Crime in Spain v UK
Discussion
The crime report revealed a huge increase of 27% in robberies involving the use of violence :
http://englishwarehouse.com/article_detail.asp?id=...
but compared to the UK, Spain is still a good place to be apart from Robberies :
http://www.civitas.org.uk/crime/crime_stats_oecdja...
You could argue this is many ways, how many crimes are recorded, criminals caught, etc.
One thing I take from this is that firearms "appear" to be used more in Spain so take care, be calm & alert !
Anyone with strong views either way ?
http://englishwarehouse.com/article_detail.asp?id=...
but compared to the UK, Spain is still a good place to be apart from Robberies :
http://www.civitas.org.uk/crime/crime_stats_oecdja...
You could argue this is many ways, how many crimes are recorded, criminals caught, etc.
One thing I take from this is that firearms "appear" to be used more in Spain so take care, be calm & alert !
Anyone with strong views either way ?
I read the local and national news every day, crime is clearly rocketing.
Without prejudice... you do see 2 countries of origin mentioned with Criminals nicked time and time again, Morocco and Romania... It is well known [here] that if you employ them, they come back.
No, I am not an English "builder" in need of work
Different countries immigrants seem to have specific M.O.'s ... Eastern Block do the motorway tyre spiking, Romanians do Prostitution, Burglaries, home and Industrial, copper, Moroccans sell hash, coke and around Barcelona seem to be increasingly doing Home Invasion style robberies.
Plenty of Brits up to various scummy nonsense when on their uppers, robbing their "friends"
As a "rich foreigner" you are obviously a target, locals [Spanish] refer to robbing rich urbanisations full of Brits/Germs/Dutch/Scandis as "shopping" ... but the Police, knowing your value to the F*****ed economy, tend to be very helpful and protective.
Out in el Campo, they warn you that you "will be burgled" almost like it is your fault. Here the Romanians did 280 houses in one night, a "tiburon" robbery.
On the bright side, the Police are very very enthusiastic in encouraging us to take the law into our own hands. I severely beat a Romanian in pretty sketchy background circumstances and they could have not been more helpful to me. Many times people have been directly encouraged to deal with thieves themselves and pop them in the Sea/River/Holes ... always with the advisory "just don't tell us about it"
Without prejudice... you do see 2 countries of origin mentioned with Criminals nicked time and time again, Morocco and Romania... It is well known [here] that if you employ them, they come back.
No, I am not an English "builder" in need of work
Different countries immigrants seem to have specific M.O.'s ... Eastern Block do the motorway tyre spiking, Romanians do Prostitution, Burglaries, home and Industrial, copper, Moroccans sell hash, coke and around Barcelona seem to be increasingly doing Home Invasion style robberies.
Plenty of Brits up to various scummy nonsense when on their uppers, robbing their "friends"
As a "rich foreigner" you are obviously a target, locals [Spanish] refer to robbing rich urbanisations full of Brits/Germs/Dutch/Scandis as "shopping" ... but the Police, knowing your value to the F*****ed economy, tend to be very helpful and protective.
Out in el Campo, they warn you that you "will be burgled" almost like it is your fault. Here the Romanians did 280 houses in one night, a "tiburon" robbery.
On the bright side, the Police are very very enthusiastic in encouraging us to take the law into our own hands. I severely beat a Romanian in pretty sketchy background circumstances and they could have not been more helpful to me. Many times people have been directly encouraged to deal with thieves themselves and pop them in the Sea/River/Holes ... always with the advisory "just don't tell us about it"
Guardia Civil picked up two groups of Moroccans here last week. Been brugling houses on our patch.
The trouble is, they get let straight back out again, and carry on.
I got burgled a couple of years ago, and the Guardia were very understanding when I tracked one of them down, and he tripped over while I was apprehending him. Poor fellow broke the fingers on his left hand, so he had to wipe his arse with the hand he eats from
Anyway, they managed to round up the rest of them after he squealed like the pig he was.
Same story, they where out again in no time. Left me alone since though.
Hshuma and haram my arse!
Anyway, I'm in the process of building a bloody big wire topped wall around my property, 80 meters of it in total, with lots of cactus planted along it, and a cow fence along the top.
That should give them a nasty surprise when the grab the top to try and climb over
The trouble is, they get let straight back out again, and carry on.
I got burgled a couple of years ago, and the Guardia were very understanding when I tracked one of them down, and he tripped over while I was apprehending him. Poor fellow broke the fingers on his left hand, so he had to wipe his arse with the hand he eats from
Anyway, they managed to round up the rest of them after he squealed like the pig he was.
Same story, they where out again in no time. Left me alone since though.
Hshuma and haram my arse!
Anyway, I'm in the process of building a bloody big wire topped wall around my property, 80 meters of it in total, with lots of cactus planted along it, and a cow fence along the top.
That should give them a nasty surprise when the grab the top to try and climb over
Some choice pieces of broken glass bottles cemented into the top of a wall looks pretty effective. There are still some old walls around the area where I live with glass attached. Would love this kind of wall around our plot. For now I have to make do with the 2.5 metre fence with 3 rows of barbed wire at the top.
That would be one hell of a party, to drink enough beer, for enough broken bottles for 80m of block wall! 
I'm doing 1.6 high, with 60cm of that green wire on top, so 2.2 in all.
I figured on mounting some brackets with rubber grommets to run the cow fence through, and using a 220/12V transformer to power it, instead of the usual car battery.
It should keep the cats out too. Although hopefully the dog will do that.
Although to be honest, we haven't moved into this property yet. Should be in next month hopefully.
I'm doing 1.6 high, with 60cm of that green wire on top, so 2.2 in all.
I figured on mounting some brackets with rubber grommets to run the cow fence through, and using a 220/12V transformer to power it, instead of the usual car battery.
It should keep the cats out too.
Although hopefully the dog will do that.Although to be honest, we haven't moved into this property yet. Should be in next month hopefully.
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