Although i am doubly sure everyone would rather we didnt have to, i am possibly goint to rock the boat a bit here with my answer as it may seem a bit off hand but hear me out...

Deep breath and out hewre we go, ok i blame apart from the **** drug using, alchol dependant *** scum *** etc etc who are the daily blight on our legal citizens lifes who HAVE to have £100's a day in cold hard acsh to "Feed" their habit, and a government who refuse to lock them up, after offence after offence etc, these stealing robbing sum of the earth are being allowed to steal our property as they like so yeah they will case our vehicles, yeah they will think they can take what they want until our government wake up, stop paying billions for wars that have nothing to do with the ordinary citizens of this fair country of ours and start building more jails to house these people in dry them out and save us a lot of grief.

And almost as important but on the same thought process, may to many business trade users use both T4's and T5;s that are daily packed with goodie of high value to be stolen, now with many to many trade and business users also doing up their chosen ride it leave these stupid scum *** in a bit of a quandry as they are so stupid they are in actual fact most probably looking for tools and equipment found in business buses but are such that they have negated to notice the bus in this case yours doesn't have such and such company signwritting all the way down it, and is therefore most probably privately own and will have little of value in it, im not saying business users etc shouldnt have nice clean smart vasn im just saying its simply compounding the issues somewhat....

So after all that what are my words of wisdom on this, well what i do is simple i worry like hell, coz yeah it is my pride and joy, yeah it is my hobby and yeah it is my passion and like anything else we are passionate about we want to protect it as best we can, i have to say i do know where your coming from but i also have to say i think your a bit paraniod and probaby quite rightly,m what you might find is it is simply T4 lovers or becase the wheels are a bit different Black is the new chrome so not all that common yet, we all go through this, simply be sensible don't leave it anywhere dodgy, if you have to park it under a street light, in open view etc the usual make sure you have good set of wheel locks, and then relax and enjoy, as if you are going to constantly worry you will start to hate it and thus the fun will quickly go from it, at the end of the day i live with the premise like Chas if they want it they will get it, and the simple truth is this U WONT STOP THEM so take reasonable precautions and end it there.....

As for your missus being safe in your home thats different my family are still suffering from that one via a gang of teen agers who think they own our lovely countryside village, and like us we can do nothing as the Police simply will not act, they will not change them not even with witnesses to even a breach so we can build up an offence profile, so what can we do, fit video cameras all round our property?, take it into our own hands ? ignore it? suffer the damage they cause? the simpliest answer is all of the above in different measures.

In my eyes you absolutely MUST defend your own why? coz no one else will it really is that simple no one and i mean no one no matter cred, background, age or whatever should have to not feel safe in their own home, there are ways being so para as to not enjoy your home vehicle or whatever is not the way..

And what do the police say when informed about your break-in of your vehicle?
"You're insured aren't you" Don't do enough if you ask me!
If you get involved in somone "doing yer bus/van you're more likely to get done
after the aforementioned "scumbag" tries to sue you

Bottom line though is that you are insured so don't get paranoid over the loss of a marerial item
that can be replaced,it's the nearest and dearest you gotta think about.

There's alot you can do when you come across someone taking a shine to your pride and joy
but for fear of arrest or proscecution would not post on here

Rant over,back to enjoying life the best i can

Firstly i would build a 8ft fence right around my property, well at the road side anyway, around the back looks into feilds and has a beautiful view so wouldnt want to ruin it, so barbed wire topped mesh would do there, then electric gates to get in and out with, cameras on all corners pointing at the road, the cars, the house etc you get the idea, and last but not least a KILL switch so if any scum attempted to climb my fences they would get a non letahl buzz enough to make them not want to do it again lets say...the only problems here that i can forsee are the simple fact is that all of the above are totally ILLEGAL...

However the Prime minister and sevral of our high heed yins have much the same set ups with armed guards trained to shoot to kill where is the justice in this country, i will tell you shall i, simple its set in stone without a shadow of a doubt in protecting the juilty and most certainly not in protecting the innocent...Is my home properety and life not just every bit as valuable as Gordon Brown's or Tony Bl;airs or any one of several million others who are allowed to protect themselves in this way ???

I asked a short while ago about putting up CCTV around my home for several reasons not least beacuse i was being openly threatened by our local group of adolesent tubes on a regular basis, beacus ei phone dthe Police to try and get them stopped from playing football and using the sid eof my house and van as their goalposts, ever sinc emy life has been hell, i cant go out but i get pure abuse, very few other neighbours want wikll get involved although i have other witnesses and the Police won't charge them, our anti social behavour team can't react unless the Police charge them, this same gang have reeked havoc elsewhere in our village causing several thousand pounds worth of damage are well known for this type of behaviour yet i am not allowed to video them attacking me and my property, it is absolutely shameless, almost as if its a case of the videop doesn't lie so they would then have to take action, absolutely crazy and they wonder why there are vigilanty groups forming all over the place, is it really any wonder???
Why do they pick on me, simple it is a well known fact around these parts that i have MS it is no secret i have been seen falling, in a terrible state etc etc [but this is not a sympahise with me post not in the slightest], i only mention it to highlight the kind of people we are dealing with that they can only pick on the infirm, elderly and this younger than them, something has to be done about scum at all levels ethnic cleansing maybe but surely life is about more than constantly worrying about whats happening when your not there

My parents house was broken into, a few months back, via a downstairs window, at their front door varanda, [
big house affluent area of Glasgow] they have been in the same house 37yrs my mother was in bed upstairs at the time, my father in his second home, the Golf Club at 2pm in broad day light, anyway they refuse to have an alarm, my mother spends most of her time in bed, now had they of gotten into her room, found her, there what would of been the most likely outcome??? we obviouisly dont know but what i do know is, this it would likely of been not very nice, it frightened the be-jesus out of my family, yet mother seems uneffected by it all, they refuse to move saying they will come out of there with a wooden box only and they live in the area i was brought up in which until recently was a safe haven now sadly like everywhere else it has become as unsafe as the next...

The thing that gets me is if we were to be allowed to set up cctv like shops reseraunts etc do, we would likely catch these scumbags yet we are not allowed to wait for it incase we video some innocent person, surely if that person was innocent they would have nothing to fear from being on cctv, as in actual fact anyone working in any main city anywhere in our fine land is likely to be videoed several hundred times a week simply coming and going from their work, just another one of the UK's backwards thinking stupid beurocratic redtape waste of time laws in my view.... Hence i over insure myself, pay stupid dear premiums "Just In Case"

[Had 2 rotties once long long time ago, lovely beasts, [Bonkers, male, Stasha female], sad to say its hard to keep them also now due to society jumping up and down about devil dogs, which is clap trap, i had my 2 for several years along with with my kids growing up around them, no problems why? simple they were never left alone with the kids, i have several vids of my son/s on my male ones back but beleive me even then in the late 80's no one would come near their prams as the then missus walked down the road double buggy and a rotty either side ]

From a legal point of view it's best not to keep baseball bats near your bed,front door etc because if you did end up using them & going to court over it they would be looked upon as weapons.

Now if you keep a large Mag light by your bedside just incase of power cuts, that would go more in your favour if you did happen to grab that in a defend yourself situation.