Thieving bs

When we were planning to be away from home for nearly a month I wondered whether or not I’d blog about our travels.

The chances of some low-life reading this blog, knowing where we live, that the house would be empty most of the time and acting on it were remote. But I decided that even with staff living near by it would be better not to advertise our absence.

As it was, we did have a theft from our property while we were away, although strictly speaking it wasn’t of our property.

We felled a lot of trees earlier this year, sold what timber we could and were left with a pile of scrappy wood not good enough to sell but fine for fires.

Several people have been taking it with our permission and one couple was out last Monday cutting it up. They finished with a couple of trailer loads but had only one trailer so left a pile of wood to collect the following day.

When they returned on Tuesday they found some thieving bs had stolen the lot. It was fairly close to the house, in the paddock in the photo featured at the top of the page. That makes us think the theft was done by someone who knew we weren’t here which has left us feeling both angry and uneasy.

If the sort of people who steal like this think about consequences they’d probably reckon it’s the type of crime we wouldn’t bother reporting. But one thing the thieves didn’t know was that the bloke from whom they stole the wood is a policeman – and he’s not a very happy one now either.