Garden thefts

Apparently, there is a regular garden crimewave at present. Massive upsurge in thieves stealing garden ornaments and even established plants. Containers are most at risk, but even small trees are being taken. Tree ferns are targeted because they are then sawn up into ever smaller "logs" and then sold on. Even lawns have been stolen

Where is this tacky, consumer driven, modern society going? When I were a lad, we were as poor as church mice, but everyone left their doors open and no one ever stole from a neighbour. Progress?

 

I mentioned this before some months ago...
I caught a bloke in my shed one night so..I broke his nose,threw him in a ditch a few gardens away and kept his gold chain for my trouble!
I thought it best not to call the Bobbies to save time and money.

 

...and a charge of grievous bodily harm, no doubt

 

HB its the cost of moving from a pluralist to an indivualistic society - where self is more important than community.That is however one heck of a generalisation - there are a lorra people who look out for others, in the same way as they did before.

 

Lots of older folk,good friends,near me and thankfully he picked on the me ..not them!

 

Good for you Paladin. I wish the EEC would introduce human rights for the public to counter all the human rights of criminals

Which reminds me of the time I was walking through a car park in South Wales with a friend, who is a JP. There were young lads throwing large stones to and at each other over the parked cars. My friend said to one of them 'stop that or you will be up in front of me in court'. 'No we won't' was the reply 'we are too young'. And they just continued throwing the stones.

 

I hate to say it, but we leave our car door windows open all the time, needless to say the doors aren't locked! Our bedroom windows are open at night ... windows big enough to crawl into. Often we get up and find the house / car keys in the back door on the outside. We go out shopping and forget to shut windows. Neighbours bend over backwards to help if the need arises as we do to them.

Sometimes we have to smile when people ask us why we moved here!

I won't talk about how cheap it is to live here because that's not what this thread is about.

Perhaps we made a right decision moving here.

 

Here's something we have always loved ...

Going to bed the other night I noticed people in my shed stealing things.

I phoned the police but was told no one was in the area to help. They said they would send someone as soon as possible. I hung up.

A minute later I rang again. "Hello", I said, "I called you a minute ago because there were people in my shed. You don't have to hurry now because I've shot them."

Within minutes there were half a dozen police cars in the area, plus police helicopters and an armed response unit. They caught the burglars red handed.

One of the officers said, "I thought you said you'd shot them."

To which I replied, "I thought you said there was no one available."

:D :D :D :D :D

 

:D Now that is food for thought

 

We have had our allotment sheds broken in at times over the years.They caught them last year,and when it came to trial,the ones who did it walked away,with not even community work to do.Sometimes there is no Justice.

 

Justic? Gave up with that years ago! Along time ago, I had a state of the art Bicycle which was padlocked up at work, but despite that the chain had been cut and I never saw it again. Reported it to the police and after 2 years, I received a cheque for six pound! (the cycle was about fifty pounds then) I wrang up to find out what that payment was in aid of the the reply was that the thief had been charged with about thirty offences and they divide that into the amount that he was fined!

What b****y justice is there in that?

 

LOL, just told Mrs.DAG about your post above and its made her day, she can't stop laughing! :D

 

Good, DAG, nice to know someone's day has started off with a laugh! (Read wakey, wakey where ours started off with a dog trampling all my plants). Must go check actually!

 

I live in a smallish suburb of a very large city called Manchester!! As you can imagine crime is not unknown. Up until this week I have (thankfully) never experienced it, however, my neighbours on either side had their sheds broken into on Thursday, early hours.
I arrived home from work at approx 4pm on Friday to a bunch of all my neighbours outside my house.
They were having a meeting about what had happened.
We all decided to be extra vigilant, look out for suspicious cars/people etc...
Already we have had an instance today where a young hoodie/chav was hanging around on his bike...........he was seen off immediately.
I'm lucky that I live in such a place, but my point is, it was US as neighbours who decided to make the effort.
That is what is wrong with our society today, too many people covering their own backs.
Fletch

 

Well done, Fletch ... a personal neighbourhood watch scheme ... look out for each other! Good for you!