Bit stupid they did not take your wallet

I agree the "one time you do not do something" as people do not realise that a lot of the time these guys are not one trick ponies and will actually have a bobby on the beat style area they check out every night, and probably just waiting for that time the curtains are not closed so they can check.

We had someone try our garage a couple of times, and our landrover here at our new house.  At our old house we had a removeable bollard fitted.  Just fit it behind your gate, and you cant get a car down the drive without lifting it out.

Oh thats crappy steve! Gutted for you.

This is one good reason for ANPR cameras to be used I think. I mean if he got out and used a major route then they might be able to track where the car went.

yeah they had the reg # on the ANPR system within 10 mins but he didnt go into the nearest city and its not shown up yet so i guess he knew to avoid them.

As its not shown up abandoned yet, he opened it with keys and its a mint condition car itll probably be on new plates by now.

little b****rds

someone tried to nock one of my vans the other day.... the old duffer we keep as a spair, broke the lock, broke the plastic around the ignition... then gave up

the problem is.... they get away with it.... and a lot of the little sh*ts these days dont know any better... products of bad parenting

....i.e. the reason i dont steal is because its wrong, not because its against the law ?   (if you know what i mean?).... where as those kinds of people know its against the law, bot don;t really see it as wrong

Gutted for you mate.. So Im guessing insurance is paying out on this then?

Little b*stards. Karma will get them one of these days Its times like that you wished your starter motor was going or your brakes lock up!

just going throught the insurance process.  I have to send them my remaining set of keys.  Im waiting a day before I post everything off just i case it turns up and I have to go collect it.

Quote from: SteveFI often dont park my car on that drive so hed have found himself with keys to a car he couldnt find and two blokes coming after him

and a dog eh.. that would have been interesting lol

I know a friend who went to a large shopping mall, walked to where he thought his car was (large carpark you sometimes forget the exact location (well some people do)) and pressed his key fob and unlocked a car, saw the lights walked up got in and was half way down the nearby road when he reached for something and noticed it was not his car, he got back with the owner with a security guard, lol.

Quote from: neXusI know a friend who went to a large shopping mall, walked to where he thought his car was (large carpark you sometimes forget the exact location (well some people do)) and pressed his key fob and unlocked a car, saw the lights walked up got in and was half way down the nearby road when he reached for something and noticed it was not his car, he got back with the owner with a security guard, lol.

I some times walk out of work and forget where my car is parked myself. Its not even that big the carpark!

Haha, I do that loads. I can never find my car

I have a bad habit of going to get into the drivers side of friends cars too. It doesnt feel right walking to the left hand side of the car!

steve

its them golf gtis i tell you!
a few months back, my brother in law got jumped at the petrol station on him way back from paying at the till, they attacked him with crow bars and had balaclavas on and they nicked his gti.

he shouted after them that it had a tracker fitted... it didnt really but they recovered it unmarked 5 days lays about 5 miles away in a posh housing estate.

think they tend to leave them to see if they are safe, then come back to it and take it for good.

yeah - fairly sure it was the GTi he was after.  Your mate got off lightly!!!  You drive the GTi into any car park around here and you get some kids saying ooooh nice wheels or something.  They reckon they took the keys for the VW because they come with immobilisers and its quicker to take the keys.  I did learn some things talking to the police over the last day or two that might interest people...


The reason they break in to houses in the early hours of the morning (i.e. when the sun is coming up), is because its a more serious offence to break in at night dark.  Didnt get the full details but apparently its burglary if its dark outside but its a tresspassing if its light.

If hed have taken my wallet from next to the keys (or anything else) then it would have been theft/burglary of a house.  Apparently taking a car without the owners permission isnt strictly theft even if you steal the keys.  Or at the very least its a lesser offence than a straight forward theft.


By doing it in daylight (although 5am) and not taking any property from the house (other than the keys) the lad minimized how much trouble he would be in if he was caught.  Is it just me who thinks thats a bit dumb?  He broke into the house and stole my car,  I dont care if it was light or dark.  If someone takes my car without my permission thats theft in my mind.  Apparently thats not the case in the eyes of the UK legal system.

my brother in law has since had a tracker fitted and had the glass upgraded its pretty impossible to smash.

the tracker he got can remotely disengage the engine via a mobile telephone. he got it from the car show so its pretty cool. you can also use a mobile phone and listen in to whats happening in the car.

he did look at getting remote dropped bollards fittied into the drive.
I guess getting done over like he did is worse than getting the keys nicked in the night at home.

having said that he sleeps with the keys under his pillow, so lets hope they dont come looking for his eys in the night next time.

bit late really, horse already bolted and all that.

Quote from: SteveFThe reason they break in to houses in the early hours of the morning (i.e. when the sun is coming up), is because its a more serious offence to break in at night dark.  Didnt get the full details but apparently its burglary if its dark outside but its a tresspassing if its light.

If the door is unlocked then its trespassing, if they damage your property to enter its breaking and entering. By not taking the wallet it does reduce the crime though, from theft to taking without consent. IIRC.

crazylegs, even if the car is gone its worth giving peeps advice for the next time. Once they have found they can break into somewhere they will go back, sooner or later, even if its just for a look.