crab pot thieves caught red handed

[netmaker]

hi all. a feel good story for the week. i heard of a story at wello pt ramp this week. old mate goes down the ramp to collect his pots and boat coming in with 2 on board had a collection of familiar looking pots. so old mate asks: "is your name dave?". bloke answers yes. then: "and you live at this address?". uh yeah. "well thats f*&^%n strange cause my name's dave and i live at that address and i've never seen ya."
old mate then parks in front of blokes car blocking him from getting his boat out and calls the cops. $2000 fine each for the thieves!
picked up my day, hope it does the same for you

[Feral]

unreal.
Lucky they didn't go the biff to move him.

[kingcray]

yeah thats awesome. Good on him
Similar thing happened at Scarborough yesterday i heard, but i think it got a little more violent

[PADDLES]

i'm sure if there are plenty of witnesses they'd be pretty silly to want to add assault charges to their theft charges.

[TREVELLY]

Good to read some are getting caught - no respect for the thieving mongrels

[NAGG]

Awesome ...... love to hear more of it

Chris

[SWANO1]

yeah thats awesome. Good on him
Similar thing happened at Scarborough yesterday i heard, but i think it got a little more violent

tell us more kingcray, any boat/car description of the scarby scumbags?

[MEG-A-BITE]

good job,10/10 for getting them red handed.

[Luc]

Great to see some of the mongrels get caught!!

Maybe we should tell Can-do of this method of raising revenue.

[kingcray]

tell us more kingcray, any boat/car description of the scarby scumbags?

SWANO i may be wrong might not have been yesterday but it was recent. Some guys were talking about it at clontarf on saturday and somebody mentioned it on thread 'police at clontarf boat ramp'. The thieving doesnt seem to be too bad round reddy anymore, but still happens a lot in the pine. At least some of them are copping some payback

[ShaneC]

I dont know that the local crabbers would agree with your statement mate. They are losing more gear then ever.

[fat-buoy]

I remember when old Rex Hunt came to Hayes Inlet to go crabbing and set the pots only to have some lowlife knock them off.. He was less than complimentary of the locals on his show... I would be more than happy to show them some local hospitality for their efforts

[cormorant]

Be nice to see the photos of the blokes faces and their boat, car as some never change and maybe a name and a face might be a bit more of a disincentive especially if they are locals. Big colour photos on a few poles at ramps and at teh local clubs will soon see who their mates are. After seeing some violence at ramps all I can say is before it gets serious get some video and photos on the camera and put it away safe. Witnessed disappear in seconds and your are left with the other guys lying to police if you can actually get them to turn up.

Why wasn't their boat confiscated?

[Rrrrrr]

Good to hear that these scum were caught in the act and were dished out what they deserved (well almost all they deserved)

[kingcray]

I dont know that the local crabbers would agree with your statement mate. They are losing more gear then ever.

Shane i am a local crabber, i must just be one of the lucky ones. Ive lost a few in the past but couldve lost a lot more. You have to be pretty brave to pinch traps from the foreshores as it is so exposed and you never know who is watching. Ever since i started spraying my floats bright colours it seems to have turned the thieves away for some reason.