Who in their right mind

[ARW]

keeps only a TV instruction manual in a safe?

[Graham.]

People who don't trust their electrician.

[tim......]

Is there another part to this story?

[ARW]

Other than I am a big fan of the Stihl saw.

We found it in my mates new lockup. An hour and all I got was the bloody instruction manual for a Hinari TV.

[Andrew Mawson]

People who enjoy pissing off burglars. I had a safe stolen from a launderette I used to own - they just picked it up and went, and it was BIG. Although locked, all that was in it was unused receipt books - the cash was hidden elsewhere

AWEM

[ARW]

TBH the last thing I saw with as much rust as the safe we opened today had a FORD badge on the bonnet. We never did manage to open that bonnet.

[The Natural Philosopher]

'honey pot'

Always put valuables in the least likely place

a 25 year old PC chassis is deal for all your valuable data and server. they will nick the laptop, not that.

[fred]

In article , Andrew Mawson writes

Love it, well done :-)

[Bill]

In message , Andrew Mawson writes

Did they get caught? If so do you have their contact details? Maybe Caecilius could employ them?

[Graham.]

When I was doing TV repairs, if I was parked in a rough area with a set in the back I would take the back cover off to make it look like a heap of junk.

[Brian Gaff]

The person who uses the manual as an unencryption key for their records of ill gotten gains I'd suspect. Did I not read a mystery at some point where a villain kept gardening mags in a safe and use a certain series of articles to encrypt things. Brian

[fred]

well f.m.p. Classical references. I always though this group was peopled by troglodytes !

[Richard]

OK. So, I may have need of your services for a few hours. Will you accept Samsung and Panasonic manuals, or does it have to be Hinari?

[damduck-egg]

When I was on the road I kept the laptop in what appeared to be an extra large Pizza Box complete with stains from leaked toppings still on it. It was actually a steel box bolted to the passenger foot well floor but placing a pizza box on top one day disguised it so well I decided to stick the parts of the cardboard carton onto the steel as a permanent fixing. The van window did get broken in a dodgy area at one time and they took an empty makita cordless drill case also left for the eventuality. The laptop was left undiscovered and the actual tools were in a locked steel tool compartment bolted in the rear of the van.

G.Harman

[whisky-dave]

I know someone that cut an AtoZ spine off and put it in front of his in car CD player (before the rmovable ones were common).

[Gib Bogle]

troglodytes !

Well-read troglodytes.