River Hamble Break Ins

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Several boats broken into on the moorings oposite Swanwick during Thursday night, early hours of Friday morning.

If anyone has my Grey and Red 2 Stroke 5HP Yamaha or my I-Pad Air, do let me know.

Or contact local Police and/or the Harbourmaster.
 
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The thieves dinghy was found at the lands end road, just down from the Jolly Sailor. Apperently it was three men. If anyone else saw anything, please contact the the Harbourmaster and they will put you in touch with the local police officer dealing with the incident.
 
Outboard pic 2.jpg Ipad in case.jpg

Pic of stolen outboard and i-pad in grey case/cover.

Outboard has a silver canvas cover and stainless lock and chain.

I-pad is screen locked with contact details and has a grey cover.
 
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Sorry hear about this. I do watch out for good priced kit on eBay. Will met you know if I see anything resembling.

If you give the iPad details to the phone recyclers they will also look for it for you. I know there is a database in relation to IMEMs but not sure how you get to have yours flagged. Your kit provider may be able to help.
 
Our club members caught 3 blokes stealing from a boat on the River Blackwater 3 years ago. Locals saw it happening so our saftey boat was quickly launched. They photographed the blokes, & held them in their dinghy whilst they phoned the fuzz. They were told to let them go !!! they photo'd the car complete with number plates & the 3 blokes just drove off.
The inflatable dinghy they stole for the job still lays at our club. No policeman has shown any interest.
 
Daydream believer said:
Our club members caught 3 blokes stealing from a boat on the River Blackwater 3 years ago. Locals saw it happening so our saftey boat was quickly launched. They photographed the blokes, & held them in their dinghy whilst they phoned the fuzz. They were told to let them go !!! they photo'd the car complete with number plates & the 3 blokes just drove off.
The inflatable dinghy they stole for the job still lays at our club. No policeman has shown any interest.
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Ditto - we saw four yobs steal a tender, my chum called police giving their ETA of 40 minutes and beach ( with road access ) they were making for - no plod response.

When my Dads' boat was broken into, slept on and everything chucked over the side or stolen, no plod response.

My boat was broken into along with 5 others ashore, our police liaison member suggested we all didn't touch anything until Scene Of Crime police had taken fingerprints etc.

When they finally did turn up, the policewoman said to me " on you get then " --- ' what about fingerprints and all that ? ' ---she laughed, " far too much hassle " - then asked for a piece of my smashed alarm as a souvenir.

Your club members are lucky they weren't done for some human rights rule, as they were easy targets unlike the criminals.
 
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It was suggested that they towed the dinghy, along with occupants, to the other side of the river (.75 miles) & let them go there, with a nice 14+ mile walk back to their car. But as Seajet suggests, our chaps would probably been charged with some trumped up offence.
 
My first business partner was a noted field sportsman. After retiring from the Met. Police he got a new job that encompassed his hobby.

He was responsible to an Earl for "Pest Control"-he was the Gamekeeper on a substantial Southern Estate and Stately Home.

One year they lost most of the pheasants to poachers who entered the pens where the chicks were bought on just before release into the wild and collected them. If you know how, its easy!

The estate workers and locals were asked to keep a special eye open for possible poachers. A message reached him in the pub, he collected some mates and they went in search of the infiltrators. They found a white Ford van parked in a gateway, sacks aplenty on the floor of the load area. It was jacked up and the wheels removed, rendering it a non runner.

Three guy's came back, loaded with sacks of ready to release pheasants. While they were looking in astonishment at their van propped up on bricks, they were apprehended. They owned up to stealing the previous lot.

They were marched into the sawmill where their arrival had been prepared for. They were stripped to their underpants, smothered in old engine oil from the Forestry mechanics tank and covered in sawdust from the mill. The best that could be done towards an old fashioned tar and feathering.

The van was sold to a breaker to recover some of the costs of the first lot of stolen birds. The perpetrators were never seen again. They were from the West Midlands and had a lucrative criminal ring selling stolen reared pheasants to local shoots.

One long serving estate worker, with whom I have sunk more than a few pints, was overheard telling the ringleader that " 'An if 'e cum back 'ere to steal birds agin, I have a big shovel, I can dig 'an 'ole pretty quick an I kin pat the ground down flat. Where I be planting 'e they wont find 'e!

Surprisingly enough, they never did come back during my mates occupation of the job!

He might well have abused their human rights, but they were not about to make a fuss, were they!

It happened, just as I have related, in 1975.
 
I was told - directly, it's not a 'friend in the pub story ' of a sailing club let's just say London way which with its neighbours was plagued by thefts, the members had a sense of humour failure and organised a night rota.

Sure enough they caught the guy - and rowed him out in a tender with chain wrapped round him ' we've had enough of your type ' - he hurriedly told them where his large stash of stolen kit was.

It's very tempting, but if he'd struggled and the boat had tipped over there would have been some very awkward questions !

Then again a friend of mine in Somerset had his outbuildings broken into and tools, mowers stolen several times - as he was in the huntin' shootin' set he was quietly supplied with ' land mines ' which fire a shotgun cartridge horizontally.

The culprits were known but police avoid them.

It really got to him, he'd recently lost his wife and this stress was too much - he was discovered by his granddaughter dead in his chair, the phone off the hook still calling 999.

The family chose not to bother making a complaint - but basically he was killed by these lowlife scrotes.
 
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During our first year of membership of our club, we were sleeping on board on the club pontoon when we were woken by a noise. Some local lowlifes had nicked a dinghy to get to the pontoon and were trying to make off with anything worth stealing. When the alarm was raised, they left by dinghy for a nearby pier run by a local yacht maintenance and moorings company. By the time they got there, Plod had arrived and were waiting at the landward end and a rather large gentleman that I'll call Sheamus had arrived at the seaward end and was strolling down towards them. To everyone's regret, scrotes chose Plod, but it wasn't a complete waste of time, they were bang to rights and, with the help of a string of previous, went down for a few years.

When it was all over, we realised that our dinghy's outboard was on the pontoon.
 
We had a spate of OBs being nicked here. Thief was so cocky or stupid he posted a picture of our friends outboard mounted on their boat in his ebay ad! Another friend saw this and alerted Plod . They do actually watch e bay and other sites and it can be very useful to them if you have a photo of anything you have had stolen especially if it may have some unique marking that you can identify. Friend got his OB back and another got his caravan back. Two scrotes banged up.
 
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We had a spate of OBs being nicked here. Thief was so cocky or stupid he posted a picture of our friends outboard mounted on their boat in his ebay ad! Another friend saw this and alerted Plod . They do actually watch e bay and other sites and it can be very useful to them if you have a photo of anything you have had stolen especially if it may have some unique marking that you can identify. Friend got his OB back and another got his caravan back. Two scrotes banged up.
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When there were visitors' moorings near Langstone Harbour entrance eastern side ( the west side is notorious ) a couple heard something in the early morning - a fishing boat was powered up against their transom into the tide with a guy trying to unclamp their tender engine from the pushpit.

They got the ID of the boat and reported it, both were very badly shaken thinking they were going to be boarded.
 
Stemar said:
During our first year of membership of our club, we were sleeping on board on the club pontoon when we were woken by a noise. Some local lowlifes had nicked a dinghy to get to the pontoon and were trying to make off with anything worth stealing. When the alarm was raised, they left by dinghy for a nearby pier run by a local yacht maintenance and moorings company. By the time they got there, Plod had arrived and were waiting at the landward end and a rather large gentleman that I'll call Sheamus had arrived at the seaward end and was strolling down towards them. To everyone's regret, scrotes chose Plod, but it wasn't a complete waste of time, they were bang to rights and, with the help of a string of previous, went down for a few years.

When it was all over, we realised that our dinghy's outboard was on the pontoon.
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On the good side of Portsmouth Harbour, we have proper police, ModPlod, with guns.
Sadly they don't shoot the scrotes, just repel them to the badlands of Gosport, Hayling and anywhere with a Scumhampton postcode.
 
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