[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#3126437 12-Sep-2023 11:34

msukiwi:

Found a Steering Wheel lock on the berm outside, reviewed video footage.

Got a reg plate, checked, stolen!

Contacted 105. Advised to retrieve the lock carefully and secure.

Advised I have video etc.

24 hours later = NOTHING!

I don't think car theft is a (Even low) priority!

But you go 4km over the speed limit....

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#3126503 12-Sep-2023 13:58

If the police can't or won't do their job, that is an argument for vigilantism. If the authorities don't want vigilantism (A terrible idea) they have a fundamental responsibility to ensure that the police can and will do their job.

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#3126548 12-Sep-2023 14:13

networkn:But you go 4km over the speed limit....

Maybe I should tell them the steering wheel lock is speeding?

Still NO contact from them!

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#3126549 12-Sep-2023 14:13

Unless msukiwi's video has identifiable images of whoever was driving the stolen vehicle there doesn't seem to be anything requiring immediate response to his address. The vehicle is somewhere else.

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#3126551 12-Sep-2023 14:35

Bung: Unless msukiwi's video has identifiable images of whoever was driving the stolen vehicle there doesn't seem to be anything requiring immediate response to his address. The vehicle is somewhere else.

Yes it does! And they were told!

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#3126863 13-Sep-2023 09:17

Rikkitic:

If the police can't or won't do their job, that is an argument for vigilantism. If the authorities don't want vigilantism (A terrible idea) they have a fundamental responsibility to ensure that the police can and will do their job.

Correct. The social contract is that I have given up my right to self-protection in the expectation that society, via the police, the army, social welfare, and other mechanisms, will protect me.

If society fails to provide that protection, then I must do it myself.

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#3127051 13-Sep-2023 13:32

Tell the police you think the miscreants were a bit rude to you on social media. In the UK that would have them round in minutes!

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#3127100 13-Sep-2023 13:38

frankv:

Rikkitic:

If the police can't or won't do their job, that is an argument for vigilantism. If the authorities don't want vigilantism (A terrible idea) they have a fundamental responsibility to ensure that the police can and will do their job.

Correct. The social contract is that I have given up my right to self-protection in the expectation that society, via the police, the army, social welfare, and other mechanisms, will protect me.

If society fails to provide that protection, then I must do it myself.

Reminds me of the old joke:

A bloke calls 111 to report a burglar in his garage. The operator says, "sorry, no cars in the area, we'll follow up tomorrow."

Bloke replies, "No worries, I've got my shotgun here, I'll pop down and take care of him myself"

7.5 minutes later, two vans of Armed Offenders Unit and six cop cars turn up. The bloke is standing on his porch in his pyjamas, totally unarmed.

A cop yells "I thought you said you had a gun!"

Bloke replies "I thought you said you had no cars available"

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#3127101 13-Sep-2023 13:40

BlueShift:

Reminds me of the old joke:

You call it a joke, but I consider it to be more of a how to guide.

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#3127232 13-Sep-2023 16:49

SirHumphreyAppleby:

You call it a joke, but I consider it to be more of a how to guide.

You'd quite likely be charged and fined heavily for wasting police time. I wouldn't recommend it.

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#3127233 13-Sep-2023 16:50

A few years ago a clients laptop was stolen. It had some software on it for our remote management. Stupidly, they took it to their house and powered it on, connected it to their WiFi.

We managed to track it to the address it was at. Called the police, they refused to action it.

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#3127235 13-Sep-2023 16:54

networkn:

We managed to track it to the address it was at. Called the police, they refused to action it.

I keep hearing stories like this, but it has never been my experience. Every time I've involved the Police, they've always gone and got the bad guy.

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#3127242 13-Sep-2023 17:06

frankv:

Correct. The social contract is that I have given up my right to self-protection in the expectation that society, via the police, the army, social welfare, and other mechanisms, will protect me.

If society fails to provide that protection, then I must do it myself.

Apparently you are heading towards times when one can be happy if the police do not also assist with crimes? 😉

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#3127548 14-Sep-2023 09:38

Fibre got installed horizontally right through sewer pipes.

Inevitable blockage eventuated months later.

Plumbers are called who discover the above and as a result need to dig a new trench to lay new sewerage pipes.

As a result of the trenching they cut the fibre. The plumbers did engage a fibre technician to trace any underground services but no trace wire was installed.

Fibre company now billing us for repair.

Service provider asking us to contact the fibre company directly.

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#3127707 14-Sep-2023 12:31

When the fibre was being installed in the berm outside our old address they vacuumed down to every service to check depth and monitored the thrusting to miss everything in about 200m. Reply to the fibre co with the bill for your sewer pipe.

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