Watch out for...

[spork]

One of those green 'Space Van' backpacker vans on the East coast. Last week i was coming out of the loo at the local and spotted one of them with a guy sitting way back in his seat scanning the car park. I watched for a while, then decided i was dreaming and went for a surf. A couple of hours later I came in to hear that a few guys had their cars broken into. The modus operandi seams to be that old mate watches where you put your key, then waits till you paddle out. he then takes yur money, it seems he like the cash, then puts yur keys and wallet back where he got em from. One guy puts his wallet under the mattress in the back of his ute which has a lockable canopy. $300cash went from his wallet, nothing else touched. Luckily I use one of those surflock things, which i presume was in the too hard basket. I let the cops know, but i was too dumb to take down a rego number and there is hundreds of those things around, be careful.

[kreepykrawly]

, but i was too dumb .

dumb,(fake) cool and helpless ?

[chrisb]

What's your "local" Spork Sydney's Northern beaches
If so, I'll keep a lookout for these scumbags.

[spork]

Mid north coast

[spork]

, but i was too dumb .

dumb,(fake) cool and helpless ?

yer, I struggling for any koolness ay.

[swvic]

Pretty good where I am. The Morn Pen used to be pretty hot . Grooter/Hatchman would know current state. Ever since wetties have had a key stash, I've used it. Just get a door key cut out of metal. Have a B'bong 3/2 and the loop is behind the shoulder. RipC 4/3 has it zipped into leg. Much better

[Trev]

One of the guys up here had his Rodeo Ute stolen a little while back at 5.30am. He always used to leave the keys on the chassis. I kept telling him. Especially after Pridmore's experience.
$15,000 worth - probably now on someone's farm property out in the hills.
Every day I see guys doing the same thing. It's amazing more aren't stolen.

[WANDERER]

One of the guys up here had his Rodeo Ute stolen a little while back at 5.30am. He always used to leave the keys on the chassis. I kept telling him. Especially after Pridmore's experience.
$15,000 worth - probably now on someone's farm property out in the hills.
Every day I see guys doing the same thing. It's amazing more aren't stolen.

I can't beleive people still stash their key - idiots only have themselves to blame, not to mention that their insurance company will laugh at them if they try to claim.

[Trev]

One of the guys up here had his Rodeo Ute stolen a little while back at 5.30am. He always used to leave the keys on the chassis. I kept telling him. Especially after Pridmore's experience.
$15,000 worth - probably now on someone's farm property out in the hills.
Every day I see guys doing the same thing. It's amazing more aren't stolen.

I can't beleive people still stash their key - idiots only have themselves to blame, not to mention that their insurance company will laugh at them if they try to claim.

Yep. Insurance told him, "tough luck".
He's just bought a Kombi.
And a key lock.

[ajohnsen]

I went for a surf at Sharkies down the Coal Coast last week. Came out and looked for my keys. Couldn't find 'em. Walked around the car and there they were, on the middle of the bonnet right where I left them. Car was unlocked, too. That's my new strategy: hide 'em in the open.

[carvin marvin]

I thought all legropes have a key pocket for a single key.

Saw a scumbag at the Pass looking under a car and when I asked him what he was doing said he had lost something there yesterday and was looking for it.
For some reason I didn't believe him.

[spork]

I'v done a similar thing, paddled out on a busy weekend and left the passenger window down. Phone, wallet and $10.000 worth of camera gear in the car. My key was safely in the keylock hanging from the drivers door handle.

[daryl]

I have my methods, it gets complicated and I have resisted explaining on here. Since the times of huge safe key in my leggie, don't wanna go back down the path of key in leggie tho it's not so dah=nged long as the last one. Thing is, portable grinders are chips ya know wot I mean, at aldi's so I see these days so it's all a joke, as whoever it was posted on here once explained, when his shoebox was stolen in the u.k.

[Nick Carroll]

here's where it pays off to live and surf at a "scary" beach

[silvafish]

nth styne 69...got caught red handed pinching a couple of shillings out of neil purchase snr old wagon,in the day you could get a half of loaf of bread and a heap of hot chips wrapped in newspapers from gerrys hamburger bar for a shilling.. neil was a hero to me and i felt like the little turd i was..he then told me he was cool and just ask him anytime i needed a feed...ever since then we have been firm friends..i saw him at a servo the other day after several missing years,he gave me a huge bear hug and asked me if i needed a feed! his got a new hearing aid and he looks great..i still felt the shame though 40yrs later,but have never pinched a thing since

[Trev]

^^^ Could well have been shillings. They were still in circulation then at the same value as 10c.

[silvafish]

14th feb 1966..they drilled the decimal song into our heads ...thanks trev..your all over it nuffink ngo,sorry to disturb you with the chance of the wrong currency....

[chrisb]

nth styne 69...got caught red handed pinching a couple of shillings out of neil purchase snr old wagon,in the day you could get a half of loaf of bread and a heap of hot chips wrapped in newspapers from gerrys hamburger bar for a shilling.. neil was a hero to me and i felt like the little turd i was..he then told me he was cool and just ask him anytime i needed a feed...ever since then we have been firm friends..i saw him at a servo the other day after several missing years,he gave me a huge bear hug and asked me if i needed a feed! his got a new hearing aid and he looks great..i still felt the shame though 40yrs later,but have never pinched a thing since

When I went to pick up my first foam blank from the warehouse section of Shane Stedman's Brookvale factory in the same year I believe, 1969, he caught a couple of kids (about 12 years old) lurking around inside obviously with the idea of stealing something.

He just said to them in a non-threatening hippie sort of manner they had better leave now..... and they did.

It must just have been that same hippie vibe around that time when it was believed that crime situations could be solved in a non-confrontational and non-violent manner.