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Uncle Marvo wrote:
If you want to be really serious, broken glass and nails scattered
around under the hadge tends to deter most amateurs. If it is
professionals you want to keep out, get land mines, a rottweiler,
and a gnu. Pikeys
will nick
anything from anyone anytime. So don't leave a caravan lying around
:-)

Perhaps it's a very silly reasoning but I always thought that if you
don't seem to be protecting your house like Alcatraz (sp?) then
nobody will be suspicious with thinking you're hiding some big
valuables in there.

Hasn't worked for me. I had open boundaries and a not very secure barn
and have had two ride-on mowers stolen. There seems to be a particular
problem round here with garden machinery and also with the fact that
once you've had one theft you're likely to get a second visit once
it's assumed you've had time to replace the articles stolen the first
time.

That's pikeys for sure. Whereabouts are you (not specifically, of course!)?

I'm deep in the fens of S. Lincolnshire. Fairly isolated. I've now got a
heavy duty gate and various other fortifications so that at least it's
not easy to drive a big white van in. It was easy before for someone to
spend quite a time in my yard without feeling overlooked by anyone.

I've had mower number 3 for just over a week so here's hoping ......

Janet G