Highway Robbery

Hi Colin
I do not think that it is "Don't shoot the messenger if you object to it" If any of those that are responsible for those thefts, read your thread, they should be ashamed of themselves and can only be classed as "low life thieves".

It was an interesting read.

Cheers

Stephen

Hey Colin good read, the more money some people have the tighter they get or somthing like that.
What's got me worried is how have you come across that article from 2006 what have you been up to? LOL

Rob

goodday colin
they probably cut it up to drain out all the crook fuel they had bought from there during the day, we got fuel there on a trip and the truck didnt have enough power to pull the skin off a rice pudding for nearly an hour while i pumped over from the 2nd tank which i didnt fill there so they cant complain about being robbed

steve

It's not limited to outback places - at the pool/gym I go to in the fair city of Perth, it's amazing the number of people who nick the tap handles or shower roses from the shower, or just plain break them off!

Hi All
It allways amazes me when you see the amount of pilfering re the Taps and Shower Heads ect, I come across it all the time being in the Plumbing Game, and the easiest way to prevent it is to install Commercial Type Plumbing Fittings, that are VANDAL PROOF, they cost marginally more, but they save money in the end, one has to have a special tool to unscrew them ect, we have installed heaps of them and they never get knocked off.

Cheers

Colin
I know exactly what you mean, I lent a 1/3 length of garden hose with fittings to tourist a few weeks ago because his hose was about 3 m to short to reach a tap, that was the last I ever seen of it,
The park owner recently bought a really good power board so tourists would have power for when they were short on leads , it cost $130 and lasted 1 night, next morning they shot through with it,
it was exactly like the one shown below.

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The attitudes that got many early of the early 'settlers' to this fair land a free passage 220 years ago seem to have lodged firmly in the mentality of the succeeding generations.

This 'petty pilfering' was alive and well when I first started using caravan parks in 1965 and seems not to have changed.

Public changing rooms and showers at beachside and other facilities suffer the same inexplicable losses.

It's the same attitude as prevails in industrial relations exercises: the "bosses" want to get as much out the workforce and pay them as little as they possibly can, and the "workers" take every opportunity to avoid effort, slope off early whenever no-one's looking and take unwarranted 'sickies' as if they are part of the annual leave entitlement.

So what's new ?????