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Thieves steal man's kitchen

A BRITISH holidaymaker returned to his home in central England to find thieves had stolen everything in his kitchen, even the sink.

Burglars had broken into James Elstub's Dewsbury home while he was in Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and the United States, and stripped his kitchen, taking his oven, all the wall units, and the sink.

" I can't believe I returned home from my holiday to find burglars had stolen my kitchen sink,'' Mr Elstub said.

He said he had to endure two weeks of microwave meals while his kitchen was replaced.

Halifax Home Insurance, Elstub's insurer, said he - and all holidaymakers - should do their best to make homes look like they were being occupied by having friends and family visit, and installing timers on lights inside.

Peter

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Thieves steal man's kitchen

A BRITISH holidaymaker returned to his home in central England to find thieves had stolen everything in his kitchen, even the sink.

Burglars had broken into James Elstub's Dewsbury home while he was in Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and the United States, and stripped his kitchen, taking his oven, all the wall units, and the sink.

" I can't believe I returned home from my holiday to find burglars had stolen my kitchen sink,'' Mr Elstub said.

He said he had to endure two weeks of microwave meals while his kitchen was replaced.

Halifax Home Insurance, Elstub's insurer, said he - and all holidaymakers - should do their best to make homes look like they were being occupied by having friends and family visit, and installing timers on lights inside.

Peter

When my ex wife (English) used to go on holiday she would take everything including the kitchen sink - maybe she was right

CB

Just a minute. Burglars arrived, ripped out his entire kitchen and his neighbours never suspected something was a bit suspicious. Also they stole his entire kitchen and nothing else from the house?

Anyway, as they took the sink, I presume they made a clean getaway.

You know if they did it in a very open way, people would think they were work men doing job such as installing a kitchen.

Just in from the USA

US home emptied after fake web ad posted

Friday Apr 6 10:29 AEST

AP - Everything including the kitchen sink was stripped from a rental home after an internet classified ad invited people to take whatever they wanted for free.

But the landlord says the ad, posted last weekend on the craigslist website, was fake.

"In the ad, it said come and take what you want. Everything is free," Laurie Raye told Seattle's KING-TV.

Raye had cleaned out the rental after evicting a tenant. After the ad appeared, the property was stripped of the sink, light fixtures and the hot water heater. Even the front door and a vinyl window were pilfered, Raye said.

Neighbours said they saw strangers hauling items away, apparently looking for salvage material.

Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster said the ad was posted last Friday and was on the site for less than two hours before users flagged it down.

Craigslist officials "have released all the information we have" about the ad, Buckmaster said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

He said craigslist rarely encounters such false postings, despite receiving 25 million postings each month.

Peter