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I still don't know how I feel about my caravan or if I want it back.  I seriously hope they catch the people who did this and I would hate to see 'Mini' damaged but on the other hand I hate to think of someone going through my things and I fear it would all feel tainted.  At the minute I don't even know if I want to replace it.  The problem being that after having a Hobby I feel anything else would feel inferior, we have become accustomed to having a fixed bed and fixed bunks and would hate to feel forced into a lesser van, it would feel like 'they' had won, on the other hand I am too scared to get another Hobby.  I feel they are just waiting for us to replace it so they can waltz straight on it and take it again. 

I am becoming overly suspisious of everything and everyone.  The hiding place was really good.  Unless being told it was there or going and having a really good scout around you wouldn't have found it.  I worry that someone we know has passed on our info or that someone I've met at a campsite or that they're going to come back for my truck or to break into my home.  Or even that it's someone on here and they're reading all of this.

On the matter of google earth and google street view.  Our streetview picture was done a year ago and doesn't show much.  Google earth images are older and although they don't show our caravan, what they do show is a very detailed and exact layout of our home, farm, gardens, private roadways, fields and their gateways.  I think it's entirely possible it could have been used to plan access and routes as the culprits avoided the roadways past the house and my parents house and nipped through two fields.  It was clearly very organised.

Now, I'd better ring the loss adjuster back, oh joy.

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So sorry that your pride and joy been stolen. It is an unfortunate reflection on today's society there seem to be more and more scumbags wanting something for nothing.

Hard to take when you work hard and save for the things you want. Hope it is resolved soon.

Sorry to hear about the theft of your 'mini' having experience theft of a radio from a car (although not comparable) it was not a nice feeling that someone had been in there and thinking about it I am not sure if it was my caravan if I would want it back, but I would want them caught, who ever they are.

We are with CIS for car insurance (Not caravan) and had to make a claim this year, we have been with them for years and had to make claims in the past, we have always found them very good, but this year it was frustrating as they only took calls in the day time and OH who's claim it was couldn't be in. It was all sorted quite quickly as our garage was willing to sort it with them. Apparently for car insurance we were told they no longer have their own assessors who go out which is apparently causing some people problems, don’t know how true that is.

Hope its all sorted very soon for you.

thank you, will look into it

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Reccomend that even if you happen to see it again, perhaps on a traveller's site, you don't go ask for it back.

Unless you currently own a shotgun license, are SAS trained or have a personal army of your own. I once tried to reclaim a Shogun from that situation, and would not repeat the experience. Similarly had a friend who had the bucket from his excavator nicked by them...he took the excavator to reclaim the bucket..and still had to pay a couple of grand to get it back.

Time to move on. We have a tracker on our 'van: its the best we can do...but I fancy painting our postcose on the roof in 3 ft high letters..

Sorry for you loss. Scumbags.

Strax

Quote: Originally posted by TKMAXX on 29/9/2010

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I would guess that you dont want to find it! I know I wouldt as I would feel that it 'dirty' and not knowing how it has been treated or what has been done.

IMHO, I would rather the insurance paid up ASAP so as new chapter in my life could start.

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Quote: Originally posted by Alistair on 29/9/2010

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A few good points on Google Earth on here though. Our van is behind 9' high solid gates and an even higher leylandi fence and cannot be seen from the road, but Google Streetview just happened past when we had the gates open and now there is a clear shot of the rear of our home complete with our caravan. OH is very unhappy about that!

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