Thieving gits again

[maxdrypower]

Watch out Barton types , one of our group aircraft has been entered and the Garmin296 has been removed from its brackets and made off with .
Thieving scum

[stickandrudderman]

I just had my mobile nicked out of my car, and hadn't backed up the sim card, so I've lost about 100 phone numbers.:ugh:(Where's the fist emoticon?)
SO: PLEASE BACK UP YOUR SIM CARDS EVERYONE!

[PompeyPaul]

If we had the death penalty, we'd have a lot fewer thieves about the place. We'd also solve the prison overpopulation crisis too.

I'm still suprised that anybody actually steals these things though ? I wouldn't want to risk my life on something that's been stolen, and god knows what's happened to it until it was fitted in my plane.

No way :=

[Sam-MAN]

Don't like to stereotype but.... Salford scallys!

What time did they rob the aircraft, middle of the night?

Sam

[maxdrypower]

funnily enough sam , we dont know

[tangovictor]

sorry to hear about this, u'd think aviators would have more respect for others property, I know its a bit like shutting the door after the horse has bolted, however either post code or put your a/c number on removeable items, headsets / gps etc etc, permanent markers, easy to use

[maxdrypower]

twas done I believe but as per , these are only ever useful if the property is recorvered. One would like to hope it was not fellow aviators , local ,as Sam put it salford scallies might be acceptable but to think it was a fellow pilot is just horrid

[Sam-MAN]

I highly doubt it would be another pilot. As i said earlier proberly a bunch of kids hoping to get a bit of money by selling it on :(

[davidatter708]

Here is the thing why not put gps trackers in a gps unit as that would mean that you could get them back and it wouldnt mean much more engineering.
David

[nouseforaname]

obvious place to sell these things is ebay, not a very big market for an aviation database Garmin 296 so the unfortunate owner should check serial numbers from the box and watch for it.

[gcolyer]

Has anyone seen my lift raft yet??? :rolleyes:

[wobble2plank]

Bet it looks great on a Ford Escort dashboard tho....

Bl**dy difficult to find that magenta road thought, keeps moving and whats the xtx error an w/v thing, they MP3's?

Flog the lot of 'em in my book, theiving bu££ers.

The only thing worse than them are the CAA because they steal in a legal fashion :eek:

W2P

[OpenCirrus619]

I'd like to get my hands on the b***dy diddies that have had the wheels off my glider trailer - it's a big trailer so £160 to replace the wheels and £40 for locking wheel nuts.

I think the approach taken in the days my grandfather was a young copper, early in the last centrury, should be re-introduced (they involved bales of straw under caravans).

OC619

[IO540]

I am afraid that a handheld GPS is the most nickable item from a plane.

Very sorry to hear.

If anybody managed to nick something out of mine, the damage to the door(s) will be at least £10,000.

[Andy_RR]

If anybody managed to nick something out of mine, the damage to the door(s) will be at least £10,000.

Leave it unlocked...

[IO540]

You are kidding, surely.

[Andy_RR]

no, why?

The scumbags will not think twice to cause £10k's damage (and the associated down time!) to grab whatever it is they're after.

My bro leaves his MX-5 unlocked (with nothing in it) in his driveway because he's already had one roof slashed by idiots after the $5 of cash in the ashtray.

The principle is the same, but only you can figure out whether it makes sense in your situation.

A

[maxdrypower]

It is true , the same line of thinking as leaving your house unlocked with your audi tt on the drive , you might as well let them walk inand take the keys as smash your door down and come in screaming and yelling with baseball bats .
The country is fxxxed and on its arse .
Sam unfortunately I doubt it was local kids ,Thieves who specialise in taking sat navs know exactly what they are taking and probably know more about the unit than the user . This was unfortunatley probably taken by a fellow aviator which again is a disgrace .
A sat nav from a car is someting that can be sold for a tenner in pub a Garmin 296 is no use to you average scrote in the street . Therefore this would have been nicked by someone who wished to use it or someone who knew exactly who to sell it to , in this case an aviator .
Just to put you in the picture the going prices on the street for stolen goods is as follows
Mountain Bike 20 quid , suspended mountain bike 30 quid
Car stereo 10 or less
sat navs for cars 10 quid
Audi TT thief gets a grand per car if nicked with keys nowadays they wont steal them without
Garmin 296 thief would probably have asked for a about 20-30 quid depneding on who had asked him to get it .
So if we point out a Bag of heroin is 10 quid and the average user needs 3 bags per day minimum youcan see why the crime rate is so high . This is why we have invested heavily in cowardly support officers , ooops sorry they dont actually assist in solving vehicle crime do they , my mistake , come the revolution

[Bravo73]

You are kidding, surely.


"A lock will only stop an honest man."





(Darn, I'm doing it again. Should this be in the 'Naff Sayings' thread...?:O)

[stickandrudderman]

Another tip....
leave your glove box open when you leave the car, (with nothing of value in it obviously!)
It's like a big neon sign to a thief which says, "there's nothing here worth having mate, now **** off!"

[tangovictor]

A sat nav from a car is someting that can be sold for a tenner in pub a Garmin 296 is no use to you average scrote in the street . Therefore this would have been nicked by someone who wished to use it or someone who knew exactly who to sell it to , in this case an aviator .
Just to put you in the picture the going prices on the street for stolen goods is as follows
Mountain Bike 20 quid , suspended mountain bike 30 quid
Car stereo 10 or less
sat navs for cars 10 quid
Audi TT thief gets a grand per car if nicked with keys nowadays they wont steal them without
Garmin 296 thief would probably have asked for a about 20-30 quid depneding on who had asked him to get it .
So if we point out a Bag of heroin is 10 quid and the average user needs 3 bags per day minimum youcan see why the crime rate is so high . This is why we have invested heavily in cowardly support officers , ooops sorry they dont actually assist in solving vehicle crime do they , my mistake , come the revolution

As an Ex Police Officer, I have to point out, a simple fact, " if there were NO handlers, there'd be no thieves "
I wonder how many times, you / we have been offered items for sale, far too cheap to be kosher ? have you phoned the Police or noted the offenders Index number, or did you give the scum bag some readies for the bargain ! which only a few days previous was stolen from a guy, just like you & me.
there's no such thing as a victimless crime, in the end we all suffer.
Support Officers ! oh dear, another cheap attempted vote catcher.

[maxdrypower]

Yeh your right about the vote catchin TV , Unfortunately for me Im 6ft 2 18 stone and have short spikey hair . No thief in the world would ever try and sell summat to me as I have copper written all over me , tsk such is life

[stickandrudderman]

Shouldn't you be calling yourself "Mr. Creosote" then?;)

[NutLoose]

If you have the serials etc phone around all the local Avionics engineers and ask them to keep an eye out for it.... That way if it ever reappears on the aviation scene it will be traceable.....

I watched a prog about people nicking the gps from Ambulances even though the system could not be used in any other vehicle......... stupidity in the extreme isn't it..... one just hopes that the scrotes need one one day.......

[IO540]

I don't believe leaving a plane open is a good idea - unless it is a dead simple worthless spamcan with nothing in the panel.

There is a lot of opportunists around, who nick anything simply because they can do so easily.

People nick stuff out of open hangars as they walk past. And it takes only seconds with an allen key of the right size to remove a £10,000 avionics item, which you can sell on U.S. Ebay.

You've got to keep the plane locked, not leave any obvious stuff in there like a handheld GPS or headsets, and if possible keep a cover over the cockpit so that passers-by (there is never a shortage of candidates for casing the joint at any GA airport; most are plane spotters but you can never be quite certain) don't get an opportunity to work out, perhaps over a period of time, what is in there.

Thankfully this problem is rare, especially at airports with "security".