Pickpockets Paradise
- Thread starter Noodley
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spandex
I love Dr D
Thats not good. But why would there be 10grand in one of the tents!!!
Joe24
More serious cyclist than Bonj
- Location
- Nottingham
At the canoe/kayak events, theres often cars/vans/mini busses that just go walkies.
Last year a mini bus, and trailor full of kayaks and kit went missing.
Not the first time it has happened either!
Not pick pockets though, just someone jumping in and driving them off.
Last year a mini bus, and trailor full of kayaks and kit went missing.
Not the first time it has happened either!
Not pick pockets though, just someone jumping in and driving them off.
Mr Pig
New Member
- Location
- North Lanarkshire
If people are daft enough to put all of their money, cards and other important items in one big fat easy to steal lump then serves them right.
Mr Pig
New Member
- Location
- North Lanarkshire
Noodley said:
I'm not really ;0)
Keith Oates
Janner
- Location
- Penarth, Wales
Slightly OT but out here a lot of people (women mostly) get hand bags, purses etc. stolen when they are driving the small motorbikes. It's very professional, the thief rides alongside the 'victim' and slashes through the handle of the handbag. They also change the throttle of the motorbike to the left hand side of the handlebars to make it easier to ride up and make the snatch from free side of the road. (Driving here is on the right hand side of the road). However it's not just the handbag, one of my colleagues friends had her handbag cut and snatched and in doing so was knocked off her motorbike and was hospitalised for 6 months by the injuries. She's still not fully recovered.
Mr Pig
New Member
- Location
- North Lanarkshire
Years ago my wife lost all the money out of her purse. Thankfully they didn't take the cards or other personal items. Where was the purse? The purse was in her handbag which she had thrown into the tray under the pushchair so carelessly that it just fell out! When she realised and retraced her steps, the bag was lying where it fell but by that time someone, kids I presume, had gone through it and taken the cash and my £100 leatherman tool which my wife had put in her bag to keep safe!!!
It never ceases to amaze me how people can be utterly careless, give no thought to the risks of a given situation, then bleat when they predictably come unstuck. I've never in my life used a wallet and I get by just fine and have never had so much as a penny stolen. Yet for other people the only solution they can come up with is hanging all of their valuables off their shoulder by thin leather straps?
It never ceases to amaze me how people can be utterly careless, give no thought to the risks of a given situation, then bleat when they predictably come unstuck. I've never in my life used a wallet and I get by just fine and have never had so much as a penny stolen. Yet for other people the only solution they can come up with is hanging all of their valuables off their shoulder by thin leather straps?
Mr Pig
New Member
- Location
- North Lanarkshire
Noodley said:
The tool was in the glove box of the car. She was dropping the car off at the dealers for a service, repair or something and took the tool out of the car in case some light-fingered kid at the garage nicked it. Ironic eh? ;0)
Not such an irrational worry, I've had stuff go missing from cars before and I know other people who have too. I've even lost parts of the car!
I had a MkII Astra years ago and when it came out of the garage one of the plastic clips holding the sun visor up was missing. There's no way it just fell off, it screwed on firmly and was not inside the car. One of the apprentices at the garage had a MkII Astra and I'm quite sure he nicked it. Not an expensive part but annoying as I had to go to the dealer and order it. I also lost the reversing switch from the gearbox once!
Girl at work is in depute with the local Renault dealer over her car. Trading Standards and her finance company are now fighting them as she wants to reject it, the thing has suffered total electrical failure five times in less than a year. She put all the AA recovery receipts in the glove box. When the car came back from the Renault dealer they were gone and the dealer denied all knowledge!
My mate got pick-pocketed by a real horrible shitbag with broken fingers and a burst in face, on La Ramblas in Barcelona while we were over for a football match. Of course, if one of the lads hadn't spotted him, he might not have had a burst in face and broken fingers but Dave wouldn't have got his money back either.
