I have a grandstand view due to window design (from the sofa) of the approach on a residential road over around 500 yards - cars reach the dead end and have to return the same way.
You have the regular routine of people departing to work by car and foot.
There is a lessor pattern of activity through the morning - but in the early afternoon nothing moves. An hour can go by like this - with just the odd group of rooks flying over from nearby fields.
Then you see it - an older car coming slowly up the road and several men inside looking into houses and up drives. They never actually stop - but you`ve never seen such rubber necking - same interest on their return back down the road. Now over the years I`ve seen this scenario several times.
We`ve had break-ins around here and while our place is pretty secure with security grills around the back - others are much more `see through` regarding the large windows we tend to have.
A thief exited a local house in mid afternoon recently and apparently got into a waiting car - another incident led to a car being fully loaded and driven off this time in the early hours.
There`s more than this.. but confining it to cars and `motoring` have you ever seen similar? What may be a sussing out of property vulnerability by car.
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I have never seen it, but if possible I'd try & video it, & tell the police for their information.
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Thanks for the thought FT - but i`ve given up placing myself in challenging situations. I`ve known people have to move out of the area due to coming to the attention of criminal gangs - through well intentioned `reporting` - as we may have done 40 years ago.
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Watched an old Road Wars last night and the "proactive squad" pulled over a car with four males to check up on them for exactly this reason. It was mid afternoon in a nice looking residential estate and these guys were cruising and peering.
As it happened, other than the driver who was over the limit, the police let them go.
If the suspicions were correct, the chaps would have got the message that there *are* police about sometimes (though, as I said, it was an old programme...!!)
Edited by smokie on 06/01/2009 at 14:48
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We live out in the sticks, down a 700 yd long lane/farm track. Anyone down here is either known to me, lost or or a chancer.
The two lads that came up in an Escort van in the middle of the afternoon, turned round and went back down again didn't see me, just my wife out in the sunshine. Their reg was visible, and I got a call back after ringing the police. Likewise the guy who was at the back gate at 3.15 pm, having a look around. I smelt rat, and the police confirmed it. He'd just changed vehicle, and they were pleased to find out out the ID of his new wheels.
We had the shed emptied about three years ago, and now I always ring up if I see a car I don't like the look of.
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The rural grapevine is amazing, If I visit my friend's farm and there is no one "in" or nearby, I usually get a call later in the day. Although I dont see anyone he tells me which of his nehibours saw my car.
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Much the same round my way. Very reassuring, unless you want a discreet affair!
Edited by nick on 06/01/2009 at 16:20
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Making a call about a suspicious vehicle often leads to a report being placed on PNC. We regularly stop vehicles (often after activating ANPR) days later and have very good results. It's very easy to suss the legitimate from the dodgy once they're stopped.
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