Buy a Disklok for Christmas.

[generallee]

Just do it. Ask for one instead of socks. I was going to get one but never got around to it, and complacency crept in.

On Wednesday Mrs Generallee woke me up and said "I think your pick up has just been stolen."

It had. Luckily neighbours had heard/seen what was going on and phoned the police, who arrived dead fast. Not fast enough, but almost. 2 cars and a dog van.

Anyway, my truck (a mk3 Hilux 4x4) was abandoned at the end of our road. General consensus is it would be used for a ram raid or smash and grab on a cash machine.

It was on the drive, steering on full lock, crappy crooklock on as a deterrant and blocked in with my car. They smashed the window of my car to let the hand brake off and push it back.








Ebay car window arriving nest week, need to spend a while finding bits to fix the truck up.

I'm just pleased they didn't get away withit. It's back at our house and very, very immobilised.

[comfortablynumb]

Glad they got no further, seems like the scumbags had a job in mind if they went to that much bother to get it, i find 3 german shepherds work well too!

[dodgerover]

That would have been going for export or break for parts not ram raiding, if they had got it running next stop would have been a container or chop shop.

[toast00]

I don't know about Manchester but certainly round Derby and other east midland areas, cash machine and fruit machine thefts are becoming more and frequent and violent.

They use chains and explosives to extract the cash machine from village convenience shops and pubs and drag it onto the back of pick-ups.

All very wild west. I don't think cash is harder to get hold of, but more harder to launder unless you are mixed up with other organised connections, therefore your smash n grab thug type thieves want access to fresh cash, hence the increase in raiding.