The Great British Theft Epidemic

mid_gen said:
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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Yes but the tax burden on the everyman is already ridiculously high and people have been indoctrinated into thinking that any spending must come from increased taxation and reductions elsewhere. Whilst America decided that the best way to give people a better quality of life was to encourage business and growth, we have been battening down the hatches and trying to scrimp and save.

We need the next government to start investing in infrastructure and encouraging business and innovation. We need investment in schools and early intervention along with a much better staffed police. Unfortunately the Tories will probably have a field day when Labour get into power and in 4 years we will have another Tory government.
 
Hagar said:
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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Must be a thing all the Scots in my hometown brought with them, I thought that's how all off licences were until I moved to uni and that was 20ish years ago :o
 
jaybee said:
- "Porch Pirates" are becoming a real problem now with parcel theft from houses. It seems to have become the norm now since COVID lockdowns for couriers to just dump parcels anywhere in the vicinity of the property and so long as they took a picture, it's "delivered".
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About a month ago I spoke to one on my doorstep asking if they could put it in the blue bin behind my locked gate which they can access very easily but he refused to drop it in the bin.
He said he could leave it on the step or take it away but not put it in the bin (everybody else drops it in the bin).
I asked if he could put it up against my front brick wall because it would be out of sight of people walking past but he insisted front doorstep or nothing.
What a *****.
 
When customers return something which is boxed. We have been told to if the box looks it’s been opened to check the contents.

As in another store, someone put in a couple of Beano annuals in an iPad box! The customer still got £650.

Now any refunds above £100 (£50 for those bought from a store outside county) need manager’s approval.
 
Courier delivery photos used to be taken a couple of metres from parcel so could see more of the street.

Now it’s 20cm.

Get people on local FB groups ‘does anyone recognise this front door’? Which is a standard white uPVC door.

Whereas on photos taken further away you saw features such as distinctive plant pots, a bit of the neighbours car etc
 
jaybee said:
All cars should feature a method to do overnight or long unattended disablement of keyless entry.
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I don't know why companies haven't done this already. It is a simple solution.

Let people set a custom time to disable keyless entry for the vehicle or have a time hardcoded into the car. Between 23:00 and 06:00 Keyless entry is disabled. Most cars have GPS now so you can sync the clock to the current time zone. If you’re so desperate to leave your house at 03:30 in the morning I’m sure you can find the button on the key fob.
 
jaybee said:
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.
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Ford started doing this about 4 years ago. After non-movement of the key for a certain time (few mins 40 seconds, see below edit), the key stops transmitting and only retransmits once the key moves so this effectively stops the keyless hack from being used. Of course, if you leave the keys in a place where a thief can reach them with a stick/wire etc and nudge it off a shelf etc, it will re-enable but the owner can prevent that by placing it away from the door.

EDIT - Some info here - https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/ma...uces-new-keyfob-to-prevent-relay-attack-theft

It says Focus/Fiesta but this was back in 2019 so it will be the same for the rest of the range now as well I'd imagine
 
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Yeah the current issue with the Land Rovers (not sure what year) is to do with the car projecting a signal constantly looking for the key, unless I misunderstood. The fix they implement is to stop it doing this after X seconds. But then....how does keyless work at all actually. Meh. Dunno.
 
Been in American Golf and they have had issues with theft, guy hitting across the lothian Region stores. And also had issues in my local Aberdeen AG.
 
Chuk_Chuk said:
I don't know why companies haven't done this already. It is a simple solution.

Let people set a custom time to disable keyless entry for the vehicle or have a time hardcoded into the car. Between 23:00 and 06:00 Keyless entry is disabled. Most cars have GPS now so you can sync the clock to the current time zone. If you’re so desperate to leave your house at 03:30 in the morning I’m sure you can find the button on the key fob.
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3:30am leaving home means one thing - holiday!
 
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