Boot Sales

 

I have just checked it is almost a year since I recommenced the blog.

The Hook Road Arena Boot Sales started last month, now I only go to the Bank Holiday Monday sales, in the past the Boot Sales were only held on the Bank Holiday Monday's, a change in the people running the Boot Sales there are now Boot Sales on the Sunday & the Monday Bank Holiday, this has led to the Bank Holiday sales being much smaller, in the past they used to fill up the main field, use three quarters of the field used for disabled parking and sellers in the main car park.

A few years ago a group of people who live in caravans decided to sell their generators, they turned up with a lorry loaded with generators, I don't know if they sold any where the people took them to their cars, the African ladies mentioned in an earlier post decided to buy all the generators that they had, they paid and the sellers said as they are heavy, we will take your address and deliver then to you. The generators were never delivered, even I thought a classic scam, however a couple of weeks later they thought they would repeat the scam, rather than go to another Boot Sale, they decided to go to Hook Road again to try their luck, they were recognised by the ladies who then descended on the sellers, one of the sellers was out of the lorry and was set upon by the ladies the other in the lorry made off by driving the lorry through the crowds as if they were not there and forcing the incoming cars off the road as he forced his way out of out of  Hook Road Arena, I do not know if there were any charges brought after the incident. At another Boot Sale one seller was arrested he as selling Gardening Tools, he was selling them too cheaply, it turned out there had been a spate of robberies of gardening tools from garden sheds in the area, these robberies were the source of the tools, I have also seen police checking fishing gear to see if it was stolen property.