Tree Vandalised outside house

NickMondo

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?

Teyla Emmagan

Just the scumbag kids in your neighborhood OP.

pablo128

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

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.

Ruu

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

grizzly

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

Maximus Alexander

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

whiskeyman

Call the gardai.

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

Dr Strange

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.

The Bould Rabbit

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

Clermont1098

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

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

Ruu

whiskeyman wrote: »

Call the gardai.

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

Hey, cut that out.

kneemos

How do they mark houses without trees outside?

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.

the_syco

kneemos wrote: »

How do they mark houses without trees outside?

Plant a tree.

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.

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.

kneemos

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

artanevilla

whiskeyman wrote: »

Call the gardai.

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

+1, defo call the Copse.

Ted_YNWA

Ruu wrote: »

Hey, cut that out.

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

kneemos

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

kneemos

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.

randy hickey

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

Tree vandalism needs to be rooted out

FunLover18

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

Ruu

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

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

Trying to nip this in the bud!

Annasopra

kneemos wrote: »

How do they mark houses without trees outside?

Chalk marks

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

grizzlyadams

Ah leaf it out !

eamonnq

The IRA said that they planted it!!

errlloyd

Thought this was gonna be a thread about the classic drunken prank of moving someone's tree during the night and seeing so they notice the next day.

artanevilla

I'll have to keep an eye out for this practice in fuschia.

Ted_YNWA

Ruu wrote: »

Trying to nip this in the bud!

I'll bough to your seniority & leaf before we clash further.

pickarooney

It's a game of coppice and robbers, I reckon.

The_Valeyard

Where is the user called 'Timbrrr' surely he should have an opinion on this?

goose2005

Surely any self-respecting burglar uses Google Street View to plan his crimes?

riclad

I Thought burglars were on facebook,nowadays,
someone posts i,m on holidays in spain for 2 weeks,
there house gets robbed.
maybe its not a good idea to post ,my house is empty for the next 2 weeks ,on fb.
SOME people are just morons, they damage trees ,
planted by the council ,
its like graffiti,or litter,
its pure stupidity.
nothing to do with burglary.
everyone under 30 seems to be on fb,
this includes criminals,drug dealers etc

Theres no exam needed to join a social network.
as posted above,
a burglar could get alot of info from fb,
rather than looking at a tree.

AndonHandon

OP, you definitely don't know the feller who vandalised the tree?

The Bould Rabbit

whiskeyman wrote: »

Call the gardai.

Tell them it's a trunk call.

AndonHandon

The Bould Rabbit wrote: »

Tell them it's a trunk call.

That old chestnut!

Omackeral

grizzlyadams wrote: »

Ah leaf it out !

This would have been way more popular poplar had it been posted 2 years ago.

Rosie Rant

Never heard that one before. I'd say it's not true, but I'm just going out on a limb here.

One I have heard is this - when you see a pair of runners hanging out of a power line it means that it's a regular drug deal location. I doubt it though. It probably just means some poor kid has had to hobble home shoeless.

The other fella

Rosie Rant wrote: »

Never heard that one before. I'd say it's not true, but I'm just going out on a limb here.

One I have heard is this - when you see a pair of runners hanging out of a power line it means that it's a regular drug deal location. I doubt it though. It probably just means some poor kid has had to hobble home shoeless.

I know that was definitely true about 10 years ago, i dont know if its still the practice.

Joe prim

I think that I shall never see,
a poem lovely as a tree,
for it will indicate to me,
another opportunity,
to commit a big burglary.

(Yeats...possibly)