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PocketGPSWorld donates a satnav to CVRT
Article by: Darren Griffin
Date: 7 Apr 2012
I read, with dismay, news of the theft from one of Calder Valley Search and Rescue Team's vehicles recently.
The volunteers had been unloading their vehicles after returning from a training exercise when thieves struck, stealing a mobile phone and satnav.
Quite apart from the callousness of stealing from an organisation whose members volunteer their own time to rescue people, the team gets no Government funding and so would have to fund the replacements out of their own pocket.
I got in contact with the team to see if PocketGPSWorld could help. And I'm delighted to report that Calder Valley Search and Rescue Team will shortly be receiving a replacement Garmin satnav courtesy of PocketGPSWorld.com.
You can show your support for the team by joining their Support Group, full details can be found on their website at http://www.cvsrt.org.uk/.
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 Posted by W90BHP on Sat Apr 07, 2012 7:27 am |
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What a generous idea. Well done :-)
Absolute shame the unit got pinched in the first place though :-(
LG G4: Android 6 : Viewranger : CoPilot : Waze
TomTom Go 730T : Traffic subscription long expired
Nokia E61 : Nokia GPS : TomTom Navigator 6 : Retired from duty
iPAQ 3970 : Navman Sleeve : CoPilot 4 : Somewhere in the loft |
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| Posted by MaFt on Sat Apr 07, 2012 7:41 am |
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Hooray for helping the Yorkshire folk!
MaFt
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| Posted by richard345 on Sat Apr 07, 2012 8:30 am |
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If the thieves are caught, they should be taken to the Moors blindfolded and dumped in freezing conditions in the dark with no SatNav. If they make it bake, straight to jail, if not, so what?
Ric - TomTom 520 DEAD - Passed to the great traffic jam in the sky. Now using Maps & Waze on Samsung Galaxy S4 + CamerAlert of course! |
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| Posted by Guivre46 on Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:31 am |
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Very generous.
Are you sure it should not have been a Tomtom - it seems to like narrow country tracks a lot?
Mike R [aka Wyvern46]
Go 530T - unsupported
Go550 Live [not renewed]
Kia In-dash Tomtom |
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| Posted by Trevor on Sat Apr 07, 2012 1:17 pm |
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There are certain people who think of nothing other than their own personal gain, I think they call them scum.
Lets hope one day the thieves need an emergency service and the phone they nicked has a flat battery.
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| Posted by JimmyTheHand on Sun Apr 08, 2012 6:23 am |
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| richard345 Wrote: | | If the thieves are caught, they should be taken to the Moors blindfolded and dumped in freezing conditions in the dark with no SatNav. If they make it bake, straight to jail, if not, so what? |
I favour dropping them off at North Pole - the worse the crime, the less clothing and other gear given them. When (if) they get back they are free to go
J. |
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| Posted by The Rudd on Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:36 am |
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It beggars belief at the level of callousness as to which people will stoop to, I hope that the thief will hang it's head in shame.
That was a nice guesture to give them a new sat nav (nice one PGPSW)
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| Posted by PaulWH on Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:08 am |
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I'm in my 60's and have to ask myself what this country will be like when my grandchildren are my age.
The "Soft Touch" with criminals is NOT WORKING in many cases.
Build MORE prisons with no access to Phones, TV, Drugs and certainly NO VOTES, they are there to be punished.
If the perpetrator is an illegal SEND THEM HOME, no if's or but's.
Well done for doing the honourable thing by replacing the SatNav.
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| Posted by caravanj on Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:08 am |
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| PaulWH Wrote: | I'm in my 60's and have to ask myself what this country will be like when my grandchildren are my age.
The "Soft Touch" with criminals is NOT WORKING in many cases.
Build MORE prisons with no access to Phones, TV, Drugs and certainly NO VOTES, they are there to be punished.
If the perpetrator is an illegal SEND THEM HOME, no if's or but's.
Well done for doing the honourable thing by replacing the SatNav. |
I'm in my late 60's & grew up in an era where you got a good belting if you misbehaved & contrary to what the academic dimwits, who peddle their 'spare the child, garbage, say, it didn't do me any harm.
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| Posted by RogerNeale on Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:01 am |
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| caravanj Wrote: | | I'm in my late 60's & grew up in an era where you got a good belting if you misbehaved & contrary to what the academic dimwits, who peddle their 'spare the child, garbage, say, it didn't do me any harm. |
Here Here, I agree.
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