Theft from van

[SDELEC]

most tesco car parks run a cctv scheme that captures your car and reg plate coming in and going out for their car park management,might be worth speaking to the manager..

yeah, have already sent an email but dont expect any joy.

 

[timo1]

Sorry to hear about your van its one of the worst things that can happen to any tradesman. In my experience (dealing with the people who do this for a living) the best way to protect yourself is to make life as difficult as possible to prevent an "easy" snatch. Something as simple as running a chain through the handles of tool boxes to make it impossible to drag off all at once will use up valuable time for the crook and they will scarper. If this is combined with an audio alarm (the louder the better) most casual thieves will chalk it up as a loss and move on. Parking your van under street lighting or near CCTV where available would also help as a deterrent. Recording serial numbers of tools and reporting to your local Police will assist with recovery, hundreds of tools are recovered each year and can never be reunited with owners as the owners cannot be traced- The usual suspects are regularly turned over but all too often tools have to be returned as they cannot be proved as stolen.

This site is pretty good I would definitely think about logging multimeter s and expensive hand tools with it immobilise - the home of the National Property Register and Recovery Service its a national register and most forces will check it as well as their individual property system if property is recovered or checked against a known criminal

 

[beats]

sorry about the lost of tools its just heart dropping when you open up the van door and your tools aint there and their's no sign of a break in! thats what happend to my transit aswell but they had some sort of master key and took the lot, so now opted for extra locks on all doors .

 

[m25maintenance]

purley,my mate had his van done over there too a few weeks ago. scum bags. lads i know its painfull but if ur gona leave ur van outa site get a hasp and staple on inside if side door and put lock on from the passengers side door. then beef up rear doors with them big locks u c out there. my van is sign written, sick animal transport. hu gona rob that

 

[m25maintenance]

o yea there is a famous tool market in vauxhall each sunday selling hot tools

 

[jaresquire]

Wonder if my laptop went that way, stolen when I was in Vauxhall area in the 5 mins I was away from the car?

 

[Marvo]

Sorry to hear about you losing your tools. I've spent decades amassing my tools I'm heartbroken if I lose a single screwdriver I can't imagine the feeling if I was to lose all my tools. I think stealing a guys tools is about as low as you can get. I hope against all odds you get them back.

 

[millwall ken]

Wonder if my laptop went that way, stolen when I was in Vauxhall area in the 5 mins I was away from the car?

That must have been done by crack heads then! There is no way a professional tea leaf would of nicked a laptop from a car in Vauxhall; they'd be to worried that it was a Peeler 'bait car.'

 

[MNR]

Dads van got done cold chisel under door lock only took his jacket and phone. This is the best bit done on clapham high street opposite sainsberrys middle of the afternoon, there are chancers about.

 

[pennywise]

Remember there is a weak spot on old shape Sprinters and Vitos ..... My old boss got done that way, his van was so messy they didn't manage to get anything lol. We came out a job once went to drive off heard a scrapping sound got out and found the spare tire cage dragging along the floor behind us bloody staines!

 

[millwall ken]

Dads van got done cold chisel under door lock only took his jacket and phone. This is the best bit done on clapham high street opposite sainsberrys middle of the afternoon, there are chancers about.

Would anyone on this dear here forum accuse me of being a fascist; if I was to suggest that any scroat who nicks a man's tools should be burned at the stake and their ashes ****** on? I've still got an untouched (by my hand) 110v DeWalt multi-speed drill in the cupboard under the stairs; that my missus - in all good faith (in her defence) bought me from a boot fair in Orpington. She couldn't understand why i was so annoyed at her when she gave it to me. She thought that she was doing me a favour; by buying (to me, anyway) a stolen drill. Then again, this is the same 'educated' woman, who thought that us Sparkies just walk around all day with a terminal driver in our pockets. Doing a little bit of this, and a little bit of that. It was like trying to explain the off-side rule to her; when I asked her, how, she imagined the cables got into the wall in the first place!!!
Oh and for the critics out there, waiting to slate me for still having the drill; I phoned the old bill and reported it (YES, I swear to God, I did) and they wasn't interested, and thought that I was some sort of bloody crank...

 

[jaresquire]

I once made few holes at home installing intruder alarm, easily filled - Mrs never lets it drop, even though a family friend fitted our new front door and drilled the bolts into the front room!

 

[millwall ken]

I once made few holes at home installing intruder alarm, easily filled - Mrs never lets it drop, even though a family friend fitted our new front door and drilled the bolts into the front room!

Surprise surprise NOT... They spend all day, every day nagging us to do all these little jobs around the house, then moan when it's not up to scratch!!! My missus once (well, last summer actually) had the right hump with me because I wouldn't attempt to knock down the supporting wall between the front room and the kitchen/dining room. I **** you not boys, she said to me 'you work on a building site, don't you? So you must know how to do it.' Needless to say fellas, the men in white coats were called!