How could anybody do this to Morecambe Golf Club?

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Saturday night and following a power surge there was a power cut and 50,000 homes lost power in Lancaster/Morecambe area.

Some opportunists broke into Morecambe Golf club as the alarm was not working and took shirts and Oakley sunglasses.

How anybody can sleep at night is beyond me and Simon Fletcher the head pro there is distraught. Obviously the thieves have to offload the stock somewhere so please be warned
 
Bad news, too late now but he just have kept the servicing up to date on the alarm. His insurance is possibly void because of this.
There are some real scum bags out there unfortunately.
 
D4RK1 said:
Bad news, too late now but he just have kept the servicing up to date on the alarm. His insurance is possibly void because of this.
There are some real scum bags out there unfortunately.
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Perhaps you are more technical than me but because of the power failure the thieves were able to gain entry because of the electricity problem.

The shirts were Hugo Boss and I have spoken with the pro who thinks it is somebody local
 
3offTheTee said:
Perhaps you are more technical than me but because of the power failure the thieves were able to gain entry because of the electricity problem.

The shirts were Hugo Boss and I have spoken with the pro who thinks it is somebody local
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I think he means that most alarm systems have a battery backup and this one maybe wasn't in a serviceable condition.
 
Without meaning to minimise the theft and the upset it will have caused - they were lucky that's all they lost - replaceable stuff! Try losing all your trophies through a burglary - whole bleedin' club distraught ... :(
 
It is interesting that they went for the Boss shirts and the sunglasses, though, because I would think that there were more valuable goods available. I guess it is the stuff that they are most likely to sell to non-golfers. It definitely sucks. I hope they did not do too much damage to the shop itself, very often the damage caused to doors, locks, windows etc. and sometimes vandalism adds up to much more than the stolen merchandise is worth.
 
Capella said:
It is interesting that they went for the Boss shirts and the sunglasses, though, because I would think that there were more valuable goods available. I guess it is the stuff that they are most likely to sell to non-golfers. It definitely sucks. I hope they did not do too much damage to the shop itself, very often the damage caused to doors, locks, windows etc. and sometimes vandalism adds up to much more than the stolen merchandise is worth.
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Issue then becomes an insurance one - with club required to put measures in place to prevent or minimise likelihood of it happening again - and these measures can be intrusive and expensive.
 
3offTheTee said:
Saturday night and following a power surge there was a power cut and 50,000 homes lost power in Lancaster/Morecambe area.

Some opportunists broke into Morecambe Golf club as the alarm was not working and took shirts and Oakley sunglasses.

How anybody can sleep at night is beyond me and Simon Fletcher the head pro there is distraught. Obviously the thieves have to offload the stock somewhere so please be warned
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Surprised there aren't more reports of looting. Lots of talk of it in Lancaster apparently. What on earth drives some people to this? Beggars belief.
 
I just so does not beggar belief... Its a business with assets that has been robbed just like any other thing that gets robbed, any other time or day. Its about as normal a part of life as anything.... Sadly. Do you think robbers think "oh its a golf club, I better not rob it". They think easy target, rob it, sell the goods, get some drugs... or whatever.
 
Thieves are thieves, and if the opportunity arrives they will take it e.g my dad was pickpocketed at a football match by a fellow "fan"

Power outage, alarms down, cover of darkness and Police services focussed on helping others elswhere. To most, that is risk to safety etc. To them it is an opportunity.
 
brendy said:
I think he means that most alarm systems have a battery backup and this one maybe wasn't in a serviceable condition.
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I think you may be wrong mate, the battery is there to set off the alarm should the mains power fail (in case burglars cut the power to the alarm box I suppose). Have you not noticed how loads of house alarms go off during a power cut? I imagine in this case the alarm was going off but was ignored and the burglars pulled the wires from the battery or just got in with it. Pure guess work in my part of course.
 
Beezerk said:
I think you may be wrong mate, the battery is there to set off the alarm should the mains power fail (in case burglars cut the power to the alarm box I suppose). Have you not noticed how loads of house alarms go off during a power cut? I imagine in this case the alarm was going off but was ignored and the burglars pulled the wires from the battery or just got in with it. Pure guess work in my part of course.
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Basically a battery is purely for these scenarios.
It acts as a backup and will keep everything on the system running as if there was no mains fail.
As you rightly say, if the battery is dead the external bell box rings (this has its own battery backup) and it why peoples house alarms ring in power out situations.
If you have a power cut and your alarm stays nice and quiet then your battery back up is doing as it should.

Hope that clears up the alarm issue.
 
That's really bad news - hopefully the shop is covered by insurance
 
Terrible the way these low life prey when people are at their most vulnerable. No doubt there will be stories in the papers in a few days of those houses deserted when the floods became life threatening being robbed by opportunist criminals looking for easy money.
 
Know Morecambe well, we start our golf society season off there every year. The Pro Shop is separate to the clubhouse and is quite secluded. Can see it would be an easy target with no security especially if there's no "live in" steward. Guess it will be the local smack-rats and opportunistic if they've left the golf gear.....looks like they've gone for the high value, easy to shift stuff. Hope the insurance covers it but that's not really the point - scumbags.
 
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