On Monday 11th at 10.30pm I received a phone call from the yard owner of the stables to say my Horse Trailer had been stolen. I immediately told Brian adn we set off to the yard to discover the quad bike had also been taken. I phoned the YO to say we were on our way and she told us that her daughter's partner had been down and saw his flat bed trailer with our quad dumped at the side of the road about 1/2 mile from the yard.
On arriving we saw the quad and a passing car driver stopped and helped us get the quad back to the yard, luckiky it had not been damaged though the trailer was in bits. The reason they left the quad is because it was secured to the trailer with anti bolt cutter devices. How they even gotit as far as they did baffles us as they had no key and it had not been hot wired.
So we arrived at the yard and yep it was definitely our trailer that was taken. We had it boxed in with another trailer and a car and it had a high security wheel lock fitted but they still managed to get it.
Now the amazing story starts,
First of all the farmer next door seen two suspicious men late at night lying on the grass, he got in his car and went to check his premises and cattle, that was when he saw our trailer being towed away, he followed them while phoning the police... (What if he hadn't of looked out of his window and seen those men, what if he'd not bothered to phone our YO and what if the YO waited till later to phone us),
Then while my partner was on the phone to the police another officer sitting next to her overheard the conversation, he was watching another incident in Northampton when sudenly he saw our trailer beign driven on his monitor (what if we'd phoned the police earlier or later and as the trailer was seen for only a few seconds what if the officer had not have looked up when he did)
The officer immediately called the partols in the area and the thief was caught, the car used was stolen adn the side of it and the jockey door on our trailer was all scraped as the lad tried to drive through a gap that was too narrow. The wheel arch on our trailer was also bent from when they broke the wheel clamp off.
Seemingly a gang was seen at the yard but only one person was caught so I am assumming the rest fled and left the one lad to take the rap, ha who needs mates like that. So many things happened to night that I now truely believe it was fate,
So now the trailer is being held for finger prints thought the police say they have loads of evidence stacked against the lad but the finger printing is a bonus should they need it.
I have just ordered a new wheel clamp the Bulldog Centaur and the heavy duty Bull dog hitch lock at a cost of £268, I am hoping the insurance will cover it as they are looking into it but heck the lad should have to pay for all damages, he is probably a re-offender and being locked up is likely a holiday for him. The courts could pay the victim and then the offender have to pay back to the courts. If they did this and made them pay they may think twice about offending again.
I wish I could meet the lad and give him a good whollaping ... where it hurts,, the rotten smelly jingle balls.
So pleased to have my trailer back but more pleased they caught the low life.
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