[Closed] People really will steal anything

Maybe they are going to make an uber-sledge out of it.

I think some people will steal anything they think they can sell. Seems to be a bit of a demand for salt lately for some reason. At 6 grams per day, 2 metric tonnes should last for ages. Personally, I'm trying to cut back.

I think it was this guy. He has a strange obsession with Scottish grit boxes imo:
[url] http://www.cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/scotland-grit-boxes/ [/url]

some ****in fat chav just tried to nick our Abel and Cole box, I shouted "oi fat cow, its just vegetables"

tuesday night the mrs left her car a few miles away and ran home.
i took a ride to get it a bit later when all the carnage had passed only to find some fek had robbed some bits and bobs of it. 😕

Blimy you would think a 'fat chav' would stay well clear of vegetables!

You need a sign like they have on the back of vans:
"No pies or pastry-based products are stored in this box".

My sister told me this morning that as she was driving past, she saw a couple of geezers with a truck shovelling the contents of the git bin at the top of her road into bags. She asked them what they thought they where doing, and they mumbled something about wanting to get a horse box out of their drive (my sister lives in a posh area) She informed them the grit was their for [i]all[/i] the residents to use, and that if they were still there when she went past later, she would call the police. A short while later she drove past again and they were gone - and most of the grit apparently.

So yeah, grit theft is obviously widespread, and apparently transverses all social classes - a 'classless crime', it would appear.

Most people leave the grit in the bins and don't bother using it despite it being there for everyone to use. If someone wants to use it, let them, unless they own a 100 yard long drive and want to take it all to do their drive.

Round my old estate the bins would remain full despite all the roads being iced over, no-one cared, no-one crashed and no-one moaned. Now it seems grit is at a premium and the world has become helpless without it. Farcical.

Now it seems grit is at a premium and the world has become helpless without it. Farcical.

I guess it depends where you live. I live on a very steep hill, and the grit in the grit bin in my road has always been used. However when I went down to it with a bucket on tuesday evening, it was utterly empty. Needless to say, there was not a single grain of grit on the road.

Yep. I don't really mind folk "stealing" grit if they are genuinely using it to get their own drives clear. It's public grit and not really meant for private land, but I think it's fair enough if the amounts are small.

But apparently some folk are just nicking van loads of the stuff and selling it (probably back to the council). That's a bit off.

we left an knackered old BMX outside my friends house as an experiment, two completely flat tyres, no chain, bent frame, intermittently fixed saddle, no brakes, you get the idea... ...it lasted 2.5hrs on a side road in Swindon!

Needless to say, there was not a single grain of grit on the road.

Well we either have organised grit-theft and resale to the councils, or people are using it legitimately but not next to the grit bins themselves, but there isn't enough of it. I'm not sure which is more likely.

FWIW I'm not against grit use, I'm just amazed by how people react when there's no available and they have to take care when driving.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rock-Salt-Grit_W0QQitemZ120511784816QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_3?hash=item1c0f0fe770

25kg bag currently fetching £13 😉

it lasted 2.5hrs on a side road in Swindon

Round my way it is common to leave scrap metal out on the pavement so that passing pikeys can help themselves to it, it doesn't usually last much more than 24 hours. No one minds, it helps everybody out, and the stuff gets recycled.

Pikey trucks will also stop at skips and take any scrap metal. Again no one minds as it makes more room in the skips, reduce costs, and the stuff will be recycled.

I reckon that the knackered old BMX might have been picked up by a passing pikey truck/van.

Pikey trucks will also stop at skips and take any scrap metal. Again no one minds as it makes more room in the skips, reduce costs, and the stuff will be recycled.

The skip firms will mind, many of them sort the rubbish that arrives and get paid for the scrap they collect, it's part of what makes their service profitable for them. I hate theiving sods, regardless of how convenient it is in some cases.

Well we either have organised grit-theft and resale to the councils, or people are using it legitimately

Since there was none on the road, I had assume that the council had not bothered filling it up this winter.

I think Graham'S suggestion that people are selling it back to the council is absurd - I was reckoning that he was probably joking.

And yeah, the stuff can be really quite useful - without grit my road can be impassable, without 4 wheel drive.

I hate theiving sods, regardless of how convenient it is in some cases.

They're not thieving from skip firms though. And they are saving the skip hirers money. It's up to the skip hirers what they put in their skips, and if they are happy for pikeys to help themselves, then it's got **** all to do with the skip firms.

They are indirectly theiving from the skip firms.

Last time I looked into renting a skip I paid a flat fee to have a skip. The firm took the skip and emptied it, they told me they recycled what they could, getting cash back from it (copper pipes from boiler-refits etc) - knowing a certain percentage of their intake would be recyclable. If theiving pikeys go around pinching it all the price of skip hire goes up as they have less recyclable material coming their way. They're not saving the skip hirer any money in any way, you don't pay for the weight of the waste binned?

MrNutt - Premier Member

we left an knackered old BMX outside my friends house as an experiment, two completely flat tyres, no chain, bent frame, intermittently fixed saddle, no brakes, you get the idea... ...it lasted 2.5hrs on a side road in Swindon!

i left my GF's nicely finished Sanderson outside the post office for 30 mins whilst she was inside sorting out a parcel. no locks on it and i was sat on the other side of the main road on my bike. not a single person gave it a snidey look.

this was in germany. i wouldn't expect the same result in a similar sized town in the UK.

you should have booby trapped the bike and filmed it. much like this guy (but with louder or more harmful boobies):

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My bro's father-in-law had a snowman stolen from his garden.

the price of skip hire goes up

I thought I would get the old "[i]hard done skip firms will have to put up the cost of skips just so that they can make a measly profit[/i]" argument 🙂

The fact is, that pikey's can actually help people by maybe making it not necessary to hire a skip in the first place.

If for instance, you are humming and harring about whether to get a skip because you've also got to get rid of that old gas cooker, but a pikey offers to take it for you, then you might be able to manage with the rest of the stuff without going through all the bother of hiring a skip.

Or of course, it might mean that you only need 5 skip changes instead 6.

All this will mean less custom for the skip firms, so less profit for them, so higher charges for their customers.

Maybe we should all hire skips on a regular basis [i]whether we need them or not[/i] - just so that the skip companies can make a profit and keep costs down. Or, we could save ourselves a few bob, and let a pikey make a few bob too.

pikey's

can we stop using inflamatory language and names that confer a particular expectation in behavior and lifestyle

They are "honest travelling folk" who all pay taxes and make a masive contribution to the UK economy and locally where they choose to be "non-travelling"

I thought skip-hire companies were all run by 'people whose houses have wheels' anyway.....

The problem with unlicensed waste disposal types is that the less valuable waste tends to end up in some field entrance on the edge of town.

can we stop using inflammatory language and names

Is it ? Well I guess it depends whether you think being called a pikey is an insult - personally I don't. A little while back someone on a site asked me if I was a pikey as I apparently, I look like I might be a member of a well known local (and completely law-abiding) pikey family. I didn't feel in the least bit offended although I was a little amused, as no one had ever said that I resemble a pikey before. I've also had couple of work mates who were gypsy but never had a problem with the term pikey.

Still, I forget that some people consider gypsies/travellers to be the lowest form of life, so yeah, I can see how it would seen as an insult. Not sure what term I should be using though, as 'gypsy' or 'traveller' didn't seem right in this particular context 😕

i got a banning on the old forum for stating that pikies should be burnt.....

pikey's

can we stop using inflamatory language and names that confer a particular expectation in behavior and lifestyle

Can we also learn how to use apostrophes correctly ?

Can we also learn how to use apostrophes correctly ?

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http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe for the full thing.

Yeah yeah I know.......I'm far too liberal with my use of apostrophe's and comma's, I throw them about all over the place, with complete disregard to, whether or not, they're actually necessary.

That's the problem, when you don't pay for thing's. People tend to, forget their true value..........which makes think, I'm going to have to, reconsider all this "socialism" malarkey 😐

"erm, would it not be pertinent to always put our replies within quotation marks as when posting we are, in effect, quoting ourselves?"

mmm ... going back to the original post (not getting diverted by comma thingies!) ...

Just been out and checked and all the grit from the bins on the currently impassable road to our house has been stolen. I used some the other day to grit the road to get access for us and out neighbours (one of whom was trying to get home from hospital having broken her wrist slipping on the icy road). There was still about 3 quarters left, and now it's all been stolen. I saw some people in a 4x4 taking some yesterday. Frankly, I'm appalled - to actually get to the grit bins you either need to be either (a) fit enough to walk a mile up a steep and icy / snow covered mountain road, or (b) drive a 4x4 with snow chains. If you're either of these you don't need to grit as much as the people living up here on the mountainside do. There is an elderly couple down the field from me that have been house-bound now for nearly 3 weeks (we're all helping to bring them food etc), a local district nurse lives up and needs to get out to see patients, and the farmer needs to be able to feed his pregnant sheep. It might appear that it's not used that often, but those of us who live up here know to ration it as there isn't enough to be gritting the road every day. But now it's gone, we completed f*cked cos there's no way the council could get up here to restock the bins.

There's so much good that goes on in these circumstances with people helping each other out, that it's pretty poor that selfish gets don't think of the implications of the actions, or whether other, more vulnerable people's needs might be more important than theirs.

its inexcusable.