Warm boot recommendations please

[Valkyrie]

This was added to Beryl Saunders blog. She has an allotment in Gosport:

 

February ended with me having to make repairs to the shed yet again after more break-ins. Elson was hit particularly hard this time with 95% of the sheds done. Many had more than just locks broken but extensive damage too. The items taken were cultivators and strimmers. With many new allotmentholders erecting new sheds I would urge them not to keep expensive equipment in them. Take them home, it is a nuisance but not worth the risk.

 

I think that would apply to anyone storing expensive equipment in sheds in the garden. I wonder if it has something to do with more people growing their own? Be wary of purchasing tools in case they have been "acquired" from someone else without their permission!

[Lesley]

I think all the forums I've visited recently has had reports of allotment sheds being broken into - like you say, best to take expensive equipment home.

[Ygerna]

My shed has no lock, inside are a fork and a spade, old as they were given to me. I think locks encourage people to break in as they believe there must be valuable things in them, hence the lock.

 

It is so selfish, but, people can be like that. They dont realise that someones allotment is a part of their soul.

[Tiggy]

this makes me so mad, I had a shed in my garden once and that was broken into an all my equipment taken, I now keep everything in the garage, they wrecked my greenhouse at the same time

[Valkyrie]

Just before Christmas the other year (2007) burglars were trying all the garage doors. I guess they were also testing sheds because someone trampled my green manure and left a dirty great footprint in the middle because he couldn't be bothered to walk on the paths. The latches were left undone, but it was locked and so he didn't get in. If he was only targeting our house I think he would have had the time to break through. It's amazing how many people down the road either didn't lock their garages or hadn't bothered to mend their locks. We also have a padlocked side gate which the man obviously vaulted over. We were lucky but lots of people down the road were not. Next door was a bit miffed because she wanted her garage cleared out - she was broken into but nothing was taken.

There isn't much in our shed - old toys and other things such as pots and chicken poo pellets, some plastic, fleece and canes and the old rat cage - and now they have to climb over the aubiose to get to any of that - hah!

[mostin]

There hasn't been any crime in our area for ages but 11 garages including ours were broken into in one night and they kept coming back for more. They have caught them now, phew.

 

It turns out they were searching specifically for petrol fuelled garden tools such as rotivators/chainsaws/generators etc.

 

The police told us that H&S laws have changed on buliding sites and extension leads aren't allowed anymore so "Ooops, word censored!"ody wants electric power tools anymore, so loads of petrol fuelled tools are being stolen to be sold to builders and landscapers.