The one thing about Warwickshire is that it is only 2 minutes from Birmingham.
As I discovered the other day, so is Herefordshire! My local bike shop, Dual Sport Motorcycles, in Ledbury (once a main KTM dealer but sadly no longer) was turned over by four guys of Eastern European extraction at about 5am a few weeks ago.
They couldn't get in through the extremely heavily fortified roller-shutter doors (but buggered them in the process) and eventually bashed out the window bars to the office. All of this with the early dog walkers and commuters passing the end of the very short cul-de-sac.
One dog walker and one jogger called the police who (also having to come from some major metropolitan area in Kazakhstan) arrived in time for the alarm-alerted owner to serve tea and biscuits!
The car's reg. no. (helpfully scrawled on a neighbouring lady's garden wall in chalk by the jogger) was popped into the local Big Brother network where it was found to have triggered an ANPR camera in Pershore or somesuch, some twenty minutes later. Sum total of proceeds from the raid, £200 in petty cash from the office drawer.
Needless to say, the forensics were very thorough but so far the scum are still out marauding...wonder if it was the same bunch?
As to what you do in similar circumstances...
