Theft from lamma

[David.]

Maybe just a silly YFC/College dare/prank of course.
Worse has been done in the name of high jinx.
I think I vaguely remember one "comedian" on a YFC Jolly nicking a wheelchair from outside a public toilets once, about 40yrs ago, for a prank. Of course now we are all old men, we would unanimously join in the calls for the perpetrator to be shamed, flogged, and hung, drawn and quartered.
Or worse, to be put on Facebook for all the Karens to excoriate.

 

[Kidds]

Watched a "preview" of LAMMA on Youtube last night and thought how so much stuff was open to theft. I wouldn't want to be an exhibitor there or anywhere else for that matter. Too many arseholes with no moral compass these days.

 

[smcapstick]

Wouldn't even give them the option, just post the footage and shame

‘We have CCTV footage’ generally means that they don’t have CCTV footage.

 

[tractorsandcows]

Realistically, the police won't do anything of consequence to this person That being said, I am not sure I agree with trial by social media. If you're in favour of this are you agreeing with the actions of the volunteer members of the road traffic Gestapo filming footage and posting it on youtube and dobbing folk into the police. This isn't a police state nor should folk be turning into informants on their neighbours.

It is getting to be as people are encouraged to behave as written in your post and lots seem happy to do so

 

[ajcc]

Agricultural student making memories, I wager?

 

[Fiveospades]

On its way to China to be dismantled and copied. Soon to be marketed at half the quality and half the price.

 

[TheRanger]

The numpty must be a numpty as cctv is everywhere in public places, or unless it’s a bluff! Balls in the thief’s court unless he don’t do social media! But will know the amount of sh!te he’s pumping!

I always assume it's a bluff when I see this on social media.

Seen one the other day "we have CCTV of a red D-Max pickup reversing into our car, come forward or we will contact the police with the CCTV footage". No chance they've got footage or they'd just go straight to the police/insurance company.

 

[Bald Rick]

Son is home and swears nothing to do with him.


** waits for rozzers **

 

[chickens and wheat]

How the hell do you carry that out un noticed????
WTF.

they put it in the cab storage bin of the quadtrack they also nicked

 

[nick...]

Looks a heavy lump to move aswell.some one must have seen someone struggling with it
nick...

 

[Still Farming]

Looks a heavy lump to move aswell.some one must have seen someone struggling with it
nick...

What about staff working at NEC and waste collectors etc etc.

 

[Widgetone]

Reckon when the stand ppl get back home they will find its still sat in the warehouse!

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Presumably such an item is only really of value to someone in our business.
Showing the perpetrator’s mug all over SM would likely do their business far more harm than a slap on the wrist from plod.

My little job at The Kenilworth Show is to organise a parade of modern machinery for a ring display and commentary.

A local farmer bought along his Bateman sprayer and some twunt pinched most of the nozzles off the boom.

As you say, only any use whatsoever to another farmer and incredibly disappointing that would happen at a local show.

 

[Stewie]

Presumably such an item is only really of value to someone in our business.
Showing the perpetrator’s mug all over SM would likely do their business far more harm than a slap on the wrist from plod.

It will depend on the exact specification, but flowmeters are used on many industrial applications. Just as an example, any processing/packaging line dealing with fluids will have plenty of them.

 

[Cowabunga]

There are scum everywhere. I went on a dealer bus trip once to a similar event and on the bus coming back, one of the farmers was showing off a vintage tractor top link he’d stolen off a stand and tractor owned by an enthusiast. Most of us were appalled and mortified by this and shocked that someone we knew and trusted would do such a thing and actually boast about it on the bus, as if it was a well earned trophy. We made sure it was sent back, but the idiot thief couldn’t see anything wrong with what he’d done until shamed. What would he think if someone stole from him I wonder? Would he still think it was quite a wheeze and laugh about it as a successful theft and leave it like that? I somehow don’t think so. These people either have never been taught right from wrong or they have some pathological mental defect or they are just evil.

 

[Tubbylew]

Sadly there's plenty of absolute scum in agriculture, sometimes where you least expect it.

 

[BBC]

Years ago a tractor was nicked, if I remember rightly, from the New Holland stand at the Royal Show one evening. Of course nobody questioned someone, presumably in NH overalls getting in, starting the tractor and driving it off, presumably to a nearby waiting lorry.
As ever, if you are sufficiently brazen, people often won’t question …

 

[Fergieman]

Did it arrive back today?

 

[john432]

There are scum everywhere. I went on a dealer bus trip once to a similar event and on the bus coming back, one of the farmers was showing off a vintage tractor top link he’d stolen off a stand and tractor owned by an enthusiast. Most of us were appalled and mortified by this and shocked that someone we knew and trusted would do such a thing and actually boast about it on the bus, as if it was a well earned trophy. We made sure it was sent back, but the idiot thief couldn’t see anything wrong with what he’d done until shamed. What would he think if someone stole from him I wonder? Would he still think it was quite a wheeze and laugh about it as a successful theft and leave it like that? I somehow don’t think so. These people either have never been taught right from wrong or they have some pathological mental defect or they are just evil.

It can be hereditary...in the genes breeding... Remember my late gran telling a story of how she heard that her cousin was in the old Priory hospital in Carmarthen... Being in town she went to visit him.. only later did she find out why he was in hospital...taking lead shot out of his bum and legs.. someone had shot him while stealing... Her quote was," I would never have gone near the devil.if I had known" .this would have been in the 1940's. His descendants even today,the 3rd generation have "hairy hands" as we say in Welsh.

 

[holywell farmer]

Years ago a tractor was nicked, if I remember rightly, from the New Holland stand at the Royal Show one evening. Of course nobody questioned someone, presumably in NH overalls getting in, starting the tractor and driving it off, presumably to a nearby waiting lorry.



As ever, if you are sufficiently brazen, people often won’t question …

Was it recovered?