Farmers “at war” with rural crime gangs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5111vx8y4mo
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Farmers “at war” with rural crime gangs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5111vx8y4mo
Posted by Aggressive_Plates
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> Local farmers, like many across the country, are now using mobile phone chat groups to warn each other of any suspicious activity, day or night.
> “We have to leave our phones on 24 hours a day so it is just that constant anxiety,” said Mr Porter.
farmers are doing the job that the police refuse to?
Good thing UK has disarmed the UK with draconian mandatory 5 years in prison for owning a gun.
So that… uh… criminals dont pose a threat.
Eagerly awaiting the next series of *Clarkson’s Farm* where he and the lads get together with other local farmers and take on the gangs.
“He has been targeted by thieves and violent gangs breaking onto his land for illegal racing and gambling on dogs chasing hares.
Mr Porter told the BBC: “If we didn’t have all our defences, the countryside would simply become even more lawless and it would be an unsafe place in which to live because these people are hugely threatening.”
I can’t begin to imagine who might be doing this 🙄
Our city become Oakland, and our country become cowboy towns. Amazing UK…
>rural crime gangs
> illegal racing and gambling on dogs chasing hares.
Yeah definitely must be ‘rural crime gangs’ can’t think of any other possibility…
The BBC hilariously trying to skirt around the obvious there.
rural crime gangs lol fuck off back to the city. farmers dont fuck around. remember that video of a dude getting his car moved by a tele handler just for blocking a field entrance?
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All the rural people I know have said there is a huge uptick in theft from the local gypsies, police as always too scared to do anything.
How about getting geese and letting them roam your lands, like an army of honking nutters?
There was an episode of Clarksons Farm where some morons had set fire to his property and when he spoke to the police apparently they had their Mitsubishi 4×4 taken off them and they were given a Corsa to chase criminals off road in. Like, how on earth are the police supposed to apprehend suspects on quad bikes ripping up fields if they get stuck in the mud by the gate in a front wheel drive Corsa?
Having lived rurally for quite a bit of my life I can tell you that only the farms with the strongest deterrents actually avoid serious theft and damage which costs thousands and takes time to maintain. Criminals move on to softer targets with less security quickly.
My partner had his farm pickup stolen back in December. Literally broke into the house and stole the keys. All Humberside police did was state that it was likely to be in Hull or Teeside. The plates were found abandoned near a car boot sale in Hull. He managed to get a replacement eventually but he is now paranoid about leaving it in fear that the replacement pickup would be stolen too.
I don’t live with my partner but live with family in Leeds. Ironically a couple of weeks later I was woken up to a right racket at 2am. Looked outside to see the cul-de-sac lit up with a Police Traffic car having boxed in a different stolen pick-up. This was involved in a chase and the idiots who stole it tried to get away by driving it down a narrow cul-de-sac and wondered why they essentially got boxed in.
“Rural crime gangs” oooook bbc, ok. We gotcha.
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Anyone wondering what the types of crime being committed:
“One farmer told the BBC he faced “constant warfare” against balaclava-clad thieves breaking into his farmyard and also against gangs of illegal hare-coursers.
(another farmer):
He has been targeted by thieves and violent gangs breaking onto his land for illegal racing and gambling on dogs chasing hares. “
Disappointing to see so many comments intrinsically linking the lack of a police response to the fact that the suspects are travellers.
I live in the middle of urban London and the police response to pretty much anything other than violent crime is non-existent.
The police don’t have the resources but they also lack the will anymore to tackle crime. I mean they literally just had to be ordered to investigate burglaries. I mean in my borough they refused to support asb/exclusion orders around the station. Literally telling the mayor they won’t enforce it.
They just prefer to tackle people with something to lose.
Back them up then?!…they can provide Intel, including locations, activity and potentially names and face .. so the police can arrest them
Love reading the comments on such articles to pick out the Americans crying about the UK’s sensible approach to firearms. For any American’s, it’s because we decided to be grown up about access to them.
You mean ‘Gypsies’ and the more modern rebrand of ‘Travellers’ right?