“If its not chained down they’ll steal it… or they’ll break it”
Who are they, they are the public and that is what one business owner continually reminds me.
While it cannot be condoned I can at least understand theft, someone wants (or even needs) an item, or the cash that it could be converted to on the black market known as eBay.
However I cannot understand vandalism. Why can’t people just leave things alone. Anyone who has a car has had, at some stage, an aerial bent, a side mirror flicked in, or a bonnet dented.
CCTV is often spoken of as a panacea. But we must distinguish between live monitored CCTV and unmonitored recorded CCTV. The former is a pipe-dream for the average Joe, but what good is the latter. Of what use is it to you if you can find the image of the black haired Caucasian dancing on your cars bonnet? You won’t know his name and address, and if you did he wouldn’t pay.
So, dear readers, unless you live in Singapore where hoodlums actually fear the Police, I strongly advise that you lock every thing down. Think of it like this, if it’s valuable there it should be either attached to, or blocked in by, a metal formation of some kind, be it pad-lock, chain, gates, mesh or bollard.
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