A lot has happened since the theft of my GTD, still angry me to be honest.
So what happened after, well 3 weeks later the brand new KIA Sportage over the road got robbed, hook and cane through the letterbox , my new CCTV saw and captured the whole event, you see the guys reccy the road walking up and down (probably took 30mins of reccy work before they struck) one cop car down the road in that time would of had them? Plus they must of had a car waiting somewhere?
Neighbour was mortified as was there young daughter, who all now live in fear. To be honest they also had a year old 1 series on the drive, I suspect they went for that, but who knows, I'm sure a Sportage would look nice driving through Africa or Eastern Europe ?
So the cops showed up to do the usual look busy routine.
They popped over to ask if I had any footage of the incident, to be fair I was fkn angry to say the least. They wern't even aware I'd had mine stolen 3-4 weeks earlier? Seriously!
There was zero consistency with what I'd been originally told by the attending PC when my vehicle got stolen, they denied there being a spate of thefts in the area, so I took the time to remind them of the Range Rover , the audi, the BMW's etc etc.. They still denied it....
So, few weeks later they found the Kia at Dover on a transporter bound for Africa , allegedly innocently bought by a polish guy ! Lol (read back through this post regarding Europeans, lol) ironic hey.
Car was already written off at this point and insurance paid out...
No doubt this is where mine went! This needs to be looked at paperwork/documentation needs to be checked on every vehicle...
So my insurance paid out eventually, but took 6 weeks, and fell short £3.5k , I ended up buying a little A1 black edition to run about in , which was fun I guess....
Kept seeing GTD's on the road and being reminded of the event, which still pi$$e$ me off to this day...
So the next thing I read in the local rag, 'car theft ends in bloodbath' bit dramatic to be fair, but none the less another 'non related theft' only 1 mile away from my house.
Audi robbed of the drive, keys taken, owner was a fireman on nights so was awake, came down , disturbed the thieves , who tried to run him over so had to jump back through the smashed window cutting him to ribbons! Non related theft, really?
The news papers never mentioned other thefts in the area? Wtf?
Another incident locally where the thieves broke in and left knives out in each room whilst they searched for the keys... At this I was lost for words.
So, I thought I'd resurrect this thread in hope that some one reads it, adds to it and keeps this alive to help make aware others who may be living in the elusive bubble of false safety given to us By the authorities in order to keep us sleeping sound in our beds at night instead of being vigilant and alert to the real problems on our street that simply are being covered up and or ignored.
So that's the story so far.... Will re read through and make the amendments to my grammatical and miss spelt words lol
Cheers guys .... 'Do sleep well, don't have night mares, and keep a 4 cell baton maglite by your bed!'
