Is stealing catalytic converters a thing?
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According to my neighbour the catalytic converter from her (quite old) Prius was stolen yesterday early evening from outside of her house.
Anyone else come across this type of crime? Seems and odd thing to steal to me.
As an aside the thief must be mighty brave or mighty stupid because we live in a square with houses and flats all around so can't understand how they managed it without being seen.
Anyone else come across this type of crime? Seems and odd thing to steal to me.
As an aside the thief must be mighty brave or mighty stupid because we live in a square with houses and flats all around so can't understand how they managed it without being seen.
There was a video doing the rounds a month or so ago of a group of 4 masked men stopping traffic during the afternoon on a residential street while they quickly removed the Cat from a parked car. A Toyota of some sort iirc.
They are worth a few quid scrap…
Edit:
This is not the video i was thinking about, but shows how brazen they are…
https://youtu.be/ew62g5aWKhg
They are worth a few quid scrap…
Edit:
This is not the video i was thinking about, but shows how brazen they are…
https://youtu.be/ew62g5aWKhg
Edited by Warby80 on Thursday 4th April 15:14
We used to have big problems with commercial van cats going missing when I was in the trade-larger (so worth more) and easy to access. Only way to stop it was to park all vans in our workshop overnight!
Funnily enough, it used to be worse whenever there was a large infestation of “cavanning enthusiasts” nearby...
Funnily enough, it used to be worse whenever there was a large infestation of “cavanning enthusiasts” nearby...
itcaptainslow said:
We used to have big problems with commercial van cats going missing when I was in the trade-larger (so worth more) and easy to access. Only way to stop it was to park all vans in our workshop overnight!
Funnily enough, it used to be worse whenever there was a large infestation of “cavanning enthusiasts” nearby...
Around 6 years ago now, I did deliveries in a sprinter and the cat got stolen on that while I was away all of 15 mins doing a delivery in london. Funnily enough, it used to be worse whenever there was a large infestation of “cavanning enthusiasts” nearby...
In 2018 I had a cat stolen from my car during the night, while it was parked on the drive. Garage said £2300 to repair.
Coincidentally, at the same time there were council posters on the lamp posts about legal action they were taking to move on travellers who had recently illegally camped in the area.
Coincidentally, at the same time there were council posters on the lamp posts about legal action they were taking to move on travellers who had recently illegally camped in the area.
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