Fonz
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Registered: 12th May 06
Location: Newbury, Berks
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this was uploaded to Facebook today by a freidn travelling north, saw this and i can see why it has been uploaded and shared!!
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FAZ
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Registered: 24th Nov 07
Location: Coventry
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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wankers stealing agricultural machinery now so they need something to tackle this.
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gtitim
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Registered: 13th Feb 05
Location: the boonies
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Belongs to Lincs Police ( well loaned to them ) and is used for PR etc. Gets people talking. If there were Porsches, Lambos and Ferraris at 100k a time being nicked several times a week, the public would be up in arms. When its an 80k tractor, no-one bats an eyelid. Easy to steal, load on a lorry and export. We were having loads nicked. In fact, I think I know the driver of the tractor - his name is Paul!
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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paul mycock?
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gtitim
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Registered: 13th Feb 05
Location: the boonies
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no thanks, not that way inclined. If it floats your boat or pulls your plonker, then good on you i say!
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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never trusted a tim anyway. shady characters.
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gazza808
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Registered: 30th Jun 08
Location: Peterborough
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Pretty old news to me, considering I live in rutland,
More wasted money.
As if you need a tractor badgers.
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Wrighty
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Registered: 28th Feb 04
Location: Howden
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another example of unreal wasting of tax payers hard earned
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Cole
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
Location: eastbourne Drives:zafira sold now a qashqai
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i saw in the evening standard the met have bought a lorry so they can see into the cabs of other lorrys on the motorways
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gtitim
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Registered: 13th Feb 05
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quote:
Originally posted by Wrighty
another example of unreal wasting of tax payers hard earned
if you had seen it in the paper - the tractor is on loan, the graphics were paid by the NFU, the diesel is subsidised by the NFU, the blue lights etc are all off write off cop cars. It costs a bit in wages to pay a driver, but is great PR for a rural force who have probably had over £1,000,000 of theft of tractors and plant this year.
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Graeme
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Registered: 26th Jul 04
Location: Northampton
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exactly, alot of the farmers in know all leave the keys in or around the vehicles as you have alot of people jumping in and out of them and then making them alot easier to knick.
And also alot of the keys for the machines are the same for each manufacturer so easy to knick that way.
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richc
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Registered: 24th Mar 07
Location: Ilkeston
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quote:
Originally posted by Graeme
exactly, alot of the farmers in know all leave the keys in or around the vehicles as you have alot of people jumping in and out of them and then making them alot easier to knick.
And also alot of the keys for the machines are the same for each manufacturer so easy to knick that way.
You would think all insurance would be void as everybody just leaves the keys in them. Common practice on site, and we do it at work all day long.
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gtitim
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Registered: 13th Feb 05
Location: the boonies
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John Deere for example have 4 or 5 keys for their whole range. Easy to get, easy to copy, no immobilisers etc. easy to hotwire too. Our farm now lock as many tractors away in the workshops as possible, leaving the real old stuff blocked in by implements because they are regularly stealing tractors for export, so not worried if they are older
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tom130691
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Registered: 13th Sep 08
Location: Daventry
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did you overtake it?
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