Thieving Scumbags!!!

SpeedFreak · 1 Mar 2008 at 16:17

My brother in law woke up today to find his pair of ornamental Chinese lions stolen from the front of his house. They were a gift from his late grandfather so he is pretty gutted.
They were secured with cement (by me) and were firmly fixed in place, but they got them anyhow. I guess the wind last night didn't help in hearing the thieves. He was recently offered £1300 for them (which he refused). They were only about a foot tall, bust were marble and actually pretty nice. People will nick absolutely anything nowadays :rolleyes:

Police have been alerted, but they are probably adorning some unscrupulous person's doorstep now.

ChoÞÞer · 1 Mar 2008 at 16:20

i borrowed my mates bike, parked it up locked it and that... the scumbags couldnt get the whole bike, so they smashed everythink up on it and took everythink off it, just left the frame! cops cant do nout about it " so they say "

ElectroBlaster · 1 Mar 2008 at 16:37

Your right in saying people will steal anything. Somebody stole our front door mat... I dont understand why somebody would take such a thing but they still took it lol.

Abz · 1 Mar 2008 at 16:38

Probebly the person your brother in law refused to sell em to, robbed em

Sp!ke · 1 Mar 2008 at 17:44

Diddys parked up locally anywhere?

Soulja · 1 Mar 2008 at 17:50

If i had something worth that much i know the last place i'd put it is in the front garden,secured or not.

allllec · 1 Mar 2008 at 17:57

Every car down my road with a screw on aerial got their aerials stolen.

Thankfully i know the local scum well enough to have recovered them ALL.

Still got a bunch downstairs (weirdly some of my neighbours didnt trust me when i knocked on their door offering them their aeirals back. not like i was asking for money?)

Abz · 1 Mar 2008 at 18:01

allllec said:
Every car down my road with a screw on aerial got their aerials stolen.

Thankfully i know the local scum well enough to have recovered them ALL.

Still got a bunch downstairs (weirdly some of my neighbours didnt trust me when i knocked on their door offering them their aeirals back. not like i was asking for money?)

lol

pitchfork · 1 Mar 2008 at 18:22

Trust me mate, garden ornaments are commonplace nicking, have been for years.
We used to always go gnome hunting at partys, get umbrellas, hanging baskets, anything, one day we found a big plastic buddah, we took it back to the party and all signed it. We also had a little stone statue we tore off a chain, purely because who chains up a statue??? Named it the god of partys and took it to loads of partys til someone else nicked it.

Ahh to be a little ******* again. I mean this is probably about 10 years ago we were doing this kind of stuff, it's not about wanting it, it's about nicking something random.

Begbie · 1 Mar 2008 at 18:46

pitchfork said:
Trust me mate, garden ornaments are commonplace nicking, have been for years.
We used to always go gnome hunting at partys, get umbrellas, hanging baskets, anything, one day we found a big plastic buddah, we took it back to the party and all signed it. We also had a little stone statue we tore off a chain, purely because who chains up a statue??? Named it the god of partys and took it to loads of partys til someone else nicked it.

Ahh to be a little ******* again. I mean this is probably about 10 years ago we were doing this kind of stuff, it's not about wanting it, it's about nicking something random.

Shocking, who does this kind if thing when there young. :rolleyes:

But whoever stole the OPs ones didn't do that for a laugh no way would drunk kids fart about taking them if they were cemented in.

Pinter75 · 1 Mar 2008 at 18:48

pitchfork said:
Trust me mate, garden ornaments are commonplace nicking, have been for years.
We used to always go gnome hunting at partys, get umbrellas, hanging baskets, anything, one day we found a big plastic buddah, we took it back to the party and all signed it. We also had a little stone statue we tore off a chain, purely because who chains up a statue??? Named it the god of partys and took it to loads of partys til someone else nicked it.

Ahh to be a little ******* again. I mean this is probably about 10 years ago we were doing this kind of stuff, it's not about wanting it, it's about nicking something random.

Lets hope karma plays it's part.

Azagoth · 1 Mar 2008 at 18:50

pitchfork said:
Trust me mate, garden ornaments are commonplace nicking, have been for years.
We used to always go gnome hunting at partys, get umbrellas, hanging baskets, anything, one day we found a big plastic buddah, we took it back to the party and all signed it. We also had a little stone statue we tore off a chain, purely because who chains up a statue??? Named it the god of partys and took it to loads of partys til someone else nicked it.

Ahh to be a little ******* again. I mean this is probably about 10 years ago we were doing this kind of stuff, it's not about wanting it, it's about nicking something random.

In my opinion, it's thieving cretins like you and your ***** brethren who should be used as landfill!

doofer · 1 Mar 2008 at 18:57

I know a girl who had a huge ornamental wooden Wishing Well stolen off her front lawn and it was returned a few months later with a letter apologising profusely and saying how guilty they had felt for stealing it.

meghatronic · 1 Mar 2008 at 19:37

pitchfork said:
Trust me mate, garden ornaments are commonplace nicking, have been for years.
We used to always go gnome hunting at partys, get umbrellas, hanging baskets, anything, one day we found a big plastic buddah, we took it back to the party and all signed it. We also had a little stone statue we tore off a chain, purely because who chains up a statue??? Named it the god of partys and took it to loads of partys til someone else nicked it.

Ahh to be a little ******* again. I mean this is probably about 10 years ago we were doing this kind of stuff, it's not about wanting it, it's about nicking something random.

you absolute tool

Tefal · 1 Mar 2008 at 19:38

SpeedFreak said:
People will nick absolutely anything nowadays

Does something worth £1.3k count as just anything?

Vonhelmet · 1 Mar 2008 at 19:41

We used to live next door to people who had their hanging baskets nicked.

Who nicks hanging baskets, and why? ***** idiots.

Hequn · 1 Mar 2008 at 19:42

someone stole our wheelie bin last year :confused:

Wicksta · 1 Mar 2008 at 19:55

pitchfork said:
Trust me mate, garden ornaments are commonplace nicking, have been for years.
We used to always go gnome hunting at partys, get umbrellas, hanging baskets, anything, one day we found a big plastic buddah, we took it back to the party and all signed it. We also had a little stone statue we tore off a chain, purely because who chains up a statue??? Named it the god of partys and took it to loads of partys til someone else nicked it.

Ahh to be a little ******* again. I mean this is probably about 10 years ago we were doing this kind of stuff, it's not about wanting it, it's about nicking something random.

Hold on, don't say that!! Britain was brilliant 10 years ago and nothing like this ever happened, it's only recently that kids have done stuff like that!

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Muffin` · 1 Mar 2008 at 20:02

Like has been said theiving garden objects is not a new thing, some serious money in it

Cr0fty · 1 Mar 2008 at 20:10

Wicksta said:
Hold on, don't say that!! Britain was brilliant 10 years ago and nothing like this ever happened, it's only recently that kids have done stuff like that!

</sarcasm mode>

Nope. I blame kids THESE days. Back in our day kids never done anything wrong. Atleast I didn't.

Or you could just blame the media for bringing things to our attention.

Seriously though, who would go through the trouble of getting something that's set in cement out of ground?!