"David Hill" wrote in message
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I haven't reported it to the police. The field is isolated down a long
lane, the shed was not locked and I hadn't been near it for a week.
Insurance wont pay out for those reasons and the police are hardly going
to arrest or question everyone in possesion of a Qualcast 30 push mower.

On the other hand, it was obviously someone on the field - they very
carefully put the brick holding the door shut back, which outside two
legged vermin would not have done, as well as leaving other tools. I
have made my feelings known to the field committee.

The point of this is that if people don't do this, the statistics are
skewed and do not reveal the true level of crime in an area if a crime
is recorded as merely an incident.
I'll mention it to our local PCSO and see what she has to say.


Why not put a notice on the shed door asking for your mower back when the
person who "borrowed" it has finished with it.


I've thought about that. I'm thinking more along the lines of the communal
hut and the back of the field gate. Everyone has to stop to unlock the gate
to get out, so notices there tend to be read.

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Kathy