d j hutton wrote:

Just received the worst one so far! (I know this isn't really in the spirit of the thread)

A 'visit' on the night of the 5th at our Hair Salon, front door lock was forced (must have taken a bit of strength to break it)

Not too much damage but the nice chappies removed a large quantity of (retail only) stock, GHD hair straighteners (very popular at the car boot sales), staff christmas tips , iPod music player and the 40" flat screen we installed this year to entertain the clients (along with half the wall it was attached to!)

Left all the non retail products , computer and new hair dryers, so they obviously came 'tooled up' and knew what to take. Two other salons in the area were done in the same night which is a bit of a coincidence. They forgot to bring any bags so had to use our towel bins and bin bags to carry it all away, must have been disturbed when at the front as about 1/3rd of the retail display was left (unless they were being very picky)

So all good fun, lost business due to 4hr CSI inspection, but on the bright side we did managed to help raise £350 for charity while the police were there, doing a sponsored 'remove my Moustach grown for movember' for the Tesco manager next door.

Not a nice thing to start the day for the girls, but have to say they were all brilliant and we went out for a meal and lots of drinks after work, as bit of a run through for the staff do next week (need to watch that grappa though )

Lets see how good the business insurance is that we have been paying into for the last 16 years!

DJ

Just a bit of an update on this! Hurrah for the boys in blue - had a call today to tell us that they have arrested the guy who did it and he'll be in court in a couple of weeks time. Seems he removed his gloves to use our bin bags and as one broke under the weight of our stock, that was left at the scene - so good work by the CSI team. Doesn't sound like he will be in any position to deny the charges - we'll see what happens on that.

Insurance adjuster seemed to be perfectly happy with our claim, so hopefully we'll get a pay out on that in due course which will be handy.

So good news all round.

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