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[robminibcy]

i think its about time a few bait cars were organised either with a mains feed on to the body or a multi lock and meshed window trapping system to cat h any low life who dares try and steal a member of someones family.

[ToM 2012]

whats the best car alarm and tracker to buy of ebay? 

[mab01uk]

sorry to hear about this to what w*****s why are they robbing minis? are they that easy to rob everytime i go to bed at night i have to look out the window to see if its still there lol 

 

Yes easy to rob like all classic cars designed in the 1950's and 60's just look at the door keys and locks, hardly a challenge to someone willing to make a forced entry........unlike all modern cars where you really need to steal the unique programmed key to overcome built in engine imobilisors, security deadlocks, etc.

[samsfern]

There's so many scrotes out there thatd steal anything that werent welded to the floor! A friend had some dumbass get into his 09 audi a4 convertable a few weeks ago, destroyed the roof in the process, set the alarm off, by the time my friend had got out of bed and put a tshirt on, they'd buggered off, after slicing the seats and dashboard with a knife and trying to jam a screw driver in the ignition barrel, all for a satnav and £20 note that was on display. Bloody tealeaves! Still cant get over how they thought they were going to get it to start with just a screw driver, stupid *******!

Edited by samsfern, 12 June 2013 - 10:56 PM.

[Carlos W]

So
how difficult is a cat 1 alarm to install, for a novice

 

To have a cat 1 alarm approved you have to get it fitted or inspected by an authorised dealer

[Carlos W]

 As far as I know, a burglar can claim against you for damages if they injure them selves in your house.

 

This is what the law says

 

http://www.cps.gov.u...useholders.html

 

If you have acted in reasonable self-defence, as described above, and the intruder dies you will still have acted lawfully. Indeed, there are several such cases where the householder has not been prosecuted. However, if, for example:

• having knocked someone unconscious, you then decided to further hurt or kill them to punish them; or
• you knew of an intended intruder and set a trap to hurt or to kill them rather than involve the police,

you would be acting with very excessive and gratuitous force and could be prosecuted.

 

So, you can't set traps to cause injury to thieves!

[ibrooks]

Yes you can - so long as you didn't know that they were going to break in.

[cagy]

Yes officer the big pit full of razor wire and jagged edges was to try and catch a mouse that's been bothering me for weeks.

[ibrooks]

If it was behind a locked door then you wouldn't even need to explain it so long as it wasn't in and of itself illegal. You've taken reasonable steps to protect the public from a dangerous object - if the upstanding member of the community in question has circumvented your measures to protect them then that's their fault.

 

Iain

[Ste_u6]

Hi.
Sorry to hear that some scum thinks its ok to do this.
I wasn't so lucky a couple of years ago with my rs2000..... Still haven't seen it!

Where in Birmingham was this? I'm not far in wolverhampton. So wondering if I should keep an eye out for a mini thief!?