Just gone to the car to start and it looked like a bomb site. Some scorat has knicked my sat nav. Because i have broken my elbow the car was probably unlocked.
I have reported it nd they are going to send a finger print team round but doubt they will show up.
On the plus side they left my routers in the boot :)
Edited by Rattle on 26/12/2009 at 16:14
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Dont want to uncharitable rattle, but leaving a satnav in an unlocked car is asking for it to be nicked. Leaving your work kit in the boot is even sillier - you are *very* lucky!
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it was in the glove box. I had only intended to leave the car unlocked for a few minutes in the middle of the day. But then i slipped eneded up in hospital and forgot about the car.
The work kit has a streat value of about 20p. 5 year old routers are worthless. They left my valuable goldblade cd behind too. I dont like locking the car every few seconds because of ear and tear on the central locking system (6 solinoids to go wrong)
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Commiserations Rattle, you are really having some bad luck lately. I guess that you will be glad to see the back of 2009 !
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What a total pain Rattle. I won't bother to say you should have hidden or removed the satnav and locked the car, because you know that now.
Time was round us in London the toerags would break car windows and nick the radio/cassette from cars parked in the main road under a street light. But the heart seems to have gone out of them lately. I still refuse to park in one of the side streets where I have had one car broken into with a crowbar, tools nicked and tailgate bent, and one, a low-mileage Peugeot 205 diesel inherited from my father, stolen and never seen again.
When I had my Bentley I got into it once and found a scruffy old tramp sleeping in luxury in the back. He left politely when asked to do so.
I hope the elbow is on the mend.
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Elbow more painful if anything :(
I don't remember not locking it but there is no damage can only assume I didn't lock it. About ten years ago we had a crime wave but it asll went quiet until now.
Saty nav was a basic tomtom xl last years christmas present. No doubts its some scumbags kids christmas present this year who has bought stolen goods down the snooker club.
I am annoyed with myself more than anything.
Edited by Rattle on 26/12/2009 at 16:42
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you have deadlock on this model so that even if a window is broken the scroats cant open a door so make sure in future you always use it even if you are only leaving the car for a minute :-)
manchester, terrible place for break ins ,i think you are lucky to not have all the ignition smashed and your steering wheel all mashed up to be honest
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you are very lucky me thinks
i bet you cant do this for a while either ;-) (caution very rude)
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I am sorry. The other day, I left a rear door wide open all night on mine, I was brining shopping in and dropped something and meant to go back, but forgot and then locked it from inside the house. Thankfully nobody even look as there were no footprints in the snow.
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I left mine unlocked all last night by accident, again through getting things out of the car.
Rattle - sorry to hear of your double dose of bad luck, but really, solenoids are designed to last for many years, I wouldn't worry about them if I were you!
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I will just get a new sat nav in the sales bit I am house bound because I cannot balance in the ice. Been relearning Java today because I was so bored, forgot what lovely langauge it is.
Bd luck since november
Nov - I get swine flu
Dec - my dad breaks his arm in four places spends a week in hospital
dec - my cat becomes very ill but wonderfully makes a full recovery
dec - i break my elbow
dec - my car gets broken into
Just tying to get on with things with one arm.
The pavements here are just made of ice now :(
I wonder if plod will turn up tommorow for finger prints?
I realise all the above is quite minor and each one of them could have been weorse, in that sense I am lucky.
Edited by Rattle on 26/12/2009 at 22:05
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hi rattle , sorry abot your misfortunes. lets hope you and everyone on BR have a good 2010 ...cheers , zoo
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Zookeeper.
If your still reading did you ever get any joy regarding insurance payout from that prang with the foreign truck many moons ago?
Sorry for the swift hijack Rattie and the mods (that'd be a good name for a grope), just want to grab Zoo wilst he's lurking..normal service will resume asap.;)
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Oh heck he's thinking of naming types of grope and wants to grab Zookeeper....don't give that man any more sherry tonight... :-)
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Don't you just wish there was an unlimited time span on the edit button....thanks Humph again he swore through gritted teeth.;)
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Zookeeper. If your still reading did you ever get any joy regarding insurance payout from that prang with the foreign truck many moons ago?
hi, GB, yes i did get a result from the german based haulage firms insurance in the end
after much ignored correspondence from them i was eventually helped by the MIB (motor insurance bureau)
It took nearlly 2 years to resolve but in the end they offered me more or less what i originally paid for the car less the 100 pounds i bought it back as scrap...its passed 2 MOTs since and i can live with the dents ( ive tried to get a door for it on ebay but their a bit like rocking horse doo doo) any way thanks for asking ....and have a happy and safe new year
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i was eventually helped by the MIB (motorinsurance bureau) It took nearlly 2 years to resolve
Thanks Zoo, glad it worked out in the end.
Mental note made to involve MiB soonest should anything similar happen.
Thanks and have a good new year yourself.
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>Just tying to get on with things with one arm.
I broke my right elbow, I am right handed. The worse part was trying to wipe your bum.
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Didn't think you knew Rattle that well AE.....
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And I bet that was noted on the compensation form.......
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yes, and yet to come to fruition.
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>>The worse part was trying to wipe your bum.
It's a helluva way to find out how much your wife/mum/brother/sister loves you!
Edited by bathtub tom {p} on 26/12/2009 at 22:56
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Try doing it with nothing but a water tap and an old tin in a squat bog without lights, without sullying your trousers.
At least if it's got a lock on the door you don't have to do it left-handed for ritual reasons...
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Try doing it with nothing but a water tap and an old tin in a squat bog without lights without sullying your trousers.
We used to DREAM of 'avin' an old tin........ ;-)
Edited by Harleyman on 27/12/2009 at 08:29
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It's a helluva way to find out how much your wife/mum/brother/sister loves you!
Secretary, milkman ?
Ted
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Glad to hear the cat is ok Rattle...
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>>> found a scruffy old tramp sleeping in
luxury in the back<<<
Was it the Bishop of Southwark?He has been known to kip down in the back of a motor when he's a bit Brahms :)
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Was it the Bishop of Southwark?
Didn't have the accent or demeanour of an Anglican bishop.
Might just possibly have been a very tired and emotional cardinal I suppose... :o}
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Hard luck Rattle. Please don't worry about wearing out the locking solenoids; they probably thrive on being used. Hope your arm repairs itself.
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I really hope you get back on your feet soon Rattle, and that your luck starts to change.
Might soon daft- but think positively. Helps enormously. Anyway, enough of my psychobabble, and time for a reminder of reality:
"We live in medieval times
Fast cars they cannot dent this
The streets are full of sex and violence
The situation seems so vacant
Sometimes I feel so reckless
Sometimes I feel pretty wild"
Ahem.
rgds
Mr Terranaut.
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I won't be causing anarchy to those lyrics at the academy for a while anyway! My name is pyshco the secret is out :d.
I've met John Robb a few times, great bloke always has time to chat.
I am just so greatful my goldblade CD survived I got it under the counter, its a promo so fairly rare.
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He's a good guy by all accounts, you're one lucky Psycho!
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Funny thing: was thinking about psychos (!- as you do...) and stuck on the "Stop Making Sense" Talking Heads DVD. Playing it in VLC on Windows- which shows a little VLC icon with a Santa hat on!
Nothing to do with cars of course.
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My sister wrote her car off on Thursday on some black ice - coming down a slight slope on a wide main road which the council forgot to grit. Two HGVs in opposite lane stuck coming up hill while someone had stopped to chat to the driver in front of my sister.
Apparently it just slid and slid (no ABS, don't think she thought to release the brakes and stuff it into the hedge) and it went right into the back of his car. Airbags went off and everything, she's OK apart from a sore wrist though apparently she was on the verge of killing the bloke who stopped on an icy slope to chat to the lorry drivers...
I had been down there earlier in the day and I too thought the road was gritted until the car started to twitch slightly and I cottoned on the road was sheet ice. Could be the stability protection was stopping me from spinning, who knows?
Apparently police turned up and fell over the moment they got out of their car... :-)
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OP
i blame you.
however, u appear to had a bit of bad luck, so i hope you get you sat nav back and the crook is locked up.
hope you have a better year next year
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I have been writing a Java applet to stop my brain from wasting away while I am stuck in. I am making into a pub management game but this sat nav thing has given me an idea for a new element of the game if the drink prices are too low the pub will attract fencers also nd the cops will close it down.
I also informed the insurance and they said it won't affect my premiums as I have not put in a claim. I have my eye on the garmin 205w at £100.
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I was in Manchester over Christmas, visiting family in Chorlton. I couldn't believe how slippery it was. We walked to the local pub on Christmas Eve, the roads and pavements were covered in a thick layer of what appeared to be glass, with no sign of anything having been gritted. Saw numerous cars really struggling in the conditions and my wife also slipped over and hurt her back - before the pub visit!
On Christmas Day the city was enshrouded in the sort of thick fog that I remember from my University times when I lived there. Don't ever remember it being that icy though.
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Sorry to hear of your break-in Rattle. I had my car broken into last week - a window smashed and the outside vandalised too. Looks like after they found nothing worth stealing inside they got a bit frustrated and took it out on the car.
Police were worse than useless, I'd have been better off calling the parish Mothers Union...
All in all, break-ins are a pain.
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"Police were worse than useless, I'd have been better off calling the parish Mothers Union.."
Could you elaborate on that for us. What was your expectations and in what way were they not met?
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I'd have hoped they'd have taken fingerprints? They had a good rummage through the glovebox, pulled a few cassettes out, that kind of thing. Were they all heeding their mother's advice and wearing mittens or were there prints to take? We'll never know as the police didn't bother.
Perhaps some advice on how to avoid break-ins?
In fact, anything at all would have been better than nothing at all.
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i got my car stolen back end of 2008, iwas literally tripping over letters from the old bill
letter 1... confirm report of stolen vehicle
letter 2... confirm scumbags admitted theft of vehicle
letter 3... letter to achknowledge i am a victim of crime, also enclosed leaflets for support etc
letter 4... i can recover vehicle from forensics
letter 5... court case time and date
letter 6... outcome of court case
nice to know they care
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One of our Citroen C1s had its tailgate smashed in town last week.
I bought it home and sheeted it 'cos it was raining....the window is the tailgate on these so it was a case of fitting the wiper, latch and all the attendent bits and pieces.
Good service by Auto Windscreens, brought one round and fitted it on NYE..
Left his 10mm socket, ratchet and extension.....collecting them on his way past later.
Ted
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A couple of years ago, step-sons car broken into on New Years Eve outside house - top of the door bent over. Police forensics came out on New Year's Day within a few hours. Despite saying they'd probably get no prints due to gloves they got excited when a drop of blood was found. The blood then matched someone known to the police and they were arrested...
... so if there is evidence then the police in my experience can be very good. May vary region to region.
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I had a car stolen 3 weeks ago
i reported the crime when i got to work to the police but had to listen to a recorded message first asking if i was making a false claim
i then spoke to my newspaper to advise that it was a planned theft so could happen to someone else
i have had 3 different police officers telling me my crime is inportant to them
ive had an official letting asking if i need counselling
ive had my say in the paper
i havent seen any police officer in the flesh
they havent come down and given any advice about tightening up security
they havent found my car
i cant claim on insurance for it
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