The low life will steal anything.

[ProDave]

I have been doing some refurb work on a house that someone has bought to let, on one of the local council estates. Nothing unusual there.

The owner is spending a fortune on the place (far more than it deserves imho) including a nice new fence around the unusually large garden.

On Friday the owner turns up, she had forgot to latch the padlock on the gate to the back garden. The padlock was gone.  On Monday she turns up with a shiny new padlock, only to find someone has unscrewed and removed the gate latch.  I wonder how long before the gate has gone?

I shan't be leaving any tools or materials there as nicking the padlock and means to lock the gate smells to me of someone casing the joint to break into it. 

 

 

[Sharpend]

Maybe time to assist with some electrification Dave??

 

[rapparee]

Funny that, i put a bracket on a touch screen monitor and left it for a half an hour. I went back to screw the bracket to the test rig and it had mysteriously disappeared. I'm not too concerned either someone is messing about or else the company is going to have to buy a new one. I have a suspicion it was taken by a supervisor.

 

[ProDave]

Maybe time to assist with some electrification Dave??

Not exactly but my list of jobs still to do now includes a darn great PIR spotlight above the back door (so they can see to pick the lock)
 

 

[sprocketflup]

I once spoke to a guy who had had a spate of thefts so bought a guard dog to leave on site.

They stole the guard dog.

 

[kerching]

Whilst at Uni back in the 70s my mate had a Moskvitch Estate......sort of 4 wheeled Soviet Tank

someone broke into it and stole the steering wheel lock

prob Worth more than the car anyway

 

[sprocketflup]

An old next door neighbour in Cov asked me if I could run him into work one day, as someone had broken into his Ford Escort and stolen the fusebox

 

[Sharpend]

Whilst at Uni back in the 70s my mate had a Moskvitch Estate......sort of 4 wheeled Soviet Tank

someone broke into it and stole the steering wheel lock

prob Worth more than the car anyway

I can't work out what's worse? Leaving the vehicle behind or stealing something that is designed as a security aid and isn't effective at stopping someone stealing a vehicle? :C  

 

[kerching]

Does this help any?.......and it WAS this colour! A sort of dog ****e browny yellow

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=1970+moskvich+estate+car&rlz=1C9BKJA_enGB707GB708&oq=1970+moskvich+estate+car&aqs=chrome..69i57.17834j0j4&hl=en-GB&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=GFyldCpEr_I5nM%3A

 

[Sharpend]

Ah seeing as you put it like that! 

Did the steering lock come in handy to smash the Windows! 

 

[sprocketflup]

Moskvitch's made Lada's look classy

 

[Sharpend]

Moskvitch's made Lada's look classy

I was just looking to see if that was an early lada? 

 

[kerching]

Handle on dashboard to wind a blind across the rad to stop snow build up

full toolkit incl,socket set, tyre pump, lead light.

socket under bonnet for lead light also,socket in boot

went to Prestwich auto spares for an oil filter.  "Bring it in and I will match it, I have every filter you can think of"

screwdriver through filter, took it in to him...."nope, sorry, never seen one like"

tin snips, baked bean can, old inner tube.......oil filter repaired and stayed like that for two years until he sold it

 

[Sharpend]

Wow that was an advanced vehicle of its time! So advanced no one had seen an oil filter quite like it....

dont have that problem these days as most cars share parts with several others!

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Pity about the spellings

 

[Tony S]

Whilst at Uni back in the 70s my mate had a Moskvitch Estate......sort of 4 wheeled Soviet Tank

someone broke into it and stole the steering wheel lock

prob Worth more than the car anyway

Remember the other soviet tank, the FSO? I crashed one, its value immediately doubled.

 

[poni]

my old charge hand had a Moskvitch, it had about 50mm insulation in the door panels all you needed to fix one was an 17mm spanner and two lumps of wood

 

[kerching]

Remember the other soviet tank, the FSO? I crashed one, its value immediately doubled.

Were they not Polish?....I remember a FSO Polonez ( I think)

but mssrs Merlot Chamblais and Koppaberg have been partying well ce soir

11 at night and Patio doors still open...!........firkin roasting!

Just the bottle to finish then bedtime

 

[sprocketflup]

Trabants? They were Eastern Blok weren't they?

And for the two wheel fans among us - Cossacks and Urals.

I had a MZ years ago, jeez it was awful

 

[kerching]

Were  Trabants made of some cardboard composite?

probably not.....my assistants are goading me