motor bikes and moped scooters being stolen on Marmora road.

[susierose]

Three bikes stolen in a week! on marmora road. One was burnt out in the road round the corner! I have been told a blue car with four youths in it, have been seen trying to put a scooter on the back at 2am in the morning on Monday night. I often see different vans driving up and down with the same Eastern european couple in and they don't speak much English as i have confronted them for trying to take something from my front garden. If you have a bike or scooter and live near...make sure its out of sight

[Browncoffee]

Thanks for the heads-up, Susierose!

[PeckhamRose]

I assume you told the police and the SNT. If not, please do.

[Sue]

susierose Wrote:

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> I often see different vans driving up and down with the same

> kosovan people in and don't speak much English as

> i have confronted them for trying to take

> something from my front garden.

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Just wondering how you know they're Kosovan?

Did you ask them?

[susierose]

obviously the police know... so you assume right altho i didn't tell them!!! those who's bikes were stolen told them!!

[susierose]

Because when i talked to the man about him taking something out of my garden he did not understand much of what i was saying...so asked where he was from he said nothing and drove off! he looks either Romanian or Kosovan.

[PeckhamRose]

He LOOKED Romanian or Kosovan? He was white, right?

[Sue]

susierose Wrote:

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he looks either Romanian or Kosovan.

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FFS !!!!

I despair sometimes.

And so the stereotyping and prejudice continues.

[edcam]

If you've seen the van presumably you have taken the registration number down and told the police? If not then why not? It's really not helpful to state a nationality unless you're sure. I find it odd that you'd go for Kosovan unless you know.

[zeban]

Completely agree Sue!

[Top Banana]

"he looks either Romanian or Kosovan"

But not Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, Macedonian, Hungarian or Bulgarian? We need to be exact here.

It's like reading the Famous Five again, where Swarthy-looking types should be hauled off for apparent execution to the tremendous glee of the children.

[Jessie]

Someone came up to me on Grove Vale on Sunday morning at 8.30am and asked if I was English. I think I'll just say I'm Kosovan now.

[susierose]

Well one of the things police ask is to describe them.............are they white, black, or tall, short ect ect ............so whats the problem here with saying what they looked like or their nationality is ..... They were not white or English and if they were i would say so! so what is the problem here?? If you got mugged would you not describe the attacker?? what is he didn't speak English and you know he looks like and sounds like a certain nationality you know! Think a simple post of concern for a crime that has taken place and concern for others taking care has been blown out of proportion and turned in to something its not! Wont bother next time!

[thecaptain]

Completely agree susierose, pointless telling these tree hugging liberals.....I love the way they totally ignore (whoever they are), that they blatantly on the nick and therefore committing a crime.

[Sue]

susierose Wrote:

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> Well one of the things police ask is to describe

> them.............are they white, black, or tall,

> short ect ect ............so whats the problem

> here with saying what they looked like or their

> nationality is ..... They were not white or

> English and if they were i would say so! so what

> is the problem here??

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"The problem here" is that you didn't describe them.

You made an assumption about their specific country of origin which was apparently based on - well, what? Do tell us. the fact that they were "not white or English"? That leaves quite a lot of other possibilities.....

Good post, Top Banana.

Thecaptain, you have totally missed the point. Nobody is saying that these people have not (possibly) committed a crime. And by labelling people "tree hugging liberals" it is clear that you have the same stereotyping mindset as susierose.

And so it goes on .... and on .....

[LondonMix]

Are Eastern Europeans / slavs not considered white anymore?

[thecaptain]

I couldnt give a monkeys.....

[thecaptain]

Sue, the phrase was well chosen as it has so clearly wound you up.....

The point i was making is that it doesnt really matter who/where the person is/comes from, yet you have lingered on it for an age....am sure its the basis that your best friends, sisters, daughters auntie is of eastern european descent, that it's worthy of your gripe.

I rest my case, until your next bite.

[LondonMix]

People are just pulling susierose up on a rather unhelpful and potentially inaccurate description. A good description would have described what they and the van actually look like (age, height, number of indviduals, etc, type of van, colour of van ect.

The potentially incorrect part is that its become clear she has no idea where these people are actually from.

Why you think taking issue with this makes someone a tree-hugging liberal is beyond me.

[susierose]

OK point taken............... OK ...Eastern European....you have totally missed the point....So now children you can go back to your games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[susierose]

Who mentioned colour???????????

[Sue]

susierose Wrote:

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> Who mentioned colour???????????

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Er, you did.

"They were not white or English and if they were i would say so!"

[EDOliver]

thanks for the heads up, I'm a scooter rider so I'll keep an eye on my wheels!

[local2bellenden]

Thanks so much for alerting us to the thefts - really helpful