will warn anyone in the East but most crews here are dormant anyway and trying to sell of kit rather than expand..

whats worse is that looking at your local news article on speakerplans that it was nicked from a legal/tolerated party (as the farmer helped you get the van off and the feds are taking the theft seriously and not considering it to be a “scum on scum” crime)

sadly this is really common since the economic depression – BTW when a crew round here got their stuff stolen it turned out to be two local lads and they were identifed and a fair proportion of the equipment returned. Didn’t stop them committing other crimes though (including street robberies) until the proper authorities nicked them and punished them – I think crews need to move towards doing evens where they aren’t seen as criminals by the community so they can have the protection of wider society when this happens – same as someone like a music shop owner or a plumber or any other small business would have.