Scumbags

[SimonR]

I'm sure there's a lesson to be learned here...

All of the sheds at my parents' place were raided recently and pretty much anything of value was cleaned out. However, what I didn't realise, until I needed a few parts last night, is that they also get away with a large proportion of my Maestro spares including:

Indicators
Front light glass
Rear light clusters
1 complete carb
vacuum system parts
1 Stepper motor
1 Electric window mechanism
1 Clutch cable

Most annoyingly:
1 complete replacement digital instrument motherboard in original packaging.

I've been gradually remembering all the stuff that was there and it's making me more and more annoyed! :mad:

I think the answer is to label any boxed with the ledgend 'This box is full of Maestro Parts and therefore worthless. Go next door - they have much better powertools than us' or some such.

Grrrrrrr.

[malcsmaesty]

Thats the real pain of it all, i had my shed done over about 3 months ago usual things went missing,all the families bikes,pressure washer,everything of value.After the insurance sorted everything out(within 72 hours,all replaced!), it was then i was finally able to take stock of everything that had gone.
Parts that i had saved from my 1st car a 1973 850 mini,carbs,headlights,dash, switches and other little items all gone,
absoluteley useless to 99.5% of people,a few maesty& monty bits too.
But the best of all was 2 orginal 1960's mini manuals,i mean what would anyone want with them? I kept them because they had belonged to my grandfather who had them when he had his mini.
In a word GUTTED:mad:

[D87 SMW]

I'm 15 (I think) so I'm around scumbags at school and college. I sometimes hear them go on about stealing things etc. I feel like putting them straight, but I wouldn't get anywhere. :rolleyes:
College gets me going sometimes when I see people stabbing the dashboard and dials with screwdrivers and cutting up wiring with pliers. :mad:
One little s*d even 'etched' his initials into the drivers door of the Rover 214 SLi we have in the workshop!
The list could go on and on sadly... :banghead: :rolleyes:

[e692wtt]

I met a friend of a friend in a pub (as you do) and I asked him what he worked at... His wife's reply "Oh he's off with stress at the moment", and then he replied "I work in juvenile corrections and probation". Oh, says I, where at? "At such-n-such High School in Salford. As a teacher".

Lightheartedness apart, people are brought up with lower and lower standards from one generation to the next. "Redistribution of wealth is society at war with itself." Never mind the intangible losses such as sentimental goods, how can this be costed?

It's a sad situation, but better in some areas than others. I am happy to leave my car outside overnight at home, but there is no way I would do this at my mum's 3 miles up the road, unless there was no other option at all to doing so...

The other other Rich.

[D87 SMW]

Ah, High School in Salford eh. Likely to be the one I go to given that he is off with stress! :laugh:

[e692wtt]

Stephen / F170 GGT,

Moorside High School Mathematics Teacher called Bill sound familiar??? Bumped into him at a different boozer tonight...

The other other Rich.:laugh:

[D87 SMW]

Originally posted by e692wtt
Stephen / F170 GGT,

Moorside High School Mathematics Teacher called Bill sound familiar??? Bumped into him at a different boozer tonight...

The other other Rich.:laugh:

Know Moorside High. Sadly. Know someone who goes there. Sadly. Don't know any of the teachers. Luckily. :laugh:

[H48HPE]

sods law dictates that you read somthing like this and then it hapens to you.

today I go out to my shed to put some spares in my 'spares sideboard' ive got in there, when i saw the door had been forced open and a window put through. i checked it over and nothing had been pinched including the lawn mower, strimmer etc. which was lucky.

I think theyll be back though when theyve found buyers for the various bits and pieces so ive fetched the majority of maestro bits in and all the gardening stuff.

Im getting really :censored: off with this sort of stuff going off, you cant have anything nice without fear of someone pinching it. :banghead:

i am of the oppinion that thieves in general should be made to pay for what they do and that doesnt involve playing pool and playstation games with likeminded criminals. when will the government start to take this problem seriously I ask.



Andy:rage: :banghead: :censored: :banghead: :censored: :rage:

[D87 SMW]

Couldn't put it better myself.

Today I walked past a small church car park, the rear quarter window of a Vauxhall Astra had been smashed, and also the (hidious) rear light cluster of a new Renault Megáne had been smashed.

:banghead: :rage: :mad: :censored:

[Rich]

A couple of years ago now, we had a recruitment day at work, and the church opposite the yard was used ot hold it, a mate of mine took us over in his Renault 5, and we left our stuff in it until we were going back at lunchtime.

During the morning, it was broken into, my mate lost his stero and cd changer (idiot for leaving the face in the door pocket), they tried the ignition but failed, buggered all the door locks, smashed a window, and took anything in a bag. So 3 missing bags, and in mine was an NVQ, so all my hard work up to that point had been lost, as well as all the personal items I had in there.

We searched the local "Tricorn" centre, anyone know it? A lovely 60's concrete building that should have been knocked down years ago, for the offenders and missing stuff, but all we found was needles from the vagrants who squat there.

Police did sod all, CCTV wasnt looking that way, and it all happened in a church's carpark. Fourtunatly someone found my NVQ a few days later in an ally, and rang up my company to report it.

Its just as hard when you lose somthing that you have put a lot of effort into and wouldnt like to have to do again, moral of the story, I never let those books out of my sight again, and never left them in mine or anyone elses car.

Rich

[e692wtt]

Leave as little as you possibly can in a parked car, and make sure what *is* there is out of sight (in the boot is best)...

People call me paranoid about this, but my car windows and door locks are always intact, unlike theirs!:laugh:

[Alan the Vanner]

I had one of my Toyotas vandalised a week ago. Went to the Liteace last friday morning and found the nearside door mirror had been kicked out, breaking the bracket. The glass wasn't broken: I did that trying to take the assembly to bits! So I had to use my Estima for my parcel deliveries, Which I didn't want to do. I saw some people around the area on thursday night, so asked some freinds to keep an ear to the ground, but it angers me that people just do this for the hell of it. Pointless! Even the offside mirror on the Estima had been bent round yesterday morning-fortunately not broken.:rage: :rage: :rage:

[Quality]

Scum the lot of them. Instead of having them half-ar**ly painting a fence or piicking up litter and have them put right what they did wrong. Try searching for all the parts at autojumbles, having to rub down and repaint scraches, sweep up the broken glass and fit a new window. If they refuse or it isn't done to the required standard then lock them up for a week and let them try again, if they attempt to intimidate the person they commited a crime against then they can hold my boot shut on a motorway drive.

[E_T_V]

I liked the idea that if they broke into the car they have to spend there sentence served in that car :D A metro would never be broken into again!

[D87 SMW]

:rage: Grrrr. White H reg Maestro Clubman on my grandads street. Discovered that the winscreen has been stoved in severely. Some :censored:'s given it a good going over. :mad: :rage:

[Ricky]

We searched the local "Tricorn" centre, anyone know it?
Ooooh, makes me shudder!! You ought to count your blessings that youre still able to tell the story!! I thought they were demolishing that? Mind you, wasnt there a few nutters that escaped from the local loony bin suggesting it be made a listed building?? Last time I went to pompey was to see the tricorn, that thing won awards in its day for innovative architecture!! Shows how fashions change I suppose!
Speaking of break-ins, my mate works in bournemouth, and he used to leave his peugeot 309 anywhere he could park it, with an expensive stereo, cd changer, and valuables (at the time he had two brand new contract phones!) on display. When he came back from work he "noticed" that his passenger side lock was hanging out. Thinking that this was just another peugeot thing (bits randomly falling off!), he tried to poke it back in the hole, and it fell out on the way back home. On closer inspection, it was an obvious break-in attempt, there were even crowbar marks in the top of the door and the paintwork round the lock was all scratched up. Imagine his surprise as I pushed the lock bar inside the door up with my finger! He was certainly counting his blessings, especialy as if they had tried the drivers door they would have found a weak winder system on the window and would have been able to get in very easily!!!! Suffice to say, everything expensive was soon taken out of that car by its owner.....

[Rich]

For anyone who's intrested in the ghastly Tricorn, I found this link of photos, have a look, if it works!


http://www.blueskies.aviators.net/trw.html

Rich

[Jonathan]

And those were taken a few years ago, it's even more run down now.