Attempted break in to my van !

[streetlighter]

Been out and about all evening in the car came back home around half past eleven got stuck into some invoices and minor works Certs gets a knock on the door.
One of our neighbours spotted a gang of lads around the van shining a torch inside and then trying to force the back doors they then ran off when disturbed by my neighbour !
the back door handle and lock ( 11 plate vauxhall combo ) they have tried to wrench out I'm not sure how much it's going to cost to repair.
Best part of it is we called the police as soon as we investigated what had been done and they where not interested in sending anybody out, I'm mean there's bound to be some evidence on the back door even I could see the finger marks !
apparently they are going to telephone us in the morning, well that's no bloody good in my opinion.
I suffer with stress and anxiety at the best of times and this hasn't helped me one bit, can't sleep that's why I'm typing at this hour

 

[timbobelfast]

I would be driving around looking for them myself if the old bill aren't interested. Makes my blood boil to think of the pykie little c@$%s!

 

[streetlighter]

You know we all work hard to build our business up and pay Taxes then some scumbag tries to steal it away just to feed there drug habit !

 

[timbobelfast]

In some countrys in the middle east if you are caught stealing and convicted, you will be missing a hand or two!
A good few years back a lad was caught trying to steal a car from an area just outside Belfast and they nailed him to a fence!

 

[timbobelfast]

Here you go... It will probally disapear later

'Crucifixion' victim says it was a sectarian attack | UK news | The Observer

 

[oldtimer]

Stealing tools is stealing the bread out of your mouth thing is you would be better depersonalise your van ie having Joe Bloggs Electrics on the side is an invitation to break in cos there could be something worthwhile

 

[Robert Turnbull]

Combo's seam easy targets mine was done with hardly any damage. Get a additional lock on the back door.

 

[dan86]

Here you go... It will probally disapear later

'Crucifixion' victim says it was a sectarian attack | UK news | The Observer

bloomin hell!

 

[markc123]

Sorry to hear about this buddy. From my experience thr cops are a waste of space these days - if it interputs their tea break or too much paperwork involved they cba. Just gonna have to be thankful nothing was taken mate. Dont get ureself worked up over scumbags.

Hope the repair costs arent too bad. As said above, get extra locks buddy. Mark.

 

[Spoon]

Did the police give you a Crime Reference Number (I think its called this) when you rang up? Usually they will not follow anything up unless they give you one of these, also the insurance people usually ask for one. If they havent then ring them up again and ask for one... might get things moving more.
As for the police, I cant slag them off as we had our car broke into and they had the people round checking for finger prints.

 

[cdavies33]

You should rig up a 240volt inverter on a switch which is then bonded to the chassis. Simply lock your van.... Flick the switch and set up the video camera!!! ha ha ha

 

[DPG]

Not worth claiming on insurance for a busted door handle that's the problem. Got my car broke into a few years ago now, police wouldn't come round then either. Insurance and police both a waste of time for this sort of thing unfortunately. Daz

 

[edrobbo8]

You should rig up a 240volt inverter on a switch which is then bonded to the chassis. Simply lock your van.... Flick the switch and set up the video camera!!! ha ha ha

Pretty sure in South Africa this is a recognised anti vandal method, should be over here too!

 

[streetlighter]

The perfect excuse to buy an inverter it can be used to charge my drill on the move and then power the in van "security" system !

Luckly the damage wasn't too bad it was mainly cosmetic which still upsets me as the vans not even two year old yet and before this didn't have a scratch on it !

 

[timbobelfast]

As long as you put a couple of 240 Volt warning stickers on the van then your coverd lol!

 

[chris murphy]

Been out and about all evening in the car came back home around half past eleven got stuck into some invoices and minor works Certs gets a knock on the door.
One of our neighbours spotted a gang of lads around the van shining a torch inside and then trying to force the back doors they then ran off when disturbed by my neighbour !
the back door handle and lock ( 11 plate vauxhall combo ) they have tried to wrench out I'm not sure how much it's going to cost to repair.
Best part of it is we called the police as soon as we investigated what had been done and they where not interested in sending anybody out, I'm mean there's bound to be some evidence on the back door even I could see the finger marks !
apparently they are going to telephone us in the morning, well that's no bloody good in my opinion.
I suffer with stress and anxiety at the best of times and this hasn't helped me one bit, can't sleep that's why I'm typing at this hour

"Hello streetlighter",


Sorry to read about the attempt to break into your Van.

If your Van has just the rear doors into the `cargo area` I recommend that You fit a `Van Lock` for additional Security - something like this from Toolstation:


Toolstation > Safety & Security > Security Cables & Chains > Heavy Duty Van Lock & Hasp - they are approximately £21.00 - I am attaching a Photo of this.

If this is the same mechanism as the type that I have the Circular centre is a Circular Padlock which you unlock and take off to open the Van Doors.

Because the `Hasp` consists of Two halves they obviously have to be fitted accurately in order to have the Padlock `attach` to them - but obviously as a Professional Electrician / Tradesman this would be easy for You.


Do You have an Alarm ? - it would be worth fitting one - they can be installed fairly inexpensively if You look around at Vehicle Audio / Alarm fitting Companies - obviously even cheaper if You fit it yourself.

I don`t mean to worry You with this - just to urge you to be extra vigilant:


I hope that You don`t have any further problems regarding people breaking into your Van - But be VERY wary of this in the next few weeks.

The Police would tell You that IF Your Home or Vehicle become a `Target` of thieves they are likely to Try / Retry more than once.

You probably already take out your Tools and Power Tools at Night - but if not I urge you to do so for at least the next few weeks.


"Good Luck"


Regards,


Chris

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Been out and about all evening in the car came back home around half past eleven got stuck into some invoices and minor works Certs gets a knock on the door.
One of our neighbours spotted a gang of lads around the van shining a torch inside and then trying to force the back doors they then ran off when disturbed by my neighbour !
the back door handle and lock ( 11 plate vauxhall combo ) they have tried to wrench out I'm not sure how much it's going to cost to repair.
Best part of it is we called the police as soon as we investigated what had been done and they where not interested in sending anybody out, I'm mean there's bound to be some evidence on the back door even I could see the finger marks !
apparently they are going to telephone us in the morning, well that's no bloody good in my opinion.
I suffer with stress and anxiety at the best of times and this hasn't helped me one bit, can't sleep that's why I'm typing at this hour

firstly you report the police for making no attempt to investigate a crime.....they have a duty to do so...
or your neighbour could have hit the lads with a stick...that may have done it.....

 

[gnuuser]

dust the handles with crystal iodine will leave their hands black and purple for about 3 weeks
it takes their hands that long to wear it out
easy evidence of anyone tampering with the handles and locks

 

[Heisenberg]

dust the handles with crystal iodine will leave their hands black and purple for about 3 weeks
it takes their hands that long to wear it out
easy evidence of anyone tampering with the handles and locks

Better still, use sodium hydroxide every night for a few weeks :devil:
just don't forget it is there next morning.

 

[Johnuk]

ring your local paper up, it will warn other people and boost getting the scum who did it

 

[Jay Sparks]

Ive just been to moggies (morrisons) shopping with the wife. Ive come out to find two of my armour plates that fit over the locks, on the floor. This was day time, in a busy car park. Luckily they didnt get in as all my tools were in there. Now im not a stress ed but evrey were ive been today, ive been watching my van. I might go back to moggys one day wen ive got nowt to do and sit in the back of the van for a few hours. Id love to get my fkin hands on em, little scrotes...


Jay

 

[grantr37]

watch out what you say on here, there was a woman in the paper the other day who got her £25,000 car pinched and driven about then burned out by criminals, she said what she thought of them on the f@ceb**k and they(the Plod)did an FBeeI "just threatened a vip" on her....booted her door for "posting bad messages" on the internet.....weren't 1% interested in the car, Just about trying to get her charged.....


this island has turned into a sick place nowadays.....suppose the whole world is heading that way...




(20 minutes later- after this post...)


gogogogo gogogo....boot boot smash......on da eeeee fffff n floor right now....bang bang bang ..bang bang ...bang ....dribble....bang....fart....bang.......suspect secured...supect secured...fart...bang bang.......right who's up for a pint...

 

[vernam616]

I got a van vault in my van, houses the test kit, circ saw etc..

got a stanley chest on wheels which carrys all my spare kit and cordless power kit and also carry a tool bag with all main tools in, chest and toolbag wheel out every night into the house

Break into my van if they like daft bit of cable along with general skts/switchs etc..,

had a van done around 5 years ago, idiots took 3 hanks of sleeving thinking it was cable

Id love to catch someone doing it, a good bat tumbled into the back of the van and driven 50 miles away and leave them

 

[grantr37]

browser froze up with a message and caused a double post...

 

[markc123]

I got a van vault in my van, houses the test kit, circ saw etc..

got a stanley chest on wheels which carrys all my spare kit and cordless power kit and also carry a tool bag with all main tools in, chest and toolbag wheel out every night into the house

Break into my van if they like daft bit of cable along with general skts/switchs etc..,

had a van done around 5 years ago, idiots took 3 hanks of sleeving thinking it was cable

Id love to catch someone doing it, a good bat tumbled into the back of the van and driven 50 miles away and leave them

Shouldn't laugh, as having your van broke into can't be funny.

But, seriouslly how thick are some people. No punishment these days though, so no deterent and petty crime will always be around going to prison now is like going to butlins. Think if they got 6months in a dungeon like the old days with rats, **** and crap they'd soon think twice about breaking into peoples livelyhoods. Makes me so angry, rant over.

 

[grantr37]

Ive just been to moggies (morrisons) shopping with the wife. Ive come out to find two of my armour plates that fit over the locks, on the floor. This was day time, in a busy car park. Luckily they didnt get in as all my tools were in there. Now im not a stress ed but evrey were ive been today, ive been watching my van. I might go back to moggys one day wen ive got nowt to do and sit in the back of the van for a few hours. Id love to get my fkin hands on em, little scrotes...


Jay

I was in a supermarket carpark years ago in Glasgow on my way out of the shop, there was a car alarm going off, a pair of legs dangling out of a car driver window flailing about as if the person was pulling at the stereo.....everybody was just walking about pushing their trolleys around as if there was no sound at all and nothing was going on....basically as long as it was not their car...

 

[markc123]

I hope you wedgied him

 

[GLENNSPARK]

I got a van vault in my van, houses the test kit, circ saw etc..

got a stanley chest on wheels which carrys all my spare kit and cordless power kit and also carry a tool bag with all main tools in, chest and toolbag wheel out every night into the house

Break into my van if they like daft bit of cable along with general skts/switchs etc..,

had a van done around 5 years ago, idiots took 3 hanks of sleeving thinking it was cable

Id love to catch someone doing it, a good bat tumbled into the back of the van and driven 50 miles away and leave them

yes and dont leave any test instruments in the van overnight will you...regardless of whether their in the vault..or not....
its the cold see...
they dont like sharp changes in ambient tempreture dont test gear...

 

[PEG]

General consensus is predictable and understandable,but next time your offered a £50 stihl saw or box of gear for a tenner - think where it has been removed from. IF lads didn't buy hooky gear the need to chore it would lessen....just off to give my high horse some oats...

 

[Robert Turnbull]

I got a van vault in my van, houses the test kit, circ saw etc..

got a stanley chest on wheels which carrys all my spare kit and cordless power kit and also carry a tool bag with all main tools in, chest and toolbag wheel out every night into the house

Break into my van if they like daft bit of cable along with general skts/switchs etc..,

had a van done around 5 years ago, idiots took 3 hanks of sleeving thinking it was cable

Id love to catch someone doing it, a good bat tumbled into the back of the van and driven 50 miles away and leave them

I've seen vans left for 5 minutes and come out to find van vaults cut open.

Some of these scum bags are seriously equipped.

I worked on a site where they did 10 vans in a row. Some brand new vans and quite a few had site boxes.
All empty!

I chain the back doors shut.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

there was this 30 stone ball called john....
john was a joiner.
anyway, this one day he went to orange shed for some stuff....and as soon as he`d got into the store these gypsies pulled up next to his van with their own....
and quickly transfered about £15,000 worth of saws and tools off....
they must have been spying on him trying to get out of his van without falling out...lol...
realising they had enough time to chore all the stuff as he cant run...and it takes him an age to even walk far...
poor sod..

 

[grantr37]

I've seen vans left for 5 minutes and come out to find van vaults cut open.

Some of these scum bags are seriously equipped.

I worked on a site where they did 10 vans in a row. Some brand new vans and quite a few had site boxes.
All empty!

I chain the back doors shut.

I heard about a site where 2 guys walked on and lifted a generator.....somebody shouted Oi!!! and one of them just turned round and snarled eff n back off pal or al burst you, at which point the site manager told the worker to let it go, as the 2 were from a gang of local drug dealing street urchins...and would have had him kicked inside out....

That's what there is these days......maybe the generator could have been live by accident and not to have a cut off, by accident, and the people stealing it could have got a pasting, by accident.....then the thieves would have to think about bad health and safety practice before touching things.......after all no site induction and all that.....just site "inductance"...hahaha haha haha haha a a ha haha...


oh what's that, you have just had your site induction(s) haha haha

 

[UNG]

Had a guy try to climb in to my van as I was getting out of it one afternoon many years ago and said my boss wouldn't mind if he nicked something told him I'd had a word with my boss and he did mind told him I'd get my comb and part his head if he didn't (insert appropriate words) and leave my vehicle alone. My comb was a 4ft wrecking bar kept just in front of the drivers seat

Police are becoming reluctant to give crime reference numbers as they have to record a crime that is not going to be solved and it screws their stats up so make sure you get one when you report a crime also worth getting them to confirm by text or email

And if you are dealing with West Mercia police in Shropshire from past experience they are a waste of time and effort responded to a reported accident where we suspected that the drivers had been drinking 15 hours after we rang them have rung them on other occasions reporting various incidents and been told what are you ringing us for

I'm looking in to fitting a GSM alarm module linked to the alarm to send me a text if some one attempts to break in to my vehicle might stand a chance of them receiving some proper punishment

 

[Colsey c]

We should bring back the 'STOCKS' I'd pay a £10 to throw some S&£& at a car thief, whos been caught ,the money could go to victims and good all round family entertainment .....
If he did it again we could just set fire too them !!!!!