So fed up with getting robbed!!!

sidesaddlegirl

sidesaddlegirl

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Maybe I should put up a sign at my gate saying "Free Everything, Take What you Want- Even My Soul!!!"

Get down to the yard today to see that the shed's door are flung wide open and my one and only bale of Easibed is gone (the neds are out 24/7 now so I was saving this until Hattie had to come back in the stable). The other week it was 2 bales of hay out of the hay barn with them smashing the gate to the hay barn in two.

Everytime I come down it seems someone has been poking around incuding Field Owner's section of field where he keep his sheds have been left open, baling twine knots on gates/ doors not being tied quite right, etc).

You just know when someone has been down as things just aren't quite "right" if you know what I mean.

I work two thankless jobs while trying to get around with my arthritis (and now ANOTHER broken rib from being double barrelled out of spite by the Welshie last weekend) and some scumbag thinks they can help them to my stuff. I just broke down and cried when I saw it was gone as I'm just so tired of it all and having to work so hard for stuff and then it gets nicked.

Stiff drinks for anyone who has gotten this far!!!
 
Aww hugs, that's rubbish :(

Have you thought about rigging up some cheap CCTV to catch the thieving scumbags? You can get that sort of thing from Argos.
 
My heart goes out to you can't stand theft it's so wrong. Can you get some low cost CCTV mAybe. Have a hug and stiff drink from me
 
Think we should be the ones giving you the stiff drinkie! What'll it be?

Poor you - there are some scuzzy people around. Let's hope karma gets to work... x
 
(((hugs)))) i feel your pain there is nothin worse than having your things taken time and again!!
CCTV maybe an option also maybe just leave a few traps about that may make things uncomfortable for the ar*e thats doing this to you.
Failing that i too hope karma catches up with them in an equally cruel way, and you find some relief from this. xx
 
I understand where you are comming from having spent the last 4 days tending to burns n scrapes on my 2yo cos he tried to get through the electric fencing but got some tied round him. Thieving gits had nicked the battery , he would never have gone near it normally
 
Can't have CCTV as there is no electricity at the field. The FO used to have a massive farm generator that used to provide electricity for the stables but that got stolen and he never bothered to replace it as he said "what's the point?".

I worry about setting traps in case they get vicious and then "get back" at me by hurting the neds.

I love my field as I don't drive and it 's so close to home but to far for me to keep lugging bales of shavings and hay on my bike trailer. It's annoying enough as it is having to lug my tack around on my trailer!

I wish they would just b*gger off and leave me alone!!
 
I am so sorry to hear this - it just makes me sick that some people can do such things. Keep your chin up (as best you can). xx
 
sidesaddlegirl said:
Can't have CCTV as there is no electricity at the field. The FO used to have a massive farm generator that used to provide electricity for the stables but that got stolen and he never bothered to replace it as he said "what's the point?".
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You can get battery operated CCTV camera's, really small ones that can be hidden. There's heaps here:-

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&...nics&hvadid=8161060625&ref=pd_sl_1uw4gavlrc_b

I think they can come on by motion sensors (hence saving battery). You need to find out who's nicking your stuff or it wont stop!
 
Get what your saying about worryin that they will get back at you. You can get some cameras that work off batteriesmaybe worth a look. I think they can be expensive but you could sell them on once youve caught your worm!
Either way i hope they leave you be now.xx
 
I cut the strings on the hay after we had two bales go missing the other week which is probably why they didn't take any last night. Never thought about opening the shavings though!

I will look into the battery cameras although if those got nicked, my OH would go through the roof! He already said tonight he wants me to go onto a livery yard and be done with the place.
 
How about some deterrents to being with - 'hidden CCTV' signs and 'dogs running loose' signs? Cheaper than cameras, and they might do the trick.

I feel for you, must be horrible:(
 
blitznbobs said:
Could you invest in some padlocks???

BnbX

PS HUgs and a large vodka and redbull...purlease
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I have but I've had them cut off in the past, the scumbags are a rather determined lot to get to my meagre belongings! I wonder if it's someone local, maybe they see my riding side saddle and think I keep them down there, YEAH RIGHT!!!! The doors on the sheds and barns are so knackered anyways which is why I just tie them up with baling twine.
 
Or, how about one of these: http://www.screwfix.com/c/security/dummy-cameras/cat810284

You could also rig up a simple door alarm with a rape alarm of the kind that works when you pull the cord out - hook it up inside the door and hope the little scrotes burst their eardrums or wet their pants with the shock!

Also, do you have a Neighbourhood Policing Team or similar - someone that could come out and help you secure the place?
 
Spudlet said:
How about some deterrents to being with - 'hidden CCTV' signs and 'dogs running loose' signs? Cheaper than cameras, and they might do the trick.

I feel for you, must be horrible:(
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LOL, I wouldn't want to advertise that I have CCTV down there in case they come back looking to nick it! The farmer next door to me has a "Warning- German Shepherd" sign up (and he does keep his Alsation down there sometimes) but they still break into his sheds too! It's crazy!!

Every yard on my lane has police warning signs up, the police come up and down, I have crime numbers coming out of my ears but short of arming myself with a shot gun and camping down there with my Alsation, there is not much else I can do. Maybe let the Welshie out of his field and make little hay piles everywhere so that he double barrels anyone who comes within 10 foot of his hay like he did to me!
 
Spudlet said:
Or, how about one of these: http://www.screwfix.com/c/security/dummy-cameras/cat810284

You could also rig up a simple door alarm with a rape alarm of the kind that works when you pull the cord out - hook it up inside the door and hope the little scrotes burst their eardrums or wet their pants with the shock!

Also, do you have a Neighbourhood Policing Team or similar - someone that could come out and help you secure the place?
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When out tack room got broken into last year, the police came down to give me tips on how to secure it and they did mention the rape alarm but he said it's too bad that I don't have electricity down there for CCTV. He said though, because it's so secluded that there ins't any point in padlocking everything as the thieves will cause more damage trying to get in and not to keep any valuables down there. He said that although officially, they can't tell you to put barbed wire around places where the public might get hurt, he said to wrap some around the top of my gate (the one that is on the bridle/foot path) to "protect my horses". TBH, I don't think that would deter anyone but I'm going to ask the farmer tomorrow if he has a little bit for me to put there to "protect my horses".
 
Not read all the replies so not sure if its been mentioned but could you get some dummy cameras? Which look like CCTV, might be enough to put them off. Some even have batteries in them which creates a little light, so they look real. Might be worth a try to see if it scares them away.
 
Horrible little sods:mad: Let's hope they catch a horribly embarrassing personal illness. I curse them with an imminent visit to the STD clinic!
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God it's so horrible and frustrating. I would echo whowever said about opening the bags - problem is though if you are keeping it for later use. Either that or I would get a large metal bin type thing (bolted to the floor) and decant the bedding into it - then you keep it dry for yourself but they cannot nick it!

we have been targeted many a time over the years as noone lives near our stables. We used to keep tack down there (god knows why when I think about it now!) but that got nicked a couple of times i think. We have had 3 or 4 generators nicked even though they were bolted to the floor.

What we did then was get a industrial container to put the generator and other stuff like rugs etc. However, they then came and tried to get into that - we had 3 padlocks and fortunately although they got one off (they are under manifolds so you can't just cut through them as can't get to them with bolt croppers) they broke their drill trying to remove another and left. Still, they returned (I am sure it's the same people) and this time they hacksawed (yep must have taken ages!) through the hinges and wrenched the door open to nick it. We had the door welded on that side but a few months later (after we'd replaced the gennie) they came back - this time it was one of those heart-stopping moments as you arrive at your field - the gates at each end of the track (one at the road and then the next at the stables) wide open! They had come this time in a van armed with an acetiline torch and cut THROUGH the container door to nick the gennie!!!!

All I say is thank god the horses were unharmed - 2 were stabled at the time next to the container! After that though we decided enough was enough and we got electric put in. Touch wood we've not had any 'visitors' since (or none who have nicked anything anyway)

I would suggest a container for your stuff - harder to get into than a wooden building and a padlock and not really worth the effort for what they're nicking. Then again all ours took were the gennies at £300 or so - not exactly priceless!
 
Would it be possible as the neds are out 24/7 to pretty much empty the shed that the thieving bas***ds go into and then just leave the doors open, it would prob only take a couple of 'visits' before they realised that it was pointless?
 
How about looking for an old large chest freezer that you can padlock? the idea of the wire was good but just to say that if you did have any obvious traps out, legally you need to post a warning or you could be sued if someone hurt themselves. So, unbelievable that it sounds, if your welshie hurt someone, and you knew he could be dangerous, unless there was a warning sign posted you could be sued! But very sorry to hear about this and can't think of any other way around it - they know you need to replace these items so will coming back.
 
What an awful time you're having...

This is a really really inexpensive trick that my dad came up with after his car was getting scratched and the wing mirror smashed off by the drunks walking home from the pub... rather than going to the expense of getting CCTV as its pretty pointless unless it’s really good quality when coming to securing a prosecution... He simply put a sign in the car window which was clearly visible to anyone walking past which said...

Warning. You are now on CCTV and your actions and movements are being recorded.

Hey presto the repeated criminal damage stopped the week the sign went in the window. Result! :)

Might be worth a try...
 
I'm so sorry you're having to go through that. It seems that once the wrong type of people get to know of a vulnerable place it's very hard to deter them, is there any way that you can store your stuff at home and just bring down as much as you need at a time until the theiving gits get bored and then move on? Not that you should have to do that, what a world we live in!
 
OH thinks that the best option would be to attach the door to a blank cartridge bird scarer. Apparently nothing stops the heart quicker than a shot gun cartridge going off, however I dont think your horses would appreciate this somehow!
 
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