I would stay in the shed with a few pals just as pentillie post did but would catch one and send out a warning to them all.Take him home if under 18 years old for his dad & mum to deal with him hopefully.
Not sure how you'd persuade him/her to go with you - if you use force/restraint that's likely to be Common Assault in my understanding.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Best to get Community Police involved. If they're slow to react lobby your local councillors - it's the council that pays the police and gives them some priorities.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Unfortunately they're as likely to be stealing your tools than your fresh veg and the Police who can't act to protect the Allotment can charge you with KIDNAPPING and false imprisonment / GBH if you so much as touch the scotes taking your things. It's all terribly silly but as you'll have seen in the news - its the criminals that get more protection!
If you have a shed and have people nearby who would actually do something* a cheap idea would be to securely fit a cheap rape alarm to the shed door and the pull cord to the shed. If the door gets pulled without first removing the cord it goes off.
*I write this because I turned up to my place of work one day and no sooner was I opening the door being first in as two neighbours (it was opposite a residential area) were rudely complaining that our alarm had been going off ALL night and disturbing them.
As a lone young lass I promptly shut the door not wanting to disturb the evidence if something had happened and asked them if they'd called the police - they hadn't. They didn't even THINK about calling the police because "what would they do?" (Aside from contact the owner to turn the alarm off? Oh I don't know - check the business wasn't being emptied of its computers?!)
So don't rely on members of the public to act if you install even the best state of the art equipment with sirens and flashing lights!!
I have been told by a perfectly pleasant copper that, thieves do NOT like glass. If they have to break glass, this will cling to their clothes and is traceable. It's usually the same persons that do the breaking in, so devise a sort of 'Make it as difficult as possible' system for the twots entering the lotty, I have made my own gate, repaired it three times, and now, it will stop even a determined 'teef man'. It has wire mesh, metal grating, bolted thick wooden bars, some strands of barbed wire, heavy gauge wire, bolt, padlock and an AK47 to slow the bugger down. No problems, and it takes me only 20 seconds to get in with a key !
One of our allotment holders is a local bobby and we still have problems. Lately it is nuisance problems like greenhouse doors going missing, shelving from staging disappearing, seeds going missing and bricks through shed windows. Anyone know where we can borrow some comandoes?
One method of deterring 'rascals' from entering your patch, might be to grow particularly vicious brambles. These have a barbed wire property , and also encourage wildlife, and put off low life. On the other hand, if you are sort of open plan allotments, buggered if I know what the answer is. Rent a tiger ? rent a wart hog ? catapults at dusk ? I realise that my situation is really blessed ! Hedged, fenced and sturdy. We get broken in to only every 2 years on a good year ! ? Nowt stolen really for longer than this. Thieves only take stuff that is easily carried, fenced at a car boot, for whatever price they can get to cover 'hit' of their chemical of choice. A south American, (Argentinian ) bolas can slow them down dramatically, by wrapping around the ankles most cleverly ! Damned cunning, those gauchos !
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Not sure how you'd persuade him/her to go with you - if you use force/restraint that's likely to be Common Assault in my understanding.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove there's ways & means i would get them there if touched anything belonging to me that's for sure.
Best to get Community Police involved. If they're slow to react lobby your local councillors - it's the council that pays the police and gives them some priorities.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Unfortunately they're as likely to be stealing your tools than your fresh veg and the Police who can't act to protect the Allotment can charge you with KIDNAPPING and false imprisonment / GBH if you so much as touch the scotes taking your things. It's all terribly silly but as you'll have seen in the news - its the criminals that get more protection!
If you have a shed and have people nearby who would actually do something* a cheap idea would be to securely fit a cheap rape alarm to the shed door and the pull cord to the shed. If the door gets pulled without first removing the cord it goes off.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Metallic-Mini-Minder-Key-ring-Personal/dp/B00BFDF2SQ/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1394870722&sr=8-8&keywords=rape+alarm
*I write this because I turned up to my place of work one day and no sooner was I opening the door being first in as two neighbours (it was opposite a residential area) were rudely complaining that our alarm had been going off ALL night and disturbing them.
As a lone young lass I promptly shut the door not wanting to disturb the evidence if something had happened and asked them if they'd called the police - they hadn't. They didn't even THINK about calling the police because "what would they do?" (Aside from contact the owner to turn the alarm off? Oh I don't know - check the business wasn't being emptied of its computers?!)
So don't rely on members of the public to act if you install even the best state of the art equipment with sirens and flashing lights!!
Use a car battery,horn, lights too with a pull switch between door and shed NOISE
AND LIGHTS the thieves don't like these.This will only deter the amateurs