As an aside, I follow the "LandyWatch" group/page on FB - about stolen Landies. TBH I think its a toothless waste of time, second only in Landy theft toothlessnes to the old bill, oh and CrimeWatchers and probably any other agency there to stop it.
Anyway, I happened to read a post today and someone commented....
"I can't believe the amount that are going on a weekly basis. It does worry me that some people on forums are part of groups going around stealing and obtaining info looking at posts etc"
I pooh poohed the idea at first. But I wonder if groups do target vehicles they see on forums such as LZ? It also got me thinking about whether they could sell on stolen stuff through LZ - so I had a look at the parts forum. First I looked at the rules, of which 2 are....
You must have 50 constructive posts
Commercial listings not allowed, unless you are a forum or commercial sponsor.
I then looked down the list of offerings. Most are specific items, then got to
http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f62/discovery-200tdi-breaking-parts-271213.html which is a generic "all parts available". This guy probably isn't nicking or selling nicked stuff, and the rego of the car he's breaking is clearly displayed, but this guy has made no "Constructive posts" (they've mainly been replying to "wanteds" etc) and it does look commercial, or at least semi-commercial because he's got various cars he's breaking.
I'd hate to think LZ could be used by gangs of Landy thiefs.