They've known to steal water from Country Fire Authority tanks in Victoria's fire prone Mallee area.
Worst one we saw was a couple in a Bushtracker caravan at Spring Hills Rest Area on the Barrier Hwy west of Broken Hill.
The RA has a small concrete emergency water tank.
They did six full loads of washing using a residential sized washer outside their caravan.
They had washing strung up everywhere drying while they were filling their caravan tanks.
The Barrier Hwy passes through some extremely dry barren country.

Hope they stole grey ( yellow) water !

Mike Harding wrote:

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Punish them in some way. A knife through the sidewall of two tyres perhaps and leave a note as to why? People such as these will never, ever change their behaviour unless the consequences for them are dire. And I'm just sick to death of such w@nkers and pussy footing around them. Behave badly? Expect to be treated badly.

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 I hope you left your name and contact details too.

Cheers,

Peter

Mike Harding wrote:

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Peter_n_Margaret wrote:

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 I hope you left your name and contact details too.

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I don't give a toss Peter - you may have sympathy for such people but I do not.

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 With this, Mike, I'm in agreement. In my opinion, these water thieves are on a similar level to the parasites that happily camp in country-hotel parking areas, use the toilets and showers, but sit in their van, drinking cups of tea and eating toast. This is not in the spirit of things, and could well be called "Un-Australian"? Cheers 

"Punish them in some way. A knife through the sidewall of two tyres perhaps and leave a note as to why? People such as these will never, ever change their behaviour unless the consequences for them are dire. And I'm just sick to death of such w@nkers and pussy footing around them. Behave badly? Expect to be treated badly." Bit stupid even for you Mike!

Sometimes people, you have to be prepared to show a bit of backbone rather than just sitting on your backside posting to internet forums.

A bit like the ones who rock up to a Donation camp. Stay 2 or 3 nights. New tug and 23' van. Usually the more expensive models. No donation and leave rubbish bags behind.

Whenarewethere wrote:

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In our block of units there were renters who had a property on the Central Coast with water tanks. When they returned to that property the tanks were always empty. Their neighbours through the drought had a garden more green than could be displayed on a monitor.

I suggested that they put dye in the water. Water theft stopped.

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 Ha, ha. Your a smart bugger.

Flourescein. Lol

 

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SoloMC wrote:

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Wrong again. Causing criminal damage is never on under any circumstances. You are showing your real self by your comments. Very poor form. If you damaged anything of mine, you would before the courts before your feet hit the ground.

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Go and have a hot cup of tea and a nice lie down, you'll feel better then.

And in the meantime you can leave the difficult choices to the people prepared to be counted.

I sometimes wonder with some of the people on here if they'd be posting that we shouldn't do anything hasty after the Chinese had invaded. Too many wimps in this world.

Mike Harding wrote:

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Sometimes people, you have to be prepared to show a bit of backbone rather than just sitting on your backside posting to internet forums.

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 Is your name Putin?

Cheers,

Peter

Peter: leave the "scathing intellectual sarcasm" to others... you don't have the talent for it.

Peter_n_Margaret wrote:

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No one here would condone the theft of water (or anything else, for that matter), but attitudes like yours need to be called out.

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Well, you've now done that haven't you and can feel duly righteous which is a state I know you relish.

But you still don't seem to have grasped the concept that I simply don't give a toss.

Trying to belittle me wont work on this little black duck. your proposed actions can only be described as that of a vigilante Your comment is way out of line but you dont even realise it. I always recall one chief magistrate who closed his comments by saying the laws are there to reflect community attitudes. Your views as expressed in n way reflect ANY community attitude. I wonder how your backbone would cope when you are standing in the dock before a magistrate trying to explain why you decided to take the law into your hands because someone allegedly stole water (that didnt belong to you) but you thought the best thing to do was to inflict criminal damage his vehicle. Says a lot about you PS, you have realised your mistake but will never admit to it because of your arrogance. This is evident by your attempt to change the subject by deflecting to some weird unbelievable scenario about Chinese invasion I have dealt with criminals for most of my life and they all have one thing in common, they all think that criminal behaviour is acceptable! lets see how you try to squirm out of this. i assume you will only make some comment that digs your hole even deeper.

Colin Penrose wrote:

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Sorry but this is a bit long. Just read about water theft in the GN Times. A couple of years ago, during drought, I stayed behind the Bucca Q Pub for a few days. I was set up near the water tank. One morning an elderly couple with a huge van pulled in next to the tank. Started filling their tank until the pump cut out and the tank empty. They then proceeded to reverse to the tank next to the pub and finish filling their tanks. It was a hot day so I was relaxing in the shade. I never saw them or their friends go anywhere near the pub itself. They cooked their meals by their van and had a lovely camp fire at night. Then they took off early in the morning. Free camping, free water, no spend in the pub. I may be wrong and a bit picky but that is totally wrong to me. I am no saint but I paid my fees to the pub, bought a couple of beers and had a meal in the pub. I ended up staying for 10 days. As I said, I am no saint but my rant is over. 

Cheers. Col

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Take your pick Col so you can lock it first before the Mods do.