Thieves have stolen four bronze plaques from the Naval Memorial in Plymouth. They are quite large, about 5ft x 3ft, so it must have taken a few people, and a bit of time. How can anyone be as callous as this? The plaques contain the names of dead servicemen from WW2. What kind of a scrap dealer would accept them for cash? I can only assume the thieves had a buyer before removing them. B@st@rds.
It is shocking. Apart from the thieves stopping their activities, it's the scrap dealers who could help by not accepting such booty. I believe some police and local authorities are trying to get the more unscrupulous dealers to change their ways.
This problem isn't going to go away. We are plagued a few times a week by people knocking on the door of our refurb property asking for metal.
One day my hubby arrived to find the door handle gone....
If thieves consider it worth while risking their lives stealing live cable from the railways then bronze plaques are an easy alternative. No sense and no morals.
One of them has been recovered,and I believe someone has been arrested. The police say they know who else was involved.....hopefully the other plaques will be recovered. I don't understand how anyone could think they could get away with such a theft. Apparently the names inscribed are those for whom there is no record of a body or burial. A callous, thoughtless, and nasty crime.
i know scrap dealer who gets so many pikeys in his yard trying to seel his dodgy gear.
One week he had just turned away a van full of aluminium extrusion (brand new) and as the van pulled out of his yard it passed a police car parked just outside the gates.
The police could see what was on van clear as anything, but did they pull them over for a friendly chat................did they heck!!!
the way steel prices are at the moment (doubled in last 6 months) i can see there being a lot of this sort of thing happening.