Advice please...

Just a quick question - if an unmarked van pulls up outside your house and the two men starts feeding yellow cable into the ground what do you do?

Their van had no logo. The men had no uniform. Just high vis jackets. They hurridly fed about 70 meters of cable into the ground. Ran up the other end of the street and pulled some out. Then they tampered with the green box - and then left.

Any thoughts?

Did you take their registration number ? If so, a quick call to the Old Bill would be seen as nothing more than doing your civic duty.

They could be innocent workmen subtracted by one of the utilities or they could be copper thieves.

The coppers will not bill you for your phone call so you have nothing to lose. If you don't make the call and you wake up in the morning with no electricity you only have yourself to blame.

MI5?

What have you been doing, recently, Biggie?

Sounds a bit dodgy to me, call the council or police, if it was a company like Sky or Virgin looking at the green box then they would you would spot it a mile off.

As RT says it could well be copper thieves.

RT has the right advise, btw!

id give the old bill a call... like everyone has said above. the call will cost nothing...

now.

until the police are privatized and 999 or the polices non-emergency number is changed to an 0900 number at £1.50 a Min ...

privatized by a polish company

It's not really an emergency so you should probably call 101 and not 999.

They won't be pleased if you dial 999.

It looks odd, so I agree with the others - get their registration number and call the police.

If they were stealing copper cable you probably don't have a landline/internet connection now.

WhiteBic wrote:privatized by a polish company

I hope it's not this one.

Biggie wrote:Just a quick question - if an unmarked van pulls up outside your house and the two men starts feeding yellow cable into the ground what do you do?

Their van had no logo. The men had no uniform. Just high vis jackets. They hurridly fed about 70 meters of cable into the ground. Ran up the other end of the street and pulled some out. Then they tampered with the green box - and then left.

Any thoughts?

I thought they housed you in a room without windows?