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Yesterday my O.H & I (sound like the queen don't I ?!) were searching the house looking for his laptop, he couldn't remember where he'd last had it. He thought it was in the car boot but he'd looked & it wasn't there, he rang the office but it wasn't there & then he searched the car again. That's when he realised that his 'Sat-Nav' was missing from the car & some sample boxes from work had been opened in the boot. He realised the laptop etc. had been taken when the car was in the hospital car park as he'd taken his 86 year old mother in for a check up. He thinks that as he was helping his mum out of the car, trying to listen to a message on his phone & lock the car with the remote central locking button someone must have been watching & the locks mustn't have clicked in properly. Note to anyone with remote central locking..make sure the doors & boot are actually locked before you walk away! It doesn't really matter to him as they were company items & they were also quite old, so much so that the company say they won't claim them on insurance as the excess wouldn't be worth it, but I'm annoyed that lowlifes hang around hospital car parks where people could be going in for treatment or to visit seriously ill relatives & wait to rip them off!
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they are everywhere i am afraid!!!!
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That's bad SueA. Sorry to hear about that, even though it's not to your own expense... It still makes you warey and that little bit less trusting doesn't it? Which is a shame
How terrible and as you say opportunistic to do it in a hospital car park where you're mind is usually on lots of things other than your car!Shortie
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding CarterComment
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Horrible. I am sorry - still not a nice experience. My DH beloved cherry red Saab (as seen in the film Sideways) was nicked last year. It was worth peanuts really but not many around and collectable so probably stolen to order. We were quite upset!
Embarrassingly though, 'cos I was going everywhere in a cab and DH cycles to the office, it was a whole 3 days before we realised it had been stolen. Observant, non?I don't roll on ShabbosComment
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What a shame SueA. Upsetting for you. But these lowlifes don't just hang around the car parks looking for opportunities, they go in to the hospitals and steel there too.
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Obviously the car parking attendants wages aren't what they used to be!I'm only here cos I got on the wrong bus.Comment
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It occured to me just this morning that it is only a matter of time until some computer-literate thief devises a means for using a computer (laptop or smaller) to send the signal that unlocks a 'remotely locked' car. Just as computers can copy credit-cards, so they must be able (if suitably programmed) to duplicate the 'unlock' signal from your car keys......Originally posted by SueA View PostFlowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.Comment
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Really sorry to hear that Sue. They are scum and trade in other peoples misery.
Given today's society, I'm sure you'll be hearing from the thieves shortly when they sue you for the distress of putting so much effort into stealing an old product when for the same amount of effort they could have stolen a new one.
Did you see the photograph of the Essex teenage burglar who trapped himself in a window of the house he was breaking into in the Sunday papers over the weekend? He was upside down for a couple of hours until the owners came home and found him hanging there by his foot - surrounded by neighbours laughing at him. He said he was chasing a burglar out of their house for them. ROFLComment
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Sorry to read this SueA, but I know from my job that there is nowhere safe from thieving hands. These people have no morals so even a hospital is fair game to them and all we can do is be aware that they're out there and try and protect ourselves as much as we can by not leaving things visible in our vehicles, that includes the 'empty' sat nav station, as they will automatically look in glove compartment or door pockets. I've found that it's not only that items are taken, but it's the violation of their own space that leaves people upset and questioning their faith in fellow humans. Thankfully the majority of us are honest, but if only we could get hold of the thieving barstewards they'd get what for.Comment
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Mr Sheds told me he can unlock his car with his mobile phone ... must ask him if it's trueAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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That's disgusting Mind you, given that people steal from charities, nothing surprises me, anymore.
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SueA sorry to hear your news, just had a bout of it here too.
Words fail me, and hospital car parks as if the people ther don't have enough on their plates. grrrrr makes me really angry, really really angry as it happens.
Hate theft.
Hope you are able to get something sorted out Sue
Hope you have a better weekend
love
Sue
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Scum......
I know perhaps you'll be able to claim on insurance but insurance never compensates for loss of intellectual/sentimental property - which I sincerely hope has been saved away from the stolen laptop.
My sympathies are scant compensation for the loss of these items under such horrid circumstances - don't really know what else to say except repeat....
Scum, Scum, Scum.Comment
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SueA, so sorry to read about that. What a wonderful country we live in now.
In Singapore these scum bags are simply turfed into Changi Jail. And forgotten about. Adolf Hitler's mob had a better solution... Shame about the rest of his solutions though...
In the Mid East things are simple - chop off the right hand. Very little crime there, and no excuses like the poor little darlings had an underpriviledged childhood either. In the USA things are even simpler... Your car is considered as an extension of your home. And you can legally shoot an intruder. I liked living in Atlanta... And I like implementing a simple solution when needed
Let's go diggin' dirt....
Big silver bird, come land low and slow
Cut your engines, cool your wings,
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Scum, scum, scum,
Totally agree, my parents lost £40'000 of jewellry whilst still in the house. The front door was open so they are now fighting with the insurance Co. - doesn't look good.
I lost about £10.50 on a shared payphone when burgled as a student, but the impact the invasion is still there.
Do the punishments meted out in Arabic states look so bad now?Comment
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