On rightmove.co right now, a Nap 500 and associated equiptment. Potential Burglar alert!

docmark posted:

...The police were useless ...

I wonder if it was the same trailer park. We got robbed once back when I still lived in the UK and narrowly missed them. As we were walking home, we saw a white van parked on our front lawn. Which was really odd. We were a longs ways off so took down the license number as it sped off. We saw no one get into it so they were already inside.

When we finally got in the front door we found the place had been ransacked. Two Linn systems and an Arcam system in 3 different rooms untouched. But they had ransacked every drawer in the house for valuables (of which we had none). 

Reported it to the police with the license number. They found it, picked up a couple of lads. Then they let them go because "They didn't cry. Innocent people don't cry". Then it got surreal, the police accused us of being racist bigots for pointing the finger at gypsies. 

Of course we didn't know they had picked up gypsies until they just said so while berating us. We only gave them a license number and a van colour. I tell you there are not enough jokes about the smells of bacon, coffee and donuts in the world to do justice to how useless and offensive our local coppers were.

Eloise posted:

Richard Dane posted:

I remember some years ago there was an attempted break-in at the Naim factory.  I think that the main target of the attempted theft was a 50" Fujitsu Plasma screen.  [...] However, we noticed that rather closer to their point of entry and exit was a trolley full of NAC552s that had been checked over by Roy and were awaiting packaging. There must have been 60 or 70 grands worth on that trolley but it had been completely ignored by the burglars.

I remember reading (maybe apocryphal) about a Hi-Fi enthusiast who was burgled... gone was the Sony DVD player and Panasonic TV, while the Naim stack was left untouched.  Some burglars have no taste :-)

That is exactly what happened to me - the burglars took a cheap Yamaha tuner which they thought looked far more impressive than the CB NAC/NAP on the shelf above...

docmark posted:

I had a leather bag containing a lot of very expensive items stolen from the desk at my office, in the middle of the day.  Somebody just waltzed right in, grabbed it & ran.  The bag contained an Astell & Kern AK380, Edition 8 headphones, a portable headphone amp, a couple of nice Mont Blanc pens, cheque books, banking information, and an iPad.  After swearing a blue streak for a few minutes, I almost cried.  I think that I was most upset by the loss of my portable sound system & all of the music that had taken hours to load.  Of course, I was most inconvenienced by the loss of the cheques & other banking info. The police were useless - I actually tracked down the bag thru the Find function on the iPad, located it in a run-down trailer park 3 km from the office, right down to the unit in the trailer park.  The police said they knew who lived there, having had run-ins with them in the past.  However I was told that there was nothing  they could do to retrieve my stolen items.  Since then, things get locked up in my office.  Also, thank God for insurance.

It is absolutely ridiculous and abhorrent that thevpolice cannot act directly when they have such information, when a warrant for entry to the trailer should be readily and immediately given on the basis of the iphone location evidence, and the iphone immedoately interrogated - with unlocking info provided by you together with details of content of the iphone. Successful confirmation of that (the trailer occupant given the opportunity to give that first) would be sufficient evidence to remove into police custody the items described by you and take it to court. 

But of course to the overstretched police it is a low value crime and no-one was killed or seriously interested so not worth the time and effort. And then the legal system often seems designed to protect the criminal’s “rights” in some way, perhaps tge police banned from harassing that particular perpetrator.

And that just adds insult ti injury, and makes one wonder why we even have a legal system that is either ineffective, designed for the wrong thing, or bent.

Some have taken this further and created independent private police forces, with some success.

https://www.standard.co.uk/my-...cement-a3507166.html

When I was working in Sweden, I met a colleague who was living in the weekend in the countryside. He told me that they had organized justice themselves in their town since the police is so busy with the new swedes. I got to know a few stories from him.

In our society we have some 'institutions' which don't work good these days, and police is one of them. Freightening, since it is an important piece of how our society is politically, legally and socially constructed.

I think that it's a good move to show stereo equipment. At least it shows where stuff can be positioned. How often have you looked at a property and wondered where your kit could go?

Bananahead posted:

I think that it's a good move to show stereo equipment. At least it shows where stuff can be positioned. How often have you looked at a property and wondered where your kit could go?

But you’d see when you view the property, do no need to have online!