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Exhaust pipe theft for scrap metal on Lausanne rd
Hi all,
Someone has cut off the exhaust and muffler on our car which is generally parked on Lausanne rd. Our local mechanic (plug for nick at G&N Garage on Wightman Rd) informs us that this is the second of these he's seen in about a week. Apparently you can just cut it off with a big pair of bolt cutters (or something similar). Worth about £50 in scrap metal. £350 to me plus huge inconvenience. Worth keeping an eye out for people wandering about with oversized bolt cutters in the area.
Tags for Forum Posts: catalytic converter theft, theft from car
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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How infuriating for you! First church roofs, then paving stones and electric cables, now exhaust pipes. Will your insurance company cover this?
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Yes, of course - no point in losing the no claims. I didn't think. On a purely selfish note, I do hope my car model doesn't put it on their shopping list.
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Permalink Reply by David Schmitz on
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Thanks very much for letting us know, and sorry about this very annoying incident.
I've informed the local Safer Neighbourhoods Team about it, and I have also called the police non emergency number, 101, to make the police generally aware of the problem. The reference given by the latter is CHS5432 of 21/11/13. The problem is of especial significance because of the recent difficulties at Duckett's Common. If possible, it would be helpful if you could report the theft yourself and quote the reference, as this will enable the police to see any patterns of behaviour which may be emerging.
Best regards,
David Schmitz
Lib Dem Councillor for Harringay Ward
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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There is a solid steel manhole cover missing from right outside the steel merchants at Hornsey station...
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Be careful, if you report it to police, even if you don't claim, your insurance premium will rocket. Similarly with break-ins, no point besmirching a clean no-claims record for the sake of say the cost of a new phone or laptop. And this lasts for years, takes 9 years to go back to a zero cost. Not that I would advocate lying to the insurers of course.
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Aren't catalytic converters based on uranium? So the thieves could be tracked with a geiger counter?
Something Must Be Done about this century's big increase in metal theft. How about nationalising the scrap yards, they are the facilitators? Or at least a bit of entrapping there.
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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Permalink Reply by markb on
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They're not based on uranium. They have various metals in them like platinum, rhodium, palladium, cerium, iron, manganese.
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Permalink Reply by MichaelStroudGreen on
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My wife saw two women (white, early 30's, Eastern European) walking down Upper Tollington Rd the other night both ducking behind cars and feeling under them. She scared them off and they split up and went different ways. I wondered if they were picking out car exhausts for someone to come along later on to cut them off.
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(white, early 30's, Eastern European)
"The term (Eastern European) has widely disparate and varying geopolitical, geographical, cultural, and socio-economic readings, which make it highly context-dependent and even volatile. There are almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region." - Wikipedia
Can someone please draw me a very approximate North-South zig-zag down the map of Europe so we can trace all these potential exhaust pipe circumcisers to one or other of these 21 countries of origin?
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine. (always accepting, of course, that if Poles can be described as Eastern Europeans, so too can Finns, Greeks and half a dozen others - an exhaustive list in fact. Can't we just throw them all out?)
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I have to say Eddie that I'm pretty sick of the influx of Brits that have appeared here in Berlin over the last couple of years.
At one time, it felt like I was the only Brit here (I wasn't). I do wish they'd go back to where they came from. Taking away our jobs and cashing in on our social security benefits. :-)
The point I'm trying to make is. Most Brits think that they have a god given right to go and live where they want. Whether it be France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Bulgaria, Greece. But when it happens in reverse, they are not so happy.
Regarding Eastern Europeans. There are at least 16 million Germans that live behind what was the iron curtain. Are they considered Eastern European too?
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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So where on earth is Central Europe? How about Vienna? Looks pretty central on my atlas.
In which case Slovenia becomes South-central. As does Croatia. With a slice of Hungary. Though the Hungarians I know insist they all come from Central Europe. (The Hungarian writer George Mikes said his mother was very upset even to learn that she was a foreigner.)
Using the Vienna-test, North-central would have to include the Czech Republic and Berlin. My partner Zena is now on the way back from Bratislava - which turned out to be a 20 Euro busride from Vienna. She said the weather's fairly central today in Slovakia. (Heavy rain.) Maybe it turned a bit western when they crossed the border?
I always thought that countries like Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania were in South-eastern Europe. Am I holding the atlas up the wrong way, OAE?
So who were the exhausters? After all it can't be those Romans (Italian looking?) And plainly not more Vikings or Normans. Descendants of Spanish sailors washed-up from the Armada mixing things up?
I don't suppose that this is all code for something else is it?
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