WARNING - charity bag thieves about !!

[Cassius]

Just a warning - we left a bag to be picked up today for charity. About 10 minutes ago (6.00ish) my partner told me that the bag had been picked up. I looked outside to see a woman (about late 30's/early 40's - long straggly dark hair) in an alley rooting out the contents and discarding stuff all over the alley. I sent my partner outside to get the bag back from her and she claimed that she 'wasn't doing no 'arm' - no harm apart from stealing from a charity and throwing a contents of a bag all over the street.

I left the bag outside all day yesterday for one charity to claim and all day today without any charity picking it up. Last week I left a bag outside all day Monday (for a different charity) without it being picked up. The bag went Wednesday - at the time I was pleased but now wonder if the contents are in a bin somewhere discarded by the charity bag thief - and there was some good stuff in it that I hoped would bring money to charity.

I guess I'll carry my bags to the charity shops from now on.

Thanks very much to this woman for making me doubt even more..........

[lozzyloz]

Surely she's just an end user cutting out the middle man.

[bon3yard]

Sounds like a cockernee chav type to me...did she break into a tortured version of 'knees up muvver brahnn' when your old fella collared her? ;-)

[KalamityKel]

Bon3yard dont b caught up in the very out of date "stereotypical" cockney... there is also a BIG difference between a cockney and a chav...

Shame on u!

;-)

[TJS]

I have seen this nutter, she was outside scope near goose green roundabout she was going through every bag and just leaving such a mess over the street. So thoughfully I pointed this out to her....just got this daft look as if she was in her own world.....so made a sarcastic comment and left....if you see her watch out for all your charity stuff.

[Keef]

What Lozzy said.

[Cassius]

I'd rather choose which charities I give to - not have my things taken and strewn around the pavement to be ruined thank you very much.

[lard]

Well then walk them to the shop, as you said.

And to think some people bemoan the lack of exciting things happening in East Dulwich.

;-)

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Like Napoleon she's 'armless.....which Dickensian Novel was this taken from?...Sounds like she lives in a Bleak House and as fallen on Hard Times...

[tiger ranks]

she is about 4ft and walks around with her fella who normally has a can of super kestral they are 2 total pests she used to walk around with a baby in a pram allways begging for money have not seen the child with them recently...

[local1]

tiger ranks Wrote:

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> she is about 4ft and walks around with her fella

> who normally has a can of super kestral they are 2

> total pests she used to walk around with a baby in

> a pram allways begging for money have not seen the

> child with them recently...

Thats them.!

They will have your hanging baskets and even your milk.

On another note, most of the "through the door" charity bags ,are in fact not actualy what they seem. They are just profit making companies who re sell.Read the small print on these dodgy leaflets and bags.