[katie]

I found a 30ft extendable ladder on our land the other day when I went to open up the chickens. It wasn't ours and it hadn't been stolen from a neighbour.
Looks like somebody was up to something and was disturbed. About time to reconsider security, methinks!

[daddymatty82]

hope you have taken the ladder and locked it away

[bigchicken]

Sound like an unidentified flying ladder. Could it have been put there to be picked up latter. Has there been a power cut and been left by electricity company. or telephone company, roofer, plumber,? don't keep it let the police have it as that would technically be stealing.   

[little blue]

we left our big ladders down the side of the house overnights, having been rained off the fascia-fitting.
my o/h insisted they had been moved, so stayed up in the carvan at the front that night.....
somebody jumped our front wall while 2 others were on the street talking...
they soon scarpered when we took the German Shepherd out & surprised them !!!   

so I agree... both to looking it up & to contacting the rozzers

[daddymatty82]

surely you cannot steal stuff off your own land whats found on your land is yours surely?

[katie]

It is if not claimed in 28 days. The police have been notified, we have a crime number. Anyone claiming the ladder would need to leave their details.

[little blue]

and keep your eye out!

[plumseverywhere]

ooh crikey     is there anything to climb into using a ladder on the land? very strange!

[katie]

We think they were probably aiming to disable the camera on the barn. Time for an urgent security review, methinks!

[plumseverywhere]

must have been disturbed and left their ladder. its hard to know what to do and its horrible to feel vulnerable on your own land. our neighbour had his shed broken into not long ago and we think they drove across our land to get into his back garden, grrr.

[daddymatty82]

what area uk you from got neighbours keeping eyes out? im keeping an eye out on a friends land as he found a stash of tools in an old barn so im setting traps (for humans) to teach them a lesson or 2.

[katie]

We're in the midlands. Yes, our neighbours are very good and we all keep a lookout for each other's land. Sadly, there's always people driving around looking for anything that's not nailed down.

[Brucklay]

Sort of on the same vane - we have a walking stick stolen from our middle paddock in the summer - not expensive but a present from my father-in-law and I used it all the time with the ram (just in case with his horns), guiding ducks etc it must have been someone local to get to where it was left - I was really disappointed

[robert waddell]

it is called theft by finding                 cut the ladder into small pieces            we knew a sparky that had his tools stolen when working on his brothers industrial unit he wired the roof to the mains 440v until his brother ordered him to disassemble                   if   you have a fragile roof  and they fall through it if you do not have warning signs displayed they will sue you and win it seams the law is on their side also you have to have warning signs statting they are being filmed

[Hermit]

The ladder was probably stolen to do the job anyway. A friend of mine lives at a place called Sowerby Bridge with lots of high retaining walls leading up to hillside houses. She woke up one morning to find a body of a man at the bottom of the wall. He had been nicking the ladders and tried to jump a low wall which had a very long drop on the other side! He was a known thief. Definately sounds like a prowler has been a calling.