‘Vehicle vultures’ stripping family cars as demand for parts surges

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1. A local vet had their private ambulance stripped in the middle of the night recently.

   Low level crime is out of control in this country.

   Tories talking about decreases in crime stats. No one even phones the police anymore for smaller crimes.

   Why waste your time phoning police when something is stolen from you when it will take them two weeks to come and take a statement from you and then another 2 weeks before they close the investigation and cite a lack of evidence.

   Even if you have it on cctv and know the blokes fucking name.

   I don’t blame individual police. But as a service they are failing this country.

2. See, this kinda stuff is why i don’t wanna splash out on a nice car. Nobody touching my 14 y/o shitbox 😎

3. It doesn’t help that manufactures are taking the utter mick with their parts pricing.

   Saw a BMW that had a sensor taken from the front and they wanted £4.5k to replace it. Are we saying a small radar sensor is worth 10% of the cars total value?

4. Vehicle butlers 🤔…… if only there was another name for taking something that doesn’t belong to them….maybe something like Tea Leaf,or,I’ve got it…. Thieving cunts

   Edit: I’m leaving it as butlers… because that made me smile

5. Because of all this, I’ve rented a car to go to London next month.

   I have a Fiesta which is a sitting duck for this kinda thing.

6. I’m glad this is happening tbh. High prices for a £2 car part are spiking insurance premiums and we’re slowly following this trend that’s been happening in the US for years.

   This growth in theft is a sign that price gouging is happening unchallenged and some unscrupulous folk are doing this.

   Edit downvotes for stating the obvious?

   For those who don’t comprehend the situation, cause and effect – Of course criminals will steal this shit – this should be a prompt for the government to intervene in this price fixing.

   Address the cause – Bring the prices down and the effect will be addressed too – the thefts will drop.

7. As soon as I saw Birmingham I understood what’s happening

8. Outside of the obvious issue of rising “petty” criminality, the knock on issue here is that victims are arguably getting “punished” for something completely out of their control. Possibly getting a worse deal than the offender themselves.

   Have to fork out an excess, lose their no claim, and get a hiked premium as a cherry on top.

   These are low end family vehicles in the article, not luxury cars.

   As a society how do we not offer any protection from these offences. Families should not be at risk of financial ruin because some nob decides to rip the bumper off their *Kia Niro*

9. I’m dreading when the ‘crime wave’ reaches the North 🙁 

10. >Detective Superintendent Jim Munro, from West Midlands Police, said better policing intelligence on “chop shops” led to offenders stripping vehicles in public to reduce the risk of being caught.

    Wait, so policing is at the point where you are better off committing crime in daylight