Car stolen.

Mikeyboy

Mikeyboy

Mikeyboy

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Yup, my poor Mk3 Fiesta has been stolen from right outside my flat sometime this evening.

Pretty gutted to be honest, sure, it was only a 1.1l gutless, poverty spec car but it was in pretty tidy condition, had just hit 100k miles and was a reliable runabout.

I've reported it to the police but it's probably sitting somewhere on fire right now. I'll cancel my insurance tomorrow, as the £30 worth of petrol in the tank was worth more than the car.

Oh well, time to start looking for a replacement I suppose.

*******. :rolleyes:
 
Probably is, but it's just not worth losing my NCB over to claim it. It cost me nothing anyway.

Had a call from the police earlier saying they've found the car, took a walk down to find it as it was only a 20 minute walk away but it was gone. Looks like they dumped it and then went back and took it again.
 
Mikeyboy said:
Probably is, but it's just not worth losing my NCB over to claim it. It cost me nothing anyway.

Had a call from the police earlier saying they've found the car, took a walk down to find it as it was only a 20 minute walk away but it was gone. Looks like they dumped it and then went back and took it again.
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Why didn't the Police secure it?

Useless sods :rolleyes:
 
Tom|Nbk said:
Why didn't the Police secure it?

Useless sods :rolleyes:
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Well they offered me a recovery service thing where they wait by the vehicle whilst it is removed and have it checked for finger prints etc, which would have cost me about £100 plus £12 a day storage.

Just had another phone call, apparently it's in a skip in an alleyway in the same road as reported last night. Should be fun trying to get that out. :o
 
I can only presume it's in a skip that's had the side dropped to allow wheelbarrows etc to dump stuff in to them?

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Like that.
 
frakker said:
What an absolute scam, it's stuff like this that really annoys me about this country. What's next? Charging the victims of mugging to retrieve their wallets?
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If you claim on insurance (as the vast majority do), the insurers pick up the costs, just as they do with ambulances etc for various other things.

The police will take it free of charge if they think there's something of evidential value likely to be found (they did with our car that got stolen). The counter argument is should the police be providing a 'free' recovery service that everyone else has to pay for via tax?
 
Dolph said:
The police will take it free of charge if they think there's something of evidential value likely to be found (they did with our car that got stolen). The counter argument is should the police be providing a 'free' recovery service that everyone else has to pay for via tax?
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OTOH this is another classic case where an innocent and law abiding member of the public is out of pocket due to mindless scum. If the car was unregistered/untaxed and had been abandoned by a scrote, they would pay nothing...
 
Dolph said:
The police will take it free of charge if they think there's something of evidential value likely to be found (they did with our car that got stolen). The counter argument is should the police be providing a 'free' recovery service that everyone else has to pay for via tax?
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If the car has been taken as a result of a criminal act affecting an innocent member of the public, yes they should.

And yes I would be happy to pay additional tax to enable this to happen. Innocent victims of crime should not have to pay the police a penny. The only people paying money to the police should be the criminals once they are charged.
 
Dogbreath said:
OTOH this is another classic case where an innocent and law abiding member of the public is out of pocket due to mindless scum. If the car was unregistered/untaxed and had been abandoned by a scrote, they would pay nothing...
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Also true. The real problem is that very poor cleanup rate. In a free society it's accepted that there is freedom to commit crimes, but consequences to doing so. Because our police have an awful cleanup rate, that balance of consequence has broken down. The solution to that is not that we should pay (through taxes) the costs incurred. That's what insurance is for. The solution is to actually address the cleanup rate for car crime.
 
without trying to diss the police force here....

but arent they supposed to look for fingerprints etc anyway? i.e. in order to find out who nicked it!? i know they have a lot of cases etc but by locking up the people doing maybe they would save themselves a lot of further call outs.

i.e. get to the root of the problem, not charging the public for sorting out the result.

this kind of thing really annoys me. politics.
 
ineed2upgrade said:
if you tell the police that the people who stole the car would have been speeding,they will then try and catch then because catching speeding motorists is a far more wothwhile crime:mad:
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Not really, they only go after speeders because it's easy. The problem is the targets culture. It's easier for a police officer to sit in a van next to a clear straight road with a camera and nick hundreds of people then it is for them to follow up a crime like this.
 
Set it on fire by putting petrol soaked cloth into the hole, I've always wanted to do this because of the movies :p
 
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