Symbols to watch out for on your house

[mat777]

Wasnt sure whether to put this here or in Homes and DIY, but anyway - it looks like the sort of thing that should be brought to wider attention, especially in the countryside against 3.14 lock openers

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2259445/Po...

[HOGEPH]

One of the replies.

"So what is symbol for have gun and would use it!"

[Far Cough]

Crikey ... I remember seeing this posted over 10 years ago and it was the "Travelling fraternity" responsible...... is there no new news ?

[sugerbear]

Daily mail gets duped again.

[carlove]

Can't say I have ever seen one of these symbols on a house. I haven't ever been looking though.

[Munter]

carlove said:

Can't say I have ever seen one of these symbols on a house. I haven't ever been looking though.

I have seen other symbols though. Does anybody know what a 3ft ejaculating cock and balls might mean?

[LukeSi]

Simple solution is draw the nothing worth stealing symbol.

[HOGEPH]

Munter said:

I have seen other symbols though. Does anybody know what a 3ft ejaculating cock and balls might mean?

Seamen's Mission?

[carlove]

Munter said:

I have seen other symbols though. Does anybody know what a 3ft ejaculating cock and balls might mean?

It means your neighbors don't like you.

[TheEnd]

sugerbear said:

Daily mail gets duped again.

Yea, I guess the copper got an chain email and passed it on. It bears all the hallmarks of an urban legend, and it's also doesn't match up with burglars working as a national group looking out for each other, and passing on "tips"

[sugerbear]

TheEnd said:

sugerbear said:

Daily mail gets duped again.

Yea, I guess the copper got an chain email and passed it on. It bears all the hallmarks of an urban legend, and it's also doesn't match up with burglars working as a national group looking out for each other, and passing on "tips"

Lets wait to hear what Bob Crow-bar, head of the national union of burglars, has to say on the matter.

[Pesty]

This same story gets trotted out every year.

[Ari]

Visions of Pistonheaders painting the flower (wealthy) symbol on their gate posts tonight as a status symbol!

[anonymous-user]

I know the DM is a bit grim these days, but are they really resorting to printing news from the 1930's?

Why the fk would burglars want to assist fellow criminals and tell them which houses to rob?

[FourWheelDrift]

I'm actually surprised the Mail's example photo of a burglar wasn't someone dressed in a black and white stripy shirt, eye mask and carrying a bag with SWAG written on it.

[wiggy001]

They are resorting to recycling their own stories now!

December 2009

And the beeb discovered they were a hoax in 2006

[Dracoro]

wiggy001 said:

They are resorting to recycling their own stories now!

December 2009

And the beeb discovered they were a hoax in 2006

Good find.

Really is pathetic tabloid rag.

[mybrainhurts]

Dracoro said:

Really is pathetic tabloid rag.

That supports us against speed cameras.

[Pothole]

Just sent the following to Devon & Cornwall Police:

There is a story on the Daily Mail website which purports to contain quotes from a DC Steve Fleetwood who appears, from an internet search, to work for Torquay CID regarding symbols scrawled on residential premises which the paper says are coded messages between criminals. Oddly enough this same set of symbols was discredited as a hoax in a BBC News story in 2006. I wondered if DC Fleetwood had anything to say on the matter. DM story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2259445/Po... BBC Hoax story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4... Thanks and Kind Regards. Pothole.

I'll let you know if anyone bothers to respond

[mybrainhurts]

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