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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 22, 2018 15:11:20 GMT
I can remember some time ago a worker going into Jonathan Wilson's yard at Sheffield, pulling up, and getting out to unlock and open the gate, a toe rag had the van away. No payout because he had left the the van unlocked while seeing to the gates. It made me take extra care at our marina gates. Thats something we all do as is leaving doors unlocked when in the house...just had warning that opportunist thieves are going down streets trying door handles...now locked in..car locked in garden..I guess what I really need is another dog.... ... and some red hot mooring pins!
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Post by cygnus on Jan 22, 2018 15:50:36 GMT
To be fair we haven't seen much crime ourselves in boatyards, perhaps only 3 or 4 times in 20 years. One particular event was a big eye opener though, and it happened in Blue Water Marina in Thorne. It was about 1998. Anyway the marina was always busy with people walking about, looking at boats, gongoozling and such. There was this newbie who had just taken delivery of a new narrowboat and brimming with pride, had the habit of grabbing any bystander, or passerby and inviting them in for a look around his pride and joy. One particular day he invited a couple onto his boat, showed them around, and when they left he discovered they had taken his car keys, his car and all the goods in it that he had bought for his new boat.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 22, 2018 17:43:15 GMT
They sound like politicians. Local councillors?
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