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Thieving c***s met my dog!

We have a set of rag and bone men that look like gippos and drive around in an old transit pickup, blaring the horn and collecting any scrap people are throwing away.

On Saturday they cruised past my garage whilst the door was open and my two bikes, were on the driveway, whilst I worked on my brothers VFR. They had a good peer into the garage on the way past, and again after turning around in the cul-de-sac. After 20 minutes they returned and did the same again (why would you want to drive up a street you had already been down and knew there was nothing to collect?)

My garden is surrounded by a 6ft wall and a 7ft x 4ft thorn hedge on the outside of that. My shed is just inside that wall and serves as the dog's kennel.

Last night at bedtime the dog asked out, and instead of going to the toilet he went into the shed and made himself comfortable. OK fair enough, that's his bed all day and that's what he's used to and the weather is warming up, so I left him out there with the shed door ajar.

The back gate was unbolted because the bolt is jammed at the moment.

This morning I pulled a manky old jacket and a jumper out of the top of the hedge, 7 foot up, directly adjacent to the shed door and I have a big dent in my shed roof. It looked as if somebody had vaulted the wall, kicked off the shed roof, and scrambled over the hedge. Why would they do that if the back gate was open?

My neighbour heard the dog going mental in the early hours of the morning.

I think, and the police agree, that they have come in through the gate, been attracted by the shed door being ajar, and gone and opened it. At which point they met my dog, who is normally soft as putty, but none too happy about intruders. The dog has got them trapped between the wall and the shed, and they have taken the only way out which was straight up, getting totally stuck in the thorns in the process, and having to slip out of their outer layer of clothing to escape the hedge.

GOOD BOY !!!

:D

Now taking every security precaution possible around my bikes! The police are already very familiar with the rag and bone men!