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Just like to say that.

We put the taps back on yesterday. One of the old boys spent the winter, putting new washers on reseating them and giving them a bit of a tarting up. Two of us went round and put them on.....Sack fulls of them. We have 430 is plots and there is one tank with 2 taps per tank for every 4 plots. Gets a call today......"NO TAPS"...some git has gone rount last night and knicked them ALL. Then ripped the roof of one of the sheds.

How much is a second hand tap worth?

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Blimey, that is just beyond belief!

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There are some right w@nkers out there. And it's not like the job of 5 minutes. Someone must have spent ages removing each one.

It took ages to put them on so it must have took ages to take them off as well then clime over a 10ft wall with barbed wire on the top with a sack of taps on your back. Pity we didnt get a chance to turn the water back on before they did it.

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How maddening, the two legged pest is worse than the all the other pests put together on the allotment - perhaps they will sell them for scrap? We have similar problems with morons on our plots - we are working with our community police to get higher gates and fences but you will never stop them.
If they strip my pear tree again for the third year running I shall go mad!

Don`t know if i should say this but.......
About 25 years ago(when i was 11) myself and some friends broke in to some allotments.
We stole as i remember carrots, potatoes and pears which we washed with the taps that were on the site. As i remember it we were very careful not to tread on the other crops as we were lifting the carrots and spuds and picking the pears.
On the way home we ate the carrots and pears and made up some cock and bull story when we arrived home to present Mum with some potatoes.

Not that i am condoning in any way that what we did was right(i certainly know now that it was not) but the difference now is that these young pillocks break in to allotments purely with the idea of destruction and wouldn`t know a carrot from a pear.

Sorry, Minty (feeling rather naughty)

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we lost all our taps 3 times last summer, dont know if they're gonna replace them this year!!!!
Then last week some kind souls pickaxed the roof of the tool store & stole the petrol strimmers
seems we're on the radar of the local scumbags

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It`s a weight off my shoulders but i can still remember how good they tasted,
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Its not the cost of the stuff that annoys me but the trouble of buying new ones and fitting them.

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I'm not what you'd call technical, but don't you need tool thingies to remove taps? You know spanners or something? If so then not only has someone pinched them, but they've gone on your site with the necessary equipment.

So how did someone know all the taps had only just gone back on. Stinks of an inside job.

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Hmmph....very irritating!

On our previous allotment site the gypsies kicked in the taps ( I think there were about 4 taps) and left the water to pour out .
Such a mess with all that water ( clay soil)- but they didn't bother nicking the taps!

And just what are they going to do with all those taps?! Its just beyond belief what some people will do, and they call it fun So sorry NTG - security camera maybe?

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Reading your post, has made me very angry....If i got hold of them I hate to think what I would do, I know one thing they would sure as heck have a phobia about taps!

I am so sorry that this has happened, have you told the police?
They might be after scrap metal, Mr HF had problems getting to work the other week, some nasty 'person' has nicked a huge metal manhole cover and left a gaping hole in the road. could had killed a bike rider!

Scum, pure scum.

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If you have kids in the local schools get them to keep there ears out for anyome bragging or if you think it was an inside job then who was on site when you installed the taps and as you have said how did they get over the fence with all those taps , maybe they are in one of the sheds waiting to be moved when things go quiet.

I would go around any car boot sales in the area in the next month and possible take your comunity police officer with you and one other person who fitted the taps for positive ID of them just incase they surface.

Ring around the local scrap merchants and explain the situation to them and say the police have been informed and if they have them can they be returned and offer the scrap value they paid for returning them. I know it's not ideal buying back your own taps but at least it would be cheaper or they would not touch them anyway as they are hot goods and the criminals might even bring them back if there to hot.

And as you said there is 430 plots with people , familys behind them so put up a notice saying what has happened and the quicker the taps are found the faster the water supply will be reinstalled or the rent will have to go up to cover the new taps .

Money always gets people's attention making 430 possible family's looking for the taps.

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now in blog form ! UPDATED 01 / 04 / 08

Agree 100% with carlseawolf. I hope you have reported it to the police. I can understand people stealing things if they have a need for them or are going to use them but pure vandalism I will never understand.

Is there a fanatic on your site who has 20 water butts and frowns at taps because they think its a waste of water(they have a point) - it really does sound like an inside job, you get some real wierdos around.

even better we have contacted the local police dog training site and they are happy to use the site for training runs with the dogs.

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You'd be surprised how much 400-odd 'scrap' brass taps would fetch at a scrap metal recyclers.

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Oh god, check the local scrap merchant, the weight is what money they get! I cannot believe that some gits have stolen them all.

Sorry to hear that..........let your l;ocal DIY's stores know, mayeb they will dontate some, let your local paper know aswell.