l've gotta move out of here

[Dr Stevil]

Howard, I'm really really sorry to hear this mate, only just seen this thread.

Glad that you and the family are ok because Rebecca's spot on with that newslink. What many ordinary people tend not to realise is that most of these scum-sucking towrags carry knives or other weapons when they're out stealing/burgling/etc and have little or no compunction to use them.

Makes me realise just how lucky I am, I once chased a would-be car thief, who a few day's later came back in a stolen car, armed witha baseball bat and with a bunch of scum mates and tried to smash my front door in, threatened my neighbour with the bat then f***ed off leaving me with a bunch of broken windows - fortunately I had a good mortince deadlock otherwise it would have been a different story. The Police identified him from mine and my neighbours descriptions both times but somehow failed to find enough evidence to nick him...

Then, car crime stopped abruptly in my neighbourhood. I discovered about two years later that this towrag had nicked "the wrong car" and was summarily dealt with in no uncertain fashion. These days if my car is left unlocked, it's still there in the morning with all it's contents. Also, I can't recall any talk from any of my neighbours about ever getting burgled (touch wood)

Go North young man...
Steve

[Allan Carr]

When I was at uni, a friend had his mini broken into several times. He then wired the bonnet catch to an induction coil. Some crook, tried to lift the bonnet, got shock and reported it to the police - even though he had a record as long as your arm for car theft. My mate got hauled before the beak and heavily fined!

My elder son and I had all our dive gear stolen nine years ago while camping at Beadnell - the campsite just beside the Saehouses road. We were fifty yards into a crowded site (it was August). The crooks got into the car with a crowbar. We were sleeping in a tent only 5 feet away and heard nothing. I was discussing this with the police and they said I was lucky I didn't. If I had put my head out, I would probably have had a crow bar down on it.

According to the police, a couple of weeks previously, someone else had eight grands worth of techie equipment stolen from a BMW 740 with a state of the art alarm. The crooks got in by charging the car up with an induction coil and earthing it with a crowbar. Blew the entire electronics in the car and wrote the car off!


Allan

[junior diver]

If they want to get in nothing wil stop them. We run three businesses from our house so we have some advanced security. We have a CCTV system that has someone monitoring it 24/7. If someone gets sighted its on the megaphone and identify youself to the camera, there are no blind spots, if you don't identify the police get called. We have a burgular alarm as well as this, triple locks (one at the top, middle and bottom) on the doors and a alsation and a rotty. They ran in, chucked stones at the cameras, ran in, broke the door down, burglar alarms going off, they don't care, run upstairs, grab a laptop, reg bag and mobile phone, they got downstairs and the alsation was inside through the door and took a bite out of his leg literally. He has a 3 inch chunk missing out his leg. When the police got there they said that we were going to get done for the dog biting him. But we said we had full warning signs up (guard dogs) saying that you should enter at your own risk, the police said that they were insufficient as there are 4 entrances to the house and only 2 signs. In the end we said we were going to sue the station for loss as they were at the house four hours in which we lost about £100,000 (scaffolding job). They left us alone then.