Meeanee Playgroup chairwoman Vickilee Flynn with some of the moms and dads and the young children who the shade sails have been stolen from. Photo / Paul Taylor
Robbers have stolen two shade sails and attempted a crack-in at Meeanee Playgroup right away Monday.
Attendees of the playgroup on Tuesday morning seen the shade sails missing and injury from where by the culprits tried out to pry open the drop of engage in machines for the youngsters.
Meeanee Playgroup chairwoman Vickilee Flynn mentioned this is the 2nd time shade sails have been stolen from the playgroup in the room of two a long time.
“Just right before lockdown in 2020, the very same factor transpired to us.”
She stated it was devastating for the team, specifically as they have been a group-dependent not-for-gain organisation.
“It really is a fairly big blow to our group for the reason that they are fairly highly-priced to replace.”
She claimed while they had insurance coverage, it failed to cover theft because the group was unable to manage it.
She claimed right after the final shade sails were being stolen, they experienced chained up and bolted these ones, but the robbers experienced basically minimize the straps of the shade sails.
“What is additional discouraging is that the shade sails are there to guard the youngsters. They are proficiently stealing off the children”
She explained they knew from footage from the close by Meeanee Faculty cameras that the shade sails ended up stolen off the premises by two men close to midnight.
“What was even a lot more terrifying was I was down there very last night for a working bee and I left possibly about quarter to 11.
“A very little bit unnerving to think that when you were down there they could have been observing.”
She mentioned soon after the initially shade sail theft in 2020, she located out from law enforcement they have been usually stolen to conceal out of doors hashish crops from aerial check out.
“The weekend ours got stolen [in 2020], Ravensdown had theirs [shade sails] stolen much too.”
She mentioned they ended up now hunting at suggestions to potentially make a lasting composition as a substitute.