Tim
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Jul 22, 2008 11:44:58 GMT
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The builders on the same site as me had two cats nicked of their trucks last night - cut off with a battery saw by the looks of it.
Police have said it is ripe in the north hampshire area at the moment - 11 reported thefts in a week.
Just a heads up
Tim
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Last Edit: Jul 22, 2008 13:16:08 GMT by Tim
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Jul 22, 2008 11:55:37 GMT
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shouldn't be a problem for anyone on here ?!?!
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Jul 22, 2008 11:56:53 GMT
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>:(Our yard has already been done.
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skinny
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Jul 22, 2008 11:59:16 GMT
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One of our works van got 'done' a couple of weeks ago. Bastwits!
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Jul 22, 2008 12:01:38 GMT
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Apparently this is one of three epidemics rife in greater London at the moment - cat thieves, petrol syphoners, and gangs who steal cars to crush and weigh in. Lovely.
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Tim
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Jul 22, 2008 12:02:35 GMT
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I nearly left the 406 here overnight as well!
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Jul 22, 2008 12:13:07 GMT
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where do I sell a catalytic converter to get the best value for it? The one on the Cadillac is the siZe and weight of a child's coffin and must be worth a bag and all it does it weigh the car down... DO they just go to the regular metal recyclers? I've got a fair bit of old metal to take down might lop the cat off
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Jul 22, 2008 12:20:40 GMT
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Metal recyclers.
Full of platinum and palladium.
(well, not FULL, otherwise they'd be eleven-billionty pounds, but you get the idea)
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bigrod
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Jul 22, 2008 12:37:32 GMT
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Akku,
Just look up Scrap merchants on Yellow pages. If they don't buy them they should be able to point you in the direction of someone who does.
I got £60 for two cats that had been lying round the side of my garage for about three years!!
Not surprising they're desirable items for low life thieving scum!
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If I have to explain, you won't understand. Maximum signature image height = 80 pixels
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Jul 22, 2008 12:39:54 GMT
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excellent. Theres a recyclers near me, and I have a few bits like an old auto box and some calipers and the like as well as the Cat on Caddy which can come off...
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bigrod
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Jul 22, 2008 12:47:44 GMT
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You'll probably find they 'specialise' in certain types of metal, but there's only one way you'll find out.
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If I have to explain, you won't understand. Maximum signature image height = 80 pixels
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Jul 22, 2008 12:58:23 GMT
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Apparently this is one of three epidemics rife in greater London at the moment - cat thieves, petrol syphoners, and gangs who steal cars to crush and weigh in. Lovely. don't forget the ones stealing the gutter grates
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Jul 22, 2008 13:03:17 GMT
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apparently petrol syphoning is up by 100% according to AA radio said yesterday, and taht poor farmer that had hs crops wrcked as they left his farm-tank spewwing out diesel after their jerrys were full. makes me mad, be better when these scum are litter picking and gargdening
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts
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Jul 22, 2008 14:55:08 GMT
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Not got a single cat on any of ours.
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Jul 22, 2008 14:57:05 GMT
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Apparently this is one of three epidemics rife in greater London at the moment - cat thieves, petrol syphoners, and gangs who steal cars to crush and weigh in. Lovely. don't forget the ones stealing the gutter grates I heard they've also half-inched armco, roadside railings and even a metal bridge in west London! How exactly do you steal a bridge without someone questioning it...?!
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Jul 22, 2008 15:08:56 GMT
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Hi-vis vests and a transit, the modern equivalent of a skeleton key.
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Jul 22, 2008 22:58:01 GMT
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I heard they've also half-inched armco, roadside railings and even a metal bridge in west London! How exactly do you steal a bridge without someone questioning it...?! IMHO the questioning should be at the recycling/scrapman end. If people had to give pukka proof of ID or be paid in another form other than hard cash, I believe a lot of this pilfering would die out. Discuss !!!
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Jul 22, 2008 23:03:39 GMT
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Are you going to question anyone who can hoik a 600x600 heavyweight manhole cover clean out of the ground and lob it into the back of a high-side transit pick-up?
I don't think you would. Those bastards are HEAVY. And they take alot of effort to pull them out as they are normally filled with gunk doen the key-holes and jemmy-slots. We lift them daily for drainage surveys and they ain't easy I tell you, even with two fit-ish lads hoiking them. Alot of the time you have to wallop them with a 14lb sledge to get them 'bouncing' before they will slide out of the hole, then to actually pick and hurl them on a truck would need some serious strength......
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Jul 22, 2008 23:31:03 GMT
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Vast majority of the cat thefts I've seen or heard about done down here have been cut off silently with a pipe cutter, always 4x4s, and always on the drive or parked right outside the house. Easy pickings for the scumbags and easier to turn into hard cash than anything else you can steal. Cash for scrap is why it happens, what kind of yard buys 1m lengths of railway signalling cable!?
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m0rris
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Jul 22, 2008 23:42:14 GMT
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thats the problem why are the yards excepting blatently dodgy stuff... a bridge!?!?! etc unless people pack it into cars they have stolen and weighed in?? m0rris
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