Seven "looted" safes found at bottom of lock in Leicester

[zenataomm]

Leicester Mercury February 20, 2015

[jonesthenuke]

So nobody has been magnet fishing there then?

[BlueStringPudding]

They'd have been so heavy when full of water, if be surprised if they weren't covered in abandoned seasearcher magnets, like limpits.

[Laurie Booth]

Pity they didn't show pictures of the safes, as during a film production I was taught how to blow a safe.

[Suzie_q]

Pictures of the safes in the bbc story a few days ago. Looks like they had all been very crudely opened.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk...rshire-31552258

[forsberg]

£10,000 to move some junk?

[Nightwatch]

Pictures of the safes in the bbc story a few days ago. Looks like they had all been very crudely opened.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...rshire-31552258

Thats you in the clear then Laurie.

[Laurie Booth]

Thats you in the clear then Laurie.

Yep, very crude, no finesse at all.

Laurie (The Peterman)

[David Mack]

Pictures of the safes in the bbc story a few days ago. Looks like they had all been very crudely opened.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk...rshire-31552258

Corrected Linky

[IanM]

It's obviously a fashionable place to dump safes...

 

http://www.cotswoldcanals.com/pages/posts/ham-mill-lock-restoration---second-report-710.php?p=20

[Suzie_q]

Corrected Linky

Oops. Thanks hadn't noticed that.

 

At least there was no ammo in Leicester.

[craftycarper]

£10,000 to move some junk?

. I would have done it for free there was probably about a grands worth of scrap in there and I would have had the lot out and away on the truck in under a day

[zenataomm]

I've often wondered why the scrappers who drive slowly up and down the roads every day blowing bugles don't just drag grappling hooks up and down the nearest canal.

[sueb]

Several years ago a firm was dragging scrap from the canal in Worcester

[Canal Cuttings]

 

All this picture needs is John Cleese sitting there in a suit and we'd have a new Monty Python sketch.

[craftycarper]

I've often wondered why the scrappers who drive slowly up and down the roads every day blowing bugles don't just drag grappling hooks up and down the nearest canal.

. There was a group of tatters doing just that around brum a few years back don't know if there still about or not but they were making enough to keep three of them going full time