No petrol worries

[AtW]

[QUOTE=Paddy;1287860]

They provide employment to locals, serve otherwise important function of delivering food, booze etc - you on the other hand just whine about how bad police is, well serves you right really.

Are you talking to me?!?!

[sasguru]

It does seem the more common approach to car theft is house burglary for the keys. A bit of a conundrum of how to protect your family and car while ensuring you're still insured if you leave the keys too easy to find.

Almost had it happen to me a few years back. Fortunately I'm a light sleeper so them making a noise climbing the side gate and down the gravel path woke me so I was downstairs by the time they tried breaking into the patio door. Unfortunately they spotted me and legged it before the cops arrived.

Around that time there were about half a dozen cars stolen from the estate yet it still took the cops ages to catch the gang despite the estate only having one entrance/exit via road. One guy had his R32 nicked, replaced it with another, then had than nicked. Cheeky sods.

At least it wiped the smug grin off the young twat across the road who had his golf gti nicked soon after trying to wind me up for not having a gti. After my close encounter I did warn him and said to empty his garage to keep the car out of sight but he didn't listen.

Sounds like you live in a wannabe, chav area. The crims are probably just mates of the people on the "estate".
FFS move somewhere where upper middle class people live.

[Cliphead]

FFS move somewhere where upper middle class people live.

Like I do and get your house broken into and your car nicked

[TykeMerc]

Unfortunate way to learn the lessons.

1. Never leave house keys where they are in a sightline from the doors or windows. I have a key near the door for emergency purposes, easy to get to, but very hard to locate if you don't know where it is. It's not accessible from the door without a really impressive fishing rod that can go round a few corners.
2. Keep car keys in your bedroom and out of sight.

[Zippy]

Ah bugger! Sorry to hear that CH.

[PAH]

Sounds like you live in a wannabe, chav area. The crims are probably just mates of the people on the "estate".
FFS move somewhere where upper middle class people live.

I moved a few months after. Tend to live near where the contracts are these days. Can rent somewhere nice for the price of a hotel if you know the contract is going to run for 6 months or more.

The estate was one of the better ones in the area which is why it kept getting targetted, as there were lots of expensive cars to take their pick of. The 'chav' across the road was some rich guy's son who unfortunately was too young to remember the original true Golf GTI, not the bland bloated versions of recent times.

[amcdonald]

[QUOTE=Paddy;1287860]

They provide employment to locals, serve otherwise important function of delivering food, booze etc - you on the other hand just whine about how bad police is, well serves you right really. QUOTE]

AtW calls police:

“Help, there’s a mad man breaking into SKA and threatening to kill me”

“What is your name”

“Mr Chutneywantski”

“Address”

“10 SKA Buildings Brum”

“Have you telephone about this incident previously ?”

“You will need to come to the police station and get a crime number.”

“I get out the building, he wants to kill me.”

“Has he actually harmed you.”

“No, but he will do”

“We can’t do anything until he harms you”

“He’s just smashed the window”

“That’s a civil matter you have to sue him”

And reply I've got a knife I'm going to stop him breaking in, and watch how quick a response you get

[AtW]

FFS, yesterday night some tw@t nicked my coat in more or less empty pub with PAYG mobile in it

[Brussels Slumdog]

FFS, yesterday night some tw@t nicked my coat in more or less empty pub with PAYG mobile in it

Hope the bast*rd receives a million calls from unwanted agents

[suityou01]

FFS, yesterday night some tw@t nicked my coat in more or less empty pub with PAYG mobile in it

Yeah but it suits him and matches his trousers.