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Title: Thief about
Post by: paulinemargaret on March 06, 2011, 16:28:52

Some rotten thief broke in and nicked heater out of our orchid house cost us £175 for a new one plus they cut pipe off to get it so we need longer pipe >:(
they done us 5 times last year looks like its started again....

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Post by: Duke Ellington on March 06, 2011, 16:47:44

So sorry to hear this Pauline >:(

Duke

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Post by: rugbypost on March 06, 2011, 17:05:17

>:( >:( Sorry to hear about your heater PaulineMargaret there some toe rags out there they say its people close to you you tell someone they tell someone and then the wrong someone dose the damage. I grow Orchids and know how expensive it can be plus a lot of time love, and energy but the Baxxards dont care

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Post by: cambourne7 on March 06, 2011, 17:08:05

Is this in your garden on on the allotments?

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Post by: galina on March 06, 2011, 17:24:30

That's rotten luck. Sorry to hear about this.

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Post by: petengade on March 07, 2011, 08:49:01

Maybe this will be of some help for the future, I have cut and pasted item:-

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Got one of these kits free from my local police force & neighbourhood watch scheme a couple of years ago. I know lots of police forces do free offers of this kit at various times.

SmartWater has been used by police forces and industry through the UK since it was first invented in the 1990s. The liquid contains a code that can be read under a ultra-violet light and is intended to be applied to valuable items so that if stolen and later seized by police, their original owner can be identified.

Suggest you check with your police force or n/hood watch scheme to see if they have a free offer now.

Details at http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...aqi=&aql=&oq=/

Title: Re: Thief about
Post by: Ellen K on March 07, 2011, 09:38:13

What are you going to do about it Pauline?

Either it is the same people coming back or your orchid house is a thief magnet - either way you've got to do something serious to stop it happening again.

I know that if anyone put a heater in their greenhouse down the allotments I'm on, it would be nicked on the first night. It's terrible.

I think that if you are going to mark your property, it has to be with something very conspicuous so it can't be resold easily. Personally, I wouldn't bother with the UV-visible stuff (sorry Petengade)

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Post by: Paulines7 on March 07, 2011, 09:53:26

So sorry to hear about the theft of your heater, Pauline.

Did you have a lock on the door? Orchids are valuable too and you don't want them taken next.

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Post by: 1066 on March 07, 2011, 10:13:58

that is rotten! Hope you manage to sort something out

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Post by: TonyD on March 09, 2011, 19:04:12

a hand engraver can be bought reasonably. if there is a conspicuous place write that this item has been stolen and return to name and address.
this worked for me after i had a break in at my workshop, i marked all of my hand tools. i still have them. after i had marked them i told everybody that i had done so. there were no more break ins

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