Posted by David, Surrey UK on September 10, 2007 at 12:46:42 from (84.9.75.186):
In Reply to: farm thefts in England posted by 37 chief on September 09, 2007 at 21:23:34:
Jim Broughton said: (quoted from post at 06:10:22 09/10/07) Don't the "constables" patrol your area ?
Err... no. Basically they can't be bothered with rural areas.
I'm just 40 miles from central London and there's no local policeman assigned to this patch. We've been told this is because it's a low crime area.
The latest scam round here is stripping the roadside of all the aluminium road signs to sell for scrap metal. So far they've done Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire and are probably heading north now. Last count there were 90,000 signs missing.
As for shooting thieves, that was tried by a farmer called Tony Martin after he got fed up being burgled and the police taking no action. One of the thieves, with a criminal record as long as your arm, was killed by Mr Martin's shotgun. Martin ended up in jail, despite a huge amount of public sympathy.
Basically thieves can do what they like, as it's only petty crime.
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