Stolen tools

[finga]

Some scumbag thought a lot of my handtools would be better utilised in their shed and not mine.
So if anyone sees any sockets, shifters, spanners or any friggin' thing with dark blue paint on them or S.Fisher or NRE or NRCC then let me know.
Brands were mainly Sidchrome, Koken, MiniMax, BluePoint and Repco.
They got my set of metric BluePoint and my AF Repco set of reversible, ratchetting ring/open ender spanners. They should be easy to see. They're nice and shiny and were my babies.
A lot were in a blue Kinchrome 6 drawer tool box with an Able Instruments sticker on the front and socket rails pop riveted on the inside of the lid.
Also taken Olea Mac brush cutter, Snap-On bench top battery charger, 14.4V Black and Decker Firestorm battery drill with removable chuck
Taken from Brisbane Southside.

Been and done thePawn shops in Beenleigh.

Ta Scott :'(

God it's hard to remember what tools you have when they're not there.
God it's a shame a lot of the tools gone are irreplaceable but will have no use to the sh!theads ie the English magneto/ignition spanner set from 1BA-10BA

[sid_fishes]

that sucks scott... there are some very low poeple out there.
ian

[FNQCairns]

Sorry to hear it, makes me a little paranoid for the little that I have, proper replacement is often an impossible task.

Astounded that with every walk down any street there is a fair chance of passing someone who has the idea that if the sly opportunity arises everything they see will belonging to them.

Oh well, we have weak property protection laws because government and insurance is in bed together...that is not going to change.

best of luck tracking them down.

[cormorant]

Hmmm strong bugga to walk with that lot. Me thinks more than one as they never like to re-enter unless they know no one is around. Be nice to find em and wipe a bit of the blue paint off under their ears with a ratchet drive. I engrave and paint all mine as well ( just so I know it's mine so brother doesn't liberate it) but odds of ever seeing it again are small so I hope they cause themselves a injury. Scum absolute scum.. Price of quality new stuff is very steep and took me ages to trust giving them a flogging and knowing my knuckles weren't going to get skinned.

[finga]

Hmmm strong bugga to walk with that lot.
That's why they pinched the red supacheep trolley that was there as well.

It's going to be hard to replace the stuff.
It was a collection of over 30 years of searching and saving.

Just hope the insurance is going to be OK but I can see me now trying to explain why I had 6 sets of sockets and 9 or so sets of spanners.

[wags on the water]

Sorry to hear about that matey. Hope you find them.....the tools.

[Giffo65]

That really sucks Finga,I hope you get your stuff back,I would hate to replace all my tools collected over the years .A couple of mates of mine, caught 2 blokes stealing wetsuits and fishing gear from a caravan park they were staying at, and re educated them in the ways of the world,better than calling the law I think.

[trymyluck]

Sucks big time, they need their fingers broken 1 at a time as they recite I MUST NOT STEAL............


Mark

[Thunderace2]

That's why they pinched the red supacheep trolley that was there as well.

It's going to be hard to replace the stuff.
It was a collection of over 30 years of searching and saving.

Just hope the insurance is going to be OK but I can see me now trying to explain why I had 6 sets of sockets and 9 or so sets of spanners.

I know its too late now but I get the digital camera out every year and photograph everything I've brought, (I've already gone through and photographed existing stuff),

Makes it easier for insurance claims

[honda900]

Sorry to hear scott,

You need a nice dog for your yard, one that bites first..

Regards
Honda

[trymyluck]

Sorry to hear scott,

You need a nice dog for your yard, one that bites first..

Regards
Honda




Mmmm wonder if you can get a permit for a couple of croc's.............;D

[Spaniard_King]

Mate that sucks...... worst thing ya can do is pinch a mans tools.

[finga]

Forgot to mention the buggers were 1/2 smart too.
They turned the power off and waiting until the battery backup on the security system went flat before the deed.
It was a real nice mess in the fridge/freezer when I got back to the house after 2 months. Maggots and sh!t everywhere.
The stink when I walked up the front steps kinda gave me a sense something wasn't quite right.

The buggers took some of my matchbox cars too. :(

The exercise of pricing the tools for insurance is starting to be scary.
I did not Koken tools were so expensive.
I brought 3 sets of Koken sockets through a tender at work many years ago and brought another Koken tool kit off Ebay a couple of years ago
A 40 piece AF/metric socket set is worth over $500 now. And I had trouble finding someone selling it.
http://krewtools.com.au/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=69269&category_id=242&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=33

[wags on the water]

I'd say Scott that they may have come and gone as they pleased. I'd say finger breakin time... if you catch them

[Mr__Bean]

Sorry to hear scott,

You need a nice dog for your yard, one that bites first..

Regards
Honda

Interesting you say that Honda.....

In our street there have been three homes burgled in the last 12 months, all done whilst the people were home (2 in the past month).

This getting a bit scary as the last one had jewelery and a wallet pinched that was in their bedroom, yep they went in and pinched stuff around the sleeping home owners at around 2.15am. In this case the lady of the house did hear them in another room and disturbed them but thankfully they fled without clouting her on the way out.

Anyway, my wife was talking to my next door neighbour about it getting a bit scary and the neighbour explained that whilst we were out the other night he heard our dog (German Shepherd) barking angrily in our back yard. He turned on his outside lights and the barking stopped, only to start again a couple of minutes later. This time he went out into his back yard to look over into our backyard but all seemed fine.

Anyway, after hearing this Sharon had a bit of a look around the back yard and noted that part of our back fence was broken, a close look shows a big hole in the brushwood lining half way up the fence where someone has got a foot hold, and the top of the fence broken right over where someone has scrambled in a hurry falling into the yard behind us.

It spooked her so much she rang me straight away. I told her to buy that dog a steak for dinner because that was our near miss.

Given the activity and this level of intrusion we are now looking at putting up a cctv security system, we considered an alarm but these buggers are brazen and they are coming into your home while you are there. In the one on the house 2 doors up the wife was in the shower at the time, she heard her little yap yap barking but it was just told to be quiet because it barks at almost anything.

- Darren

[finga]

The bit that worries me is that because of the slack/non existent sentencing laws the scumbags know they'll only get a slap on the wrist and that's that.
Why wouldn't they break into some ones house??
The biggest deterrent they have is if the home owner catches them.... not the legal system.
The problem is only going to get worse until anarchy exists.

[pescados]

Even if you have an alarm, the scumbags know that it takes a little while for some one to arrive if monitored. >:(

If caught apply the old ways justice as the new one sucks big time.

[finga]

Big test comes next week.
An assessor is coming.
First thing they asked...can you prove you had these tools??
Yeah, sure I keep receipts and boxes from 1982....sarcastic bugger I am :(

[finga]

Well there were 2 assessors who turned up and they spent 3 hours with me.
What a nice pair of blokes.

But nice means didly squat when it comes to fulfilling a claim I've found.
But it looks like NRMA are coming to the party and coming well prepared.

I have nothing but praise for them.
The assessor has kept in constant touch and has always told me what's happening.
This alone seems strange to me where insurance companies I've had to deal with constantly are concerned.

A new fridge comes next week and I have blokes calling from everywhere getting more details of the tools that I've lost.
It seems they are going to simply deliver to me all the stuff I've lost.
That alone saves me a lot of leg work and time and is very welcomed.

So to NRMA....you little ripper.
And thank you. A well deserved thanks from the bottom of my heart :)

I just hope it all goes to plan in the end.

[wags on the water]

Good news Scott.

[charleville]

So to NRMA....you little ripper.
And thank you. A well deserved thanks from the bottom of my heart :)



I have been with NRMA for 15 years on my house, contents and car insurance and with all of the no claim bonuses, length of membership bonuses, old bloke bonuses, multiple policy bonuses etc, they are always the cheapest for me. I get online quotes from other main players like Suncorp, RACQ and APIA (who advertise cheaper insurance for people over fifty who no longer work full time and so should be cheap) and I find that the NRMA premiums on my home and contents insurance to be $200 per year cheaper than any of the others.

So if they are that much cheaper and at the same time, give the sort of claims response that you cite, Finga, what's not to like about them?

'Tis a bit hard to compete with that, I reckon.


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[finga]

Good news Scott.
Yes Mike. It's great news so far.
And we only seem to hear the negatives here so....I'll sprook about someone who seems to be doing a great job (so far).
They've even sourced my Oleo Mac brush cutter and Koken sockets...beautiful :)

Bruce...mate, I can start cleaning up downstairs now.
Today and Sunday are taken up but Monday I'm into it. ;D
It is going to be good to have things sorted out again.

Sad thing is I'll probably find more stuff missing.
But that's life. :-?

[wamjam]

Sounds like all is good with the tools finga !.

The NRMA assessors in the panelshop game were always good to get along with.

Scott

[finga]

An update:
New fridge is in the house.
New brush cutter is hanging on the wall with a big padlock around it.
Payment has been made for stolen match box cars.
First shipment of tools should be here today or tomorrow or by Friday at the latest.

I cannot believe how well everything is coming together.
I cannot see any reason why we would change insurance companies now as the biggest test has happened and NRMA insurance has passed the test with flying colours.
Thank you Peter if you see this. Your blood's worth bottling.

:)

[wamjam]

Its allways good to here a success story.....Now all you need is for the a^s#ol*s that started this mess to be delt with....

Scott

[finga]

I got the first shipment of tools yesterday.
5 boxes of them and the postman is peeved. He was even more peeved when I said that was only the first shipment. :D

But something struck me whilst unpacking. They all seem cold, foreign and really unfamiliar to me.
Is it weird someone gets familiar and comfortable with sh!tty old tools??

Ho-hum

[charleville]

I got an online quote from NRMA today for my boat insurance.

It always seems strange to me that although they are miles cheaper on home, contents and car insurance for me, they are still dearer that the RACQ on my boat insurance. The latest quote confirms that that is still the case.

They could have all of my modest business if they knocked about $40 off the boat insurance premium.


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[Gon Fishun]

Quote: Finga
But something struck me whilst unpacking. They all seem cold, foreign and really unfamiliar to me.
Is it weird someone gets familiar and comfortable with sh!tty old tools??

I know how you feel Finga. Have 45year old sidchrome sockets , spanners screw drivers etc and they really feel like an extension to your hands. Bit grubby, bit rusty, bit worn but they are very comfortable.:)
Hope you are keeping your feet dry out there.:vrolijk_1:
Cheers.

[charleville]

Some of this old thread referred to how good an insurer NRMA is.

I have had all of my insurances, except for the boat, with them for several years without ever making a claim. However, due to an impatient someone's running into the back of my wife's little car at a shopping centre recently, we have just gone through the experience of making a claim with them.


I cannot believe how effortless the whole process was compared with my memories of car accident claims when I used to incur one or two, myself, a few decades ago. We did not have to fill out a single form nor even sign for the repairs at the repairer.

The claim was made over the phone. Because it was a rear end prang (ie no fault of ours) and we had the details of the other driver, no excess was payable nor was there a loss of no claim bonus.

Years ago, I recall having to take my car to three different panel beaters to get quotes and send them in. That was a particularly unpleasant process because not only was it inconvenient, but occasionally, you would receive smart alec comments from the panel beaters about the prang. As for a lifetime warranty on the repair, I never heard of it in those days. This time, all we had to do was to take the car to the NRMA assessment centre where the assessor took photographs of the damage and emailed them to quoting panel shops. We received a call from the successful panel shop to book the car in and the job was done. No fuss. The assessor also gave us authorisation for taxi fares to and from the repairer but we did not use those.

The authorised panel shop at Coorparoo was a very clean looking business ( I don't remember them like that years ago.) and the staff were very cheerful and courteous.

The whole experience was stunningly simple. The repair was good. My wife is very happy to get her little car back.

Over the past two years, I have played the NRMA "beat them by 10% game" to get the insurance costs on our two cars to be the cheapest possible. Coincidentally, my wife's NRMA insurance bill is due this week. This year's bill is $30 cheaper than it was last year's when I had exercised their 10% lower price guarantee. Insurance premiums decreasing from one year to the next???? I have never heard of that. I paid it yesterday without even bothering to check competitors' prices.

On the basis of the evidence from Finga's contents claim and my wife's car insurance claim, they are a damn fine insurance company.


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[Chimo]

Sad. Good luck with insurance, then the hunt to replace stuff.

Cheers
Chimo