[QUOTE 5060507, member: 43827"]A friend of mine is a mechanic for one of the cycling teams. He regularly keeps up to £100k of kit in his van. When at home he parks it reversed tight to a wall, with a car parked tight to each side of it. Once it broke down on the way back from a race and he was so worried about theft that he slept on the floor of the van overnight in a lay-by.[/QUOTE]
Have had a couple of friends get vans stolen with 10s of thousands of sound system equipment, both were after the parties and couldn't get straight back to the lockups. In an ideal world you don't leave anything of value in a van overnight, but it can't always be avoided.
This CW theft doesn't sound like it was an opportunistic theft, if they were able to clear out the contents of all 3 vans the thiefs must have know what they going to steal.