Left home this morning to find that some kind chap had peeled back the
top corner of the passenger door on gf's car, in order to reach in and
swipe the itrip she had inadvertently left on display.

I bent it back into approximate shape, but I'll be surprised if it seals
properly. Replacement door from a scrappy, I suppose; hopefully I can
find one in a similar colour.

Grrr.

Albert T Cone wrote:
All for an itrip? That sucks... It sucks anyway regardless of what the
pinched but to me it's somehow worse when the cost of the damage repair
is out of all proportion with what they took

Abo wrote:
Aye; I know I should be glad that they didn't nick anything of great
value, but the very fact that they didn't just makes it seem even more
petty-minded.

On 29 June, 09:52, Albert T Cone <a.k.ki... (AT) durham (DOT) ac.uk> wrote:
Move somewhere less pikey etc.

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:08:04 +0100, Albert T Cone wrote:

Some yobs broke into my ex M-in-Laws car by smashing a side window. After
trying and failing to do the lock with screwdriver.

They took about 95p in parking change and a polka-dot plastic rain hat.

In article <h29vh6$o3o$1 (AT) heffalump (DOT) dur.ac.uk>, a.k.kirby (AT) durham (DOT) ac.uk
says...
light switch, tipped out the cd case and bits in the glove box, mooched
through the few cheap but very heavy tools in the boot, and only took an
old nylon covered fleece hoody I kept in the boot for if anything broke.
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"Elder" <carl.robson (AT) bouncing-czechs (DOT) com> wrote

I can beat that, many years ago[1] I had the side window smashed overnight,
all they took (all there was) was a few tab ends out of the ashtray..
They did 2 of my neighbours too, seems they "really" needed a smoke....

[1] So long ago it was a Cortina


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Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...

fishman wrote:
Yay, thank you. I can't believe that no-one else has suggested it.

As it happens, that is part of the masterplan. The place I'm in isn't
intrinsically pikey, but its a natural thoroughfare between a council
sink estate and the local parkland, so a good spot for observing the
nocturnal pissed scally. Anyway, I've been putting up with it for
economic reasons whilst house prices drop and savings grow, but it might
indeed be time to MSLP...

"Albert T Cone" <a.k.kirby (AT) durham (DOT) ac.uk> wrote


Believe me, it's nice to be able to live somewhere where you can use the
summer opening feature to vent the car without finding some scrote has
rifled through the thing in the five minutes the windows have been down.
--
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On 30 June, 09:39, Albert T Cone <a.k.ki... (AT) durham (DOT) ac.uk> wrote:

Good plan I only said it because I was astounded that nobody else
had!!

I currently live somewhere decidedly un-pikey (looking on Right Move
the cheapest house for sale in my village is well over £300,000) yet
there are quite a few burglaries and car crimes (we get a twee little
village newsletter with a crime update, bless). The SOmerc (now
departed) and battered Clio outside the house, plus the fact we don't
have a massive plasma (a pikey small CRT and get this - a VHS instead)
beaming through the windows probably help protect us. Touch wood.