Break in at Madley Hereford

[Martyn]

There was a stolen quad chased down and the vehicle stopped Brecon area and the lads in the van had a map from the electric board with some farms with ticks and some with crosses depending on if it was a good place to go.

When I worked near Aber we kept quads in shipping containers, bolted to floor with chains + handler parked at night next to front of it. Went in at 5am to get cows some bugger had gassed of the top of shipping container, & got handler going lift 2 bikes out through the roof. Took stock box & anything else they could. Left handler running and disappear up over into mountains🫣

 

[David.]

If you did it for a living, and had benefit of Diplomatic Immunity, you would probably be good at it too.
The men behind all this crime live in the nice London mansions, not caravans.

 

[Pistonbroke]

Walterstone, it's getting like the wild west!

We had some sheep on tack not far up the road from there a while ago and the bloke said he couldn't leave anything not locked up just to go in the house for a drink. Reckoned south of the river in Hereford was full of scumbags

 

[JWL]

Mate of mine used to run plant machinery when they were building the M40. He used to leave a 360 tracked right up to the doors on a shipping container he kept other smaller kit and tools in with the bucket resting on the top of the container.
He went back to his kit one night to do something to a machine that would have taken time out of his working day and could see a couple of blokes trying to break in. As he got closer they spotted him coming and smashed off a couple of hydraulic pipe elbows on the main dipper arm rams letting the whole arm crush down on the container.

He put some fecks into the so called security that night!

 

[Pistonbroke]

If you did it for a living, and had benefit of Diplomatic Immunity, you would probably be good at it too.
The men behind it live in the nice London mansions, not caravans.

Police are very quick to blame the pikeys and say you won't see the stuff again but it's sometimes someone you know and would never suspect. As long as you're insured and you're given a crime number they think they've done their bit

 

[Tubbylew]

We had some sheep on tack not far up the road from there a while ago and the bloke said he couldn't leave anything not locked up just to go in the house for a drink. Reckoned south of the river in Hereford was full of scumbags

Too close to the valleys and a few quiet back roads over the border, and a police force that is under resourced at best, bone idle at worst. Dad was telling me that my grandfather had some iron gates pinched, cops took it to crown court and the gates were duly returned. These days the cops could not care less.

 

[Tubbylew]

The wild west (of herefordshire)

 

[serf]

Pieces of sh@ ,10s of £K worth of damage for 1ks worth of goods and all the inconvenience and grief that goes with it ....

 

[David.]

It must be okay; because nobody in Government seems keen to take rural thefts seriously?

 

[bottletopbill]

OK guys we all blame travellers all the time but how about these foreign gangs operating.
How many farms employ eastern workers could they not being given information after receiving threats.

We all have to tread careful

 

[Pistonbroke]

OK guys we all blame travellers all the time but how about these foreign gangs operating.
How many farms employ eastern workers could they not being given information after receiving threats.

We all have to tread careful

The police blame the travellers by default and don't go looking any further. Email your crime number and their job is done. What muddys the water is when,like we did,the owners track down the culprit and the stuff. That still isn't good enough to charge someone apparently and they won't spend the money to investigate further.

 

[bottletopbill]

One desk Sargent told a officer why did you you bring him in .
Couldn't you deal with it in a different way

 

[ollie989898]

I was once told that apparently the thieves in these cases are often informed of the location of loot by people who temporarily enter an area to work there and then move on. The theft then occurring some weeks later on the tip off from these 'scouts'.

Therefore, be extremely cautious about allowing people like highways or utility contractors on to your premises and if they are working in the area, keep everything locked up and out of sight, get into the habit of shutting gates and locking/chaining them for the duration, until these parties move on. I would also be careful about delivery drivers, especially the ones you don't know. I'm not saying they are all wrong-uns but thieves have to know something is there to be able to steal it in the first place and farms don't normally have many visitors.

This may explain how a collection of thieves came to have a utility map.

Hiding all your stuff or fortifying it is the only answer. Tools of any kind, need to be in solid walled structures and with doors only you know how to access and open. Simple padlocks and chains are no good. In the vast majority of cases these kinds of thieves will not enter a house as they drastically increases the risk of a confrontation occurring.

Do not store keys or tools or ladders in obvious places. A lot of cars are being stolen by professionals but a key in obvious view or reach is just inviting it to be stolen. Hide stuff.

The main gate into your yard should be substantial and impossible to ram open with a vehicle. Devise locks that do not rely on chains and which cannot be cut off or open readily. Barricade or ditch + bank other obvious entry points. If a vehicle cannot access it you have already made their task much harder as they will have further to carry stuff or be a long way from any vehicle as they attempt to escape.

 

[Pistonbroke]

I was once told that apparently the thieves in these cases are often informed of the location of loot by people who temporarily enter an area to work there and then move on. The theft then occurring some weeks later on the tip off from these 'scouts'.

Therefore, be extremely cautious about allowing people like highways or utility contractors on to your premises and if they are working in the area, keep everything locked up and out of sight, get into the habit of shutting gates and locking/chaining them for the duration, until these parties move on. I would also be careful about delivery drivers, especially the ones you don't know. I'm not saying they are all wrong-uns but thieves have to know something is there to be able to steal it in the first place and farms don't normally have many visitors.

This may explain how a collection of thieves came to have a utility map.

Hiding all your stuff or fortifying it is the only answer. Tools of any kind, need to be in solid walled structures and with doors only you know how to access and open. Simple padlocks and chains are no good. In the vast majority of cases these kinds of thieves will not enter a house as they drastically increases the risk of a confrontation occurring.

Do not store keys or tools or ladders in obvious places. A lot of cars are being stolen by professionals but a key in obvious view or reach is just inviting it to be stolen. Hide stuff.

The main gate into your yard should be substantial and impossible to ram open with a vehicle. Devise locks that do not rely on chains and which cannot be cut off or open readily. Barricade or ditch + bank other obvious entry points. If a vehicle cannot access it you have already made their task much harder as they will have further to carry stuff or be a long way from any vehicle as they attempt to escape.

One little gang got caught stealing a quad near here and in the van they had a map from a tree surgery firm doing work for the electric board. All the farms had ticks or crosses according to whether they were a good target. Neither of the boys worked for the tree firm,just had the map.

 

[bottletopbill]

Be careful heard that they make marks on walls and pavements so keep your eyes looking

 

[No wot]

OK guys we all blame travellers all the time but how about these foreign gangs operating.
How many farms employ eastern workers could they not being given information after receiving threats.

We all have to tread careful

I'm very suspicious of courier drivers and what details they potentially pass on to a third party almost all are foreign with poor English

 

[goodevans]

One little gang got caught stealing a quad near here and in the van they had a map from a tree surgery firm doing work for the electric board. All the farms had ticks or crosses according to whether they were a good target. Neither of the boys worked for the tree firm,just had the map.

Smerdon

 

[serf]

It's worth them meeting the "wolf "when they do delivery so they think twice about coming back out of hours ....