Requiring a pin on delivery seems to be a decent way of stopping them leaving parcels unattended, ive had a few decent valued items recently delivered via DPD and amazon requiring it. Then yesterday the yodel guy was running down the street after dumping 2 cases of wine on my door.
The Great British Theft Epidemic
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Camera shop locks products in metal CAGE amid shoplifting epidemic
Chiswick Camera Centre has removed all of its stock from its windows over safety concerns, replacing it with pictures of the products instead.www.dailymail.co.uk
Metal cages won't stop them. If they want to be in they will just snip / grind the grid off.
Camera shop locks products in metal CAGE amid shoplifting epidemic
Chiswick Camera Centre has removed all of its stock from its windows over safety concerns, replacing it with pictures of the products instead.
I have been to off licences in an insalubrious Scottish town where all the stock is behind cages and you need to request the staff get it for you. This was fifteen years ago too.
@Scam As to having a box of wine left on the step for most of the day, surely this is carelessness and bad planning on your part.
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It'll come to a point where shops will become like Argos.
Order and pay then wait till someone brings it to the counter
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Costco are moving to digital tills for their food. You order at a pay point then wait for food to come out and they call your number to collect.
Are car manufacturers deliberately making cars easy to nick so they sell more ?
A Rolls Royce at nearly half a million quid should be impossible to steal unless you have the key. It's pathetic.
Maybe all cars should be fitted with unremovable trackers as standard.
A Rolls Royce at nearly half a million quid should be impossible to steal unless you have the key. It's pathetic.
Maybe all cars should be fitted with unremovable trackers as standard.
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That would be a solution until the people stealing find a way to remove them.
The problem with trackers, is they typically need a power source no? So they can only be so small to accommodate a small battery? I'm not familiar with them really. Manufacturers could definitely build things into the loom or deep into the car if they truly wanted to address the issue but:
a) Criminals will eventually find it and it will become known that manufacturer places the tracker in location X on car Y etc.
b) They can cut power to the car and strip for parts if it requires power
c) They can place the car in a shipping container where I assume signal is not great and just continue to ship abroad to order
A custom tracker install (bespoke) will always be better, and additional hidden start procedures (bespoke).
Proximity based keyless entry is somewhat flawed. They should contain at least accelerometers in the keys to know they are on the move and about to be potentially used for real. All cars should feature a method to do overnight or long unattended disablement of keyless entry. Again, my Clio does this. I dead lock it over night every night, which means the keyfob has to be pressed physically to unlock the car. Still vulnerable to attack if the trigger signal is captured and replayed but makes it much harder than simple amplification of keyless signal.
Battery operated tools have been a boon to criminals. The amount of kids I've seen hopping off the back of a bike, whips out a Ryobi grinder, breaks the chain off an expensive mountain bike and they're away in 30 seconds.
They do, but they don't need much. I bought one for my car, it lasts about a month between charges.
I don't see why it can't be hard wired into the cars electronics to use the car battery.
But regardless of that, the massive gaping holes in fobless systems just needs addressing.
A lot of thefts are simply opportunistic. If things weren't soo easy to nick, they wouldn't be.
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When something is designed and created nobody sees the other side of things until it's too late.
Pros and cons to everything.
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Do you really want the car back after it's been abused by scumbags? I guess if it's something rare then you might.
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Did they come back for seconds
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Moment thieves brazenly steal restaurant's £400 Nutcracker display
Footage shows the brazen pair driving up to the Cafe Nucleus in Rainham, Kent, before fleeing with the 40kg statue - which had been named after a member of staff - on a motorbike.
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I used to fit trackers when I worked at a Lexus dealers and they’re ridiculously easy to find and remove.
If you’re an accredited fitter you can access their website that has the locations/instructions to fit them and if you’re a wrong-un pass that info onto the scumbags who nick the cars.
Also, the aerials can only go in certain locations, so it’s easy to trace the wire back to the unit.
It is going to take a while to repair our public services, but getting rid of the party who are idealogical committed to destroying them will be a turning point.
Everyone out for themselves is the very essence of Thatcherite conservatism. What happens when you destroy social cohesion and dismantle the state? Chickens, roosts etc.
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A high security Argos where the collection counter is a number of armoured bank teller windows with much larger drawers underneath.
I can see a time when all your purchases are made online and you drive your vehicle into a secure bay and have to show ID before your goods appear from behind an armoured door for you take them. Once loaded, you press a button to open the exit door and drive off.