Can anyone make me some wooden milk bottles? Serious question.

[Julia9054]

My son has the opposite problem - he gains milk rather than having it nicked. He lives in a terraced house in Rusholme, Manchester. Some annoying sod buys/steals milk and then lobs the half drunk carton over the high wall into my son's yard. Their happens a couple of times a week.

 

[sheddy]

Steel drinks bottle - wired up to 240v

 

[Andrew_Culture]

We don't live right on the street like the victim but our front door is 30 feet away and we've had milk stolen a few times, even though the milkman delivers at about 5 am. I solved it by making a wooden box with a raising lid to hide the bottles from passers-by.

I’m the ‘victim’ in the story. Sadly there’s no chance of trying a lock box. A neighbour tried using one and it got stolen!

 

[Globalti]

Could you screw a metal box to the wall and fit a lock, leaving it for the milkman to lock shut?

 

[rich p]

Buy milk from a shop

 

[sheddy]

We need to find a shop that directly reuses milk bottles...

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Could you screw a metal box to the wall and fit a lock, leaving it for the milkman to lock shut?

We have no front garden. We can’t even open the lounge window without risking brianing a passer by!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Buy milk from a shop

The local Fine Fare shut in about 1988. I assumed that was the end of the supermarket craze and haven’t pursued the line of enquiry any further

 

[Andrew_Culture]

We need to find a shop that directly reuses milk bottles...

Yes! We used to do it with Corona!