Booked in when??:
I was parked in the services at Tienen in Belgium last Monday and was gassed and robbed.
They took two phones,fuel cards,all my cash,my wallet and driving license.
It’s knocked my confidence in doing nights out for six big time and it hasn’t helped working for a company that didn’t give a toss either.
Interesting, tell us more.
What do you want to know?
Who suggested you were gassed, why did they say that? What damage did they cause? What did they use? There are a lot of posts about this very subject and quite a lot of compelling evidence
The police that attended suggested I was gassed as I fell arse over ■■■ in the service area as they’d had FOUR gassed there the previous week.
They haven’t a clue what gas was used but the fact my eyes were streaming and I was puking my ringer pretty much gave it away.
I was gassed once (twice actually) not far from Hereford, Welland steam fair to be exact, over two consecutive weekends over two years.
I know this for a fact as the culprits lefts the evidence behind… Smirnoff bottles, they fed them through the cab door and squeezed bottles of Coca Cola in as well sneeky sods.
I had the unit hid behind a few others but they still singled me out.
Missed last year but am hoping to be gassed again this time round!!!
I phoned the police and they turned up but didn’t have any chalk so they painted lines around me to keep the children away.
robroy:
The problem with leaving weapons on view Harry, is that they can be used against you, my bat is under the pillow.
Ah no, you see in a truck, a knife is OK but a baseball bat is a mistake. It would be a legitimate defence to say that you sometimes felt hungry in the middle of the night and needed to slice an apple, it would not be a legitimate defence to say that sometimes you woke up in the middle of the night and fancied a game of baseball. Your weapons have to be everyday objects
Can of de-icer
Nice, confined spray and hurts like hell in the eyes
Have to say I have never (touch wood) had any issues, I sleep at night with a window ajar, i do however have a german shepherd who is very good at keeping the nasties away. Jake (the dog) is very friendly outside the cab but he will not allow anyone in the cab without my permission, unfortunately he got very upset with a traffic police officer once who refused to listen to my warning! He jumped back down off the step very quickly when Jake gave him a toothy smile!
I used to see trampers parked up in laybys with one back door open, so you could see they were empty, and thus not worth knocking over the head for would-be criminals.
Nowdays, I see ever-more-often situations where the back door is open revealing a full load inside!
Is this a “Help yourself, and don’t knock me over the head” policy, and how does it affect insurance especially for the self-employed out there?
Winseer:
I used to see trampers parked up in laybys with one back door open, so you could see they were empty, and thus not worth knocking over the head for would-be criminals.
Nowdays, I see ever-more-often situations where the back door is open revealing a full load inside!
Is this a “Help yourself, and don’t knock me over the head” policy, and how does it affect insurance especially for the self-employed out there?
i know someone who did that, and they still ripped the curtain.
i wished they’d have just banged him on the head, he didn’t shut up about it.
Winseer:
I used to see trampers parked up in laybys with one back door open, so you could see they were empty, and thus not worth knocking over the head for would-be criminals.
Nowdays, I see ever-more-often situations where the back door is open revealing a full load inside!
Is this a “Help yourself, and don’t knock me over the head” policy, and how does it affect insurance especially for the self-employed out there?
No. Its to show that the load is either of low value/not desirable or very difficult/impossible to hand ball.
You’d be unlikely to come across one so parked with a load of moblie phones or flat screen tv’s on.
Winseer:
I used to see trampers parked up in laybys with one back door open, so you could see they were empty, and thus not worth knocking over the head for would-be criminals.
Nowdays, I see ever-more-often situations where the back door is open revealing a full load inside!
Is this a “Help yourself, and don’t knock me over the head” policy, and how does it affect insurance especially for the self-employed out there?
It is supposed to be a simple way for the toe rags to look inside before they cut a 5 foot ■■■■■ in the curtain, however the thick zb are too lazy to walk round the back and they still cut the curtains anyway. I was parked in the Stockyard with the doors open showing I had 5 steel coils on, they slashed both sides right down the trailer
I didn’t hear anything because I had been gassed with Ethanol
I suppose they might think that the open door showing big reels of paper was hiding some pallets of the really neat paper bound for Iraq at the cab end!!
I reckon these kind of crimes will stop when a driver has the right to use deadly force against anyone attempting an “invasion” of this kind. Is this the case in America?
I doubt it was Ethanol. More likely it was ethyl ether which has an overpowering smell. Ethanol on the other hand is basically 100% vodka, and has hardly any smell, and I’ve never heard of anyone being overpowered by it by inhalation.
100% ethanol (subject to duty) is pretty hard to get. If they had a vapouriser with the 100% stuff rather than an open bottle of vodka (only 40%) then apparently I stand corrected, and it IS possible to be overpowered - when the stuff is properly vapourised. My apologies.
Winseer:
Nowdays, I see ever-more-often situations where the back door is open revealing a full load inside!
Is this a “Help yourself, and don’t knock me over the head” policy, and how does it affect insurance especially for the self-employed out there?
In my case it was rather “You don’t need to ■■■■■ the curtains to see what’s inside, and if you really need this 6m long glass panels, help yourself through the back doors”. Not working, though, curtains were constantly slashed.
