Some men from London have been taken away on the naughty boys’ bus for stealing cars by taking keys or holding up the owners going about their lawful business.
There has, of course, been a subsequent , almost fatal, stampede of press officers keen to explain why this could not happen to any car they promoted.
Which of course it could.
An especially big ‘well done’ to all those who suggested window etching as a deterrent to men prepared to wave a gun about in order to steal your car.
Yes, many of these villains have been on the phone to express their terror: “Window etching? The games up guv. It’s lawnmowers for me now,� said one chummy in a hooped jumper and masquerade ball mask.
What was suggested, quite sensibly, was that our car indexing system is easy to fiddle. Cloned plates being used to dodge fines and commit crime.
Certainly registering the car rather than the owner is open to abuse and makes for a paper chase. Why not give a newly-passed learner a registration number for life against which tax, insurance and mot records could be stored on computer?
As for the huge increase in lawn mower theft, I am a victim.
On Sunday I left a defunct machine on the boundary of my land until the Citroen C6 - such a big car, such a small boot - test car had room in it for a tip trip. Two hours later someone had nicked it.
If only I had got its windows etched.
Both mowers were past their best and perhaps it was time for Steve to give up growing his annual crop of miniature estate agent signs
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