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Sacha wrote in :
On 2011-08-07 08:15:44 +0100, Baz said: Yesterday the OH and me were in the front garden doing some weeding when a chap came to me, treading on plants and with a dodgy attitude asked if I wanted him to fix my roof! I said there is nothing wrong with the roof and if there was I could fix it. He went on to ask if I wanted the garden digging! Then did I want the plastic window frames cleaning! He wouldn't take no for an answer. Unknown to me the OH recognised him from last year when he was stealing wheelie bins and rang the police. While undesired man and me were talking OH passed me the phone out of the window and was surprised to be talking to the police(as I didn't know she had rang them). I quickly got the gist and gave them a reg. no. of a pickup truck which I thought must have been his, he ran off immediatly. 6.30 this morning we were going out for the day. No chance. 8 slashed tyres and DEEP scratches to the bodywork of our cars. I feel like giving in! For F**ks sake. We both have to go to work tomorrow. Baz What a horrible thing to happen. It's only upside is that the police have his reg.no. and know he's operating in your area. CCTV camera installation, perhaps? There is a neighbour across the road who has a CCTV and the police are investigating now, but the vehicle is stolen sadly. This individual is known to the police by description, and his method. Thats all the police will say. Where to get tyres is top of my list now. The price is mad as well with callout charges. Good to have neighbours, we are taking my wheels to a tyrefitting sevice, but Reikha's car is going to a recovery service and hopefully the insurance will sort it today. What a bloody mess. It couldn't come at a worse time financially. With the bodywork damage it is almost certain both cars will be written off. While I have been writing this the insurance company have allocated us courtsey cars and to wait for confirmation of the details. So its wheels back on. Can it be so easy? I hope so, Reikha has been on the phone all morning so far. I wonder how this is going to affect our policies, money wise next renewal. I dare not think about it. What a mess. Again while writing, a neighbour has had "foul" put through his letterbox last night or early this morning. Disgusting. The police are taking this more seriously now. Baz |
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On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 08:45:50 GMT, Baz wrote:
There is a neighbour across the road who has a CCTV and the police are investigating now, but the vehicle is stolen sadly. Bother, forget about the revenge. B-( This individual is known to the police by description, and his method. Thats all the police will say. The Police usually do know the local "no goods" very well, trouble is getting enough evidence to make a case stick to the scum. With the bodywork damage it is almost certain both cars will be written off. For insurance purposes. As this is only cosmetic damage you could buy the cars from the insurance company if they write them off and get the damage repaired (or do it yourself). *A lot* less hassle than having to find two replacement cars at short notice, or dashing out to get a couple of £500 "good runners" to tide you over until you find the cars you want. While I have been writing this the insurance company have allocated us courtsey cars and to wait for confirmation of the details. So its wheels back on. Can it be so easy? Well you may have to wait until the hire car co opens on Monday. If the cars are going in for body work with the insurers approved place the body shop will provide the courtsey car. I wonder how this is going to affect our policies, money wise next renewal. I've had "protected no claims" for years so not up to speed on the current rules. It used to be you got a 10 to 15% discount for each year without a claim up to around 5 years. If you made a claim you lost one of those years and the associated discount. As I say I don't know if that is still how it works. Shopping around for car insurance each year is normally worth while, compared to just blindly accepting their renewal offer. Again while writing, a neighbour has had "foul" put through his letterbox last night or early this morning. Disgusting. The police are taking this more seriously now. Human or animal? I hope they sample it and run DNA test, they might be able to get a link between him (or his pet) and at least that. -- Cheers Dave. |
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On 07/08/2011 10:30, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 08:45:50 GMT, Baz wrote: There is a neighbour across the road who has a CCTV and the police are investigating now, but the vehicle is stolen sadly. Bother, forget about the revenge. B-( This individual is known to the police by description, and his method. Thats all the police will say. The Police usually do know the local "no goods" very well, trouble is getting enough evidence to make a case stick to the scum. With the bodywork damage it is almost certain both cars will be written off. For insurance purposes. As this is only cosmetic damage you could buy the cars from the insurance company if they write them off and get the damage repaired (or do it yourself). *A lot* less hassle than having to find two replacement cars at short notice, or dashing out to get a couple of £500 "good runners" to tide you over until you find the cars you want. While I have been writing this the insurance company have allocated us courtsey cars and to wait for confirmation of the details. So its wheels back on. Can it be so easy? Well you may have to wait until the hire car co opens on Monday. If the cars are going in for body work with the insurers approved place the body shop will provide the courtsey car. I wonder how this is going to affect our policies, money wise next renewal. I've had "protected no claims" for years so not up to speed on the current rules. It used to be you got a 10 to 15% discount for each year without a claim up to around 5 years. If you made a claim you lost one of those years and the associated discount. As I say I don't know if that is still how it works. Shopping around for car insurance each year is normally worth while, compared to just blindly accepting their renewal offer. Again while writing, a neighbour has had "foul" put through his letterbox last night or early this morning. Disgusting. The police are taking this more seriously now. Human or animal? I hope they sample it and run DNA test, they might be able to get a link between him (or his pet) and at least that. I often see (as everyone must) anti-social behaviour, but being a devout coward I say nothing. If you admonish someone for litter dropping you will at least get a mouthful of verbal abuse, perhaps worse. I don't think it worth it. Which is why it is so prevalent I suspect. -- Residing on low ground in North Staffordshire |
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Moonraker wrote in :
I often see (as everyone must) anti-social behaviour, but being a devout coward I say nothing. If you admonish someone for litter dropping you will at least get a mouthful of verbal abuse, perhaps worse. I don't think it worth it. Which is why it is so prevalent I suspect. NO NO Some scroat who is now in custody shat through an innocent persons letterbox. How much more information is needed? Baz |
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My brother just bought two cameras on the Internet , not that dear, they are used to record wildlife in your garden so use infra red and the movement makes the camera take the picture. You can then just plug it in to your computer to see the night's visitors. We got three deer, two foxes lots of pigeons (he left it on 24 hours) several cats and me going up and down weeding! That way you don't have to watch all the frames on a possibly quite night, as every frame or picture taken will be whatever moves in your garden. The date and time come up in the corner and the photographs are really quite good. Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message ... My brother just bought two cameras on the Internet , not that dear, they are used to record wildlife in your garden so use infra red and the movement makes the camera take the picture. SNIPPY More info on the cams would be appreciated please Janet. Reply to is valid. Thanks Pete C |
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In article , Pete C
writes "Janet Tweedy" wrote in message ... My brother just bought two cameras on the Internet , not that dear, they are used to record wildlife in your garden so use infra red and the movement makes the camera take the picture. SNIPPY More info on the cams would be appreciated please Janet. Reply to is valid. Thanks Pete C It was one of the range of bushnell trail cameras Apparently you can get them fairly reasonably on Ebay, well that's what my brother told me - though what he terms as reasonable I suppose might not be to others Janet -- Janet Tweedy |
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In article , Sacha
writes Same here, Janet. If you don't want to put the make on the group, could you email me please? -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Will do Sacha and Pete just emailed him to find out for you but possibly they are out running at the moment. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Moonraker wrote:
I often see (as everyone must) anti-social behaviour, but being a devout coward I say nothing. If you admonish someone for litter dropping you will at least get a mouthful of verbal abuse, perhaps worse. I don't think it worth it. Which is why it is so prevalent I suspect. I know where you're coming from, and I'm mostly the same, but sometimes I snap, and every time I have I've had little or no comeback from it. And of course, once I've gone far enough to snap, I'm perfectgly capable of handling anyone who wants to give a mouthful! Last week I was getting changed from swimming with my 2 boys, and there were a bunch of mouthy swearing shouty kids on the other side of the changing rooms. After the 3rd lot of hoping they would stop, I banged on the separating wall at them and shouted at them to please stop with the language as there were small children around. No more swearing. |
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"Moonraker" wrote in message ... On 07/08/2011 10:30, Dave Liquorice wrote: On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 08:45:50 GMT, Baz wrote: There is a neighbour across the road who has a CCTV and the police are investigating now, but the vehicle is stolen sadly. Bother, forget about the revenge. B-( This individual is known to the police by description, and his method. Thats all the police will say. The Police usually do know the local "no goods" very well, trouble is getting enough evidence to make a case stick to the scum. With the bodywork damage it is almost certain both cars will be written off. For insurance purposes. As this is only cosmetic damage you could buy the cars from the insurance company if they write them off and get the damage repaired (or do it yourself). *A lot* less hassle than having to find two replacement cars at short notice, or dashing out to get a couple of £500 "good runners" to tide you over until you find the cars you want. While I have been writing this the insurance company have allocated us courtsey cars and to wait for confirmation of the details. So its wheels back on. Can it be so easy? Well you may have to wait until the hire car co opens on Monday. If the cars are going in for body work with the insurers approved place the body shop will provide the courtsey car. I wonder how this is going to affect our policies, money wise next renewal. I've had "protected no claims" for years so not up to speed on the current rules. It used to be you got a 10 to 15% discount for each year without a claim up to around 5 years. If you made a claim you lost one of those years and the associated discount. As I say I don't know if that is still how it works. Shopping around for car insurance each year is normally worth while, compared to just blindly accepting their renewal offer. Again while writing, a neighbour has had "foul" put through his letterbox last night or early this morning. Disgusting. The police are taking this more seriously now. Human or animal? I hope they sample it and run DNA test, they might be able to get a link between him (or his pet) and at least that. I often see (as everyone must) anti-social behaviour, but being a devout coward I say nothing. If you admonish someone for litter dropping you will at least get a mouthful of verbal abuse, perhaps worse. I don't think it worth it. Which is why it is so prevalent I suspect. -- Residing on low ground in North Staffordshire It's not about being a coward, it's about going about it the right way, not confronting them as Baz did, but take the details and give the police something to do other than sit there waiting for the motorists to break the speed limit and adopt a gung ho, or following last night's riots which seem to follow on from plod's 'GUN HO' attitude. Mike -- .................................... Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive. .................................... |
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In message , Moonraker
writes I often see (as everyone must) anti-social behaviour, but being a devout coward I say nothing. If you admonish someone for litter dropping you will at least get a mouthful of verbal abuse, perhaps worse. I don't think it worth it. Which is why it is so prevalent I suspect. This is where PCSOs have made a difference, in Tameside, there are regularly fines of £175 handed out for dropping a cigarette end! -- Gordon H Remove "invalid" to reply |
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"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message ll.co.uk... On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 08:45:50 GMT, Baz wrote: There is a neighbour across the road who has a CCTV and the police are investigating now, but the vehicle is stolen sadly. Bother, forget about the revenge. B-( This individual is known to the police by description, and his method. Thats all the police will say. The Police usually do know the local "no goods" very well, trouble is getting enough evidence to make a case stick to the scum. With the bodywork damage it is almost certain both cars will be written off. For insurance purposes. As this is only cosmetic damage you could buy the cars from the insurance company if they write them off and get the damage repaired (or do it yourself). *A lot* less hassle than having to find two replacement cars at short notice, or dashing out to get a couple of £500 "good runners" to tide you over until you find the cars you want. While I have been writing this the insurance company have allocated us courtsey cars and to wait for confirmation of the details. So its wheels back on. Can it be so easy? Well you may have to wait until the hire car co opens on Monday. If the cars are going in for body work with the insurers approved place the body shop will provide the courtsey car. I wonder how this is going to affect our policies, money wise next renewal. I've had "protected no claims" for years so not up to speed on the current rules. It used to be you got a 10 to 15% discount for each year without a claim up to around 5 years. If you made a claim you lost one of those years and the associated discount. As I say I don't know if that is still how it works. Shopping around for car insurance each year is normally worth while, compared to just blindly accepting their renewal offer. Again while writing, a neighbour has had "foul" put through his letterbox last night or early this morning. Disgusting. The police are taking this more seriously now. Human or animal? I hope they sample it and run DNA test, they might be able to get a link between him (or his pet) and at least that. -- Neighbourhood vigilante group is what you want. If the police won't protect you... Even if they catch scum like this he will only get his hand slapped. Probably end up doing community serviceon your street. He'll blame you for that as well...... |
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"harryagain" wrote in message ... "Dave Liquorice" wrote in message ll.co.uk... On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 08:45:50 GMT, Baz wrote: There is a neighbour across the road who has a CCTV and the police are investigating now, but the vehicle is stolen sadly. Bother, forget about the revenge. B-( This individual is known to the police by description, and his method. Thats all the police will say. The Police usually do know the local "no goods" very well, trouble is getting enough evidence to make a case stick to the scum. With the bodywork damage it is almost certain both cars will be written off. For insurance purposes. As this is only cosmetic damage you could buy the cars from the insurance company if they write them off and get the damage repaired (or do it yourself). *A lot* less hassle than having to find two replacement cars at short notice, or dashing out to get a couple of £500 "good runners" to tide you over until you find the cars you want. While I have been writing this the insurance company have allocated us courtsey cars and to wait for confirmation of the details. So its wheels back on. Can it be so easy? Well you may have to wait until the hire car co opens on Monday. If the cars are going in for body work with the insurers approved place the body shop will provide the courtsey car. I wonder how this is going to affect our policies, money wise next renewal. I've had "protected no claims" for years so not up to speed on the current rules. It used to be you got a 10 to 15% discount for each year without a claim up to around 5 years. If you made a claim you lost one of those years and the associated discount. As I say I don't know if that is still how it works. Shopping around for car insurance each year is normally worth while, compared to just blindly accepting their renewal offer. Again while writing, a neighbour has had "foul" put through his letterbox last night or early this morning. Disgusting. The police are taking this more seriously now. Human or animal? I hope they sample it and run DNA test, they might be able to get a link between him (or his pet) and at least that. -- Neighbourhood vigilante group is what you want. If the police won't protect you... Even if they catch scum like this he will only get his hand slapped. Probably end up doing community serviceon your street. He'll blame you for that as well...... In the 1970's I was teaching in one of the Isle of Wight Prisons. One of the prisoners finished the course in May and was released in June. (They only came on the course towards the end of their sentence) I was walking across the main area a few weeks later when I saw him coming towards me. "What are you doing here?" 'Two and a half years', "What for?" 'GBH, I went back and beat up the bloke who put me in last time' Probably end up doing community serviceon your street. He'll blame you for that as well...... THAT is why you don't take the law into your own hands but take notes and inform plod later. :-(( Mike -- .................................... Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive. .................................... |
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"Baz" wrote in message ... Sacha wrote in : On 2011-08-07 08:15:44 +0100, Baz said: Yesterday the OH and me were in the front garden doing some weeding when a chap came to me, treading on plants and with a dodgy attitude asked if I wanted him to fix my roof! I said there is nothing wrong with the roof and if there was I could fix it. He went on to ask if I wanted the garden digging! Then did I want the plastic window frames cleaning! He wouldn't take no for an answer. Unknown to me the OH recognised him from last year when he was stealing wheelie bins and rang the police. While undesired man and me were talking OH passed me the phone out of the window and was surprised to be talking to the police(as I didn't know she had rang them). I quickly got the gist and gave them a reg. no. of a pickup truck which I thought must have been his, he ran off immediatly. 6.30 this morning we were going out for the day. No chance. 8 slashed tyres and DEEP scratches to the bodywork of our cars. I feel like giving in! For F**ks sake. We both have to go to work tomorrow. Baz What a horrible thing to happen. It's only upside is that the police have his reg.no. and know he's operating in your area. CCTV camera installation, perhaps? There is a neighbour across the road who has a CCTV and the police are investigating now, but the vehicle is stolen sadly. This individual is known to the police by description, and his method. Thats all the police will say. Where to get tyres is top of my list now. The price is mad as well with callout charges. Good to have neighbours, we are taking my wheels to a tyrefitting sevice, but Reikha's car is going to a recovery service and hopefully the insurance will sort it today. What a bloody mess. It couldn't come at a worse time financially. With the bodywork damage it is almost certain both cars will be written off. While I have been writing this the insurance company have allocated us courtsey cars and to wait for confirmation of the details. So its wheels back on. Can it be so easy? I hope so, Reikha has been on the phone all morning so far. I wonder how this is going to affect our policies, money wise next renewal. I dare not think about it. What a mess. Again while writing, a neighbour has had "foul" put through his letterbox last night or early this morning. Disgusting. The police are taking this more seriously now. Baz Vote for the BNP! We have had too many years of liberals and socialiasts. |
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In message , harryagain
writes Vote for the BNP! We have had too many years of liberals and socialiasts. Eh? It's liberals and Conservatives who are getting rid of experienced cops. We haven't had a Socialist government in Britain since I was a young lad! -- Gordon H Remove "invalid" to reply |