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Tree Vandalised outside house

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  • 11-01-2015 5:57pm
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    NickMondo
    Registered Users Posts: 231 ✭✭


    Now, i'm just repeating what i've heard from someone else, but I heard sometimes this can be done. It's just a chunk taken out of it, but it's been suggested that sometimes this is done to mark a house that's to be robbed. Anyone heard this before?


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    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Just the scumbag kids in your neighborhood OP.


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    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭pablo128


    Go along the road and take a chunk out of every tree. That'll confuse them.


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    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    The robber was too busy, so he took a chunk out of the tree to let other robbers know. They're nice like that.


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    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Never heard of that before but best to cut the tree down then the would-be thieves won't find your house anyway.


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    grizzly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭grizzly


    You're luckly, around me they'd rob the tree as well.


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    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Houses are often marked with numbers and other distinguishing features. That's how your post gets there.


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    whiskeyman
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    Call the gardai.

    It's a job for the special branch...


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    Dr Strange
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    Ruu wrote: »
    Never heard of that before but best to cut the tree down then the would-be thieves won't find your house anyway.

    Better burn it. The house I mean. You can then laugh at them as there's nothing to rob.


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    The Bould Rabbit
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 423 ✭✭The Bould Rabbit


    Makes mental note never to buy a house with a tree outside.


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    Clermont1098
    Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭Clermont1098


    Call the Gardai and ask them about it. It's the only place you'll get proper advice.


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    Tilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,987 ✭✭✭Tilly


    grizzly wrote: »
    You're luckly, around me they'd rob the tree as well.
    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Call the gardai.

    It's a job for the special branch...

    You pop into a thread not expecting much and BOOM, you find the funny people hiding out in here :D


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    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Call the gardai.

    It's a job for the special branch...

    Hey, cut that out.


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    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,411 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    How do they mark houses without trees outside?


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    Dr Strange
    Registered Users Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Dr Strange


    kneemos wrote: »
    How do they mark houses without trees outside?

    They plant them first, wait till they have grown to full size and then mark them. It's a generational occupation, burglary.


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    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,295 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    kneemos wrote: »
    How do they mark houses without trees outside?
    Plant a tree.


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    Trebor176
    Registered Users Posts: 3,409 ✭✭✭Trebor176


    NickMondo wrote: »
    Now, i'm just repeating what i've heard from someone else, but I heard sometimes this can be done. It's just a chunk taken out of it, but it's been suggested that sometimes this is done to mark a house that's to be robbed. Anyone heard this before?

    I wonder how long it took the other person to twig that! Or, maybe they are just barking up the wrong tree.


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    Merrion
    Registered Users Posts: 1,421 ✭✭✭Merrion


    I heard it from a bloke who knows a guy who read somewhere that sometimes robbers hang a small cardboard cut-out of a Christmas tree off the mirror of a car they're going to rob.


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    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,411 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    If your house is the only house with a tree would they still mark it?


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    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,376 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Call the gardai.

    It's a job for the special branch...

    +1, defo call the Copse.


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    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Ruu wrote: »
    Hey, cut that out.

    Cutting things out is what caused the issue to start with.


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    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,411 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Suppose another gang also marked the tree.Do they each have individual marks and how do they come to agreement on such.


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    kneemos
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    Do they notch in a date underneath the mark so as not to get confused in the future?

    I have a surprising number of questions about this.


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    randy hickey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭randy hickey


    You'd want to be some sap to beleaf this nonsense OP.


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    #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tree vandalism needs to be rooted out


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    #26
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    What size chunk are we talking about here? Surely there are subtler ways than hacking at a tree with a saw


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    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Cutting things out is what caused the issue to start with.

    Trying to nip this in the bud!


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    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,928 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    kneemos wrote: »
    How do they mark houses without trees outside?

    Chalk marks

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,447 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    There's not a single 3 anywhere near any of my house or the neighbours. Concrete jungle is the arch enemy of today's thieves


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    grizzlyadams
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭grizzlyadams


    Ah leaf it out !


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    eamonnq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,009 ✭✭✭eamonnq


    The IRA said that they planted it!!


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