Wreckers
 

I expect Stingo's busy over at Branscombe :lol:

What is it with all these thieves nicking stuff off the beach. BMW bike - bet they'll go really well, having been in seawater for a few days. Barrels of wine. Packages of nappies. The salt will make baby's botty nice and smooth. Are people really so desperate. Just plain thievery :evil:

Depends whether the containers have been breached before they reached the shore.

Apparantly the police have been handing out forms for the locals to complete with details of everything they 'salvage' - yeah, right.

Personally, I think it is good to see the traditional West Country craft of wrecking coming back in fashion :lol:

Supposed to be fitting front wheels to bmw and wheeling them off the beach. Surely that is a bit too complicated for your average pirate

It's all gone quite mental, hasn't it? I mean, in some ways it's good fun but in other's it's pretty desperate. If I was local I'd go down and have a look, no doubt, but when you see the lengths they're going to...

I think the crates- or some at least- are very close to watertight. That's why they didn't want it to sink in deep water, run a ship into a floating shipping crate at speed and it'll leave quite a scar If they were open to the water, they'd just sink.

Aye.. thats what a friend of one my work colleagues did last night. The dragged the container to shore with a trawler opened it up and the BMW's were wrapped in cardboard, the fitted the wheels removed the cardboard and then wheeled them away. Allegedly you understand :wink:

Fizz - tis what I would be doing too if I had a trawler. That's the salvage business world wide. What do they expect - the tax payer to come along and pick up the clean up bill? At least these folk are taking some of the junk away. The insurance companies must be screaming foul though.

Re: Wreckers
 

Avast!! Scurvy dogs are stealing my booty!! :lol:

Didn't the salvage laws change in the 90's. ?

What annoys me the most is people are ripping containers and stuff open and making an even bigger mess of the beach.

I wouldn't take a motorcycle that wasn't mine from a shop or someones garage, why should a container that has fallen off a ship be any different ?

Surely every container or the shipping company is part of some maritime insurance.
Bout time the insurance company started paying out instead of taking all the time.

As for me I'd rather BMW gave me a bike that hasn't been bashed around in a container rather than sell me the one they retrieved.

I wonder what will happen to the rest of the cargo onboard? Salvage teams appear to be trying to save the vessel, surely remove some of the containers would lesson the weight.

Can this be done at sea?

my first thoughts when i heard this kerfuffle was good for them.

but then watching it on the news and seeing the hoards of pikeys grabbing anything they can and rushing off with it like, well like i don't know what i can't think of a suitable analogy right now, i quickly changed my mind. embarassing.

there was a container of portsmouth fc merchandise which was left untouched. the pikeys said they have some standards