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@MrSparkle - The Woolpack, a couple of hundred yards away. Both sadly no more. I'm not sure there are any pubs left round there at all, so who knows where the local shoplifters peddle their wares? The demise of the flat roofed drinking emporium continues apace.
The Woolpack was actually a decent boozer and famously the only pub in Salford not paying protection money to Paul Massey. The landlord kept his security in-house and even the local gangsters kept a wary distance, though not the shoplifters, obviously. Thieving oportunities are greatly reduced nowadays at the 'Shopping City' as half the place is boarded up. They probably have to go into town.
All these cheap steaks and blowjobs floating about and I'm sat on my own eating a Pot Noodle. There's something not right there.
When I worked in a well known wine merchants 20+ years ago we had people walk in and pick up cases of champagne and walk out casually.
Pfft, my sister worked at a carpet/furniture place for a while and they would happily come in and try and get a full size dinner table (and chairs!) out of the front doors on occasion!
I know someone that stole a shed from b&q.
That reminds me of a time confronting two guys nicking a coffee table from the hotel I worked at. They just said 'Oh, sorry, mate' and put it back. Like it was just normal behaviour!
Some lads I know rolled up a pub carpet and nicked that. That was just for bants though obvs.
A letter we had from a mum with her 3 daughters who stole a £50 bracelet while we were blowing up her £15 balloon.
Even though we gave the cops cctv of her putting it in her pocket ,they wouldn’t take it any further as we couldn’t prove that she left the shop with it.
Luckily we had a cop that could be bothered to go to the school ,identify the lady from her daughters and suggest she gave us some money.
A very strange almost pally card.
Classic.
And you reminded me of this...
Back in 2019 my 93 year old Nan and Grandad were broken into while they were in the house. They lived in a ramshackle 1920s bungalow on the A40 just down from the M25 - very close to where a police station used to be before it was shut down. Bastards stole her handbag and the likes.
Poor buggers were pretty shaken up by it... especially as my old school engineer Grandad had made his own bars for the windows, but they just walked in through the door. I don't think he ever thought people would do such a thing.
Anyway the police came and pretty much said they couldn't do anything about it - unsurprisingly. Then a WPC came back later that day with flowers and chocolates.
Desperate people do desperate things. I've been told by family members that when kids were in tatty manky clothes they would be given free school uniforms their parents would then sell the new uniforms. Same with iPads, every so often the police will be sent to someone's house / cash converters to collect the school iPads that were trying to be flogged.
When I worked on the Forth Bridge it was common knowledge of who you went to when you wanted something.