WARNING !!
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Topic: WARNING !!
Posted By: headfry
Subject: WARNING !!
Date Posted: 13 Apr 05 at 9:50am
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Have just read an email sent to my sailing club (Oxford Sailing Club) Last Friday night Littleton Sailing Club was targeted by thieves They raided the dinghy park lookng for alumimium it appears. Mast and booms etc. have been taken, covers have been slashed whilst looking for Aluminium. BE WARNED!! Is this the start of a very nasty trend? |
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Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 13 Apr 05 at 11:33am
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I had this in from David Newton Crum on the subject:
Keep on the lookout and report any suspicious activity to the police straight away. |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 13 Apr 05 at 5:30pm
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THere was an article in The Times a couple of days ago, the price of alumimium has gone skywards in the last few months - road signs are being stolen, so It was only time before the scum targeted us.
Good job my next boat will have carbon spars ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 13 Apr 05 at 5:34pm
lets hope they are clever enought to know the difference ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 13 Apr 05 at 7:19pm
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I saw that they steal anything that looks metal and then sort it out later on to be honest if you look at a dinghy park there are lots of good quality aluminium masts just sitting there ! ------------- lifes to short to sail slow boats! RIP Olympic Tornado 1976-2007 |
Posted By: Garry
Date Posted: 13 Apr 05 at 7:56pm
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Perhaps the advantage (from our perspective) is that anyone seen taking down masts and loading them into a lorry looks suspicious and even with wire cutters its not a quick operation. However, put a yellow jacket on and a highway maintenance sign in the back of your van and no one is likely to ask questions if you start removing roadsigns.
I think we're rapidly approaching a time when CCTV survelliance of the dinghy park will be the norm (at least the cost of the technology is becoming affordable). ------------- Garry Lark 2252, Contender 298 www.cuckoos.eclipse.co.uk |
Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 13 Apr 05 at 9:58pm
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its a sad day when we need that! saying that i will always remember standing on a beach at a very famous club and seeing a kid throw a breeze block at a boat anyway he regreted doing it when i caught up with him! ------------- lifes to short to sail slow boats! RIP Olympic Tornado 1976-2007 |
Posted By: redback
Date Posted: 14 Apr 05 at 8:55am
| I hope I'm not overstepping the boundary here and I'm very happy for Mark to delete this message if he thinks it's inappropriate. But I can organise CCTV and other security systems, if you need it. |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 14 Apr 05 at 9:07am
| It seems pretty relevant to me! |
Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 14 Apr 05 at 6:11pm
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at our club we have a cctv camera and regular checks from a security company and the lake warden as it is in the middle of an industrial estate which is very popular with motorcross riders and there used to be a travelers site by the club 2 ------------- |
Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 14 Apr 05 at 6:14pm
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Is anyone else going to print out the letter that Mark received and pin it up at their club this weekend? ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 14 Apr 05 at 8:47pm
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Already e-mailed my club - Mark, can you put this in the next Y+Y please to spread the word to those without the internet ? ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |