[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Accyexplorer

No, I think even the council can play the victim in this one
Yorkshire stone seems to be easy target for these sorts, it's extremely difficult to identify or trace. I heard DNA glue/grease has been introduced to help councils and homeowners trace and recover their stone flags.
Perhaps it's come to the point we should chisel our postcodes into our flags?

After the last spate of stone flags in our patch I thought they might go for the very large flags outside our front door, I got the angle grinder out and cut a 1/2 groove diagonally across the flags X, then filled the grooves with a light coloured mortar, now if they try to lift them they will crack and make them useless.
There is supposed to be a substance that can identify flags, but to me it would be useless, the plod would need to carry sumat to make it visible, & the quarry's have got equipment to put any dodgy flags at the bottom of the pile, will the be ordered to move them during a search, I think not, plod can't be bothered to record serious crimes these days, let alone bother searching for a 30 quid flag.