Lucky Escape

Hi lads

After a great day and night fishing with Creep and Tight lines got home about 1.30am and was to knackered to take the gear in from the car!!!!!!. and to hungry

Was woken up by a text from her good self to tell me I had left my tackle bag at the back of the car., I knew I didnt do that so anyway got up after a few hours sleep went out to the car at 7.45 on to my HORROR to find the inside of my car ransacked and all glove boxes and armrest and door storage empty with paperwork all over the car floor.....

(Photos will follow if someone tells me how to do it)

Checked the boot only to find that the same state and ransacked.....

By the luck of who ever my rods tripod waders where all there but strange what was missing was my waterproof fishing jacket ( stinking of rag lug crab and mack ) they even took my HI-VIS jacket off the fishing coat.... ( hope they are stinking walking around the area guess I will smell them first....

Checked my tackle bag to find out my headlight was gone but thankfully my knife was still there ( happy days for that ) If that was gone who knows what the gards would do or think......

The strange thing is there was no damage to the car I think what happened was some scumbag BAS*ARD was waiting for me as they would of seen me load up the car on a lot of times and they opened a door on the car with my back turned and left it ajar before I locked the car while I was walking up the driveway and into the house before I locked the car....

Hear the car lock and the flash of the indectors so taught all was ok as you would

Well all in all only a fishing jacket and headlamp gone could of been much worse thinking how much the gear was worth and I was traveling light.....

Think the only way the car was there this morning was two thing I have a Hugh FU** of a lock and chain round the steering wheel that you would need an angler grinder to get through and the reason why my gear was taken I am guessing they where disturbed at some time......

Any way very LUCK ESCAPE

If I ever found out who they were..... would have a happy few hours

So anyway LADS the point is be careful who,s around and from now on I will be taking my gear out of the car no matter what time I get home at....and then have my cuppa...

Tight Lines

Dave

unlucky dave but very lucky in a way could have taken everything bet you will lock the car now when standing beside it would not mind but it was not very cold last night

As Gordy and myself walked off the beach last night we noticed a sat nav in one of the cars. Think the old saying out of sight, out of mind comes to mind. We're all guilty of doing it when rushing onto the beach. But maybe tempting faith and a window!

Yea that's was creeps-car forgot to tell him bout it but at least I checked the car for flat tires..... ]lesson learened will LOCK the car while standing beside it from now on....

Cheers Lads

Close call dave, we all know what it is like to get home in the early hours and say feck it, do it in the morning. Unfortunatley it has to happen to someone to remind us of the muppets prowling the streets in the early hours.. Glad it wasn't as bad as it could have been...

Damn mate Ya should have left the velet crab in your pocket that i put in there that would have given them something to think about!! (opps Gordy your right mate forgot the damn sat nav, it was a cheap yoke i picked up from aldi some years back and worthless to update but still it has alot of great marks on it and worth alot to me) out a sight out of mind damn right

Dave I decided I aint washin my fishin gear anymore anyone robs it we will be able to track them from the smell!!! PSML!!! ya can borrow my lamp if ya need mate

Good to know the car wasnt damage though, half the times the muppets do more damage then the item they take!!

tbh man sounds to me like it was just a bunch a scummy lowlives that took your gear, they took the stuff worth the least value by the sounds of it !? feel for ya all the same

Hard luck on the lost gear man, but I reckon the chain on the steering wheel saved you from a pretty nasty jump in your next car insurance quote.

More generally, you'd need to have God for your uncle to be up to some of the stunts that the scumbags are capable of pulling. Thankfully, I never lost any fishing gear to them, but I did have a run-in a while back. We live in the town now, but last year, myself, the wife and the (then) new baby were living in a fairly isolated spot in the country. The nearest shop was five miles down the road, so if you ran out of milk for your tea, you had to hop into the car to get it or go without.

Anyway, I was short of smokes one day, and made the trip to pick up a box. While I was gone, the wife heard a ring at the door and went to answer it, taking the baby with her. There was no one there, so she thought it was the kids from the farm further up acting the maggot. It was only when I got back that she found her handbag was missing. It turns out that the the ring at the front door was a diversionary tactic, and while she was answering it, some string of slime had gone round the back, entered the house, and nicked the handbag from the kitchen.

There wasn't much cash in it, and we cancelled the cards. And, thanks be to whoever deserves it, she took the child with her when she answered. Still, it makes my brain boil to think that some cucking funt must have been outside watching, waiting for me to leave the house before he chanced his arm. It freaked the wife out bad enough that we moved out (though to be fair, that wasn't the only reason).

I just hope whoever was responsible enjoyed the measly fifty quid they got, because if I ever found out who they were, I'd happily pay ten times that for just ten minutes alone in in their company ...

I'd happily pay ten times that for just ten minutes alone in in their company ...

The worst of is that you'd be done for assault and the scumbags would probably sue for damages too .

Hope your missus and the child finally got over the experience .

I'd happily pay ten times that for just ten minutes alone in in their company ...

The worst of is that you'd be done for assault and the scumbags would probably sue for damages too .

Hope your missus and the child finally got over the experience .

Cheers man, I appreciate it. Both good now, so no lasting damage done, thanks. You're right, though: I'm liberal enough about most things, but having to exercise "appropriate restraint" when someone explicitly threatens your family is like trying to scare off a wolf by calling him rude names. The law, as they say, is an ass ...

Ha you got very lucky their