Topic: Thieving ba****ds

[kt.]

All the lotties up the top end of our site have been done over this past 10days. A dozen or so. They are in darkest part of lottie. Only the ones with live-stock. Re-curring problem each christmas. Went to let hens out 6am yesterday & neighbouring lottie man was out waiting with his dog. Scroats are after the turkeys people have been rearing for chrimbo. >:( >:(

My entrance is on the main road to the housing estate under a street light, so i feel a little safer but not content. Gonna get a load of old hessian from work to tie to the sisde fence to block the view.  : :-\

[tim]

So glad ours is within our own 4 walls!

[kenkew]

That's the main reason I'm saying goodbye to my plot after 5 years there. I'd eye-up some thing I knew would be at it's best the following week when I went to the plot. Ah!...someone beat me to it! Even half wrecked my gate getting to it. I even had the guttering from my shed nicked last October.

[Froglegs]

I've stopped locking my two sheds, at lest now they don't smash the door down to get in. When you let a plot on the site I'm on you have to pay a deposit of £10 which is nothing nowdays,(40 fags) for a gate key.but when they realize theres a bit of work involved in growing ya own veg and leave usually after 3 months,  taking the key with them and with over 200 plots there is allways something to come back for in the dead of night. >:( >:(

[triffid]

The keys for our site also fit every site in the borough....  >:(

Not that you need keys, with our perimeter fences in the state they're in!

I'm with froglegs on the not-locking thing. That's why, four break-ins later, I still have a door to my shed.

My sympathy to kenkew and ktlawson.

PS My plot-neighbour has a number of man-traps
deep, narrow irrigation ditches, dug at intervals across his plot.
One morning he found someone had kindly bagged up the best of his onions and left them at the edge of one of these. Can't have fastened the bag up properly, cause the onions had got scattered about quite a bit.

Bit of a mystery, that...   ;D

[manicscousers]

we've gone with combination locks, once this new fencing has gone up, three quarters done now, we can change the numbers any time we like

that'll teach them  >:(  ;D

[valmarg]

It must be so bloody soul destroying for you all to find all your hard working efforts have been vandalised.  Worse still is the fact that your produce has been nicked by some lowlife.

I do wish when the Home Secretary spouts on that 'crime figures are down' he would prefix that with the word 'reported'.  The properties either side of us have been burgled several times.  What is the point of contacting the police?  They are not even remotely interested.  It's only property.  The net result, if you do 'bother' the police is that your insurance premiums go up.

We live in a rural area, and the only time we see the police is if they have taken a wrong turn and are lost!!

[tim]

Just hope that the perpetrators got severely bitten!!

[saddad]

We have had about a dozen break ins this last three months... we have had the Police up several times but they do nothing but make encouraging noises! We have been on Combinations for years Manics but it hasn't solved the problem!
 >:(

[manicscousers]

do you thinkit's worth posting on here what's been taken in case anyone sees anything or is offered it or don't you think the police will do anything ? :(

[Robert_Brenchley]

Seven gardens on my site (not mine) were broken into during the week, but nothing was taken. They got them on CCTV at the tennis club next door, and it looks like students.

[cornykev]

>:( Bring back the birch.   >:( >:( >:( >:(

[saddad]

Man traps.... no problem identifying tresspassers!
 :-X

[kt.]

I got some of them man traps. Antone asks I have a reason for everyone of them... all legitimate reasons of course. The fact that they serve a dual purpose is open to peoples interpretation.... ::)

[Barnowl]

Poison Ivy on the fence line?

[miniroots]

The only things I've had stolen from my plot are a huge bundle of carpet and half a roll of very thick black plastic.  It made me mad that it must be fellow, active plot holders thinking that anything you haven't used yet is up for grabs!

I wanted to go round all the plots looking for the carpet (it had quite a recognisable pattern) - but with over 200 and some pretty high fences I don't think I'd get far...

I'll have to repair my fence once I've actually managed to grow something worth stealing!