We visited Nottingham this Easter weekend, staying just 3 nights with a relative.

As is good practice, particularly in cities, we emptied the FL2 of all valuables as we were street parking in a quiet residential road in the NG5 area. We awoke at 06:15 on Sunday to an alarm, and realised slowly it was our alarm on the FL2 (not heard it before!) Checked out the bedroom window and all seemed ok, so I silenced the alarm and we relaxed again; thought it must be cos it was so cold up there!

On checking an hour or two later we discovered to our horror, that someone had indeed broken in the Landy, by smashing in the rear window and grabbing the one bag left in there, containing 5 modest sized Easter Eggs. Of course there were shards of glass, and fine glass dust everywhere inside and out.

So I spent much of Sunday calling people to try and get it all fixed; not easy in the middle of a long Bank Holiday weekend. 5 stars to Autoglass for going out of their way to locate and collect a replacement screen, which was not in their local stock; and then taking great care fitting it in the freezing and windy conditions.

Net cost of those Easter Eggs? ....... £648 + £20 for the chocolate ... and we didn't even get to eat them!!

Let's hope the opportunist early riser who lifted 'em felt it was worth his while!  Life is not a dress rehearsal!

Sorry to hear that mate what a bummer pond life thats all they are hpoe the eggs made them sick 07my Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Baltic Blue,Privacy Glass,Ebony black leather,Land rover detachable towbar,S/S Side bars,Climair wind deflectors,Bramble Rash,

Hi Nick, sorry to have read such a far too common tale inflicted by some of the scum that live in our over-populated country, we have had superglass film fitted to our sumatra black (best colour) FL2, so if the low life do try to get into the car they will only smash the glass unless they are realy persistant. If anybody else fancies making their car safer, try the Pentagon glass web site.
Regards.
Adrian.

Cant type eating, chocolate egg hmm, Mrs monkey came home with a big bag full


Joke aside sorry mate , This sort of stuff gets me so angry.

Hope your easter eggs are free range and not from monopolising store tesgrot!

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Hope your easter eggs are free range and not from monopolising store tesgrot!

Sorry .... I refuse to allow Tescos into another one of my discussion strings!

Yes CG, I'm certainly claiming on insurance for the replacement rear screen as this doesn't hit my NCB, though I've still got to cover the excess of course.  Life is not a dress rehearsal!

Sorry to hear that Nick....................B d's taking what they think they are entitled to!!

A couple of things to learn here for all of us that have been talked about before.

When the alarm goes off actually go and check and taht doesn't just go for your car, but do your public duty and check what, where and when an alarm is going off, you might prevent someone elses eggs getting stolen

The other is that the window films that are out there make it a lot more difficult for people to get into the car and can potentially be worth the money.

Do as Nick does which is remove all of your valuables from your car, no matter where you park.

Was it TESCO insurance?

When I was a student, I lived in Hull. I had my car broken into a few times, once they stole a plastic bag with my dirty shorts and t-shirt from the gym.

I guess the moral of the story is that just because you know what's in the bag, and that it's worthless, doesn't mean the person nicking it does, until they open it that is

Rich

I wonder if privacy glass invites a breakin? after all if they can't see in they may just break the glass to see if theres anything worth taking?

Bad luck Nick.........absolute pain in the

I saw this in the DT today and it makes interesting reading. Particularly as far as insurance premiums go

Top ten riskiest for theft (percentage above national average):

Nottingham 63.3%

London 50.8%

Bristol 50.7%

Stockport 49.8%

Leeds 46.3%

Manchester 46%

Hull 39.4%

Cambridge 35.6%

Sheffield 27.6%

Reading 25.9%

Top ten safest for theft (percentage below national average)

Guildford 82%

Dundee 55.3%

Norwich 54.1%

Swindon 49.4%

Bath 45.8%

Aberdeen 45.7%

Preston 35.7%

Exeter 34.9%

Chester 33.6%

Belfast 33.6%.

Top ten riskiest for accidents (percentage above national average):

Bournemouth 55.2%

Milton Keynes 37.8%

Newport 37%

Hove 30.1%

Plymouth 26.5%

Brighton 19.2%

Derby 16.8%

Northampton 16.7%

Bath 12.9%

Cheltenham 12.2%

Top ten safest for accidents (percentage below national average)

Manchester 43.4%

Leeds 40%

York 34.7%

Newcastle upon Tyne 30.9%

Guildford 28.2%

Liverpool 28.2%

Belfast 28.1%

Swindon 25.6%

Birmingham 24.8%

Reading 20.9%. Freelander 2 TD4 HSE
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Really sorry to read about events nick. I'm gonna do as Gammba suggests, might not hear his car from Risky London though.
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