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'Thick' thieves have to be decontaminated after breaking into asbestos-riddled building (From The Argus)
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'Thick' thieves have to be decontaminated after breaking into asbestos-riddled building
1:00pm Saturday 22nd September 2012 in News By Anna Roberts, Crime reporter
Three men have been branded “Britain’s thickest thieves” after breaking into a building riddled with asbestos.
The trio, who have now undergone decontamination, forced their way into the deserted post office in Ship Street, Brighton, at 1.30pm yesterday, ignoring health and safety signs warning them about the danger.
Police were called and themen were arrested but before they could be interviewed they had to be decontaminated to ensure asbestos particles were removed.
Traders condemned the thieves as fools, with Stuart Wilkie, of Brighton Lanes Traders stating: “Are these Britain’s thickest thieves?
“It is ludicrous. Going into the decontamination unit serves them right. It is poetic justice."
For the full story see today's Argus.
Comments(51)
rolivan
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1:16pm Sat 22 Sep 12
Dr.Draconian
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1:21pm Sat 22 Sep 12
Maxwell's Ghost
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1:23pm Sat 22 Sep 12
Ballroom Blitz
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1:28pm Sat 22 Sep 12
rolivan
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1:54pm Sat 22 Sep 12
ASBO academy inmate 2291D
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2:00pm Sat 22 Sep 12
But something doesn't seem quite right here. 'Building riddled with asbestos' - it only closed recently, what of the poor people working there for so many years, and the customers?
Why would 'health and safety signs' prevent a draft supplying particles to the surrounding area outside?
Do the asbestos particles just stay inside and obey the signs? Has someone with a clip-board and gnawed biro declared it safe as long as nobody opens the door or breaks wind nearby?
The asbestos in this building should not have been disturbed if it was not going to be treated and removed.
Far more entirely innocent people are exposed to asbestos each year. I hope these gooners face the full force of the law - and pay the £20 fine as soon as they receive their £1 million compensation.
campotolox
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2:01pm Sat 22 Sep 12
MuammarQaddafi
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3:00pm Sat 22 Sep 12
minnie&teddy
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3:13pm Sat 22 Sep 12
Somethingsarejustwrong
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3:32pm Sat 22 Sep 12
campotolox wrote:I would hope that they have to at the very least pay the costs associated with decontamination. Equally their medical files should be noted and treatment for any future issues only provided on a paid for basis, rather than NHS.
Leave them alone,they were only doing as best as they can?
Surely not!
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3:45pm Sat 22 Sep 12
campotolox
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4:25pm Sat 22 Sep 12
Surely not!
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4:31pm Sat 22 Sep 12
campotolox wrote:I wasn't commenting on anything you said, as your comment made little sense to me.... but haha... very funny.
Surely not mate it was supposed to be a joke,what are you on ,oh hang on you live in Brighton?
Somethingsarejustwrong
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5:48pm Sat 22 Sep 12
Surely not! wrote:You seem like a fairly unusual duo. So its OK to commit crime and its OK to wish the worst on criminals is it?
campotolox wrote:I wasn't commenting on anything you said, as your comment made little sense to me.... but haha... very funny.
Surely not mate it was supposed to be a joke,what are you on ,oh hang on you live in Brighton?
You should sort yourselves out!
lorrie1
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6:15pm Sat 22 Sep 12
Flippin Burghers
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6:38pm Sat 22 Sep 12
rolivan
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6:42pm Sat 22 Sep 12
lorrie1 wrote:If you walk on a live rail you will get electrocuted.If you walk across the road when the lights say not to, you will probably get run over if you enter a building that says danger keep out you will have to face the concequences.
There was a big party in there last saturday, Not so funny now is it?
Somethingsarejustwrong
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9:01pm Sat 22 Sep 12
rolivan wrote:Great comments! The morale of the story is..................
lorrie1 wrote:If you walk on a live rail you will get electrocuted.If you walk across the road when the lights say not to, you will probably get run over if you enter a building that says danger keep out you will have to face the concequences.
There was a big party in there last saturday, Not so funny now is it?
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rolivan
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10:49pm Sat 22 Sep 12
SomethingsarejustwroDo as you are asked or face the concequences.
ng wrote:
rolivan wrote:Great comments! The morale of the story is..................
lorrie1 wrote:If you walk on a live rail you will get electrocuted.If you walk across the road when the lights say not to, you will probably get run over if you enter a building that says danger keep out you will have to face the concequences.
There was a big party in there last saturday, Not so funny now is it?
............?
Roundbill
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1:10am Sun 23 Sep 12
rolivan wrote:That's pretty much what the Nazis said.
SomethingsarejustwroDo as you are asked or face the concequences.
ng wrote:
rolivan wrote:Great comments! The morale of the story is..................
lorrie1 wrote:If you walk on a live rail you will get electrocuted.If you walk across the road when the lights say not to, you will probably get run over if you enter a building that says danger keep out you will have to face the concequences.
There was a big party in there last saturday, Not so funny now is it?
............?
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There, I've invoked Godwin's Law - now can we all go home?
sussexguy
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8:14am Sun 23 Sep 12
pebble counter
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9:31am Sun 23 Sep 12
Frank28
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10:10am Sun 23 Sep 12
Somethingsarejustwrong
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10:39am Sun 23 Sep 12
Once again its the minority who don't contribute (even though the story doesn't tell us the profile of these people, we can be safe in our guessing) who create problems and cost for the rest of us, who do contribute.
Its time to stop this nonsense and we should start with the street drinking, homeless beggars and drive them off our streets......And before any do-gooder, turn the other cheek type, tries to speak up for them, I frankly don't care where they go, just so long as they go!
hubby
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11:12am Sun 23 Sep 12
I wish I had known that there was asbestos contamination!
Why wasn't I told?
gmgc81
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11:18am Sun 23 Sep 12
I doubt they can sue the owners of the building. If there were warning signs outside the building the idiots should be aware of the dangers. I have no sympathy for them. They've already condemned themselves to a death sentence, even if the UK doesn't actually have a death sentence.
jackyboy6789
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11:34am Sun 23 Sep 12
jackyboy6789
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11:45am Sun 23 Sep 12
Somethingsarejustwrosurely these people can leave the streets if they had somewhere to live, most people on the streets have reasons, and to me you sound like a stuck up posh **** lol, these people dont have family support and money in there pockets which has drove them to break down! those thieves weren't stealing anything they were trying to get in there to sleep out of the rain! so they sit in some old derelict building whilst your sat here on your iPad and iPhone 4s criticizing them about how they should go away.
ng wrote:
Regardless of what they may and may not now suffer from, we, the tax payers, should not incur any costs for their treatment, including that already provided.
Once again its the minority who don't contribute (even though the story doesn't tell us the profile of these people, we can be safe in our guessing) who create problems and cost for the rest of us, who do contribute.
Its time to stop this nonsense and we should start with the street drinking, homeless beggars and drive them off our streets......And before any do-gooder, turn the other cheek type, tries to speak up for them, I frankly don't care where they go, just so long as they go!
jackyboy6789
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11:50am Sun 23 Sep 12
sussexguy wrote:well since squatters rights got banned from residentual building there are hundreds nearly thousands of people on the street, not what the council knows about, and thats because not all homeless people beg down west street. they wanted to get in that building so they could get out of the rain, just last week it got evicted as a squat. so either these people live in squats or on the streets or they claim hundreds of thousands pounds worth of housing benifits so they can get back on there feet and work again.
What on earth has that got to do with the Nazis? Sorry, but these idiots deserve all they get, and we the taxpayers should not be paying towards their decontamination. In any case, what on earth were they planning to do once they got inside? Surely there is nothing left there for them to steal.
BlackRocker
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11:51am Sun 23 Sep 12
jackyboy6789 wrote:With your spelling, I can't help wondering if you have a job.
Somethingsarejustwrosurely these people can leave the streets if they had somewhere to live, most people on the streets have reasons, and to me you sound like a stuck up posh **** lol, these people dont have family support and money in there pockets which has drove them to break down! those thieves weren't stealing anything they were trying to get in there to sleep out of the rain! so they sit in some old derelict building whilst your sat here on your iPad and iPhone 4s criticizing them about how they should go away.
ng wrote:
Regardless of what they may and may not now suffer from, we, the tax payers, should not incur any costs for their treatment, including that already provided.
Once again its the minority who don't contribute (even though the story doesn't tell us the profile of these people, we can be safe in our guessing) who create problems and cost for the rest of us, who do contribute.
Its time to stop this nonsense and we should start with the street drinking, homeless beggars and drive them off our streets......And before any do-gooder, turn the other cheek type, tries to speak up for them, I frankly don't care where they go, just so long as they go!
BlackRocker
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11:55am Sun 23 Sep 12
hubby wrote:Remember, where there's blame there's a claim! I hope you're already taking legal advice. Idiot.
I used to use that Post Office.
I wish I had known that there was asbestos contamination!
Why wasn't I told?
Somethingsarejustwrong
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12:03pm Sun 23 Sep 12
jackyboy6789 wrote:You don't have the first idea and its your sort that I'd like to see the back of. Go back to your birth place and stop trying to justify why what is clearly wrong is right.
Somethingsarejustwrosurely these people can leave the streets if they had somewhere to live, most people on the streets have reasons, and to me you sound like a stuck up posh **** lol, these people dont have family support and money in there pockets which has drove them to break down! those thieves weren't stealing anything they were trying to get in there to sleep out of the rain! so they sit in some old derelict building whilst your sat here on your iPad and iPhone 4s criticizing them about how they should go away.
ng wrote:
Regardless of what they may and may not now suffer from, we, the tax payers, should not incur any costs for their treatment, including that already provided.
Once again its the minority who don't contribute (even though the story doesn't tell us the profile of these people, we can be safe in our guessing) who create problems and cost for the rest of us, who do contribute.
Its time to stop this nonsense and we should start with the street drinking, homeless beggars and drive them off our streets......And before any do-gooder, turn the other cheek type, tries to speak up for them, I frankly don't care where they go, just so long as they go!
If you and these people stopped investing in strong lager and cider and for some of this group drugs then this cash would support sensible levels of accommodation.
We all have a story to tell to justify things, its just that some are valid and yours and your chums are not.
Now jog on!
Hove Ex-Pat
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12:22pm Sun 23 Sep 12
NickBrt
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4:49pm Sun 23 Sep 12
rolivan
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5:03pm Sun 23 Sep 12
Somethingsarejustwrong
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6:34pm Sun 23 Sep 12
rolivan wrote:Sounds like a plan, or better still drop them on a large container ship and use the vast amount of funds saved in Brighton to pay the captain to stay well out at sea.
If there is such a problem with homelessness the easy solution would be to let them have some shipping containers to sleep in and put them out at Horsedean.
Artificial
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7:09pm Sun 23 Sep 12
NickBrt wrote:Why did you feel the need to write that? This story has no relevance to Caroline Lucas. Your comment just makes you look pathetic.
Has Caroline Lucas rushed to their aid checking they have all help they need as well as copious amounts of legal advice to enable them to sue the owners for this contamination and to sue the person who branded them thick, which surely must be a breach of their human rights for which Dr Lucas will be recommending they seek compensation?
Why not blame Thatcher like everyone else ;-D
Somethingsarejustwrong
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7:43pm Sun 23 Sep 12
Artificial wrote:Why did you feel the need to write that? This story has no relevance to Margaret Thatcher. Your comment just makes you look pathetic and you only have yourself to blame!
NickBrt wrote:Why did you feel the need to write that? This story has no relevance to Caroline Lucas. Your comment just makes you look pathetic.
Has Caroline Lucas rushed to their aid checking they have all help they need as well as copious amounts of legal advice to enable them to sue the owners for this contamination and to sue the person who branded them thick, which surely must be a breach of their human rights for which Dr Lucas will be recommending they seek compensation?
Why not blame Thatcher like everyone else ;-D
Artificial
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8:03pm Sun 23 Sep 12
SomethingsarejustwroExactly
ng wrote:
Artificial wrote:Why did you feel the need to write that? This story has no relevance to Margaret Thatcher. Your comment just makes you look pathetic and you only have yourself to blame!
NickBrt wrote:Why did you feel the need to write that? This story has no relevance to Caroline Lucas. Your comment just makes you look pathetic.
Has Caroline Lucas rushed to their aid checking they have all help they need as well as copious amounts of legal advice to enable them to sue the owners for this contamination and to sue the person who branded them thick, which surely must be a breach of their human rights for which Dr Lucas will be recommending they seek compensation?
Why not blame Thatcher like everyone else ;-D
Somethingsarejustwrong
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8:08pm Sun 23 Sep 12
Artificial wrote:Artificial - I am pleased that you have reflected on your inane and irrelevant comment and agree with my feedback.
SomethingsarejustwroExactly
ng wrote:
Artificial wrote:Why did you feel the need to write that? This story has no relevance to Margaret Thatcher. Your comment just makes you look pathetic and you only have yourself to blame!
NickBrt wrote:Why did you feel the need to write that? This story has no relevance to Caroline Lucas. Your comment just makes you look pathetic.
Has Caroline Lucas rushed to their aid checking they have all help they need as well as copious amounts of legal advice to enable them to sue the owners for this contamination and to sue the person who branded them thick, which surely must be a breach of their human rights for which Dr Lucas will be recommending they seek compensation?
Why not blame Thatcher like everyone else ;-D
That said your acknowledgement only serves to make you look even more pathetic.
chacharoo
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4:21pm Mon 24 Sep 12
hannover seagull
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4:49pm Mon 24 Sep 12
Roundbill wrote:Can´t remember the Nazis putting up polite Public Safety notices as is the case here
rolivan wrote:That's pretty much what the Nazis said.
SomethingsarejustwroDo as you are asked or face the concequences.
ng wrote:
rolivan wrote:Great comments! The morale of the story is..................
lorrie1 wrote:If you walk on a live rail you will get electrocuted.If you walk across the road when the lights say not to, you will probably get run over if you enter a building that says danger keep out you will have to face the concequences.
There was a big party in there last saturday, Not so funny now is it?
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There, I've invoked Godwin's Law - now can we all go home?
What a ridiculous analogy
Somethingsarejustwrong
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7:56pm Mon 24 Sep 12
chacharoo wrote:What a confusing update, although it does sound interesting.
It's worth talking to people who know what happened rather than blathering on about what 'may' have happened and laying the blame at the wrong people's feet. People did live in that building; some were sleeping or going about their business. The asbestos was safely covered in the walls as it is in many buildings. These idiots came in with sledgehammers and power tools to dismantle as much as the could for scrap- radiators etc, and were smashing walls down while the people that were living there were still there. There's your story.
Would you mind clarifying who was doing what and why please?
chacharoo
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8:39pm Mon 24 Sep 12
Somethingsarejustwrong
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9:31pm Mon 24 Sep 12
chacharoo wrote:Ah, so the 3 people arrested were squatters in the process of stripping assets from the property; thanks for clarifying.
why confusing? The place is a known squat, people live there. These guys came in, they had a truck outside to carry away the stuff so were there with the intention to get scrap metal I assume. Some are known as squatters themselves, though they very much upset the people lving there.
Lucky the legislation has been passed and here's looking to a future where these parasites are systematically identified and dealt with.
NickBrt
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10:05am Tue 25 Sep 12
chacharoo
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9:17pm Tue 25 Sep 12
SomethingsarejustwroOh I'm sorry I tried to give a reasonable answer, I hadn't realised you were an idiot, my mistake.
ng wrote:
chacharoo wrote: why confusing? The place is a known squat, people live there. These guys came in, they had a truck outside to carry away the stuff so were there with the intention to get scrap metal I assume. Some are known as squatters themselves, though they very much upset the people lving there.Ah, so the 3 people arrested were squatters in the process of stripping assets from the property; thanks for clarifying. Lucky the legislation has been passed and here's looking to a future where these parasites are systematically identified and dealt with.
Somethingsarejustwrong
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7:12pm Wed 26 Sep 12
chacharoo wrote:You did give a reasonable answer and you will note I thanked you for clarifying for me.
SomethingsarejustwroOh I'm sorry I tried to give a reasonable answer, I hadn't realised you were an idiot, my mistake.
ng wrote:
chacharoo wrote: why confusing? The place is a known squat, people live there. These guys came in, they had a truck outside to carry away the stuff so were there with the intention to get scrap metal I assume. Some are known as squatters themselves, though they very much upset the people lving there.Ah, so the 3 people arrested were squatters in the process of stripping assets from the property; thanks for clarifying. Lucky the legislation has been passed and here's looking to a future where these parasites are systematically identified and dealt with.
What I then went on to do, was summarize how the new legislation will eradicate this minority group who cause so much nuisance and incur costs for others.
I find it strange that you should refer to me as an idiot when all I have done is reflect the sentiments of the vast majority of the good people of Brighton.
chacharoo
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8:47pm Wed 26 Sep 12
ravin.scotsman
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11:20pm Fri 28 Sep 12
Nathan_Adler says...
1:08pm Sat 22 Sep 12