Vandals Arrrrrgggg

[Indietrek]

Just trying to get to sleep when i heard vioces outside window. Then plastic being moved and then next thing big crack. Look out side to find my wing mirror hanging off. Arrrrrggg. The photography skills went out of the window when i tried to get a photo of them, must learn to work under pressure.
Sorry had to rant. Cheers
Luke

[StuartWalkerPhoto]

Bad luck 

Sturdy monopods can be useful accessories 

[Peachy]

You're not allowed to wire you car up to the mains are you?

[Colin Jones]

Someone got mine a few weeks ago. This is a common problem as we have a pub either side of the street (useful when you want to stagger home though)

[Indietrek]

Now to find out how much its going to cost to fix.

[Richard P Walton]

next time have a gun ready not a camera

[Indietrek]

Well the pain i could inflict if they present at the hospital. (I am a nurse). Thats a joke before anyone reports me to NMC.

[Tim Hoy]

I don't know how much help your photos would have been if you had got clear shots of the vandals.  Living in London, we have zillions of free cameras all over the place supposedly to assist with the management of crime and disorder. 

My home is at the junction of a busy road with a high accident rate (3 fatals since I moved there 17 years ago) and so there are two surveillance cameras in place that one might think should bring peace of mind. Yet, when my home was broken into a couple of years ago, the 2 cameras covering the area where the crime took place don't appear to have been of any use whatsoever.

It could be worse though... In East Sussex in 2006 a shopkeeper woke to find a burglar in his bedroom. He managed to overcome the intruder and called the police who said that they didn't have any available units to deal with him.  They then asked him to take the intruders name and address and let him go.  And no, this isn't my attempt at humour.  The shopkeeper quickly thought on his feet and told the police that his wife was potentially going to kill or maim the burglar with a Samurai sword if he didn't get assistance and suddenly they found a unit to attach to the incident.

Meanwhile in London togs are routinely getting cautioned and on one occasion I know of arrested for using their cameras in public.  Apparently we're a terrorist threat!

I'm not making this up - honestly.

[Alan Mooney]

Ive heard similar stories in the past two. One that particularly frustrated me was,
We have surveillance cameras around the house, legally put up with appropriate planning permission etc..
Earlier in the year I woke in the morning to find that one of the cars had been keyed, all along the side a serious scratch, right to the metal, so we reviewed the footage from overnight and seen 2 guys walking up to the cars and doing the damage, so put the footage on dvd and went off to our local gardai. It was a perfectly clear shot of the culprits face, luckily I guess it was a full moon night, bless those winter skies.
The response from the donut eater behind the garda counter was that we couldn't do anything about it as the tape didn't show enough detail to actually see the key/screwdriver/whatever it was, cutting into the metal and so it was circumstantial evidence only.
Very very frustrating, this kind of thing breeds vigilanteism (sp?)

[Peachy]

Ive heard similar stories in the past two. One that particularly frustrated me was,
We have surveillance cameras around the house, legally put up with appropriate planning permission etc..
Earlier in the year I woke in the morning to find that one of the cars had been keyed, all along the side a serious scratch, right to the metal, so we reviewed the footage from overnight and seen 2 guys walking up to the cars and doing the damage, so put the footage on dvd and went off to our local gardai. It was a perfectly clear shot of the culprits face, luckily I guess it was a full moon night, bless those winter skies.
The response from the donut eater behind the garda counter was that we couldn't do anything about it as the tape didn't show enough detail to actually see the key/screwdriver/whatever it was, cutting into the metal and so it was circumstantial evidence only.
Very very frustrating, this kind of thing breeds vigilanteism (sp?)

It certainly does. We had our car aerial snapped off several times and the paint work keyed on a number of occasions. In the end my husband I slept on the floor in our front room for two weeks with the windows open so we could hear anyone walking past. My husband was up and down like a yoyo to the window but early one morning we caught the culprit. It was a neighbour of ours! As he walked past he keyed down the side then grabbed the aerial and snapped it off. My husband jumped up, chased him round the garages at the back of the house and 'spoke' to him. It didn't happen again. (Before you wonder, he simply threatened him, he didn't hit him, very restrained I think.) We have no idea why he started doing it. We hadn't fallen out with him at all. There are some odd people about.

[Kenneth Green]

Personally I would use them for organ donors for the respectable unfortunates, I was a prison officer who left the service with a stain on his record because I told a whining paedophile what I thought of his complaint to the authorities of his harsh treatment because I had searched his box of teabags looking for contraband during a cell search.

Ken

[Bill Allsopp]

I'm sorry to hear of your misfortune but in reality this is our misfortune and our fault.

Yes you (i.e. anyone reading this and me). This country is too preoccupied with the rights of the wrongdoers and this will not get better until us inmates take charge of the madhouse.

If we want to change the status quo I'm afraid we are going to have to have to get off our whinging arses , stand for parliament etc., and restore common sense.

[Tim Hoy]

If we want to change the status quo I'm afraid we are going to have to have to get off our whinging arses , stand for parliament etc., and restore common sense.

There's nothing common about it I can assure you Bill

[Bill Allsopp]

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There's nothing common about it I can assure you Bill
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So  true