Thieving gits again
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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.
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.
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From: North of South
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
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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.......
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.......
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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".
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".
