Saturday, August 01, 2015

Ladders in the news

The quick thinking actions of a homeowner may have prevented his flat in Manchester's Northern Quarter from being burgled.

The concerned man had called 999 when he saw ladders against his window, thinking it was attempt to break in.



While he was on the phone, he saw two people stop to talk to the potential thieves below and quickly pulled their ladders up in through his apartment window. Police are now investigating the incident which happened at around 11.30pm on Tuesday night.

Meanwhile in Ireland, the Roscommon Herald report about Mr Lukas Selucky, who was shocked to discover that a ladder had an owner.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

He had surgery on his back but was happy to wrestle with a ladder.

BTW, if the ladder was seen lying in a ditch for several days (not exactly stated in the article--just that Selucky drove past it several times), why is it not considered "abandoned property" that anyone could pick up?

Lurker111

Barbwire said...

My daughter, at home with her husband, all the lights on, looked out the window to see a man's face. She yelled at him, he slid or fell off the ladder, and my son-in-law went out and claimed the ladder. I think they still have it, more than 20 years later.