Branch Logger Stolen Urban SM70 no 994

[AHPP]

That's gutting. They must have known you were gone for a while?

[Billhook]

I think that this is another disturbing factor in both these burglaries.  They both must have known in the first one that I was away which means that it may have been someone I know involved, and the last one, how did they know the way in through a very secret (to most people) hidden door.  Again unlikely to find such a door just by rummaging around in the dark with a dim torch.  These things play on your mind and it upsets your general trust in anyone who comes onto the farm or woods.

It does not help our public "Git orrff my land" image but you can understand how someone like Tony Martin could be driven to extreme and illegal behaviour by this constant intrusion and nobody interested in doing anything about it because " you're insured and nobody was hurt" attitude. 

Meanwhile the insurance premiums go up as a double punishment.........

[AHPP]

It's not necessarily an acquaintance who done it but possibly someone who they've innocently remarked about something to. Or a postman, plumber, agronomist, vet, Tesco delivery, paperboy etc. It only takes one of them to carelessly and audibly blab down the pub that, "...so and so at X House Farm must be doing alright because he's got a nice car and he's taking the family to Majorca for three weeks tomorrow..." and it's out there.

I don't allow photography in my house for this reason. As innocuous as a friend posting a picture on instagram of us playing Scrabble seems, god knows what the keen observer might spot in the background.

 

I remain very sympathetic. Being done goes well beyond the stuff and money lost. I couldn't sleep with thousands of pounds of machinery sat around outside. My rusty van and a set of ladders in the garden is enough worry.

[Billhook]

Aaaaah, I remember the days when we left the house unlocked, no burglar alarms, keys left in cars and Tractors,and cars unlocked even in town.  Now I am the guilty one if I do any of that.     

I must be really a lot older than I thought!

[Rough Hewn]

Aaaaah, I remember the days when we left the house unlocked, no burglar alarms, keys left in cars and Tractors,and cars unlocked even in town.  Now I am the guilty one if I do any of that.     
I must be really a lot older than I thought!

It was really like that when I was a kid.
I miss it.