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Roger Chapman

On 08/08/2010 22:32, wrote:

...the new mower is kept in the better-secured
garage...

Don't underestimate the returnees. Mine came back well equipped to
tackle a well secured door on a brick outbuilding.

Happened to me as well some 2 decades ago.

Well constructed wooden doors breached on both occasions and the padlock
on the yard gate broken on the second occasion. A helpful neighbour took
the van registration number the first time around and passed it on to
the Police who couldn't be arsed to actually look for it once they had
found it had recently changed hands to an owner who couldn't be arsed to
register the change of ownership.

Complete co-incidence of course that at the time there was a group of
travellers camped within sight of my house, albeit at some distance away
at the bottom of the hill.

I too now have an alarm which I installed myself which seemed to have
upset the insurance company more than the duplicate thefts.