[Brighton] Tools Of Trade Nicked In Brighton Yesterday - Please Keep A Lookout

[Justice]

Done.
Hopefully he will be back working very soon, I would be gutted if my tools got stolen.

Thieving scum. And the people who knowingly and willingly buy stolen tools are no better.

Obvious to spot on market places, oh I spent £200 on this Dewalt tool and only used it once
Should read I nicked tools out of some poor blokes van who needs them to feed his family.
Scum of the earth.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Obvious to spot on market places, oh I spent £200 on this Dewalt tool and only used it once
Should read I nicked tools out of some poor blokes van who needs them to feed his family.
Scum of the earth.

I’m regularly seeing posts on Instagram of vans getting opened and ruined by tool thieves. I have seen under cover videos of boot sales in and around London selling hundreds of second hand good quality power tools.

stolen_tools _uk_ on instagram

Not sure if this link works, this gas engineer is doing his best to raise awareness.

 

[Whoislloydy]

Obvious to spot on market places, oh I spent £200 on this Dewalt tool and only used it once
Should read I nicked tools out of some poor blokes van who needs them to feed his family.
Scum of the earth.

Bike theft is a huge thing here. Unfortunately Vancouver has a very dark side called the Downtown East Side (DTES), think of LA's skid row. It's 5 city blocks of homelessness and rampant drug use. The easiest way to feed their drug habbit is theft, and being that North Vancouver is the mountain biking mecca, bikes are a huge target.

There is even a dedicated Facebook group called Stolen Bikes Vancouver. People will post suspect looking Marketplace posts with unusually cheap bikes, or even pictures of some homeless guy with a $7k bike and a location of where you can retrieve it.

We had 4 bikes stolen during COVID from our garage, about $15k worth. I got my road bike back about a week later, some guy had purchased it for $200 off a homeless guy on the DTES and was flipping it on Marketplace for $1,500. He tried to play dumb, saying he didn't know it was stolen, but even the police told him to stop being so naive. There's only one reason you buy anything in the DTES.

 

[atomised]

Chucked some in the pot. Another of those albion fans I know more by sight and remember from the darker days. Always a smile when outband about on his round

 

[Me Atome]

Thieving scum. And the people who knowingly and willingly buy stolen tools are no better.

Yes, this is the key point. If a person buys cheap second hand tools in the pub he/she knows perfectly well that they have been stolen from someone else. If the market dried up, the stealing would stop.

 

[Justice]

Bike theft is a huge thing here. Unfortunately Vancouver has a very dark side called the Downtown East Side (DTES), think of LA's skid row. It's 5 city blocks of homelessness and rampant drug use. The easiest way to feed their drug habbit is theft, and being that North Vancouver is the mountain biking mecca, bikes are a huge target.

There is even a dedicated Facebook group called Stolen Bikes Vancouver. People will post suspect looking Marketplace posts with unusually cheap bikes, or even pictures of some homeless guy with a $7k bike and a location of where you can retrieve it.

We had 4 bikes stolen during COVID from our garage, about $15k worth. I got my road bike back about a week later, some guy had purchased it for $200 off a homeless guy on the DTES and was flipping it on Marketplace for $1,500. He tried to play dumb, saying he didn't know it was stolen, but even the police told him to stop being so naive. There's only one reason you buy anything in the DTES.

Glad to here at least you recovered one bike.

 

[Whoislloydy]

Glad to here at least you recovered one bike.

We actually recovered three and a half bikes!

We found my bike on Marketplace, the guy showed us the app he found it on, i can't remember what it was called but it has since been shut down by the government because it seems it was solely used to sell stolen goods.

On that app we found a second bike, arranged a meet up with the seller and told the police who set up an undercover sting operation (thrilling), until her boyfriend who had the bike was detained and they pulled a huge machete out of his bag.

A third bike showed up a couple of months later during a raid on a known chop shop, serial number traced back to my friend.

The half bike arrived two years later, literally just the frame traced back to my friend via the serial number.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Done. Now get back to work @Dover

 

[Hendrax]

Scum. hope he gets his bits back, but highly unlikely. it'll all be sold at car boot.

Its a scary thought. I'm a carpenter and my tool kit is worth well over 12k. I've had all the security upgrades that I can have. Door barrel change, wiring loom change, armour plates on side and barn doors and high security deadlocks too.

I think I'd probably cry if I came out to an empty van in the morning. My friends got done on his drive in Worthing about 6 months ago, all caught on the ring doorbell. They were inside the van in 15 seconds and off the drive in 90 seconds.

Lowest of the low.

Donated

 

[BN9 BHA]

Scum. hope he gets his bits back, but highly unlikely. it'll all be sold at car boot.

Its a scary thought. I'm a carpenter and my tool kit is worth well over 12k. I've had all the security upgrades that I can have. Door barrel change, wiring loom change, armour plates on side and barn doors and high security deadlocks too.

I think I'd probably cry if I came out to an empty van in the morning. My friends got done on his drive in Worthing about 6 months ago, all caught on the ring doorbell. They were inside the van in 15 seconds and off the drive in 90 seconds.

Lowest of the low.

Donated

I have all my power tools, batteries, tool boxes and bags all marked up multiple times with permanent marker and UV pen.
Police sometimes stop vehicles driven by thieves with stolen tools on board, if tools are marked clearly with name and postcode they can reunite them with their owners.
I saw one news report where the police had raided somewhere and found hundreds of stolen power tools but many were not marked or just had the owner’s initials on them.

 

[pearl]

Monday morning update: Sadly no sign of Dover's stuff reported over the weekend but, in happier news, somebody started a gofundme to get Dover back on the road to work.

Link is below if you feel like bunging a few quid in the pot (Mods: please delete if not permitted). Cheers

Donate to Help Paul get back on the road to work, organized by Alisha Giles

Dear Friends, Family, and Kind Supporters, I hope this message finds you we… Alisha Giles needs your support for Help Paul get back on the road to work

www.gofundme.com

Small donation made. He's a sweet guy. Always cheerful. Rides along the level singing his head off without a care in the world. Really shit thing to happen to a decent human being. Thanks for posting this

 

[Brovion]

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We had 4 bikes stolen during COVID from our garage, about $15k worth. I got my road bike back about a week later, some guy had purchased it for $200 off a homeless guy on the DTES and was flipping it on Marketplace for $1,500. He tried to play dumb, saying he didn't know it was stolen, but even the police told him to stop being so naive. There's only one reason you buy anything in the DTES.

You're lucky to live in a country where the police take theft, especially bike theft, seriously. Over here they just shrug.

Donated. All the best @Dover. I don't know you but obviously you're one of us.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Happy to give the guy a bit of a helping hand now it’s needed. Don’t know him well but as this thread testifies he’s clearly a diamond. Best of luck, you never know, some of this stuff might turn up.