Stolen front gate

[the-e-dealer]

It was your friends? Can you have a word please

[beautyscoop]

I also had my front gate stolen - two weeks ago. The builders had removed it to build a new brick wall and had hidden it in the front garden. But the next morning... it was gone. Couldn't quite believe it!

[Dame Dulwich]

This theft of metal is going mad at the moment. This is happened to us on several occassions.

We live off Lordship Lane and have left metal articles in our front shed, to come home and find the shed has been raided!! Now we cannot leave any of these things out the front, even though they are out of sight to passers by. This shows the offenders actually trespassed onto our property, raided our secluded shed and scavaged for anything to buy a bacon butty!!

Be warned people. This is what is happening whilst you are at work!

[mynamehere]

Are they driving down the street with a metal detector in the van?

[Rianoo]

It happens all the time. I work out front of properties a lot and I see vans driving by just seeing what is in front gardens. If not a van then someone on a bicycle. It appears that belongings in front gardens are fair game, obviously they are not, but it seems the way now, so don't leave anything of value out there. Especially bikes - after "bedtime".

[Dame Dulwich]

mynamehere Wrote:

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> Are they driving down the street with a metal

> detector in the van?

Na - not quite that sophisticated. They just enter your front yard and root through all your stuff. Sure if they came across a metal detector they would not use it but shop it in!

[LondonMix]

This is probably tactless but I actually need a new gate and was wondering if any one here could recommend a local firm?

Sorry to those of you who had the misfortune to targeted by these theives!

Thanks,

LM

[Countrlass22]

Umm

Well noticed scrap metal open back truck come threw our road this week twice same day looking in front gardens for items left unattended they tried take neighbours bike, but did ring bell told them not to be taken rang again following day told them take it id ring police.

did not come back!

scrap metal van however comes on and off weekly some months then not at all for a while.

no gates taken that im aware of.....

[uncleglen]

I wonder if the scrap metal people would be interested in a couple of bear traps- open, of course, partially concealed by grass!

[KidKruger]

Thieving basrads.

Why didn't I think of that ?

[ianr]

A repeat program about local scrap collection and dealing, on Channel 4 tonight at 23:05, might be interesting:

" ... the licensed ?scrappers? who scour the streets of Sydenham for discarded cookers and sinks are at the far end of the supply chain.

"It?s a case of, where there?s muck there?s brass ? and copper and lead too. ?I don?t really know what the recession is,? says scavenger Adam, who can earn up to ?100,000 a year from the junk he gathers in his transit van ? all legit. No wonder he wears a Rolex." http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/cqg9qx/getting-rich-in-the-recession--series-1---1-getting-rich-in-the-recession-scrappers

[E&C]

Hi, there's a metal gate behind a fence in a bit of wasteland next to the railway line near Peckham Rye station on Blenheim Grove. It has a note on it saying it's for sale for ?50, call Stan and a mobile number. It's been there at least a couple of days. It may be legit, but it seems like a strange place to be selling a gate. Anyone who has lost a gate recently might like to take a look.

[Collean]

Ours got stolen twice in last 5 years . We know have a wooden one.