Scroats

[Mogman]

just had a call tonight could I check the gates on a yard I used to rent

some twat got the telehandler going and decided to have it, gates or no gates
Now I moved off the land about a year ago and the only thing there of mine was the ripper and land rake I built to clear the trees that were there
not sure if anything else was taken as the company that is there now use it as a storage compound for civils work manhole rings ducting etc.
BOILS MY PISS

 

[Quattromike]

Are they away with your gear mog?

 

[Grahams]

I just hate them. Had my pickup broken into yet again and hundreds of pounds worth of stuff taken only a couple of weeks ago. What makes them think it is an acceptable way to carry on? I guess because the chances of being caught are close to zero (much easier and less dangerous to be out catching motorists for speeding) and if they are caught probably get a suspended sentence if they even bother to prosecute.. Boils my piss about sums it up.

 

[V8Druid]

saw the title and thought FFS .... not again ..... was your gear still sat Mog ...... guess the tele was far more appealing and 'self exiting' ..... bas**rds !!!!!!
that time of year though .... hopefully there'll be a few maimed around here ... let's say they'll be expected in most places

 

[Regy53]

There is so many things you can do to kind of stop and slow this down. You can't do it all but really can get things installed that tell you of presence

 

[Brendan]

I just hate them. Had my pickup broken into yet again and hundreds of pounds worth of stuff taken only a couple of weeks ago. What makes them think it is an acceptable way to carry on? I guess because the chances of being caught are close to zero (much easier and less dangerous to be out catching motorists for speeding) and if they are caught probably get a suspended sentence if they even bother to prosecute.. Boils my piss about sums it up.

That's the biggest problem tool theft just gets pushed to the bottom of the list, police don't even bother to turn up and just give out crime numbers. If on the rare opportunity that someone is caught it's a slap on the wrist. I'm sure I read a few months back about a thief who had robbed a shop for thousands only has a fine of couple of hundred quid and suspended sentence

 

[V8Druid]

There is so many things you can do to kind of stop and slow this down. You can't do it all but really can get things installed that tell you of presence

Oh YEH ... I knew if a mouse farted in my yard, where and how loudly .... it's all very do-able ... and even more so these days ...... Plod always turned up for my activations ... virtually a guaranteed result for 'em ...... but they rarely beat me there

 

[Brendan]

Oh YEH ... I knew if a mouse farted in my yard, where and how loudly .... it's all very do-able ... and even more so these days ...... Plod always turned up for my activations ... virtually a guaranteed result for 'em ...... but they rarely beat me there

Was at a location earlier where two houses have some fancy laser system setup along the boundary and a ton of cameras

 

[V8Druid]

Was at a location earlier where two houses have some fancy laser system setup along the boundary and a ton of cameras

never bothered with cameras ..... seen one scroat - seen 'em all .. in a hoody ..... plenty of sensors and break beams ... very carefully positioned
laser canons on the other hand'd be perfectly acceptable .... where can i get some

 

[Quattromike]

never bothered with cameras ..... seen one scroat - seen 'em all .. in a hoody .....

Plus you don't want it catching you dealing with the intruders when you catch them

 

[V8Druid]

Plus you don't want it catching you dealing with the intruders when you catch them

or plod ..... a few took a kicking / fell over a few times on the way out ..... "never saw a thing officer "

 

[doobin]

I love my camera. I can scan around the yard from my bed if the alarm goes off.

But yes, totally useless for evidence.

 

[Regy53]

Was at a location earlier where two houses have some fancy laser system setup along the boundary and a ton of cameras

never bothered with cameras ..... seen one scroat - seen 'em all .. in a hoody ..... plenty of sensors and break beams ... very carefully positioned
laser canons on the other hand'd be perfectly acceptable .... where can i get some

my main gates have 25mm hardened steel chain with some mega padlock, youtube has it somthing like 18 minutes to cut through twice to pull the padlock out with perfect conditions (vice, new batterys etc) Anyhow the reseller of the chain suggest i got the strongest chilli powder known to man and mixed it with water.. put into one of the water canons you can buy for the garden... So if you ever do catch them if you can fire that at them.

No idea if it would work but it sounded fun. I did look at a water valve electronically controlled to direct water to our laneway should a intruder find himself there. app driven is really not hard at all

 

[Quattromike]

I was on a site this week that had a camera system with 9 cameras recording, I watched it for a moment and it seemed to be panning along and zooming in on areas where there was movement on the screen, nobody was controlling it, it just seemed to be doing all this on its own accord. When the movement stopped it panned out to full screen again. Was quite smart.

 

[Mogman]

Nothing of mine gone
the trouble with this site is lack of power as the sub station caught fire earlier this year so all got disconnected (I did get a good weigh in though)

 

[Jimoz]

Cctv and technology seems as bad for the landowner as anything. Just any evidence which can convict is used.

 

[Regy53]

I was on a site this week that had a camera system with 9 cameras recording, I watched it for a moment and it seemed to be panning along and zooming in on areas where there was movement on the screen, nobody was controlling it, it just seemed to be doing all this on its own accord. When the movement stopped it panned out to full screen again. Was quite smart.

I have a tracking PTZ in the yard. It tracks anybody who enters from certain places. Zooms in the lot. It has alarm imputs so a sensor 180 degrees behind it when triggered will pull the camera to it and start tracking the person... It can also auto arm and disarm at certain times...

 

[Mogman]

will be having an electric fence around my yard ontop of the mesh fence, I’m planting a hawthorn and blackthorn hedge at the moment but will take a few years to get to hight and you don’t to get a thorn in you from a blackthorn

 

[Komatsu]

That's the biggest problem tool theft just gets pushed to the bottom of the list, police don't even bother to turn up and just give out crime numbers. If on the rare opportunity that someone is caught it's a slap on the wrist. I'm sure I read a few months back about a thief who had robbed a shop for thousands only has a fine of couple of hundred quid and suspended sentence

There was a thing on tv a while ago about this sort of stuff, and what came out of it, was that the scroats would watch all these police interceptor programmes etc, and basically see what they could get away with to what punishment was handed out

 

[Komatsu]

my main gates have 25mm hardened steel chain with some mega padlock, youtube has it somthing like 18 minutes to cut through twice to pull the padlock out with perfect conditions (vice, new batterys etc) Anyhow the reseller of the chain suggest i got the strongest chilli powder known to man and mixed it with water.. put into one of the water canons you can buy for the garden... So if you ever do catch them if you can fire that at them.

No idea if it would work but it sounded fun. I did look at a water valve electronically controlled to direct water to our laneway should a intruder find himself there. app driven is really not hard at all

Lights light and more lights, they hate them