Stolen Horse box
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rich 36

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13,739 posts

295 months

Wednesday 10th August 2005
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Yesterday lunchtime, someone drove onto field after chopping the padlock, allowed one horse out onto busy road. (few houses)

Hooked up, the old double horse box, and left with it, behind what we think may have been
[b]'newish van, with orange light bolted to roof'[/b].

Police were phoned,
meanwhile horse caught a few fields away, thank goodness.
Trailer was old, as I say, so not vital.
Waited on field for evening to see plod, but went home and rang them instead.
It was late last night, when we spoke to someone handling incident, and by which time, we'd been rang by friends, who thought trailer was residing across town possibly amongst
[b]'newish vans, with orange lights bolted on top'[/b].

Do'nt actually expect to see 'camp' levelled under a bulldozer, before a selected audience. and
[b]'newish vans, with orange lights bolted on top'[/b],crushed.
But,
would plod offer to have trailer recovered, or might this contravene, some thieving[b]'newish vans, with orange lights bolted on top'[/b]bye law?


Coco H

4,237 posts

266 months

Wednesday 10th August 2005
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Trailers are stolen all the time and it seems to me that the recovery of stolen trailers is a difficult business. A friend had hers stolen and spotted it locally and it took the police a fair while to try and get it back - one presumes there are proceedures that must be folloed etc. The difficulty is the darn things are moved on so quickly you need to react fast.

Glad horses are ok

rich1231

17,340 posts

289 months

Wednesday 10th August 2005
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Without trying to sound too right wing..

Cant we just shoot all the thieving ers?

Donut

4,521 posts

280 months

Wednesday 10th August 2005
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It's only fair we let these and all other non taxpayer scum get away with it.....they have all the rights you know!

Now stop moaning and pay up!!

>> Edited by Donut on Wednesday 10th August 09:05

rich 36

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Wednesday 10th August 2005
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Right then update.
Wife phoned the police,AM fro progress report
"Madam we are undestaffed at the present, but we will phone you back withing five minutes, when supervisor ? has looked into todays work ?

hour later and yet another, phone call got plod;
" An officer has been assigned to handle case"
us
"His name please"
plod
"urmm I dont know"
Us
"What will happen now, we told you where trailer was, last night"
plod
"well, we cant' just barge onto the site, just like that looking for stuff"
us
"why not?"
plod
"we have to have a special order each time"
us
" If I had a stolen, car on my drive, I think you'd be round' straight away right!"
plod
"now, now", anyway, is trailer still there?"

us,
"thats your job, to go and look surely"

anyway hours later, they returned a call finally, saying (triumphantly)
"Weve' found it, its on such a street,
(rather near shanty town)
you need to retrieve it straight away, or we will, and there'll be a charge"
we got recovery truck within 30' to said address, and no sign of it BTW.

following a fraught communication of exact place on street, plod came out and met truck, to determine, once again that trailer had gone.

I suspect that my intial, thoughts were correct and that the social group responsible, moved it off their shanty town, for a bit, before moving elsewhere in the country tonight most likely.

furthermore,I strongly suspect plod have dragged there heels all day, hoping for this outcome, and will not now have to disturb pykie thieving scum, from their business.

All in all, a satisfactory waste of my readies, was had by all
Well done Northamptonshire Constabulary, in your efforts, they are much appreciated,
I'm confident that someone linked to Wooton hall HQ
will pick up on this.

rich 36

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Friday 12th August 2005
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Well,
No sign of our trailer, no suprise there really, but by an eerie coincidence, an apologetic phone call from

Northants constabulary Wooton hall
(Julie Barton)
apparently expressing dismay, at series of
non events, from our wonderful police.

"We can only apologise, for not moving faster, to act on information, concerning whereabouts of your horsebox,(we told them were)
the consequent detection, and subsequent loss of, was also regretable.
We understand that on reporting the missing trailer, you also told us, make & colour, of suspicious van seen crusing the area of theft the preceeding evening"

"I can say, that neighbouring properties and farms in that exact area, are subject of targeting by thieves, and we recommend, locking up all property, and livestock, horses, we can't say at this time why,
but area is closely monitored, and a 999 call will trigger an office at once."

Just like our call on tuesday afternoon then eh




Phew, so thats allright then,
dont' have nightmares people

cptsideways

13,884 posts

281 months

Friday 12th August 2005
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I would have "borrowed" a JCB and done the job myself directly.

Next time you don't get a response tell the police you saw the thief with a gun in that pikey camp. Tends to get a slightly more rapid response

rich 36

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Friday 12th August 2005
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I've been searching for a machine, coincidentally

I would have "borrowed" a JCB and done the job myself directly.

and I've often wondered what the 'response' might be on the other option.

Northants Police ,
Lets make 'gorm' history

having said that, keystone cops shooting one another image springs to mind, so best not eh.....

Coco H

4,237 posts

266 months

Friday 12th August 2005
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I take it this is a Northants theft then - will pass the info to my friends to keep their eyes peeled in the area.

Hope it is found.

rich 36

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Friday 12th August 2005
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Thank you,
and without wishing to appear overly bitter & twisted so early in the morning.
I think PH forums are a slightly better bet just now

DJFish

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292 months

Friday 12th August 2005
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Took our kayaks for a paddle on the sea t'other day, parked up in a public carpark, got back 30 mins late and got a £30 parking fine, fair enough, however two pikey vans had turned up since we went out and in that time had managed to fill said carpark with heaps of rubbish, old bikes and snotty screaming toddlers and can you guess whether they had tickets?????????????????????

rich 36

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Sunday 14th August 2005
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4 days after initially reporting a theft we were promised a visit to take statements details etc, at place of theft.

plod promised to have someone there by 10 AM, they eventually rolled up at 7PM

announcing the pair of them to be the
rapid response team................

What a shambles, the 'Scameraville' police have become, to have the nerve to show their face, after such a long delay.
Anyway they have, the formal complaint in writing, to bulk out the case notes.

I reckon, i've had more succes on turn outs, with a plumber, before now;

"PM, do ya guv, i'll have a look on me way home, just to see what I can do"

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

284 months

Sunday 14th August 2005
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Coco H said:

Glad horses are ok


Glum horses are pain in neck....

rich 36

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Sunday 14th August 2005
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you forgot the long face

mybrainhurts

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284 months

Sunday 14th August 2005
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I'm confused....

rich 36

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Sunday 14th August 2005
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there always the police then.
they're recruiting