attention to our pathetic ineffectiveness"

[AJS-]

XCP said:

BliarOut said:

"i thought you'd shot a burglar". "I thought you didn't have any officers available until morning"?

Exactly. Prioritising.
Surely you are not suggesting both incidents merit the same response?

The question is what were the deeming a higher priority than attending an in progress burglary that could then be dropped by 3 police cars? If there really were 3 other violent or dangerous incidents to attend to that had to be dropped to attend the shed shooting, then I don't think anyone could blame them. However it seems omore likely that one was sitting on a bridge waiting for someone to come past at 80mph, one was trawling Facebook for offensive thoughts and the last one was having his weekly chat with the local thug, asking him nicely to stop beating the st out of people.

[Dixie68]

Breadvan72 said:

They shouldn't do anything about it, as it's just a lot of mouth breathers gobbing off on the internet. The police are not here to control speech; even annoying, idiotic and offensive speech. They should be concentrating on catching car thieves, and not wasting time on Facebook.

But they are openly admitting how they 'robbed cars', where they left them, how they did it etc. Gobbing off on Facebook is fair enough but aren't these window-lickers admitting to real crimes?

[anonymous-user]

The police should investigate the crimes, and try to find out of the idiots are bragging, or have done what they claim to have done. The police should not be seeking to curb what people say.

[M3333]

thinfourth2 said:

http://www.facebook.com/garthdeejockyz.ftp

I think it is terrible these poor promising young footballers

Holy st. That is a total disgrace. What the hell is wrong with these idiots. To think the police went and told a VICTIM off for being abusive on facebook to car criminals.

WTF

Edited by M3333 on Saturday 12th January 07:45

[onesickpuppy]

Breadvan72 said:

The police should investigate the crimes, and try to find out of the idiots are bragging, or have done what they claim to have done. The police should not be seeking to curb what people say.

BV, there are two Facebook issues going on here:

1. Lesley (owner of RS4) got a visit from the (thought) police to warn her that she might cause offence to the scrotes who stole her car.

2. The thieving scrotes have a FB page where they openly brag about the car thefts, and at one point threaten to bomb Grampian Police HQ. This doesn't seem to elicit any response from plod.

[anonymous-user]

Er, yes, I had figured that out, but cheers anyway. The police had no business visiting the victim of the car theft about her FB comments. The FB comments by the yobs are worth investigating, but as possible leads reating to car crimes, not for any other reason. People should be free to say any amount of bks, with few restraints.

[Dixie68]

Breadvan72 said:

Er, yes, I had figured that out, but cheers anyway. The police had no business visiting the victim of the car theft about her FB comments. The FB comments by the yobs are worth investigating, but as possible leads reating to car crimes, not for any other reason. People should be free to say any amount of bks, with few restraints.

Sorry, yes I agree with that. I thought you were saying the police shouldn't investigate the crimes they were admitting to because they'd said it on FB. My apologies

[otolith]

Breadvan72 said:

People should be free to say any amount of bks, with few restraints.

Indeed, and if they are car thieves who will incriminate themselves in the process it should be positively encouraged!

[XCP]

AJS- said:

The question is what were the deeming a higher priority than attending an in progress burglary that could then be dropped by 3 police cars? If there really were 3 other violent or dangerous incidents to attend to that had to be dropped to attend the shed shooting, then I don't think anyone could blame them. However it seems omore likely that one was sitting on a bridge waiting for someone to come past at 80mph, one was trawling Facebook for offensive thoughts and the last one was having his weekly chat with the local thug, asking him nicely to stop beating the st out of people.

It's a story. It's not real. Police prioritise in the real world.

[Gene Vincent]

XCP said:

It's a story. It's not real. Police prioritise in the real world.

English police perhaps, not the Scots, they have rather dubious priorities.

[sparkythecat]

XCP said:

It's a story. It's not real. Police prioritise in the real world.

Yes but the OP is a real world story which demonstrates that the police, in this particular instance, have got their priorities very wrong indeed.

[XCP]

Gene Vincent said:

English police perhaps, not the Scots, they have rather dubious priorities.

That would be the Scots problem then. I assumed the 'shed break' saga was in England or Wales.

[crmcatee]

It seems other users on Facebook are turning against them...

https://www.facebook.com/DestroyaberdeenboyzStigFt...

I expect them all to get a visit by the Grampian police at some time early tomorrow morning..

[XCP]

sparkythecat said:

Yes but the OP is a real world story which demonstrates that the police, in this particular instance, have got their priorities very wrong indeed.

So it seems, yes.
I was talking about the shed.

[iphonedyou]

They type like they speak? From FB...

"
Marc Fitzsimmons Haha a was reading that in paper the other day. A widny a burnt it though. Plenty a money in parts for that fker if u sent it doon to glasgow
"

How much effort does that take? Thinking in your head, 'wouldn't', then actively changing it to something that doesn't resemble the written form whatsoever.

[Ari]

He doesn't think "wouldn't" though. What he's typing is precisely what he's thinking, hence the Chav speak.

[thinfourth2]

iphonedyou said:

They type like they speak? From FB...

"
Marc Fitzsimmons Haha a was reading that in paper the other day.

Well thats a complete made up lie


Reading?

Come on

Not a chance