Thieves using Google Maps to steal Koi

[Oakey]

...according to The Sun.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2505087/...

said:

CUNNING crooks are using Google Earth to locate and steal expensive koi carp, cops say.
The crooks use internet mapping systems to find gardens with ponds so they can nick the valuable fish.

Twelve thefts of the collectable creatures - which can be worth hundreds of pounds - have been reported in Hull, East Yorks, in the last three weeks.

I don't know about anyone else, but I find that highly unbelievable. Are the police really trying to suggest that this is what's happening? Really? So once these thieves have found these ponds, from images that are a year or two out of date, then what? They use their magic psychic powers to work out whether the pond they're looking at contains bog standard goldfish or koi carp? And once their magic powers have told them what kind of fish are in these ponds, then off they go, hoping that a) these ponds are still there and b) they actually contain koi?

Of course, that's the logical theory isn't it?

I mean, I suppose the 'zany' theory is that someone somewhere, let's say at, oooh, I don't know, a koi carp fishery, is tipping off thieves as to who has bought what and where they can be found? Nah, that's ridicuolous. Let's go with the Google Maps theory, that makes far more sense.

[Zod]

it's the classi moron's blame new technology reflec.

Smash the spinning jenny!

[350GT]

Of course they could use google earth to plan escape routes as well, or see which houses have satellite dishes on them.... It;s unnerving stuff. We should just turn off the internet.

[Vixpy1]

Sounds fishy to me.

[Odhran]

I think everyone should take a step back and look at the source of the claim.. enough said

[elster]

As if a thief in Hull knew what they were stealing.

It was just for dinner!

[HundredthIdiot]

This news just in...

Pikeys are using a combination of mobile internet access and Google Earth to identify houses with roofs, so that they can knock slates off then offer to repair them.

[Road Pest]

elster said:

As if a thief in Hull knew what they were stealing.

It was just for dinner!

I didn't think they had the internet in Hull?

[Zod]

the source of this kind of story will be similar to that of all the concern about Google Maps and Streetview - morons who think it is somehow giving a live view of their wife undressing in the window.

[elster]

Road Pest said:

elster said:

As if a thief in Hull knew what they were stealing.

It was just for dinner!

I didn't think they had the internet in Hull?

They have their own internet.

BT decided to avoid Hull at all costs. So it is all Kingston Communications.

[Semi hemi]

elster said:

Road Pest said:

elster said:

As if a thief in Hull knew what they were stealing.

It was just for dinner!

I didn't think they had the internet in Hull?

They have their own internet.

BT decided to avoid Hull at all costs. So it is all Kingston Communications.

In the old "pre BT" days the citizens of Hull were the only people in the UK to have free local calls

[Bullett]

Kingston used to provide all the local infrastructure in the Hull area.

However as of a few weeks ago it's now 'managed' in a partnership with BT.

[elster]

Bullett said:

Kingston used to provide all the local infrastructure in the Hull area.

However as of a few weeks ago it's now 'managed' in a partnership with BT.

Good thinking there.

So instead of one bunch of retards cocking it all up and providing a sh!t service there will now be two excellent sh!t service providers!

[RegMolehusband]

If they look at my house on Google Earth they'll see it as it was 11 years ago. Not much help for thieving research.