on my way home tonight i called in to my shed to pick up some tools for work tomorrow. when i got to it, it looked wrong. There were foot marks on the door and when i got nearer i saw that the padlock was on the floor, with the bar bent back.

with heart in my mouth, i opened the door expecting to see an empty shed. but as far as i can see, everything was there. not in the right place, but there.

all i can think is that they got spooked by something, or saw what was in there and decided to come back with a van.

basing things on the latter, coupled with the fact that all the shops are shut so i couldn't buy a padlock, i decided to put some offcuts of 5mm plate and my tig to good use and welded a piece of 26mm tube across the door. the only way in now is with an angle grinder

i'll sort it out tomorrow properly but can sleep knowing that the majority of oportunist thieves dont carry angle grinders.

I pity our nation when you are not allowed to build a decent mantrap on your own property. I hate thieving scum.

if you dispose of them properly, who's to know?

that would be quite cool though, an actual trap, where they get caught in some kind of cage, where phones don't work

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Have to admit that there have been times I have thought of the pleasures of torturing
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are here". Waving the captive bolt gun for added effect..... And yes, I do have one

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Bastards

Your right tho. About them coming back.
They might, or they might not, but i woudlnt have left in unlocked.

We had a breaking of our garage side room (main garage doesnt have doors) and although they took little other than an old £50 bike, we bostered up the doorframe which is what had given and bought £40 worth of chain to up the locking on the other bikes in there (about four high spec mtb's)

Two months later, they abliterated to the renofrced door with a clearly massive sled hammer and took about £800 worth of kit including a brand new £500 schill petrol brush cutter and a load of diesal in cans.


Daniel

Dare I ask if you called the Plods?

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apologies in advance to any members of our constabulary that might not be completely inept, but i have reported 5 attempted break-ins and 2 succesful break-ins to outbuildings both at work and at home and am yet to have a member of the police force turn up. i did think that one had turned up to check for prints etc but it turned out it was to put a ticket in my car for the back wheel being 5 inches over the line.

well done plods.

so in response. no.

I have an old loaf in the bread bin that is almost completely green now, I think that it would be more use than our local bizzies at detecting and preventing crime.

Do i sound bitter?

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If you had beaten the theif to within an inch of it's life plod would have carted YOU away. It always seems like the law is on their side.

A trap, as mentioned above, would be sweet. My little farm was broken into....they came in the back way over the fields with 4 x 4's to avoid the gate etc.... called the plod but nothing.

I'm with Tony Martin on this one......



Dan

I've said it before, this country's justice systems are badly broken. The sooner they intoduce a system that protects the moral majority and ignores the rights and feelings of scum the better off we'll be.

Why do we need prisons with all mod cons when an iso container with a sink, toilet and a bed would be much cheaper. Hire a couple of cargo container ships and load them up. It would be cheap and would get round the problem that no one wants a prison on the door step as they could keep moving them round the coast on a rota system. When you run out of space hire another ship and repeat, there is plenty of sea out there.

Where I work we have been robbed three times, taking six 5 ton fork lifts in all.
I have a crime number for each one, given over the phone from the local speed ticket distribution centre, (police station)
not one visit from the plod exept for minor violations with our lorriy, (overloading) when three police cars and 7 cops turned up.
Denis.

I have this strange neighbour who waits up a nights for the chance to beat trespassers. I can see him from my landing window sitting in his conservatory in the dark. He does this most nights. He told me once that anyone he catches breaking into his house 'will rue the day' whatever that means. He also has a sign at his gate that simple says 'anyone caught in this garden will NOT be able to walk out of it'. He told me just to shout really loud 'Ernie, Burglars!' and he said he 'come a'runnin'. So I sleep soundly in my bed knowing that my strange neighbour is on the look out.

He also has eyes that remind me of a seagulls eyes.

Reported damage to my car. At the end of the call I was asked "have you have any other problems in your area".
I replied only mini bikes riden by kids.
I suggested they must be legal as the local police do not do anything,I was then warned that my call was recorded

I then sugested they use some initative.
Not happy with my behavoir.

How do we as a nation put up with this CRAP.
We has MP stealing from us, Banks ripping us of just to name a few.

Do I fell better now I have had a rant... No.

I eagerly await the revolution! We should all just get in our cars and march on Whitehall!

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I have this strange neighbour who waits up a nights for the chance to beat trespassers. I can see him from my landing window sitting in his conservatory in the dark. He does this most nights. He told me once that anyone he catches breaking into his house 'will rue the day' whatever that means. He also has a sign at his gate that simple says 'anyone caught in this garden will NOT be able to walk out of it'. He told me just to shout really loud 'Ernie, Burglars!' and he said he 'come a'runnin'. So I sleep soundly in my bed knowing that my strange neighbour is on the look out.

He also has eyes that remind me of a seagulls eyes.

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"... i decided to put some offcuts of 5mm plate and my tig to good use and welded a piece of 26mm tube across the door. the only way in now is with an angle grinder..."


You did remember to take the angle grinder out of the shed first, didn't you?

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not had any problems with that round here (yet...) so never had to deal with it, but what about contacting the local paper, MPs etc raising the issues that police aren't interested in dealing with real crime?
kinda showing the police up.

My mate has not had a problem since he put a plaque on his front door stating:
"There is nothing on these premises worth dying for."
Me, I live right by the sea and I'm too old to give a sh1t what the goverment says I can or can't do to thieving scrotes.

The problem is that if you do stay up and bash a thief youll be the one that does the time...

Also what about traps, i guess if the trap hurt the thief again youd be the one in trouble... would this still be the case if you put a sign up..... 'Protected with human traps, if you enter you will be severely injured!'.... would a sign like this cover you in a court of law??

Cheers

I remember the time we caught some young scrotes outside my brothers country pub. One of the locals got hold of one of them who said 'Oh what you gonna do, call the police?'. To which he replied with a wild look in his eyes 'Son your in the country now, we don't call the police around here'. Little b*gger nearly sh*t himself!

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not had any problems with that round here (yet...) so never had to deal with it, but what about contacting the local paper, MPs etc raising the issues that police aren't interested in dealing with real crime?
kinda showing the police up.

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I'll get my tits out if it get's the police to get their fecking act together and investigate what most tax paying individuals classify as REAL crime and not soft easy targets i.e. us motorists.

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