Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: jeff1 on November 20, 2006, 06:50:41 am
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Last night at 9.45pm I went to take my Boss (wife) to work and it had been raining Heavily with strong winds,
Jumped in my car and started her up, went to wipe the windscreen and noticed it was completely smashed after a few choice words I thought it may have been a branch from a near-by tree, had a look around the car to see if I could see any branches and nothing,
I went to pull thr car forward to see if anything had gone underneath it and the car would not move. I got out again to see if anything was under the wheels and all four tyres were slashed ::) after a few more choice words the wife and I went indoors while I arranged alternative transport for the Boss.
she called the police and after ten minutes on the phone with them the conversation was over, they phoned me back about an hour and half later spent half hour on the phone with me and gave me a crime reference number.never even came out.
After no more than a few winks sleep through out the night thinking about it,
the only thing I can think of, is on Saturday
I started a new area, and the only reason I started it was because one of my old cutomers of nine years, asked me if I could do her new place as its not far from my home I agreed, during the day (as I was at her house all day) I noticed a couple of mean looking guy's doing windows, they asked me what the F*** I was doing on there patch,so I politly explaned why I was there, and in no uncertain terms they told me I had to leave the area.
No chance I have this one customer and thats it, I don't want any more I have a full six week round and I don't need any more, after a few threats they went off. and that was it, or at least I thought, until last night when it all happened. But do you know what I felt no anger, now this is strange for me as five years ago I would have got my bike out and hunted for them, I must be getting old.
All the hasstle it has caused alternative arrangments for my Boss, No work for the next few days £250 access on my Insurance four new tyres at £45 and a new windscreen at £518. Never mind worse things happen at sea.
I will try to post some pictures of it later on. thats my moan over with thanks for listening guy's.
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How very sad and small minded people are out there.
I would find out their names and addresses and report them to the police for harrassement, I would also speak to trading standards and Inland Revenue to see if they are legitimate. Chances are they are not.
What a pair of W****rs
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Hi Trev
No name on there van ::) and at six oclock this morning I was on the phone to the police again, gave them my CRN and told them of these two gentlemen :o but without any proof there is nothing they can do,
I did see the house they were at, and I am tempted to go around the house and ask a few questions, but again I would have to be so carefull in what I ask. It might be there mates for all I know. and I have grown attached to my legs over the past 50 years ;D
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I am sorry to hear that you have suffered at the hands of people such as this....despite the financial loss, you have shown here that you are indeed a better man in so many ways than the fools who commit such acts throughout the country each and every day.
Rise above it and pity the poor fools.
Dave.
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How sad these people are?
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::)
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When people resort to this you can bet your bottom dollar there not legit, i'd take my time find out what you can and grass the b'stards. But wait a while, revenge is a dish best served cold.
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that is sad! i've never been confronted with any kind of violence while window cleaning but if this was to happen to me i would be raged! i feel for you i really do...i'll jst suggest to you that JJBs has got a half price offer on on baseball bats at the moment ;)
where in the country did this happen?
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Hi Steve
Like Dave said its best served cold and it happened in Somerset,
I have to be Careful what I say on an open forum :-X if you know what I mean ??? you never know if the W*****s log on here?
;D ;D ;D ;D Just deleted some of my own post??
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What a pair of horrible poops. If you are going to do this house again, and they see you doing it, it might be worth your while setting up some sort of cctv in your house looking towards your path and car (just in case) They are quite cheap now or you might be able to use a video camera to catch them in the act.
How did they know where you live?
And if these tossers are on this forum you should be ashamed of yourselves, when any of my customers move and ask me to still do their windows I always do ( unless I dont like them ) and I would not expect any grief off of anyone for doing so.
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Mike
The customer now live's no more than a five minute drive from me, and maybe they knew were my car was, or Just Followed me home,
I must admit I have never seen these gentlemen ::) before, I have even phoned the other half a dozen WC I know around the area and by the desciption I gave,no one has seen or heared of them.
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you sound like a sound bloke your calling these guys gentlemen!!!!!!
I would hunt them down grrrrrr
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what you could do jeff .................. you say you know who they are or where they live ? ...take as many people on this forum with you to them then see what happens
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you sound like a sound bloke your calling these guys gentlemen!!!!!!
I would hunt them down grrrrrr
007 Looks as well as sound can be Deceiving ;D ;D ;D read my reply below.
what you could do jeff .................. you say you know who they are or where they live ? ...take as many people on this forum with you to them then see what happens
Easy i would not want to ruin a good frienship, I feel I have struck up with all you guy's, your like my extended family ;D and my family include two son-in-laws who are Bouncers, Nice big lads with lots of freinds all around for sunday Lunch this sunday coming, by then we will know a little more. :-X
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Very sorry to see you've been through this ordeal Jeff. What kind of idiots would carry out such totally mindless vandalism over one house!
From all your posts Jeff, you seem like a decent intelligent bloke. Well done for remaining calm.
What goes around comes around, life will dish out something in their faces eventually. The thing about bullies is that they are always cowards and there is always someone bigger.
Keep your head up Jeff
Pj
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Gutted for you mate.... I used to drive a Mondeo. :-\
;D
Seriously though, what can you do?
Against people like that you can't win.
Any accusations their way or any revenge will virtually guarantee more problems for you.
No ideas I'm afraid. :-\
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I can't Believe this, Last night I applied on-line for windscreen quotes, I applied to national companys The one that could be bothered to reply quoted me £518 or if I was or Knew someone in the AA/Rac they could do it for £354:12 for a heated front screen, me being Dumb and thinking the internet was usually the cheapest place I took this price as an average.
Now it takes a woman I suppose to do the shopping and when the boss found out, I only had prices from the internet, she picked up yellow pages and started phoning around,
she phoned the one who gave me a price last night and me in the back ground waving my arms like a demented octopus saying don't bother I know there price?
She came of the phone from them and she told me that the price she was given included fitting and a heated front screen for £122+vat so we she continued to phone and it worked out the same company who priced it on the internet last night were the cheapest by phone.
So in future guy's get the boss to do the shopping ;D
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Pj & sueaky.
Thanks for your kind words of encouragement, its nice to see all the kind words from all the Guy's,
In sad times like this it does help give a little lift.
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who do these w****rs think they are, this is our patch, no such thing as our bloody patch, we can all work where the bloody hell we like. i cant believe their are morons out their like this.
like dave wilkinson said,morons like this cant be legit,grass um up
i refuse to believe their is any chance they log on to this forum,everyone on this forum seems more than happy to help out with advice or more, cant see scum like this helping anybody but themselves
i hope you get your revenge jeff, they deserve all they get
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Gutted for ya.
Is your insurance fully comp?? If so XS on glass is only £50 normally.
Idiots!
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Check your insurance if you have not already had the screen replaced, most will replace it for 50 quid and it wont matter on your no claims bonus, wont help with the tyres but they might be cheaper than your excess.
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If You are sure it was them. it would do no harm to inform their customers of what took place. I wouldn't have anyone doing anything for me if they behave like that.
God forbid, if any of their customers missed a payment.
People that behave like this have no respect for the law. I would try and find out more about them. Do they have criminal records for violance, or anything else for that matter that would make them undesirable to their customers? If they are capable of this, then a bit of thieving wouldn't be beyond them would it.
We shiners have plenty of time to think when we are on autopilot. I'm sure you will find some subtle way of repaying them.
Tell your customer that you have been informed that a couple of guys with burglary
convictions are working the area. Give a vague description of them and their car.
The bush telegraph will do the rest. Dai
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It might do a lot of harm. Look at what they done for just doing a house on what they considered their patch.
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Thanks Guy's
I really don't need the work, My work is on a six week basis and I am fully booked, but When I change to wfp I will be looking for more work, And guess were I am going to look ;D
I wont be bullied away from a loyal customer,she also got me extra work, at her old house, even the people who bought her old house, want me to continue, and no doubt more work from her new area will be forth coming, this is how loyal she has been to me, so I owe it to her to continue with her windows.
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If the nasty window cleaners you dislike work traditionally then may I suggest you find a blind man to walk into their ladders whilst they're up them!!! Only joking!!!! But I know how you feel as I was bullied into walking away from a new area once by a huge brick poophouse of a Dole boy and all his mates trying to harass me. One on one I could handle it as I'm a martial arts expert, but not 5 onto 1. My common sense told me to walk away. You have more to lose than these idiots, so my advice to you is to try and forget it unless you want to keep looking over your shoulder for the next couple of years and make yourself ill with worry, resentment and anger as it will eat away at you more than the cost of the damage is worth!!! Stay on the right side of the law and live a happy and prosperous life!!!!
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This was mine from last month.
Such a cowardly act, it didnt bother me too much , just a mornings pay to sort it out.
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T*****S absolute F****ING W***ERS. If you're the prats that did this and you use this forum then you are the scum of the Earth...We don't live in the dark ages anymore....Why don't you go back to working on the fairground and claiming your dole !!!!
You know what I would do...nothing...for about 6 months, don't want to be too obvious. Then find out their phone number, easy enough to do sure you could find it from someone...then ring them every night ( buy a sim card from Ebay, not traceable) for a couple of weeks at 2am. Ok so you gotta get up to ring them but it will make you feel better..
The other option is to find out where they work and write to the tax office saying that you believe they are not declaring all their work for tax purposes and give the tax people some addresses to chase up... Gotta fight fire with fire....
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Like I said a dish served cold......i've been know to wait 3 years but as the saying goes an eye for an eye.
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F@@@@ me went to get some diesel tonight...and now my vans just been written off you couldnt make it up jeeeess @#*@$%"@
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F@@@@ me went to get some diesel tonight...and now my vans just been written off you couldnt make it up jeeeess @#*@$%"@
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Police are worse than useless in these situations - and they wonder why no one wants to stick their neck out to help them! When it's all fixed have you got to park on the street, Jeff?
The CCTV idea is a good one. And perhaps ask your neighbours to report anything suspicious to you.
I beleive the Police actually do something if "a firearm is involved" in any threats that are made against you. (If you catch my drift)
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T*****S absolute F****ING W***ERS.
I agree 100%.
Jeff,
If you find out who these guys's telephone numbers are, please e-mail it to me.
I promise to drive them insane.
I love a good wind-up.
Regards,
Tosh.
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T*ssers.
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Thanks for all the tremendous support you guy's have given me today, it has really helped to lift my spirits, but like Dave said a dish is best served cold and the colder the better.
I went around to see the customer concerned tonight and she was devestated, she even offered to pay for the screen and my tyres :'( I was nearly in tears with her, and declined her offer, (I told you she was a Gem.)
I will keep you Guy's informed on this one, as my own Investigations are still on going, but can't say much yet :-X ;) as soon as I have phone number I will pass it to Tosh for his enjoyment ;D
CCTV will be fitted by the weekend as I have to park on the road, I was told the local county council may have garages to rent, so will contact them tomorrow.
Once again Guy's thanks for your support.
Regards to you all :)
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Just forget it and add it to the list of life's problems that have been happening since day one when we were born.
I think sometimes by concentrating on the bad that is done to us we attract more. It's a subtle thing. Something subtle in the mind.
I've had the odd thing hapen similar over the years but it's easieast to just forget and ignore and carry on.
I know there is the feeling of insult and the cost but........ these things are a part of life. They happen.
Cheers
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really sorry to hear about your car Jeff, honestly, do these losers not realise how hard people work to pay bills, keep a car etc??
As you cannot prove i was them its left you in a bad place - you know very little about them - they know where you live, I'd be more inclined to try and move on, put it behind you.
However I certainly wouldn't stop doing you customers windows, if they see you there again then they will know they haven't put you off. If they say something to you again then you know you have got the upper hand - it will have cheesed them off and made them realise that their bully boy tactics won't work with you - failing that be prepared to give someone a good knuckle sandwich.
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just remain the man u r mate. ;D
And that is twice as big as them thugs.!
Thugs like that get ther come -up- ence in the end.
Usually as the dole office catch them at it or the tax man pays them a visit
Keep smiling mate ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Jeff, sorry to hear your bad news, some right idiots about :(
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Thanks Guy's for the support.
Don't you guy's find this Suspicious?
I had a knock on my front door this afternoon and the boss answered it, I heared her call me out,
went to the door, and this guy asked me if I was still cleaning windows, If I wasn't would I like to sell my round
Mmmm! a bit Suspicious don't you think?
Took his registration number and handed it to the police.
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a bit Suspicious
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That'll be just a mate of theirs' sent to wind you up, Jeff. Surely they are not that stupid to call on you themselves! Keep an eye out for who he hangs around with, if you see him again though.
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Any update on this?
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Only update I can give you, is I now Have the guy's registration number, (the one who told me to get lost from the area) and it has been handed to the police.
My car now has a new face and new shoes ;D and I can go back out to work.