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[Classic1275cc]

Out of interest and a good story really, has anyone come across some scrotter doing something to your beloved mini? 👀 and what happend after

[ukcooper]

me, myself and I yes, end of story.

Friend caught someone tempering with there car (non mini) many years ago . they had it up on a trolley jack and where under he car at the time , so they just let the trolley jack down .. with a bump and she went back bed..

[CityEPete]

I ripped some ******* off carefully removed a person breaking into my mates MK2 cooper about 10 years ago and it ended up in court, slap on the wrist and made to pay to repair the cars damged (the aerial off our Rover Cooper and the door handle and window surround off the MK2), he never paid, Justice for all!

[coopdog]

came out of my house to find some kid sat on the wing of my car, safe to say he didn't stay there for long.....

[Archived2]

Left my mini at my sisters when i went into hospital. Came back to find the roof, bonnet and wings dented in.
Local kids had used it as a climbing frame to get in and out of thier back garden!
They were more interested in drinking beer and smoking weed than doing anything about it and had actually just sat there and watched it happen. The old man was with a few mates so just took the pish and threatened me.
No chance of getting any money back as neither had worked for years.
Came back when there was just him and his missus and put the roof in on thier car infront of them (not infront of he kids). Very petty I know and I was prosecuted for criminal damage. it wrote my mini off to the tune of around £2k. Thier car was worth £300 tops.

Many moons ago now when I was in my early tewenties.

Older and wiser about revenge now lol

[mini danny]

yup...... woke up early one morning to a loud car outside looked out the window to find 4 lads jump out of a saxo one got on the floor and starting looking underneath whilst another opened the bonnet... I quickly stuck my trousers on and grabbed my breaker bar which use to live down the side of my bed.... ran out side with it and never seen 4 blokes get into a 3 door saxo so quick in my life !! never come back which is lucky for them! 

[minifreek1]

I caught 2 scrotes inside my old Mini as they was trying their very best to take it away...

 

I used to leave it unlocked, because the locks had a mind of their own, but it was always alarmed....

 

I casually walked up to the car with them trying their best to hide inside the Mini...... ?

 

I locked them inside and then just stood there until the Police turned up about 5 minutes later....

 

I got cautioned for false imprisonment but charges got dropped because they was caught in the act ( I had them on security camera ) I used to install alarms and CCTV at the time :) )

 

Never heard anything afterwards except for a letter about 'being a victim of crime' from the Police....

[Cooperman]

When I was an apprentice in the late 50's a friend of mine had an old and unreliable Ford 10.

One night he was driving home along the old A1 near Hatfield, which was a single carriageway road in those days. It was raining lightly and the Ford decided that it wouldn't go any further, so my friend limped it into a lay-by.

He got a torch and opened the bonnet. After fiddling about with the distributor for a few minutes he noticed a car had stopped behind him, but took no notice. The next thing he realised was that the back of the car was being jacked up. He said "What do you think you're doing"? To which the reply came, "Oh, I only want the wheels, you have whatever you want out of the front"!

Now my friend was quite a big rugby playing guy. So he hit the would-be thief who then managed to scrambled back into his car and drove off, leaving my friend with a jack and wheel-brace for free. 

 

In Luton one night a businessman who owned a night club was going to his big Mercedes when he saw a 'scroat' who had managed to get it unlocked and was just opening the driver's door. Apparently the owner grabbed the guy, held his right hand in the door frame and slammed the huge and heavy door onto his hand. breaking it in a comprehensive manner. Nothing more was ever heard about this.

[mab01uk]

Back in the 1970's I used to leave my Mini parked in the road overnight under a street lamp.......looked out before going to bed one night and saw another car parked up close behind and 2 young blokes trying to break into my Mini......ran outside but managed to remember the reg number and make of their car as they made their escape, then called Police and gave them the number, they arrived outside soon after with the 2 blokes in the back seat of the patrol car, they had picked them up at the drivers parents home address....in the next road!

 

On another occasion also in the late 70's early 80's I had parked my Mini in the station car park at Wimbledon (with a Krooklock fitted) to travel up to the Motor Show at Earls Court by rail and underground. On our return my brother pointed out from the train as we passed 2 young blokes in the car park with the door of my Mini open trying to remove the Krooklock. We jumped off the train as soon as it stopped and ran like crazy to the car park.......by the time we got their they had disappeared but the Mini was still there with a slightly bent Motolita steering wheel. They had been trying to bend it by standing on the clutch pedal but as I used to put the Krooklock through the hole in the Motolita spokes near the centre boss it was stiff enough to resist their attempts.

I guess each time a train came in they hid for a while until the coast was clear to try again.....unless the owner returned.

After this I used to put the Krooklock on the brake pedal as less travel than clutch gave less leverage......however it was then possible to drive off in a straight line forgetting the Krooklock was on and finding no brake pedal movement........scary!!

Edited by mab01uk, 31 December 2015 - 05:01 PM.

[Tamworthbay]

I had problems with someone nicking fuel from one my bikes when I was a student. I removed the feed to the carb and made sure it was lowish on petrol then added half a gallon of glow fuel and left it. Sure enough the came back that night but never came back again. I have always wondered how far they got before their bike or car engine blew itself into a million pieces.

[Archived2]

Whats glow fuel?

[Dusky]

We had someone trying to steal stuff from our old mobilhome. When hé opened the side door our, then very young, dobermann took care of the chap. After the incident the chap tried to Sue us..

[Tamworthbay]

Whats glow fuel?

its what you use in some radio controlled engines. It's super high octane and mixed to run in engines that do 15000rpm plus. Mix it in with petrol in any amount and it will rev the nuts off the engine, It is called glow fuel as the engines have glow plugs to ignite the fuel then they run similar to a diesel so the only way to stop an engine running on it is to cut the fuel or stall the engine. The amount I put in would have meant the engine would just rev to a stupid amount and kill itself. Turning the ignition off wouldn't help as it would self sustain after a couple of seconds. If you ever come across anyone with a moped they ae about to scrap, put a cup full in instead of petrol and it will be the most fun you ever have in twenty seconds.

[dyshipfakta]

Nitro methane. It's awesome burns with an invisible flame. That will definatly cause some mayhem.

[megamini_jb]

I watched a few chaps walking right up to my mini one night and thought here we go, so I quickly ran to the airing cupboard to get my shoes on and go out, I get to the front porch and they're taking selfies with it and then some of just the car my heart was going like a goodun

Edited by megamini_jb, 01 January 2016 - 08:48 AM.