Houses Being Cased? What To Do.

[Mosaic]

This is a dilemma that I'd appreciate your views on. We live in a quiet residential cul-de-sac, the sort where many properties have been acquired by self-employed builders. These chaps work from home and so have lots of useful kit locked away in their garages. Lately there has been a procession of beaten-up pickup trucks bearing old fridges and bits of aluminium on the back (I'm carefully painting a picture here), who have slowly toured the street during the day when most houses are empty. They give these garages a really good long looking-at, but don't go onto the property.

Now I can appreciate that there are people who do us all the kindness of removing old metallic junk that we might leave in the front garden etc, and I don't begrudge that living for a minute. But this strikes me as the next stage on, viz. finding a quiet time to avail themselves of someone's property.

And yet I cannot see that it is illegal to look at someone's garage while they're at work.

What to do? What would you do?

[dave50]

That's because so called 'minority groups' get special treatment due to the fact that the authorities, heaven forbid, may be accused of some kind of 'ism'. That's far more important than any crime that might be committed.

[woofgang]

please do not call the police "the filth" its not polite or useful.

[craft1948]

Well said woofgang.......

[baza]

^^^^sorry to use a common expression on a public forum, get a life, I do have many friends who wear the serge or polo shirts as are now issued, and they are not bothered what they are called. i

[Mosaic]

Calm down Baza, everyone else has coped. You have a point, especially regarding the area I live in, where in recent years the police could not locate a rapist whose description was given by several witnesses, could not locate who broke into the town hall safe with its own key during working hours, detest being called away from a hot brew and get really sniffy if you try to report this kind of event.
The local authority are as has been described by Dave, quite timid about the thought that they might be accused of discrimination, and are apt to label as racist someone who raised the complaint.
Both of which add to the dilemma. But I think a talk with the community police people will be a starting point.

[craft1948]

Well good for you baza, my brother is a retired police inspector and I can assure you he wouldn't take kindly being referred to as 'filth'.

[Old_Geezer]

Go out and tell them you want a cut or the authorities will be informed.

[jno]

dave50 seems to have convinced himself, on the basis of no evidence whatever, that these people are from ethnic minorities protected by the law...Coming up next: from scrap metal dealer to radical Imam, a burglar's story...