Criminal damage front door.

I have similar anxieties about the local thieves after having my van done a few times. Happened years ago but still affects my sleep unfortunately. You've just got to do your best to forget about it. Best thing to do is not confront or engage with them should they return and get straight on to the blower to the old bill. Make up a bit of a story suggesting they're doing a bit more than they are and they might come out a bit quicker.
Sorry about your van, bastards...
Yeah, that's what I've been saying.. hopefully time will help and a good nights kip - we both didn't sleep last night, fear of the door not being good enough and fear of a return as well as anger. All boarded up now so hopefully sleep a little easier.

Cheers for advice :)
 
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Tonight just asked some scroat to stop ****ing against our front door/window. 2 mid 20's blokes out the pub started urinating against our property, before getting into their car.
Their response? Try and punch me through the window, saying they'd smash my face in.

I then started recording on my phone (except I blooming well didn't, I thought I'd pressed record but hadn't in the heat of the moment). They got in their car, turned around the street then one bloke jumped out and smashed our front door in. We're sitting here gone 1am, trying to fix it enough to last a night, not easy with chunks of wood in bits.

So... apart from all that, what's the best kind of door to replace it with? I thought solid wood, quality thick, but the copper (who took an hr to show up), thought plastic.

Any thoughts/advice? Cheers :)
Move house is my advice .sounds an utter shytte hole
 
Police have started using chainsaws now on plastic doors, just cut a 1/3rd in from the lock side and straight in!.
By the time they've filled in the paperwork, risk-assessed it, carried out a noise impact study, erected safety barriers, and donned all of their ppe, the miscreants would be halfway to the nearest port :mrgreen:
 
Move house is my advice .sounds an utter shytte hole
We would love to, but sadly we can't afford similar unless move many miles away - and we need to be near an elderly relative in London. He's the reason we moved back down South from Yorkshire - and you know the North/South price divide so we already downsized as we didn't want a big mortgage when we had paid the other house off.
At the mo we are in a house, in a pretty residential conservation area full of listed buildings which on paper seems lovely. Neighbours are great, it's just the pubs. If we move nearby, we'll have to move into a flat and don't much fancy that.

We are fighting the pubs though, got a meeting this Thurs to get ready to ask for a review of the licenses. Residents have been keeping diaries and gathering evidence all summer. Hopefully if the pubs are shut earlier than 1.30am, music curtailed and other restrictions, they will fall out of fashion and they will go bust. Fingers crossed!
 
Nobody has to put up with people p***ing on their doorstop or threatening them, just so that a pub can run a business. Police and council have powers to close the pub down. The owner needs to take responsibility for its customers and owes a duty of care to its neighbours along the lines of telling the police who they suspect the people are. They should also consider banning them.
 
Nobody has to put up with people p***ing on their doorstop or threatening them, just so that a pub can run a business. Police and council have powers to close the pub down. The owner needs to take responsibility for its customers and owes a duty of care to its neighbours along the lines of telling the police who they suspect the people are. They should also consider banning them.
Yes, it's what I say to the people from the council, the police and have also tried involving our MP and cllrs. The MP and cllrs couldn't care less - and the police say they have no issue with the pubs, despite the criminal activity and countless people telling them about the drug use and dealing & drink drivers. They are shocking around here, not got the staff or the funding (Or indeed the intelligence) by the looks of things.

When the pub changed ownerships and a handful of neighbours went to the licensing hearing, they new owners were warned about the idiots that were banned from the area and especially that pub, warned that they'd all come back. My neighbour next door used to run one of the other pubs and said he sees so many people in there now that were banned. The new owners haven't a clue how to run a pub, nor do they care what goes on outside it. As I said, Mum has put her 26 year old drug dealing son in charge of a pub, he is naturally, being the spoiled **** he is, having a great time drunk with his mates every night. Just no idea and not mature, as well as being one of the entitled generation. It's not his money he's risking so why should he care?
 
These are externalities, costs passed onto someone else who cannot claim them back from the party causing it.

The pub provides employment and tax so I would assume the authorities would be slow to act.
 
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