Low Lifes

[terbert]

>:( >:( >:(

Ozzy, I hope Low Lifes do not come into the category's in 'Topics'. >:(
Some low life moron has just tried to force the door of my Rover 820 and knackered the handle. A new one costs

[loomex]

Why, I have one right here in my pocket.....oh pooh.....I seem to have already given it to my son for his go-cart

Seriously, One never really knows the reason people do stuff like that. To help prevent it agian make sure that there are no vaulables in sight (money, cell phone, purse, radar detector, etc..) Get a theft resistive radio, like one with a removable face.
This is a most unfortunate lesson learned, and I speak from experience. My car was broken ito when I lived in Reno. They threw my childs car seat on the ground and took...get this...two pair of crappy gloves and a hat. They cound not remove the radar detector because it was hardwared in to the car.
I also worked security for a large casino and so a few car broken into, and it was almost always due to leaving something of value in sight.

Good luck on finding a part. I know here in the US rovers are not cheap!

[ozzy72]

Tony the only low-life I like, is one that I've introduced to my friend Mr. Baseball-bat!!! So speaking ill of the criminally inclined is perfectly acceptable
Actually Tony there is an excellent breakers yard up near the airfield at High Wycombe, they have a great range at good prices. I used them for years I'm afraid their name eludes my grey-matter at the moment though...

Mark

[terbert]

Hi Mark ;)

Yes, I know the breakers. It is next to the Rubbish tip, and it is called High Heavens!!!! I think it may still be in operation, but believe it or not, some  LOW LIFES only set fire to the place a short while ago. >:( >:(

Tony.
PS Come to think of it...I have a Mr Baseball Bat living in the cellar at the Community Centre. I think he may need an airing!!!

Loomex....Good advice, mate. Thing is..since I was made redundant, I do not have money to buy things to leave on car seats.  I also had a Kenwood stereo system nicked from my previous car, and that needed special things with it to make it work. >:( but they still took it.

[Polynomial]

my answer . . . . . sin.

[Smoke2much]

I'd go with the Mr Baseball Bat plan myself.  I bought my first car last year.  Taxed it, Insured it and drove it once.  It was parked up outside my house and some C**T smashed the side window and stole the tax disc. .  It was seriously worth more than the car....

Will

[IcedFoxtrotter]

my answer . . . . . sin.

Precisely Poly.

Do unto others,....

[Falcon_Six_Two]

Any low lives I meet.....God help them.

[Polynomial]

it'll come back and get them, don't worry . . . .

[ozzy72]

Sometimes it comes back to them in surprising ways. Many moons ago I caught a guy trying to steal my Honda VF in Watford, and the guy whipped the screwdriver out of my ignition to threaten me (bearing in mind I'm built like a mountain gorilla (and nearly as hairy) and I was wearing full leathers so I looked even more enormous), so I went to slug him, forgetting I had my crash-helmet in my hand. The thief was taken to hospital with a fractured skull and was firmly unconcious, and the police graciously wrote it up as self-defence
Who knows, maybe they'll be trying to fix their electrics at home and electrocute their own scrotum, but like Poly says, it'll come back to them. The trouble is you don't always get to see it
Mind you, that said, there were three muppets in a Lada who soaked me on my morning run ages back and got what they deserved. A cold and rainy morning and they drove through a puddle to soak me (and my clean white T-Shirt), and they leant out of the windows laughing. I yelled that I wanted to see them dead wrapped around a lampost. However fate has a much better sense of humour. About a mile down the road I turned a corner onto the final leg of my morning run, and there were the three charming gentleman lying on the pavement having ten-bells knocked out of them They'd plowed into the back of a parked police car Couldn't have happened to nicer individuals

Mark

[Hagar]

Petty crime & vandalism seems to be acceptable nowadays - both in the US & UK at least. The law seems powerless to stop it. It's so common they don't have time or can't be bothered. While this attitude prevails these criminals will get away with it. I don't know the answer but it's time something was done about it. IMHO

I was listening to a radio report on the state of prisons in this country only last night. It seems that the ordinary prisons are full to capacity & totally unsuitable prisoners are being transferred to open prisons to make room for new inmates. They are naturally escaping at a frightening rate. There are no bars & no locks on the doors so there's nothing to stop them. What a way to run a railroad.

This is not meant to be political, simply pointing out one cause of the problem.

[Craig.]

i say put various mine fields round these prisons, the only way in and out is one road which has a few armed checkpoints. Lets face it, these guys would have brought it upon themselves. They really cant complain its dangerous as they shouldnt be escaping in the first place, and hey if they do get blown to pieces, they prob deserved it and there would be one less criminal to worry about:)
now in reality,, round here we have 3 police cars that have to patrol keynsham saltford, parts of bath and parts of bristol. One car has to stay at the station incase of a local emergency. Should there be an incident those two mobile cars are gonna be at least 20 miles apart leaving one local car to deal with it. Obviously in desperate cases there are various other areas of bristol which will help out, but unless thats a full scale riot that means you could be stuck waiting for help for longer than a criminal would be in the area.
The supermarket where i used to work was one of the most targeted places in the area because it was so easy to steal from there. Its not unusual for the place to have at least 5 robberys a week with 2 being something major. The most common type being a grab and run, they would have one guy park out by the doors while another would walk in, grab a rack of jackets or boxes of shoes, maybe a dvd player or two then run out the door and drive off, the car being stolen generally they would never be found. Staff arnt allowed to stop them for fear of a lawsuit, and the security guard spends most of his time upstairs, which for a person like me who can run fast takes a good 25 seconds. let alone a 250lbs security guard. These guys are gone within 5 seconds. Yet they have triumphant letters on the staff wall from a court saying some guy who took a can of tuna got a suspended sentance while you never hear about the missing

[Hagar]

i say put various mine fields round these prisons, the only way in and out is one road which has a few armed checkpoints. Lets face it, these guys would have brought it upon themselves. They really cant complain its dangerous as they shouldnt be escaping in the first place, and hey if they do get blown to pieces, they prob deserved it and there would be one less criminal to worry about:)

These are open prisons I'm talking about. There are very few escapes from ordinary jails.

There's an open prison near me, on the site of the old FAA airfield at RNAS Ford. The main road runs right though it. You could hardly put a minefield round that. LOL
Like the others it was originally used for low-risk prisoners, fraud, tax evasion, stuff like that. George Best & Geoffrey Archer did some time there. They never tried to escape & the idea worked very well until recently.

Here's the report I was talking about.

I'm a Convict, And I'm Out of Here
Why are record numbers of inmates fleeing from open prisons. Last year 1,173 prisoners vanished from Britain's 15 open prisons compared to 749 the year before. And hundreds, including several murderers, remain at large. Matthew Chapman investigates claims that overcrowding is leading the Prisons Service to place dangerous and unsuitable inmates in open prisons from where they then abscond, putting the public at risk and leaving their victims in fear.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programmes/fivelivereport.shtml

[Craig.]

with the problems of overcrowding these days, the system needs to look at just where they begin to throw people in jail. If the majority of people in these Open prisons only did minor things, is it even worth the cost to the government of them being there? why not put them on probation and some form of community service. then beef up the security in these prisons and turn them into proper prisons. If i remember rightly portland has a floating prison, safe to say there aint too many people escaping through those waters, and maybe the government needs to look at building man made islands with prisons on them, it would certainly make finding escapees alot easier. And in the long run put the general public at less risk

[ozzy72]

As someone who has an uncle/godfather who is the governor of several of Britains major prisons I have to say that corporal punishment might be an option. I don't agree with the death penalty, but sometimes busting the ego with a big stick has the desired effect. Afterall there was that foolish young vandal in Singapore who got 6 of the best with the cane, and I'm sure never spraypainted his autograph on another car again........
Frankly if I caught anyone of my students graffiting anything they shouldn't  (other than pictures of the mayor) then I'd give them a thick ear

Ozzy