THUGS firing ball bearings have cost a city centre store £10,000 in two daylight attacks.
Police were called to the ILVA store on Great Ancoats Street at 6.45pm on Wednesday following reports that a window had been damaged.
Last week, on Monday, March 31, two more windows were broken at the store in a similar incident.
Ball bearings were found at the scene following each incident.
Sergeant Tom Bowes said: “These incidents have cost the company more than £10,000, as each window is very large.
“But perhaps more importantly, the shots were close to a busy road, and if one had hit a car, or the windows had shattered, somebody could have been very seriously injured.
“We are treating these incidents very seriously, and would advise anyone who knows anything about them to come forward and speak to us. If we find out you’ve been withholding information about this we will not hesitate to take action.”
Anyone with any information about these incidents is asked to contact 0161 856 3521 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
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somebody could have been very seriously injured?
Do you seriously think these thugs worry about hurting anybody.Well its just yet another story of out of control britain.Until we get control and real dfeterents back in britain it will only get worse.For all you PC lot and liberal thinkers ,its all your fault why we have come down this road....?????weve tried it your way for forty years its time to turn the clocks back and bring some of our old laws back. the death penalty,birch,and corporal punishment.
WoW! ace. The death penalty for firing ball bearings. A bit harsh ain't it.
Having previously had the misfortune to have ordered some furniture to be delivered from ILVA, and thus been witness to their fabulously dreadful ideas of customer service, I can kind of see what might drive someone to take a pot shot at their building.
just another example of the scum this once great city is now harbouring.
Careless whisper didnt read properly what Ace said -he said bring back THESE penalties not one THESE, make the penalty fit the crime. Would he feel so liberal had one of those large windows shattered and one of the shards injured or maimed one of his family, its senseless vandalism and being brought before the courts and your wrist being slapped obviously isnt working.
ace!Means Death!
ace, usually I agree with you but this time Careless whisper is right, death penalty for firing ball bearings is a bit too much. They had not killed someone. HOWEVER they should be whipped, no question about that.
I'm not saying what these scumbags did was OK but ILVA should have realised they did open their store in Ancoats, one of the most deprived areas of the city. How can they be surprised by this ? It's mindless damage but we all know what amuses these thugs.
alvinlwh
I wouldnt read what careless wisper says he didnt read what i said properly? i said i would bring back the death penalty as well as the "birch" as well as corporal punishment...
No doubt these are just young lads who are out having a laugh, up to mischief.
They shouldn't be using these things out of their own backyard as one day they might hit a human by accident.
to be expected round there really, which is where I used to park, but luckily I now qualify for a space on my company car park which will save me a walk through the bronx
Ace's answer to EVERYTHING is " death penalty,birch,and corporal punishment. " , hes like a character in some sureal monty python sketch.
Andy, Wythenshawe
Yea but the idiot liberals and the people who live in cloud cookoo land keep trying to make the monsters behave by talking to them which has spoiled britain .its time we went back to the old way of control at least that worked because the liberal way isnt working after forty years.
MsD, it is part of the attempt to upgrade and improve the area. Which of course is a waste of time and money just like the works in Moss Side and Hulme. Parks and youth centres built for the youth in the local area are used as targets practice by the local instead.
Ace - keep saying it! The more you do the more people will start to believe it too!!
I live in a rea of east manchester that has been re-developed with brand new homes.But the housing associations have not kept track of the people who they have in their houses.the tennants have wrecked the houses and gardens making the area look terrible again.I see tennants move into brand new homes,but within weeks i see rubbish just thrown in the gardens and the grass has overgrown gates and fences ripped off and nothing is done about making the tennants repair or maintain the property.they just trash it,so how can we expect their children to look after anything all the kids know is how to wreck things"Never look after things" Its time the council and the housing associations clamped down on these house wreckers and then then maybe it would make their children look after property ?."PUTTING PIGS INTO NEW HOMES WONT MAKE A GOOD COMMUNITY" You have to train them to look after things.
I am currently working in the 'upgrading' of Miles Platting with the housing association and some of the homes I saw are more like a landfill site then a home. No wonder about the state of the area.
alvinlwh
We are just creating "new ghettos" wasting millions of taxpayers money its time to make tennants appreciate the homes they live in? When people get a house they should be asked if they want a garden or not and if they want a garden then it should be maintained by the tennant and checked quarterly and if its not maintained they downgrade the tennant to a terraced property without a garden then the same goes for the state of the house if its destroyed they then get thrown out to find a private landlord... teach these tennants that because the house dosnt belong to you you have the right to keep it in good condition for the sake of your community. ZERO TOLLERANCE.
Andy, Wythenshawe.
Ace’s comments are on the money. We have had 30 years of eroding the moral fabric of society, thanks to the liberal doo gooders. For a short period of time, draconian measures are called for, in order to put society back on the straight and narrow.
Ace is right - the "liberal grauniad reading do-gooders" have for years been apologising for and appeasing the criminals in society. They have had "control of the ship" for too long now and we are floundering on the reef !!
When the criminals are properly punished and have priveledges/benefits withdrawn they may realise that "crime doesn't pay".
Unfortunately we have a benefit system that "throws money" at the destructive members of society and rewards failure.
Ace said "putting pigs into new homes is not the answer", and he is right.
The regime is so focussed on throwing good money on catering for the 'needs' of these people, they ignore the predictable outcome. "Give them everything they want, and their behaviour will change". Well, it doesn't work. These social schemes often exist to satisfy the do-gooders and absolve them from further responsibility. Except to keep paying out tax-payers money to constantly repair and replace what they trash.
The culprits have had everything free for so long, nothing holds any value for them. They live off a seemingly bottomless pit of resources, and wasting it all holds no consequence. I pity the decent hard-working people who have to live among them.