Can you believe this?

[10ClarionSt]

Thieves have stolen four bronze plaques from the Naval Memorial in Plymouth. They are quite large, about 5ft x 3ft, so it must have taken a few people, and a bit of time.
How can anyone be as callous as this? The plaques contain the names of dead servicemen from WW2. What kind of a scrap dealer would accept them for cash? I can only assume the thieves had a buyer before removing them. B@st@rds.

[rabbitygirl]

It is shocking. Apart from the thieves stopping their activities, it's the scrap dealers who could help by not accepting such booty. I believe some police and local authorities are trying to get the more unscrupulous dealers to change their ways.

This problem isn't going to go away. We are plagued a few times a week by people knocking on the door of our refurb property asking for metal.

One day my hubby arrived to find the door handle gone....

If thieves consider it worth while risking their lives stealing live cable from the railways then bronze plaques are an easy alternative. No sense and no morals.

[Eve]

Quite :(

Amazes me what people will nick.

Our office cleaner had big problems in our last place, I used to let her store toilet rolls in my office as people kept stealing them!

They've nicked a few of her hoovers in the past as well!

[pastafreak]

One of them has been recovered,and I believe someone has been arrested. The police say they know who else was involved.....hopefully the other plaques will be recovered. I don't understand how anyone could think they could get away with such a theft. Apparently the names inscribed are those for whom there is no record of a body or burial. A callous, thoughtless, and nasty crime.

[pastafreak]

http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/arrested- stolen-memorial-plaque-discovered/article-2038 81-detail/article.html

[pastafreak]

Sorry to go off-topic 10Clarion......but how was your visit to Plymouth a few weeks ago...did you track down that internet cafe??

[randyraven]

Pikies I bet ...They are sub human.

[randyraven]

Send them to the glass house for two years ....

[redcrx]

i know scrap dealer who gets so many pikeys in his yard trying to seel his dodgy gear.

One week he had just turned away a van full of aluminium extrusion (brand new) and as the van pulled out of his yard it passed a police car parked just outside the gates.

The police could see what was on van clear as anything, but did they pull them over for a friendly chat................did they heck!!!

the way steel prices are at the moment (doubled in last 6 months) i can see there being a lot of this sort of thing happening.

[Ice.Maiden]

A sad indication of today's society, but until the puinishments fit the crimes, this sort of thing'll carry on.

[up4it]

Check the local university .... I am sure you'll find them in one of the dorm rooms somewhere lol