Box clever
Please spare a thought for the Republic’s poor naive students…
Apparently all the empty boxes they’ve been chucking away recently (TV, DVD, laptop, gold-plated motorcyle, etc) are tipping off scoundrels looking for places to ransack.
According to Cover4students.com, undergraduates are particularly vulnerable, with most insurance claims (a hefty 55 per cent) occuring during the first month of term.
In fact, a third of students who suffered a burglary last year believed that branded boxes discarded outside their hovel led to the break-in.
Pah, what idiots! And why aren’t they recycling those boxes, eh? Sounds like they should spend a few years at the university of life, like wot we did.
Posted by Thin White Duke
September 22nd, 2006
