micromacromonkey

timely. Can you get me an EU passport too? :D

Shiteloader? And that dreadful tw@t Jonny Borrell? Perhaps we can dig a big hole in the park before they get there and bulldoze them all into it (not Basement Jaxx though, they are spared).

sorry to hear :( You say that it was because the deadlock wasn't on, so I guess they operated the lock from inside? Was it a hand through the letterbox or did they just smash the window and reach in? Or I guess they could have picked the lock but not sure how many local scallies have those skills.

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > se22cat Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Lockpicking Lawyer on Youtube has made > mincemeat > > of every single Kryptonite lock.. > > Of course, no lock is impenetrable... but if your > bike is more difficult to get at than the one next > to it, then it's more likely to be passed over by > any would-be thief. Exactly, it's all a question of risk management. If a thief REALLY wants it they will just wait til you return with the key then push you off as you are riding away. If you check out Sold Secure (used by insurers to rate locks), the kryptonite lock I mentioned is 'gold rated' meaning that by their standardised methodology it takes a pretty long time to get it off. They are unlikely to have that opinion swayed because a skilled lockpicking expert posted a youtube video about it.

snoopy17 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Never use one of those cheap wire locks even for 5 > minutes, anyone with a scissors can cut through > them. Cable locks are pretty rubbish as you say, but I do occasionally use one when we've got the kids with us and need to lock up three or four bikes. It's a question of acceptable risk. Plenty of d-locks are also rubbish and only give the illusion of safety. The largest commercially available bolt cutters in the UK can cut through almost all d-locks up to about 15mm, so if you REALLY want something safe then kryptonite new york fahgettaboudit is a good bet with an 18mm shackle. And always get the shortest one that is of use; the ones with really long shackles actually make it easier to lift the bike and twist the lock off.

ianr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.bikeshd.co.uk/ trawls and conveniently > publishes details of bikes "found on sale in and > around London", specifically to help people trace > stolen ones. The first two pages I looked at each > had photos and details of 60 bikes, all currently > listed on Ebay. I've not worked out what their > update protocol is, but it looks as if they add > items at least hourly during daytime. Their home > page currently says 15 bikes addded today, 139 > 'this week', which looks as if it means 'from > Monday'. I think it's best to assume they trawl > only Ebay and to keep checking Gumtree as well. A similar website is Find That Bike. You can register the theft and it also scrapes the main sites (ebay, gumtree etc) to save you having to search multiple places to see if it turns up 'second hand'. http://findthatbike.co.uk/ If it's an Orbea, I'm assuming it's a half decent road bike, in which case it may be stripped for the groupset etc rather than just sold in in one go. When I got a bike nicked about 4 years ago the police told me that they are often just taken out of the country, but I'm not clear how that would work in practice and how it would be financially worthwhile for the villains.

Huggers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > CPZ will make no difference to amount of cars > used, but might stop peoples non local relatives > parking their campervans in the streets. Its a > cynical financial thing for the council. We voted > against it but they are pushing it through anyway. Don't quite understand the obsession with how much this costs. It's a tiny fraction of the cost of running a car. I am considering getting rid of my car as a result of this (and the ULEZ), given that living in London it is rarely required (going to the tip and B+Q are my only uses for it really).

Super-endurance rider Mark Beaumont tried to break the penny farthing hour record last year at Herne Hill:

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wonder what the rental terms are for these > charging points - fixed price or a %age of > revenue? If the latter the council has no interest > in pegging charges. Rather the reverse. Indeed, > who is selling the power to the provider? Is it an > energy co or are they buying it via the council? > For the council, whatever the payment structure, > they are turning parking spaces (which we used to, > and still do, pay for through the Council Tax) > into revenue generators. As they do for CPZs. This > is all about uncapped revenue generation. In this > case with, I'm guessing, no hypothecation. Perhaps a FOI request required to obtain the info from the council.

sheff Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Holy cow! > > https://www.thecakestore.co.uk/batman-scene-cake/ lol. Harrods will do you a custom made cake from scratch for less than that.

https://www.whatcar.com/news/electric-vehicle-charging-%E2%80%93-what-does-it-really-cost/n16833

Google says 300-395km, so let's say 200 miles, and that costs ?34. Renault claim their 1 litre petrol Clio does 66mpg around town. Chinny reckon to that, but even if we accept 50mpg, at 125p per litre of petrol (says google), that gives us ?22.50 for the same amount of miles. So that is VERY expensive IMHO. Charging infrastructure should not only be available, but be price controlled. Most of the cost of petrol is tax so what is the excuse for Source? (Apart from upfront capital costs, but then other industries don't expect customers to pay through the nose for this.)

macutd Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I shop in Lidl a lot and they always have that > thing of when it's sold out, then you have to wait > for next delivery. > Perhaps we're just a bit spoilt at Sainsbury's. Exactly. Some people appear to be failing to pull themselves together. The supermarkets' ability to provide everything you want, at all times of the year and all times of the day, and without a blemish on it, is one of the principal causes of increased plastic utilisation, pollution and general resource depletion.

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > micromacromonkey Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Sue Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > doogleflip Wrote: > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > ----- > > > > In our company we have had 2 vans broken > into > > > and > > > > tools stolen from the back. One attempted > > break > > > in > > > > with holes drilled into the back doors. One > > set > > > of > > > > ladders stolen off the roof bars and this > > > morning, > > > > one of our engineers woke up to discover > his > > > front > > > > window smashed and sat nav / bag stolen. > > > > > > > > All of these incidents have happened over > the > > > last > > > > 12 months. We're a family business. This is > > > really > > > > upsetting. > > > > > > > > > Obviously I'm very sorry to hear this, and I > > > really don't want to sound unsympathetic, but > > > surely vans should be emptied of bags, tools, > > > satnavs etc at night? > > > > > > That's why you often see notices on vans "no > > tools > > > left in this vehicle overnight", as otherwise > > > these (expletive deleteds) will break in on > the > > > offchance. > > > > And women with short skirts are asking for it? > > > That is completely different. As I'm sure you > realise. No, it is the same. It's called victim blaming. Crime is the fault of the perpetrator, not the victim.

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > doogleflip Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > In our company we have had 2 vans broken into > and > > tools stolen from the back. One attempted break > in > > with holes drilled into the back doors. One set > of > > ladders stolen off the roof bars and this > morning, > > one of our engineers woke up to discover his > front > > window smashed and sat nav / bag stolen. > > > > All of these incidents have happened over the > last > > 12 months. We're a family business. This is > really > > upsetting. > > > Obviously I'm very sorry to hear this, and I > really don't want to sound unsympathetic, but > surely vans should be emptied of bags, tools, > satnavs etc at night? > > That's why you often see notices on vans "no tools > left in this vehicle overnight", as otherwise > these (expletive deleteds) will break in on the > offchance. And women with short skirts are asking for it?

tl;dr A long list of Keynsian economists (principal signatory David Blanchflower) are backing Labour over the Tories.

I guess with keyless entry it's easy to break in, but then if you drive off perhaps some car models will just stop once the key is out of range, making it rather useless? I know our car (2012 BMW) gets very upset if you switch it on and walk away with the key, I don't know how long before it takes executive action and turns off the engine (if at all).

Why does anyone have this remote theft setting enabled? Or is it simply not possible to disable it on some cars?

are any of the commenters here estate agents, or just guessing? (educated guess or not)

bels123 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Buy a ?car key signal blocking pouch? from eBay, > we had the same issue but this stopped them > cloning the signal. > > Or in the short term I believe wrapping in tin > foil or putting key in the fridge has the same > effect. Turn off this feature in the car's settings. It's more trouble than it's worth.

Get multi-point locks to make it much more difficult to kick in. You can do it for wooden doors with a special lock (like the ones in upvc doors) which operates locking widgets at the top and bottom as well as the centre and can be activated electrically. Also note that if you have glass then by far the easiest way to break in is to smash the glass and reach through and turn the inside handle. In fact this can be done in doors with no glass by simply reaching through the letterbox, as I discovered when the door in my last house shut behind me. So if you need a new door then address that vulnerability also. The lock I bought can be released with a button (well out of reach) so there is no handle on the inside, but at the very least a deadlock (key only, not a little thumb lever on the inside) is necessary. And finally if you have euro cylinders then make sure they are snap proof and bump proof. Again from experience (losing the key for our upvc french doors in the old house) it is astonishingly easy to break these by pulling off the faceplate, attaching some mole grips and twatting them with a hammer. The central bit of the cylinder has a screw-hole through it and just snaps off as it's a hard but brittle material. I got some really good ones that have the inside bit made of a different steel that won't snap, and also can't be 'bumped' (typical picking method): https://www.locksonline.co.uk/Euro-Profile-Cylinders/High-Security-Anti-Snap-and-Anti-Bump-Cylinder.html

We back onto the railway line (copleston) where it is in a cutting, and relatively straight so no flange squeal. The gardens on our side of Copleston are relatively long, with trees at the bottom, whereas Ivanhoe ones are slightly shorter. There is some noise I guess, but it has never bothered us for the year we've lived here. So much so in fact that on a recent train journey we had a conversation about how annoying it would be to live right next to a railway, then remembered that we actually DO and it isn't. I find the plane noise more intrusive than the railway and you'll get that most places round here. If you are down the bottom end of Copleston where the railway is on an embankment then it would deffo be noisier.

rjsmall Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That change would be strange considering that > until a year or so ago the petrol station on East > Dulwich Road was a BP before becoming an Esso. Not > sure whether these businesses operate under a > franchise type model or are owned by the petroleum > company. Both. The one on East Dulwich Road was a BP franchise. When I went in to swap a butane gas canister for a patio gas one they told me I needed to take it to BP New Kent Road as that was the closest 'in-house' BP station which could do this.

Tatty Mum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have a hybrid, ?9 to ?10 to charge on the > dedicated Source London Points plus membership > -after the first year of ?4 per month- (these > points are often blocked by electric car club > cars plugged in but not charging Blue City is > owned by tge same French company that owns the > charging points) this give an electric only range > of 28-34 miles, the Ubitricity points in the > street lamps for the same amount of charge cost > ?2.28 via an app with no membership = no brainer. > Love driving without adding to the emmissions but > we are a long way from it being an easy choice and > if I could rely on an electric car club vehicle > being readily available would have no hesitation > in not owning a car. > As for Townley Road, expect to regularly see a row > of Red Blue City Electric cars more or less based > there permanently, can't wait! ?10 for 30 miles? That is ridiculous! That has to be twice as much as a petrol car for that mileage. Didn't realise it was such a ripoff.

herne hilly Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can understand why they would install in a cluster > as there was a lot of road digging to get the 5 i > have saw being done in se24. Saying that, > positioning them outside sunray park on a dead end > road with no houses around is odd. > I would be interested to know how many hours they > have been used, from what i have seen i would say > at most one has been used for maybe a few hours in > total in the last month. They are empty 99% of the > time Chicken and egg though. There aren't many electric vehicles using the chargers because overall the charging infrastructure is insufficient to support their practical use. So we need to build the infrastructure to make it easier for people to take the plunge and buy eletric cars. (I think I also sent that message via PM for some reason oops)