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I apologise in advance for this rant but it has to be done…
I went out to my car this evening and as I approached it I thought something didn’t look right.
On closer inspection someone had stolen my wiper blades!!! I mean, my <i>wiper blades!</i> What is this world coming to? The blades had been carefully removed from the front and then the whole unit had been unscrewed from the back (it’s a hatchback)….
I suppose I should be glad they didn’t take the whole car but at least if they had it would have been worth claiming on the insurance.
Apparently they are worth a fair bit, as I am sure I will find out when I go to my local VW dealer tomorrow to get them replaced but these blades were nearly 3 years old.
My only thought is, now they have taken the old ones, will they wait for me to get new ones and then steal those? Only problem for them is I’m moving house tomorrow…<!– s:-) –>
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About a year ago, I went to my car to drive to work and some w******rs had a game of nought and crosses with a key on the side of it.It’s black so it stood write out too. To say I was angry was an understatement. They also snapped off the rear wiper completely. I would have hospitalised them if I had caught them.
my son tells me that he once worked with someone who stole bits to order for peoples cars [he didn’t believe him at the time]..sounds as if thats what happened to your blades..some things are just hard to believe.
My car has the spare wheel underneath the car and that has been nicked a couple of times – now I back the car in the drive and park right next to the garage door and it has been OK since.
Unfortunately my wifes car has to go in the garage as mine is too big.
Bl**dy annoying though
I noticed you briefly attributed the theft to "gypsies" on your Facebook status, Lekha – you sure about that?
Waking up of a Saturday morning to find peripheral bits (usually wings mirrors or wiper blades) of my car missing, a new dent having been gained from some injudicious parallel parking, etc became a regular occurence during my days in Birmingham, but I couldn’t bring myself to get too exercised about it.
Part of this was due to me being (and still being) a happy idiot, I grant you.
Part of this, though, was also due to having realised that I may not have lived to encounter these little roadbumps of life if I’d stayed in my parked-up car for 10 minutes longer one November evening in Leith seven years ago, just in time for a stolen Porsche Boxster to drive straight into it and destroy the driver’s side entirely.
I still have all the paperwork pertaining to the incident now, long after the insurance has paid up. I find them useful. They bring perspective. They’ve already brought me to my senses on at least one occasion since.
Nonetheless, I sense I should probably get more worked up about situations such as Lekha’s – it’s theft / criminal damage, when all is said and done. Stoicism isn’t always the most useful virtue.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
This is what’s wrong with the world in a nutshell
Someone who wants to "hospitalise" someone for scratching their tin can.
This is what’s wrong with the world in a nutshell
Someone who wants to "hospitalise" someone for scratching their tin can.
Whilst in no way condoning violence one can understand the frustration.
When the "tin can" costs £15,000 of hard earned money and the police show absolutely no interest when an offence of criminal damage has taken place, you can see why people may feel inclined to act themselves.
the trouble is that, if those of us who would never dream of doing anything like that did do something illegal we know that the law would appear from knowhere and we would be banged up for 5 years..no one has the right to steal from another person whether it’s a small item or thousands of pounds..you can’t say, well, it was a crime but only a small one.
you lived in Birmingham?
Two years in Hay Mills, nr Yardley, yep. Work requirements. Enjoyed it hugely, and it did of course lead mine and Mrs Column’s paths to cross. I don’t miss the queues on the Aston Expressway, but I do miss paying no more than £300 per month for rent. Meh.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
I noticed you briefly attributed the theft to "gypsies" on your Facebook status, Lekha – you sure about that?
Was referring to the saying "thieving gypsies" rather than anything else. I don’t actually believe that a group of travellers turned up, spotted my car and then decided to take my wipers. Although I do now have a fantastic image of a whole load of gypsy caravans turning up in the Newbury Industrial Estate!
Have you ever been visited by them in Newbury racecourse car park? I have never managed a day there without getting some bits of heather wedged under the – still extant – windscreen wiper by the one with the glass eye.
Mind, it’s been 4.5 year since I last went to the course (for EBF Mares’ Hurdle Final day – always a nice meeting for getting to see the course without it being too busy to move around), so maybe they have moved onto something more exotic by now;
"Lucky pomegranate, sir?"
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
I have to say that some years ago in Russia, you removed your windscreen wipers each night and during the day when at the office or whatever as a matter of course – because spares/replacements were so hard to come by there was a sort of general circulation of nicked wipers – since if yours were nicked you had no choice but to nick someone elses’ and so on and so on……
Be thankful you can readily replace them by a quick visit to the local garage instead of having to become a criminal yourself!
I haven’t had the rear arm replaced yet (they took the whole thing, not just the blade). Had to have one ordered in. I don’t know how much it will cost me yet but I may well be forced to turn to crime to afford to pay for it…
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