The latest p****y trend...
Discussion
Mr Dave said:
Mr Sparkle said:
Mr Dave said:
(Note; I have never stolen anything. Apart from a few virginities)
So that will be rape then?
WRT to the OP, they've been doing that for years and will always evolve to take up whatever methods line their pockets best. Like nicking alloys and leaving cars on bricks before the advent of locking wheel nuts etc. Similarly lead from church rooves and copper from lightning strips when the prices of those are sufficiently high to make the risk worth the reward.
Edited by Zwoelf on Wednesday 7th September 23:16
I can't see how it isn't handling stolen goods for the metal merchants why would anyone have a load of manhole covers and you should have to give details of the cars cats come from it's these money grabbers who are enabling them to commit the crimes if they couldn't sell them there'd be no point in stealing them would there
I mentioned on the other thread about this about a patient we had in resus about 6 months ago.
Was brought in as a 'trauma call'. Had been under a van trying to cut out the cat. Unfortunately for him, the owner returned, started the van and began driving off, dragging said thief a couple of hundred metres down the road.
He (only) suffered a broken arm and leg. Unsurprisingly he didn't find much sympathy in A&E from any of the doctors in attendance or the police who were waiting for him.
Was brought in as a 'trauma call'. Had been under a van trying to cut out the cat. Unfortunately for him, the owner returned, started the van and began driving off, dragging said thief a couple of hundred metres down the road.
He (only) suffered a broken arm and leg. Unsurprisingly he didn't find much sympathy in A&E from any of the doctors in attendance or the police who were waiting for him.
vit4 said:
Police weren't tripping over themselves to help 
Spoke to my uncle, ex polis head honcho, about that."What's your name?"
"John Barker......Mike Heathcliffe.......Paddy McGuiness......"
"Where you from?"
"Ireland"
And round and round and round. They know they can get away with it and it's a nightmare for the polis if they haven't caught them red handed.
Surely this and all other metal theft can be stopped by policing the the merchants. I often legitimatly weigh in a bit of scrap but never have i been asked for id, yet in order to dump rubbish at local council dump i have to provide evidence that i live in the borough. Even if it means a change in curent Legislation ie all scrap merchants to be liscensed.The government seem a bit slow on this one, nearly everyday you hear that the trains are delayed due to vandalism. STEALING CABLE IS NOW CLASSED AS VANDALISM. 
SCUM
SCUMCatalytic Converter stealing has been happening for years.
I bought a Discovery 2 in 2005. One of the independents I visited carried a decent sized stock of 4x4's. I went to look at a Disco he had advertised, only to be advised when I turned up that it was off sale because he had been done. 5 or 6 of his 4x4's had been stripped in one raid. He told me it had happened before. Last time I drove past the dealership he didn't appear to have any 4x4's for sale at all.
I bought a Discovery 2 in 2005. One of the independents I visited carried a decent sized stock of 4x4's. I went to look at a Disco he had advertised, only to be advised when I turned up that it was off sale because he had been done. 5 or 6 of his 4x4's had been stripped in one raid. He told me it had happened before. Last time I drove past the dealership he didn't appear to have any 4x4's for sale at all.
Nick3point2 said:
Latest? It's been happening in Potters bar for years! I think the first time I encountered it was 2008...
Same in N london, GD metals got raided 2 years ago for buying nicked cats been going on for years! Local ford dealer lost 20 odd 3 years back, every van on the forcourt was done Metal theft doesn't always pay though. This is a true story, which happened about 2 years ago:
One of my brothers is an electrician. He and his manager were called out by the police to a substation to isolate the power supply after a break-in. When they arrived the police told them that two gypo's had broken in, and they were both now dead, but the police wouldn't touch anythin until everything had been isolated by qualified electrical engineers.
Turned out the thieving tw@ts had got into the building, successfully switched off the power, lifted a load of covers to access the biggest copper cable in the place which was down in a trench, and got busy chopping the cable out with an axe. Unfortunately for them they then hacked through a cable connected to the fire suppressant system, which had set the system off and quickly filled the building with inert gas (halon I think) to displace the oxygen. The result, twos paid the ultimate price for nicking copper. Shame.
One of my brothers is an electrician. He and his manager were called out by the police to a substation to isolate the power supply after a break-in. When they arrived the police told them that two gypo's had broken in, and they were both now dead, but the police wouldn't touch anythin until everything had been isolated by qualified electrical engineers.
Turned out the thieving tw@ts had got into the building, successfully switched off the power, lifted a load of covers to access the biggest copper cable in the place which was down in a trench, and got busy chopping the cable out with an axe. Unfortunately for them they then hacked through a cable connected to the fire suppressant system, which had set the system off and quickly filled the building with inert gas (halon I think) to displace the oxygen. The result, two
s paid the ultimate price for nicking copper. Shame.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff