Theives have now stolen specialist saddles etc from our local riding for the disabled centre ... I feel so sorry for the children as they must look forward so much to their riding sessions and having contact with the ponies.
Yup - when we were done a few yrs back we got wond of exactly where it was, who was runnign the show and what boat to Ireland it'd all be on..... we told police - nothing!! a friend sent some 'boys' around, and hers appeared in her garden at 5am next morning!!
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This is the second time in a year that they have been robbed. I think maybe more security is needed when you know you have specialist equipment like that you need to take extra precautions don't you think? Especially if you aren't adequately insured, suppose it's easy to say in hindsight.
I really don't know what they could do - the stables back on to the motorway - in fact as I pass there often I thought what great stables they are and I didn't realise until this whose stables they were. It's the sort of place where sadly those out to do no good would have access and be able to do whatever in their own time ...
They live on site Marilyn in the log cabin but last time they got robbed they were on holiday and had someone going in to do the horses. We get our haylage from across the way at Jeff and Jims and they have a good view of the site but as you say you can't be on guard 24/7. Thats alot of saddles to go so they must have had some kind of transport and must have used the entrance to escape. They would have been spotted going down the motorway embankment or across the fields i would have thought. It must be so heartbreaking for the children that use the riding school. I hope they catch the thieving swines but i guess they probably won't because thats so typical these days.
I am amazed that the police who say that the goods usually go to the ferries early in the morning to Ireland etc. cannot catch them if they know this. I heard of someones digger being stolen and they know that they go on the ferries to Spain so why cant they not catch them. This would probably deter any more thieving.
The last time I reported my thefts in February the clerk who took my details said it is about time we put a stop to this as it is causing such problems for horse owners etc. I had a card from the police saying that after thorough investigation there was not sufficient evidence. What investigations I ask???? I am going over to the RSPCA and ask if their camera could rotate a bit further and show my gate in future.
I was told this is exactly what they do with stolen trailers too. Two of my direct neighbours have had their Ifor Williams trailers taken and we were told they'd have been on the ferry almost before they'd been discovered missing.
Wouldn't a cheap way to prevent this (in the long run) be for some fundraising for a burglar alarm linked to the police station? Now it's happened more than once they may qualify for a decent system. There must be charitable trusts for the disabled who would help to pay.
Were they postcoded? My local Horsewatch people say even if they recover such stuff, they can't return it to people without a postcode/identification embossed on it. They'll visit yards to do 'job lots' free.
Not very helful to this poor couple at this stage though...
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