What thieves?

[bobmac]

I decided to tidy my shed the other day and unearthed an old stand-alone garden hammock, you know the type with the metal frame the bed hangs from.
Anyway, I put it up in my front garden with a sign on it for £15, thinking I'll even take £10
I spent most of the day painting my front garden fence so was keeping an eye out but not a sausage.
Cars went by, people out for a stroll passed by and not even a sniff.
So, when I went off for 9 holes with Jan after tea I thought I'll just leave it there and it will go walkies while I'm gone.
Nope.
The fecking thing was still there when I got home. What was more alarming was the shed door was still open and everything still where it should be.

So lucky to live in an honest neighbourhood.
If you look on google earth, you might still see the hammock there

 

[drawboy]

I cleared a house once and it had a fully working clean fridge freezer in it, no use to me plus it couldn't be skipped so I put it on the pavement with a sign saying free to good home on it. It was still there next day, so my mate changed the sign to for sale £30 ono, it was pinched less than an hour later, go figure.

 

[Basher]

Hired a skip once when I was redoing my bathroom. Radiator, old bathroom suite, taps all gone by the morning. The skip was almost empty. Made good use of the space as I had a load of rubble in the back garden including some rockery stone which I no longer needed. The stone went!
God knows who took it (presume some guy in a battered old white transit) they did me a favour though, I got rid of lots of garden rubble.

 

[vig]

Wot good would a 3' hammock be to anyone else?

 

[grumpyjock]

me! free to a good home.
pity ive no place to put it.

now now no rude comments

 

[SatchFan]

Might be our Romany friends (aka thieving Gipsies). We tend to get them every two or three months in our area. Found two of them in my back garden last year. Sent them away with a cheery wave. Phoned the police but they were not the slightest bit interested even though it was reported in the local paper that a lot of items had gone from outbuildings in the area. Mind you, to be fair to the boys in blue by the time they turned up the honest travellers would probably be two counties away.

 

[Crazyface]

Hired a skip once when I was redoing my bathroom. Radiator, old bathroom suite, taps all gone by the morning. The skip was almost empty. Made good use of the space as I had a load of rubble in the back garden including some rockery stone which I no longer needed. The stone went!
God knows who took it (presume some guy in a battered old white transit) they did me a favour though, I got rid of lots of garden rubble.

Scrap metal dealers will have had it. We've got three that constantly trawl around the town. Anything metallic you wish to get rid of just leave in the front garden and it will be gone the next day.