What will the scumbags think of next?

[JohnD]

I seen two reports today of an innovative theft idea.

Some spots a trailer carrying something worthwhile.  Surreptitiously they apply the handbrake, AND tape a mobile phone underneath.

The plan is that the brakes will.burn out, and the trailer will be left in a layby/ car park while the owner seeks help/ new brake shoes.  Meanwhile the scumbags know where the trailer is from the tapef-on mobile, arrive with a tow vehicle and are gone with the trailer in minutes, the gods know where.

If only such ingenuity were applied to better purposes!

John

[SpitfireBGT]

Technology has made it easier to be a crook. In the old days here in the USA we just pulled a gun and took your stuff.

Hey wait we still do that.........

 

 

[mpbarrett]

Is this what happened at a recent UK classic race meeting? Think I saw something on FB about it.

 

[Escadrille Ecosse]

Mind you. Having identifed said scumbag activity you could have a bit of fun with it.

[JohnD]

What's in your mind, Colin?    Take the mobile and stick to their vehicle?     That would present a few difficulties, not least of being done over!

Edited May 23, 2023 by JohnD

[Escadrille Ecosse]

1 hour ago, JohnD said:

What's in your mind, Colin?    Take the mobile and stick to their vehicle?     That would present a few difficulties, not least of being done over!

Nah. Take or have someone take it to a place that is very inconvenient to get to. So if I'd been to an event at Castle Combe then it would be leaving it in a layby at Beatock.

Like a version of spending 20 minutes talking to the cold caller trying to sell you a conservatory before revealing that you live in a second floor flat.

[Nick Jones]

1 hour ago, Escadrille Ecosse said:

Like a version of spending 20 minutes talking to the cold caller trying to sell you a conservatory before revealing that you live in a second floor flat.

Oh, do you do that too? 

[mossmonaco]

my favourite could callers are the ones that phone to try to sell me cheap phone call packages- I tell them that I don't have a phone. If I'm really lucky they try to argue with me.

[JohnD]

It is a phone they tag you with, so call them up?   "This is the Police/ DVLA/ HMRT/ Microsoft etcetc"?

[JohnD]

It is a phone they tag you with, so call them up?   "This is the Police/ DVLA/ HMRT/ Microsoft etcetc"?

[AndyM]

I usually ask who they wanted to speak to.

Then ask them why they called Leicestershire Police fraud line.