An oldy, but a goodie!!!!!
Discussion
OK, this has probably been discussed on this forum on loads of occassions but as im new here, humour me.
I had my car broke into a couple of years ago. It was only my company Astra but these thick pieces of shi*e had never heard of deadlocks, so after going around smashing every lock and then the bending the door skin below the door catch they decided to smash a rear 1/4 window, they then put their arm in and wound down the window.
They climbed in and nicked my (personally owned) £400 Pioneer stereo, my fault for leaving it in there I suppose, scum, they also nicked my prescription D & G sunglasses, scum, plus several CD's and other bits and pieces, scum, then they wanted to see in my ashtray (where I kept my spare change). Rather than pushing it in to allow it to open, the b*stards used a crowbar and smashed up all the surrounding dashboard.
When I went out in the morning I was understandably furious, but my spirits were lifted when I found a wrist watch in the rear door pocket, it had obviously fallen off when he wound down my window. The watch was the sort of thing you would win at a fairground so rather than keep it I rang the police who asked me to take it down for finger print testing.
The woman who 'dusted' it said there was at least one useable print on it, so she sent it off for analysis.
Have I heard anything since, have I bo**ocks!!!!!
The policewoman said even if I had a video of the bloke doing it with a signed confession they still probably wouldn't press charges as it is was too cost prohibitive.
The reason this winds me up so much is that in the same year I was caught doing 105mph down the A1/M. It was 6.15am, the sun was shining, I was, in all honesty the only car on the road, and it was a triple carriaway section of the motorway.
The BiB were sitting on a junction behind some trees, completley out of sight, they nicked me and I went to court 4 months later.
I was banned for a month and had a £300 fine given to me. If I was a persistant offender then fair enough, but my license was spotlessly clean.
I was very (very) lucky to keep my job (as a field service technician) and thus very lucky that I could keep my house.
Not everyone is as lucky as me though!!!!!
Don't know about you, but this seems just a little unfair to me?????
Surely it's about time that we go over to the 3 strikes and your out like the USA. You get caught nicking 3 times, goodbye for 25 years. you get caught for GBH/ABH 3 times, you had a reason, dont care, see you in 25 years!!!!
You watch, crime will fall overnight and the police can get back to the real important things, like finding my stereo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wayne
I had my car broke into a couple of years ago. It was only my company Astra but these thick pieces of shi*e had never heard of deadlocks, so after going around smashing every lock and then the bending the door skin below the door catch they decided to smash a rear 1/4 window, they then put their arm in and wound down the window.
They climbed in and nicked my (personally owned) £400 Pioneer stereo, my fault for leaving it in there I suppose, scum, they also nicked my prescription D & G sunglasses, scum, plus several CD's and other bits and pieces, scum, then they wanted to see in my ashtray (where I kept my spare change). Rather than pushing it in to allow it to open, the b*stards used a crowbar and smashed up all the surrounding dashboard.
When I went out in the morning I was understandably furious, but my spirits were lifted when I found a wrist watch in the rear door pocket, it had obviously fallen off when he wound down my window. The watch was the sort of thing you would win at a fairground so rather than keep it I rang the police who asked me to take it down for finger print testing.
The woman who 'dusted' it said there was at least one useable print on it, so she sent it off for analysis.
Have I heard anything since, have I bo**ocks!!!!!
The policewoman said even if I had a video of the bloke doing it with a signed confession they still probably wouldn't press charges as it is was too cost prohibitive.
The reason this winds me up so much is that in the same year I was caught doing 105mph down the A1/M. It was 6.15am, the sun was shining, I was, in all honesty the only car on the road, and it was a triple carriaway section of the motorway.
The BiB were sitting on a junction behind some trees, completley out of sight, they nicked me and I went to court 4 months later.
I was banned for a month and had a £300 fine given to me. If I was a persistant offender then fair enough, but my license was spotlessly clean.
I was very (very) lucky to keep my job (as a field service technician) and thus very lucky that I could keep my house.
Not everyone is as lucky as me though!!!!!
Don't know about you, but this seems just a little unfair to me?????
Surely it's about time that we go over to the 3 strikes and your out like the USA. You get caught nicking 3 times, goodbye for 25 years. you get caught for GBH/ABH 3 times, you had a reason, dont care, see you in 25 years!!!!
You watch, crime will fall overnight and the police can get back to the real important things, like finding my stereo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wayne
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