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Just makes a shit year even worse, I'm only 30mins from Lincoln so close to me. I always remove all my gear when I get home just in case. At least if the van gets broken into or nicked I can still use the land rover and still make some money. I do hope the insurance company plays ball and you get sorted soon.
Thank you for the heads up. Hopefully there is not too much revenue loss given the time of year.
Sorry to hear this Allen . Hopefully they cannot carry on stealing vehicles using this method for long its just too conspicious .
Was your van sign written which stated your trade ? or is it vans in general they are taking ?
Hope its a swift resolution and insurance will sort you out asap
all the best .
Wan#$rs
Hope your insurance replaces with brand new equipment ready for the new year
Have the best Xmas you can
Steve
My sympathies... I must admit that is my nightmare - even if it is insured it means you HAVE to go out and buy new everything to get you on the road again - no waiting around for bargains. My van vanishes off the road, up a 100' gravel drive that nothing much larger can negotiate - and is out of sight from the road, but surrounded is by PIR floodlights. Fingers crossed.
I am very sorry to hear this Allen. The police really are useless aren’t they? Had one of you neighbours called the police to say that you weren’t social distancing and had several people in your house they would have been banging on your door.
Quick story from rural Derbyshire;-
Five weeks into first lockdown in an affluent Derbyshire village. A nice lady had been dropping off shopping for an elderly neighbour close by. After five weeks of isolation, the old lady was going crazy with loneliness. The weather was really hot so the nice lady made herself a coffee and walked the 40 yards down the road and sat with the old lady, in her garden, at four metres distance from each other and had an hour cheering up the old lady. Now this is a very expensive area so there are no rough types there at all. The next day the police were knocking on the nice lady’s door because someone had reported her for breaking lockdown rules.
What a bunch of scumbags the police have become. They can’t catch thieves, they say because they are under-manned, but they have all the officers they need to harass honest law abiding people over social distancing rules.
Another quick story from Derbyshire;-
Three years ago someone tried to break into my Hilux. I have an Aeroklaas canopy and the would-be thieves snapped off the canopy tailgate handle in an attempt to get in. I then had to buy a new handle and spent a couple of hours drilling out the old handle to effectively break into my own vehicle.
I of course rang the police. They gave me a crime number and never came near or by. Three months later I got a phone call whilst I was in Bess of Hardwick’s bedroom, in Hardwick Hall which is very close to where I live. It was the police on the phone. The slightly pathetic sounding copper said he was calling about the attempted break in and asked me what ‘I’ wanted ‘them’ to do [it’s hard to believe isn’t it]. So I said I wanted them to catch the thieving scumbags and then break their fingers. To which he said that they knew who the thieves were, they are gangs who come down from Leeds and ‘do’ an area and then go back home. I said if they knew who they were why didn’t they go and get them. He said that it was more difficult than that. He sounded so pathetic and wishy washy I almost felt sorry for him. So that was it. That was all the police did, tell me that they knew the gang that were responsible but couldn’t do anything.
But try walking into a supermarket without a mask on and watch the squad cars screech to a halt outside.
My sympathy to the original poster whose livlihood been taken away.
However, you post is absolutely abhorrent as Covid 19 is a real problem for us all. If everyone follows the rules, then the Police won't be dragged in to these incidents. To put it in a nutshell and so it is easy for you to understand the Police are overwhelmed and of course by attending to these incidents they are exposing themselves to Covid19. The guy's who lost his van/tools is just one guy (and his family) whilst a group of selfish twats not following the rules, seriously could potentially affect hundreds of people through their stupidity and selfishness. Yes it's frustrating when a van is broken in and equipments lifted but what's more important? Peoples' lives/health? The Police are understaffed and fully stretched and they have to prioritise.
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Aren’t you concerned about living in a police state where the government tell you, by law that you are not allowed to visit your close family? Or tell you, again by law, that you can’t have any visitors?
The police will stand and watch a mob tear down a statue and then throw it in the dock and do nothing, but six of them will then arrest a 78 year old lady who is merely standing outside parliament demonstrating about our loss of civil liberties, bodily putting her spread eagled into a police van.
Watch what Conservative MP Sir Charles Walker thinks about this. –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rXtxOvH3pg
Yes Covid is a very serious thing, but it’s a balance. The example I gave above about the police visiting the kindly lady is a disgrace. Why would the police bother going over to her house? Couldn’t they have discerned that it was just a nosy busy body neighbour?
The question is then, why don’t they put the same effort into looking at a broken into or stolen van?
You Andrew might feel fine about the loss of our civil liberties, but I am not as comfortable with it. Once taken away they are seldom returned. Is it right to demonise those of us who take a different view? It's almost like lockdown has become a religion and the heretics, those who think differently, must be burnt for thier heresy. Generations fought for the freedoms we have come to take for granted. Video link –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgNfn5kXkLQ&list=LL&index=10
Those advocating these lockdowns are not the ones whose businesses, livelihoods and lives have been smashed and ruined. We gardeners have come through this pretty much unscathed, but take a moment to think of those whose businesses are now gone for good. I could name a few of them, but I won’t bore you with the details. You will probably say that it is for the ‘greater good’. It’s funny how willing so many have become to sacrifice others and see people’s lives ruined whilst they get by really quite well. Food bank use has massively increased, suicide rates have also risen.
I agree with Professor David Nabarro, who is Covid 19 special advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organisation who says that ‘lockdowns do not work’. Apparently, all the empirical scientific data compiled over decades is in. All these world class scientists know this, just look at the Barrington Declaration. The current lockdown policy is a political decision, not a scientific one. There were other, more scientific and less damaging ways to properly deal with this that we could have followed, like they did in Sweden, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand. Even in the Isle of Man they took a different course. They have seen very few cases at all and have now been living normally [can you remember that] for the last six months.
We are in this mess because we didn’t act both soon enough and with the right approach and the correct measures. It could have been so much better.
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