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headfry
Far too distracted from work Joined: 15 Jul 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 359 |
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Topic: WARNING !! Posted: 13 Apr 05 at 9:50am |
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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Mark Jardine
Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 04 Location: Milford-on-Sea, United King Online Status: Offline Posts: 1028 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 13 Apr 05 at 11:33am |
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. |
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Scooby_simon
Really should get out more Joined: 02 Apr 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2415 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 13 Apr 05 at 5:30pm |
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.
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KnightMare
Really should get out more Joined: 08 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1682 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 13 Apr 05 at 5:34pm |
lets hope they are clever enought to know the difference
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hurricane
Really should get out more Joined: 15 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1047 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 13 Apr 05 at 7:19pm |
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 !
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lifes to short to sail slow boats!
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Garry
Really should get out more Joined: 18 Apr 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 536 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 13 Apr 05 at 7:56pm |
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). |
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Garry
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hurricane
Really should get out more Joined: 15 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1047 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 13 Apr 05 at 9:58pm |
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! |
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lifes to short to sail slow boats!
RIP Olympic Tornado 1976-2007 |
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redback
Really should get out more Joined: 16 Mar 04 Location: Tunbridge Wells Online Status: Offline Posts: 1502 |
Post Options Quote Reply 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.
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Mark Jardine
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 14 Apr 05 at 9:07am |
It seems pretty relevant to me!
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stuarthop
Really should get out more Joined: 22 Dec 04 Location: Nottingham Online Status: Offline Posts: 1040 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 14 Apr 05 at 6:11pm |
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
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