****ing Thieving Scumbags

[tuffer]

Just realised that some fker has stolen the war memorial from my local village http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-162... Do these lowlife scumbag assholes have no decency whatsoever?

[p4cks]

Bit slow off the mark aren't you... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-154...

[eldar]

None at all. Vermin.

[tuffer]

p4cks said:

Bit slow off the mark aren't you... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-154...

Yes, hence my "just realised" statement.

[Deanno1dad]

I would love to see the authorities come down harder on the scrap metal dealers,funding the thieving scumbags.

[Streps]

perhaps tainting the metal in these memorials would bring an end to it.

Scum like this really have no place in this country.

[pacman1]

A customs & excise approach to scrap dealers is the way forward.

[matthias73]

Pretty sure the scrap dealer in this instance reported the incident and told the rozzers?

[anonymous-user]

Deanno1dad said:

I would love to see the authorities come down harder on the scrap metal dealers,funding the thieving scumbags.

Yup, it should be like the pawn shops in the US (maybe its the same in the UK too, I don't know) where if you take something in which is identified as stolen, you lose the item (and you've already paid out the cash).
Unfortunately due to the nature of the product it would be almost impossible to enforce.

[MarsellusWallace]

No reputable scrap dealer in their right mind would touch something like that.Most I know would get it back and call the police on those attempting to weigh it in.

I think there will be a change to the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 1964 in the new year banning payments in cash which is the root of the problem with tracing stolen metal.

[Cock Womble 7]

They should make war memorials out of papier-mâché or Plasticine.

[Jasandjules]

Execute the scum who did this.

[PaulG40]

Just scumbags, with no regard for anything! Float through life on the dole and the free goverment handouts and steal anything regardless of value or national sentiment. There is no honour among thieves it seems!

[RSGulp]

With Tidworth being one of UK's largest military garrisons it's a real shame the thieves weren't caught in the act.

[Oxhead]

Unfortunately there's been a large rise in thefts of plaques from war memorials sold for scrap, sad thing is many of the names on them weren't recorded so are now lost forever.