On 22/08/2019 14:18, Andrew wrote:
On 22/08/2019 12:28, Another John wrote:
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Â* Jethro_uk wrote:

On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 08:19:11 +0000, John wrote:

My daughter had hers stolen back in March and a good friend has just
had
his stolen.
Some locks are available but they assume the toe-rag is going to unbolt
them and not brutally attack the exhaust.

Any ideas for making them tamper-proof - ideally with potential to
cause
injury to the scroats?

Was it stolen as a part, or for metal ?

I thought metal theft was a thing of the past, as "they've done
something
about it" ?

And the thieving *******s who nick it (and the people who deal with
them) have "done something about what the authorities had done about it".

In other words: metal theft still goes on, big time, same people (if you
can call them that), same channels.

It is surprising that it still goes on but sadly it does.
Smart water seems to act only as a moderate discouragement.

I was amazed, and distraught, last month to be visiting a tiny church
hidden in the hills of the Borders, to be told that lead still gets
stolen from the roof every now and again.

The insurance co that covers churches insists on proper lead as a
replacement.

I was told very recently by someone in the know that the insurers and
listed building people are now prepared to accept a resilient non-lead
substitute although they didn't say what it was. They figure that the
damage to the building by repeated tearing lead off the valleys and
ingress of water can be mitigated by not having valuable lead on it.

It remains to be seen how well or if this works out.

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Regards,
Martin Brown