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Thieves don wet suits and flippers to empty a golf club lake of 800 balls
Lexi Finnigan
16 September 2016 • 5:24pm
A pair of thieves travelled 70 miles and donned wet suits and flippers to empty a golf club lake of 800 balls, the owner has revealed.
Sarah Bathew, 50, called officers when she spotted a suspicious vehicle on Monday evening, believing someone was trying to break into her machinery shed.
But when officers called her the next day, she heard how two men had used diving equipment to collect hundreds of golf balls from the lake at Manor Golf Club, in Uttoexeter, Staffs.
Ms Bathew, who has run the £600-a-year golf club for the past 12 years, said: “It's completely bizarre.
"I was on my own in the house, which is on site when I saw this car drive past.
"I watched it a while and then it disappeared which I couldn't work out because it's a dead end.
"I called the non-emergency number and the police came out and had a look around but couldn't find them.
"They told me to go to bed and it wasn't until the next morning that an officer called and said they found them in the lake and they had 800 balls to return to me.
"I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Apparently they were there with wet suits, flippers and snorkels.
"They even had the audacity to call me the next morning and say 'can we have our balls back please?'
"I was gobsmacked. They had travelled all the way down from Barnsley, so its obviously something they go around doing a lot."
It is believed the thieves had stolen the balls - which can fetch 60p each - in order to sell them online
Ms Bathew added: "The police didn't take any further action because they returned the balls.
"But they didn't confiscate their diving equipment so they will probably go and do it again somewhere else.
"We sell golf balls for 60p, so if they were selling them for 50p that's £400 worth of balls they had.
"They've probably got quite a lucrative little business going there."
A Staffordshire Police spokesman said: "We got a call at about 10.15pm to report a vehicle on the property.
"We attended and found two males occupants in wet suits and a large quantity of golf balls in their car.
"No further action has been taken as, fundamentally, the balls were returned."
Lexi Finnigan
16 September 2016 • 5:24pm
A pair of thieves travelled 70 miles and donned wet suits and flippers to empty a golf club lake of 800 balls, the owner has revealed.
Sarah Bathew, 50, called officers when she spotted a suspicious vehicle on Monday evening, believing someone was trying to break into her machinery shed.
But when officers called her the next day, she heard how two men had used diving equipment to collect hundreds of golf balls from the lake at Manor Golf Club, in Uttoexeter, Staffs.
Ms Bathew, who has run the £600-a-year golf club for the past 12 years, said: “It's completely bizarre.
"I was on my own in the house, which is on site when I saw this car drive past.
"I watched it a while and then it disappeared which I couldn't work out because it's a dead end.
"I called the non-emergency number and the police came out and had a look around but couldn't find them.
"They told me to go to bed and it wasn't until the next morning that an officer called and said they found them in the lake and they had 800 balls to return to me.
"I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Apparently they were there with wet suits, flippers and snorkels.
"They even had the audacity to call me the next morning and say 'can we have our balls back please?'
"I was gobsmacked. They had travelled all the way down from Barnsley, so its obviously something they go around doing a lot."
It is believed the thieves had stolen the balls - which can fetch 60p each - in order to sell them online
Ms Bathew added: "The police didn't take any further action because they returned the balls.
"But they didn't confiscate their diving equipment so they will probably go and do it again somewhere else.
"We sell golf balls for 60p, so if they were selling them for 50p that's £400 worth of balls they had.
"They've probably got quite a lucrative little business going there."
A Staffordshire Police spokesman said: "We got a call at about 10.15pm to report a vehicle on the property.
"We attended and found two males occupants in wet suits and a large quantity of golf balls in their car.
"No further action has been taken as, fundamentally, the balls were returned."
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