stealing from your shed

[Kepouros]

Funny, how one never thinks it will happen to oneself until it does.  Last night it happened to me, and both my shed and my garage (both in my garden) were broken into.  Because they were very securely fastened the damage done in breaking in was considerable. The actual items stolen were:
From the shed, the Flymo Leaf Blower I bought in 1989
From the garage, a trolley jack I bought 30 years ago, and an ancient Mole wrench which no longer holds properly.  They ignored a nearly new pressure washer, 2 chain saws, hedge trimmer, saw bench, 3 petrol engined lawn mowers and all my hand tools .

It`s taken nearly all day to make them temporarily secure, and will take most of tomorrow to make a decent job of it

[Kepouros]

[ceres]

Sorry to hear that kepouros.  Suppose the only consolation is what they left behind.  Just hope they don't come back to finish the job.

[elvis2003]

so sorry to hear all these stories,lets hope lightening doesnt strike twice to any of you! i have tried to prepare myself that one day my shed will get done,OH has got it nice and secure for me,secret locks and the likes,and we only have stuff in there that has been recycled/reclaimed/thrown out of home,but still,its my home from home.

[timf]

i have one of these connected to the door

it doesn't stop any one stealing but they tend to leave some DNA evidence behind ;)

[twinkletoes]

c'mon timf - what is it?
twinkletoes

[daxzen]

i went thru a stage where i had no lock on the door of my shed

my view was that the lock was worth more than anything that could be stolen

and that any damage was more inconvenient than any losses I might incur

it forced me to re-appraise what I was prepared to leave in the shed

try  it

maybe!

dax

[timf]

c'mon timf - what is it?
twinkletoes

forgot the link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Original-Alarm-Mine-Trip-Wire-from-Henry-Krank_W0QQitemZ150351753665QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_SportingGoods_Hunting_ShootingSports_ET?hash=item2301a9b1c1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12|66%3A2|39%3A6|72%3A1683|293%3A1|294%3A24

[Kepouros]

A brilliant invention, but knowing me I would set it at night, have completely forgotten about it next morning, and trip over the darned thing myself

[cornykev]

I second that Kep.  :o    :-[    :'(     ;D ;D ;D

[trudie]

had my shed broken into over Xmas. The little sh*ts took everything, things that you could not sell on. They took all my boys bits, gloves, kiddy spades,forks, wheelbarrows, they took the lot. It made me so upset and angry for ages i was trying to play detective. In the end had to stop thinking about it, put it down to "one of those things" and get on with life. I don't keep anything in my shed now, but if i ever find out who done it i will go MENTAL  >:( >:( >:(

[johnny]

how about digging the floor out under your shed and simpley rig up a simple but disguised "trap door" always been my tip to people going to festivals to keep money acutally under the tent so if anyone goes in they take one quick look and see nothing of value - alternativly paint all you stuff a hideous pink colour and the thief wouldn't be seen dead with the stolen spade/fork

[1066]

this reminds me of someone on here (think it might have been manics ?) who painted coloured spots on their bean poles. Those were definitely personalised bean poles  ;D

[manicscousers]

good idea but not me  :-\

[1066]

good idea but not me  :-\

Ah well, a mystery painter  :D

[zigzig]

We had a mass break in this year on the allotments and 12-14 sheds got broken into. One (broken) black and decker drill and a pair of wellies two bars of chocolate and a packet of biscuits were lost.

The bloke who never locks his shed because of the damage 'they' cause breaking into it? They ripped his door off by the hinges... Using a crow bar. later dumped on another plot, they took from a neighbouring shed.

They seemed to take stuff they could use for breaking into other sheds then dumped it.

They left several reasonably expensive items.

What bothers me is that a lot of people keep things like gas cylinders, petrol and parrafin for various reasons. It could get to be very nasty if that lot went off.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Could be a way of deterring future breakins if someone was incinerated!

[tonybloke]

good idea but not me  :-\

Ah well, a mystery painter  :D

it was ninns!!

[tonybloke]

The five-oh have got back to us about our site's recent break-in and chicken theft. the blood sample found wasn't from an injured hen, but from an injured 2 legged rat!! (now let's hope it is on the dna database)

[1066]

good idea but not me  :-\

Ah well, a mystery painter  :D

it was ninns!!

Thanks TonyBloke 10 out of 10 for memory!

[trudie]

i like the idea of painting everything crazy. I might just do that "for fun"