Theives nicking catalytic converters! - Sticky this pls

[Martz]

Right Guys n Gals

Our childminder was in Tescos Sunbury (nr Heathrow) and had our little fella with her. The car had child seats in so what happened was heartless. She was in for 15-20 mins and canme back to the car and when it started it sounded terrible, she stopped at a garage close by and when up on the ramps it was a shock to her to say the least. The cat was missing and was butchered off. Police notified etc etc. Due to the cost of repair the vehicle 'maybe' a write off. The exaust fumes were also noticable inside the vehicle and could have caused serious problems for everyone inside including my little boy.

Be aware everyone as someone could get seriously hurt from this. Little feckers should be shot!

Please leave this post on here so that it can be viewed as it is important that everyone is aware that this is happening.

[Wayne]

What ever next  guess it is all to do with the value of scrap

[Tazzy]

this has been talked about for a while now, not good at all, but pointless as well, but hey ho, in the time, aggro and money it takes to cut off a cat box, these morons might as well just go get a proper job!

[Snoopy]

this has been talked about for a while now, not good at all, but pointless as well, but hey ho, in the time, aggro and money it takes to cut off a cat box, these morons might as well just go get a proper job!

Depends on the cat some are worth good money when scrapped don't know many jobs that would pay similar per hour unless you go into banking.
Im sorry to hear about this but if she could not hear the racket due to missing cat and have the sence to not drive it i would be worried about her child care ability

[Martz]

Hence why she got to the garage across the road....................

[Diamond Hell]

If she was in Tescos, surely they have CCTV of the car park?

What's the point in stickying this?

So if we drive off and suddenly find our cat's missing we can go 'oh so someone's nicked it while I was shopping, like in Martz thread'. 

I don't see the point in stickying the post?  It sucks that this has happened, but get a claim in is all you/she can do. 

What possible evasive action can we take to avoid this sort of weird theft?  What should we do if we see the theft in progress?  Go and talk to these nutters?  If you live near Heathrow it probably explains why your insurance premiums are so high.

It'd be like stickying a thread about making sure you put your handbrake on, because my car rolled off down a hill when I didn't put mine on well enough.... although let's face it - at least it's possible to do something about that problem!

[Martz]

Tescos have no CCTV DH.

I pay very little for my insurance my friend......... 

I posted this to make people aware of this, yep, your right not much can be done about it but if you saw someone doing this would you confrontthem? I would as I believe in right and wrong and I would not be wrong for one of these low life to get a good kick in (although Pikeys normally find you and kill you!).

Cheers

[dazzawest1987]

pikies are the scum of the earth mate theyre not goiong to care that your cars got child seats init, theyre just concerned where the next 50 quids coming from a couple of pikies stole 3 or 4 cats off the cars on the forecort at work last year.
they must be worth a fair bit now a pikey come round last week and offered £120 per cat, dont what they sell for if thats how much they want to buy them for

[snifferdog]

Yeah, my workplace got done over last year, they got away with about 6  Luckily mine wasnt one of them.

[Diamond Hell]

if you saw someone doing this would you confrontthem? I would as I believe in right and wrong and I would not be wrong for one of these low life to get a good kick in (although Pikeys normally find you and kill you!).

No I wouldn't, I'd keep a bloody low profile and call the police - I've never been stabbed and have no interest in experiencing such an activity.

I believe in right and wrong, but I believe more in being around to watch my kids grow up and I'm not going to forfeit that for a catalytic converter!