67 replies to this topic

[charie t]

He was complaining it filled his van with nothing, and wanted me to cut it up for him

[steve26-2008]

To be fair not all scrap men will seal from you, and people can't class them all the same. People think all scrap men are from the travelling community, which is wrong scrap men are from all backgrounds. As for not being allowed to call them names why should you Schools teach kids not to name call but its the parent the need to teach.

[minijawa]

Had the theiving wotsits round our way cutting the solid steel gates for our garage block out with petrol grinders!!! all caught on cctv and of course they was gone before the boys in blue eventually arrived.....their investigations said the reg number of the transit pickup was actually from a set of stolen plates belonging to a fiat panda! As they aren't able to go investigate every allegation on the local site due to "community" relations it seems the residents have got to cough up again for new gates to protect our garages from the younger members of the "community".

Edited by minijawa, 10 March 2011 - 11:51 AM.

[Cerberus]

We have them coming round here too every so often.

The local 'campsite' had a raid a few years ago, plenty of police cars, and a helicopter.

And the cheeky gits stole a police car. Don't think it was ever recovered.

They also illegally built a new campsite in a field they owned, without building rights, on good friday last year. So far nothing has happened, and its still there. Baffles me why the army aren't called in with armoured bulldozers or tanks to flatten the place,

[MiniLuke]

We have them coming round here too every so often.

The local 'campsite' had a raid a few years ago, plenty of police cars, and a helicopter.

And the cheeky gits stole a police car. Don't think it was ever recovered.

They also illegally built a new campsite in a field they owned, without building rights, on good friday last year. So far nothing has happened, and its still there. Baffles me why the army aren't called in with armoured bulldozers or tanks to flatten the place,

Was that "Justin Park" by any chance?

[mattdc2r]

Brother in law has had his works van broken into twice now, and tools stolen. Police got the registration of the van that was seen in the area, but apparently could not prove who the driver was at the time, and therefore could not prosecute for the thefts.

Thefts occured when the Appleby horse fair was on and we live pretty close to it and where these temporary housing developments pop up over night

How PC am I???

[M44K TS]

Brother in law has had his works van broken into twice now, and tools stolen. Police got the registration of the van that was seen in the area, but apparently could not prove who the driver was at the time, and therefore could not prosecute for the thefts.

Thefts occured when the Appleby horse fair was on and we live pretty close to it and where these temporary housing developments pop up over night

How PC am I???

So it was pikey's?

[mini_mad69]

Brother in law has had his works van broken into twice now, and tools stolen. Police got the registration of the van that was seen in the area, but apparently could not prove who the driver was at the time, and therefore could not prosecute for the thefts.

Thefts occured when the Appleby horse fair was on and we live pretty close to it and where these temporary housing developments pop up over night

How PC am I???

So it was pikey's?

+1.




To be fair though, me and a mate where skint last summer, so we collected a bit of scrap. But this was fly tipped stuff we found in country lanes and in the corners of industrial estates. Also got a farmers permission to have an alluminium box van shell.

Did quite well out of it too, no need to steal a thing.

[mattdc2r]

Would appear so. but nothing could be proven. It does seem that the Police don't really want to get involved with travelling folk, meaning they get away with everything. But what can you do?

[Mini Mad Drakeley]

Would appear so. but nothing could be proven. It does seem that the Police don't really want to get involved with travelling folk, meaning they get away with everything. But what can you do?

if the police have ever seen snatch im not surprised lmao

[kalum]

They are like that where i live, they often offer to take the mini off my hands as if it was bothering me. they even had the cheek to ask if they could have our daily drive R reg Renault Laguna when Dad was changing the wheel bearings cause it was up on jacks while he was eating lunch. cheeky so an so's

[rwerry]

You must now use the phrase: Caravan Utilising Nomadic Travellers or you use an acronym of the title for short.

[GTIAlex06]

They often drive past while im outside washing katy n ask if they can take her off my hands for scrap.

Hence why its locked in the garage at all times

[USA-Fin]

We have the same problem over here.

The crackheads steal anything they can get their hands on.

They strip copper wire out of vacant buildings and buildings under construction.

They also steal air conditioning units for the copper. We have had several AC units stolen (I'm a homebuilder). We have had copper wire and HVAC line sets stolen out of houses as well.

Another hot item is catalytic converters. They will cut them off you vehicle while it is in your driveway.

[yousmeg]

Recently ive heard about catalytic converters being stolen from cars in the supermarket car parks around where i live!