Stolen in Sussex BJ trailer...

[wolfhound]

Originally Posted by vjay48

RE the post by Wolfhound If you read my earlier post,the thieves dont have a different draw bar they use a ground down ball hitch. Very common practice by the toerags who steal caravans.

Yes I am aware of that little trick as well but the secondary drawbar will by-pass security balls locked into your draw bar, and the ground down ball is a dead give away to the police although they are usually covered.

[GORDON STREETER]

Originally Posted by Al Weyman

Old Irish guy over the road who is into shotgun hunting told me he rigged up the side doors of his van when he lived in Ireland out in the country with a device that took a blank shot gun cartridge and if the door was opened it fired off the cartridge waking the neighbourhood and frightening the *rap out of the thieves.

Al, that's an old gamekeeper trick that the local one used to use until not long ago with a trip wire to stop people nicking his pheasants, set at chest hight so the foxes didn't set it off.
By all accounts a hundred years ago they used live cartridges !!!
Mm-mm maybe a live cartridge might stop the trailer nicking

[Paul D]

Originally Posted by GORDON STREETER

Mm-mm maybe a live cartridge might stop the trailer nicking

I'll second that! Only problem is, in this bonkers a*se about face society we have these days, we all know who'd end up in trouble when some poor, innocent scumbag criminal got blasted by one...

Back in the seventies, my dad had a newsagents shop in Bootle (a particularly rough area of Liverpool - and that's saying something!), and it was forever being broken into by these lowlifes. My uncle who used to work there also, and was a bit of a lad, so to speak, decided he'd had enough - so he used to put live wires (mains voltage!) to all the internal door handles when he locked up every night! That would've given the b*stards a fright eh?

Upon seeing this one time, the local plod warned him that he could be sued if some scumbag got fried breaking in! I can't print what his response to that was, suffice to say it wasn't a response that contained a lot of sympathy for any potentiel thief!

Of course, the world made more sense back then, and if a scumbag 'fell down the stairs your honour... three times, whilst trying to escape', then that was that, and no more was said about it. These days, it would be one of us, the victims, in the dock, for doing no more than defending our own!

Apologies for going off on one... and off topic!