Got any funny 'Tools being nicked' stories?

[Phil]

Our local Asda had just got a new range of 42" plasmas in stock when they were a grand or so. this guy comes in to nick one, starts unpacking it on the shop floor as casual as anything. the lad stocking the shelves asks if he wants him to lift it into the car with him. so not only did he have it away but got the shops staff to help him do it. P45`s please

 

[Kamikaze]

Every little bit helps!

 

[jar]

Also heard the alarm man at the bank with a flight case style tool box. As he leaves the secure area behind the counter he is called back to sign his forms leaves toolbox and closes door scumbag legs it with his tools thinking its a case of cash.

 

[jar]

Not quite on the same subject but amusing. Recently worked in pown shop cashachequie type of shop. (this is on u tube) Unhappy costomer starts to kick off big style. Mad person grabs chair and hits safety glass, service person having been reasured by manufacturer that it can withstand shotgun blast stands his ground and hits panic alarm. Costomer then grabs fire ext and is still hammering at glass when the police arive to lift him. Good old pilkington.

 

[Knobhead]

Another good works one.

We “lost” a mini digger, nothing unusual in that as about a dozen people had keys for it. So it would be parked up and somebody would just take it to another part of the works and abandon it when they’d finished.

Anyway after a lot of man hours spent looking for it, we finally get a phone call from the local pub. Will you shift this bloody thing it’s blocking the car park up! The landlord charged the company the £50 wheel clamp fee even though he couldn’t get a clamp on it.

Apparently our accountant was near wetting him self as he handed the cheque over

 

[mogga]

I was at a buliders yard police everywhere one afternoon Asked guy what happened
" this guy comes in this morning as soon as we opened up@7 he had work t shirt on n order for a heap of Velux windows n said that he had just started with the firm n wanted to make a good impression by being on the ball n geting stuff to site for the guys to keep busy So loaded up with 20 of said windows and associated stuff off he went "
It wasnt till later after guy discovered van had been nicked and police put 3 n 3 together that the van was found minus 20 velux windows
proof if you hav ethe balls n confidence to do it you can get away with most stuff

 

[Paul.M]

When I was a teenager helping my mum home with the weekly shopping we got stopped by a policeman out of breath from running, he asked "have you seen a police car driving around here?" My reply was yes, there are about a dozen flying around with the lights on! "No, have you seen one being driven not by a policeman?"

The local lads (my school mates) have only gone and nicked a cop car because the driver left the keys in it! Not only that but it was a quick response armed police car with guns and amo in the boot! The silly pricks dumped it in the residents car park and set it on fire. You've never seen so many coppers evacuate local houses so fast incase the bullets brook through amo box and hit someone. Funny at the time but now when I think about it bloody stupid.

 

[nickblake]

i was working on a building site when a labourer looked at my printer and asked about it so showing him what it does and printed off a label with his name on it and stuck it on his hard hat , after a panad break (tea break to most of you ) the printer had gone , being annoyed as you would , the labourer came into the unit i was working in i told him it had disapeared , but i was about to call the police to check the tracking unit as all my tools had been fitted with micro chip trackers and it wouldnt be long before the police arrived and started looking for it ,by coincidence a police car drove onto the site ,they had called round to warn us there were some undesirables in the area and for us to keep a watch on the plant tools, very funny thing happeded then i went for a Pee and it re appeared how strange lol , never lost a tool again on that site