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| zone30 Member Since: 07 Sep 2012 Location: Gent Posts: 669   
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When I was young I heard of a story about a guy who trafficked mercury through the harbor border. They knew about it but could never catch him doing it. Till one day, he rode his bike to the gates, like he always did, but dropped it and couldn't get it back up...
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6th May 2015 11:06am |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17466  
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When I lived in Oxford it was rumoured that someone stole an entire Metro 6R4 rally car from Cowley Works in man-handleable sized pieces. Whether it is true or not, I couldn't say. It wasn't unknown apparently for complete engines etc to be carried out through the gate in the middle of a group of men.
Then there's the famous story of the wheelbarrows..... |
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6th May 2015 11:53am |
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| mk1collector Member Since: 17 Sep 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 6769  
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I'd have had a go for a metro 6r4, they were bonkers! Ray
My build thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic17615.html |
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6th May 2015 12:38pm |
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| alby Member Since: 25 Dec 2014 Location: The Shire Posts: 159 
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At the place where my brother works there's a welder who makes gates and railings and other garden ironwork to order....
In the company's workshop, on their time, with their steel He's rumoured to get away with it because they're really very nicely made indeed, and he's made them for most of management having waived his usual fee |
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12th May 2015 7:42pm |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018 
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It takes a while...but they got there in the end: "A Jaguar Land Rover employee who stole car parts worth up to £2million from the company’s Gaydon site has been ordered to pay more than £260,000 in compensation. Disgraced former logistics co-ordinator Simon Wensley, who had used his own automotive business as a cover to sell the stolen parts, is currently serving a five-year jail term. Wensley, aged 56, of Kingsbury Road, Coundon, had denied the theft and two fraud charges, but was convicted after a four-week trial at Warwick Crown Court in May last year. On that occasion a hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act was adjourned for a police financial investigation into his assets to be carried out. When that had been completed, the court heard that Wensley, who had maintained his innocence despite the verdicts, did not accept the findings. But after further discussions on the day the Proceeds of Crime Act hearing was due to take place, prosecutor Rupert Jones and Wensley’s barrister Ben Williams said figures had been agreed. Mr Jones said Wensley’s benefit from the thefts had been a total of £846,860 and, taking into account a share in the value of the marital home, his assets totalled £260,261. So Judge Stephen Eyre QC made a confiscation order in that amount under the Proceeds of Crime Act. He ordered it to be paid in full within three months, with Wensley facing an additional three years in jail in default, and to be used to pay compensation to JLR Gaydon. http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/cove...r-12370875 |
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27th Dec 2016 7:24am |
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| Pilgrimmick Member Since: 16 Nov 2015 Location: Highlands Posts: 582
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Unfortunately the Proceeds of Crime Act has not been as effective as hoped and most people who take, even simple precautions will never have to pay a penny. 80" 1948 Lightweight V8 Bowler Tomcat 130 Station wagon 90 300tdi (Santana PS10 pick up) Range Rover L322 (Ful fat) |
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27th Dec 2016 8:20am |
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