We Caught Vandals Smashing Up Cars Wile Owner Of This Abandoned Scrap Yard is In Prison.. !

This video was filmed back In May 2023… the site was still very secure then and the main gate was padlocked shut. Unfortunately due to someone posting the exact location on social media it has now fallen victim to criminals…
In 2021 the DIRECTOR of a former car salvage company was jailed over unsafe forklift trucks and structural safety at his business. He failed to comply with HSE enforcement notices served to protect the health and safety of workers and visitors to the site. The site is still completely full with cars, tools, machines as if they just got uo and walked away.. which they pretty much did! Wile we were half way through filming we were made aware of a couple of suspicious lads.. we decided to fall back and wait around to aee who they were.. but it wasn’t long before they started smashing windows and causing untold amounts of damage to the cars. We decided to keave but as we walked around to the front of the site we spotted a plolice car at the main gate!
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[@bawjawmcgraw2232]

Lapping up Stokesy's sloppy seconds😂

[@lesbaty8919]

And shitting it from a couple of kids 😂😂😂

[@rb5stevenumber903]

Apparently the guy who owned the business there is in prison. Stoksy was there a month ago and found out. Yes. Typical bored kids. Nothing to do so vandalise everything.

[@NorvanMonkeyUK]

They weren't kids

[@Luckyjo21]

posting the location online is the reason why they found out

[@drjonze]

You know your getiing old when most of the cars in that scrapyard dont seem that old to me

[@martinmalone6324]

haa I drive a 57 plate honda

[@neilrobinson4748]

Well done Colin for challenging those vandals and not just hiding in a bush and videoing them. TOP MAN POINTS THERE SON....🤦‍♂️

[@dan101_23]

Not worth it. Never know what kids have on them these days. 🔪Wouldn't risk the confrontation going bad over some old abandoned cars. Been a few videos on this place now so if anyone cares about vandals etc they will no doubt make it less accessible

[@desmondmayhew6466]

@@dan101_23 Well said buddy they were obviously mindless fools

[@kerriebeech9560]

Hopefully the police who you saw after the explore were after those vandals and caught them. I don't blame you and Ben for not staying afterwards for your personal safety.

[@FRFRANKIE]

Hi Colin & Ben. Hope your doing well. That was a cool video. So sad to see such cool cars in a wreckers yard. Even more sad, seeing those two Muppets destroying those cars even more because they have no life. Cool video guys. Keep up the good work.

[@vintagetamiya3593]

Imstokze beat you to that location mate shame you two can’t do the explores together again

[@90s_dreams]

It's a shame . But I understand colin posts loads of places up and making bank imstoke is doing his best making penny's and colin telling him to take down videos he not happy posting . In theory nobody should be posting peoples personal stuff but at same time it's nice to say they history of these forgotten places . Then there is that worrying footage that colin has done a naughty that obviously hasn't been posted but if this issue escalated it might get out .

[@JohnSmith-lm4nn]

I love old school scrapyards such as this .

[@spikeyplants438]

Another great video Colin shame about the idiots at the end.I just cannot understand the mentality of people like that!!! Anyway quite an adventure to get in and what alot of wrecked cars,they could be still recycled more instead of leaving to rot away. Take care. Look forward to next weeks.😃

[@mattmorden887]

This is what I hate about exploring abandoned places. Why people have to smash places up and set fire to places. Another great video

[@neildaniel8232]

I know the site well, used to buy parts from it when it was operational. It was indeed an old-school site with cars stacked on top of each other, you can see where some have been pushed over since it closed. Sadly the local vandals got in there pretty early, took all the Cats off the cars and then just smashed things up. There's talk of redeveloping the site and converting the old railway track that runs through the site into a cycleway.

[@patriciamariemitchel]

Colin's interested in the cars but I want to talk about the mixed oil and chemical tanks where someone dumped Trioxin 245 hoping to hide it. In my next book, the vandals get it on them by accident and start turning into zombies.👀😬🤐🫣🙂

[@philuin9594]

Is that Llanbradach?

[@JohnSmith-lm4nn]

I love places like this .id go and tidy that yard for the owner .nice present for the owner when he gets out hopefully .there is a lot of good people in this world .sadly a lot of bad people in this world too . Me being a scrappy too .places like this is intresting .full of treasure 👍

[@Ganiscol]

Should have had a little fun with those blokes and shout with your best authority voice asking who they are and what they're doing there - then observe them hoof it in panic 😅

[@elcasho]

Nice! The old buildings, trees, sunshine and birds mad this so relaxing

[@gazp2194]

Imstoke was there recently. Hubnuts old city rover is there sadly

[@NOWThatsRichy]

I assume that is in Wales somewhere, as the hire van had a Welsh language name on the side.

[@mattyGreenbaum]

Vandalism makes me sad😢

[@sharonarcher6548]

Good explore colin apart from the vandalism that was going on, stay safe x

[@owensteele1645]

Rusty Sprinter vans - there are lots of 20-plate examples around that look about 20 years old. It's surface rust caused by paint damage that eats through the metal. DPD and Amazon Prime couriers use Sprinters up to 2 years old and they are particularly battered with bits fallen off.

[@si2546]

Heya... it's a great great that the place is no longer used... :(:)... a very sad story... but yes back in the day that's the way things worked... cars just stacked up... it was part of the fun back then... thank you for making video for us colin.... and every video you make ... just a shame there are vandals out there. :(:(

[@MistyLaneLoveConquersALL]

I would have yelled "hey get out of here" what losers!

[@RetroRatz]

Well done getting down through that tyre tunnel. I was expecting a mine shaft 😆

[@ianevans3619]

Excellent video, I love walking round a scrap yard too . As for them low life vandals I would of exposed there faces and shown them for what they are .

[@alan123189]

I worked for this guy few years ago,most of them cars were there when I worked there.

[@justineheinrichs2798]

What a collection! Yikes. To bad you had to come across the morons who couldn’t think of anything better to do with their time than be destructive. I saw those stone walls and vines covering them and I thought, ooh, what a beautiful sunken garden you could make here 😂. You know where my heart lies ❤ Thank you for sharing your explore. Hopefully next time you won’t run into any dunder heads. ♥️🇨🇦

[@LostAdventuresExploring]

Great video! Great adventure!

[@owensteele1645]

The blue Citroen AX is a Debut special edition with a 954 engine. MOT ran out in 2017 with 72000 miles. It's a shame to see it there, they were very economical, reliable and fun to drive.

[@JohnSmith-lm4nn]

That scrap yard has still got a lot of potential as a scrapyard . If someone can help the owner tidy the place up would help

[@jaggass]

Shouting Oi really loud would have made them leave.

[@RWL2012]

just to be clear, just the one oi, not oi oiii 😂

[@PAUL-MH]

Oi oi lol

[@terence2678]

Or bark like a dog.

[@redditch11b]

I think HubNuts CityRover was by that red Corsa at the start 😑

[@PhysicsAirline]

Yeah it is, he made a vlog about it.

[@fhwolthuis]

I would've called the rozzers on those blokes

[@Roachie1982uk]

The blue city rover at the beging used to belong to Hubnut on youtube 😎

[@jive091]

Thanks guys love these vids . I used to love going around scrappys like that. Its all recycling ♻️ centers now and you can't have a good root around anymore.

[@jayjayuk-f1x]

I wouldn't have disguised them. Big enough to be a criminal, big enough to be identified for it. Understand your viewpoint though Colin.

[@JohnSmith-lm4nn]

That AX was put to one side .its probably the scrapyard owners own car and was put to oneside because of its rarity nowadays

[@davidgaul6743]

i really really cannot understand why the local authority does not take control of this place, instead of letting these wrecks pollute the area and wildlife.....

[@Unemployed_Jedi]

Old tyres full of water = mosquitos

[@MrZx9rdoug]

That's Japanese knot weed growing thru the transit .

[@MorbidCrow666]

I don't get why after shutting down places like this that it never seems to be tidied up and cleared out. If it was a health and safety problem before what is it now, and the environment could definitely do without all those cars just sitting there rusting and rotting away.

[@joangravel2436]

Thanks for the video

[@valleystaff7031]

Should've appoached those boys and asked them in a serious voice which boots the body in? 😂

[@hendoiii3487]

You will maybe find some parts for your golf lol. Hope you get it started soon.

[@deborahhamilton8584]

You mentioned silverlake scrap yard! You must live close to me in Hampshire 😊

[@NOWThatsRichy]

Silverlake, yeah, that's Southampton area.

[@JohnSmith-lm4nn]

I was just going to say .if all the scrap cars was put tidy and safely .that may of helped the owner .

[@thughes52]

See stu go there the bloke that owned the place is in jail for dodgy stuff esp around the safety of the yard aspect ...good location pity all the cars have been vandalized and feel sorry for the owner of the ford Colin on top of the lift ramp

[@scoobysean555]

Dodgy forklifts etc

[@thughes52]

@@scoobysean555 agreed

[@Mot8484]

It’s definitely Llanbradach, I’m from the village , just walked passed there with my dog

[@robertmustard1711]

Great explore colin 😊

[@clairefunnell8481]

No, not a Jaguar. Got a junk yard near where i live. Typical jerks smashing stuff. Someone could identify them. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@john0597]

Hi bearded Explorer I'm only really just started watching your videos I think I watch one or two in the past but I've just finished watching the abandoned world Explorer which I know you've done one video with I'm going to go onto your videos now so I'm going to go from this video back to your very first ones

[@fellazvintageretro2675]

The old rail way tracks on the way down to this place would catch a few boys out when we was kids on the Moto cross bike. If you hit the track with your bike the wheel would follow the rail track. Seem my mate bend his leg backwards and broke at his knee.

[@owensteele1645]

That silver TT was last Mot'd in November 2012 at 56000 miles so it was not that old when last used.

[@petermartin6025]

This looks like a local yard to me in Caerphilly

[@Martins-play-ground]

Now that's a real scrap yard not silverlakes or trents there just money makers that send out the wrong parts. (Ordered a steering rack from trents and received a headlight and was off the road for 3 weeks while they investigated it only to be refunded as they had no peugeot expert racks) Messers.

[@xMandalorex]

@ 1:35 That Jag with the plate *T800 JAW* Still has an MOT on it... WTF???? but on the video it says X-type? the MOT Database claims it as an JAGUAR S-TYPE... lol

[@SandyMorris-n3i]

Saw a Citroen C3 Pluriel and that scrap yard is where it belongs 🤣

[@sarahtaylor2492]

What a shame so many cars have just been left, I’m sure some would of been ok for parts. Some of them didn’t look that old. The idiots smashing up cars, I hate vandalism it’s senseless and pointless.

[@davechipling169]

Stokezy was there two weeks ago

[@kriswalsh7680]

That Ax is on sorn so not been scrapped. Been to this yard before many years ago.

[@to5454]

Can't believe you just hid in the trees while they smashed those cars up

[@john0597]

Hi there bearded Explorer I know is that you had sorry I meant I saw a Ka Mark 1 I've got the Mark 2 on I'm yet to look to see if there's any mark 2 in the scrapyard because the Mark ones were bit of a rust bucket

[@pininprestatyn]

Looks hazardous, tread Caerphilly

[@thecountsaintgermaine7937]

A bit of a Japanese knotweed problem there 😮

[@fasteddiers8418]

Hey Colin that was me n the mrs on Friday evening on the 27 😂

[@TheBeardedExplorer]

Hahahaha 👋🏽

[@davidgaul6743]

i hope you forwarded the video of the lads to the police, as law abiding citizens would !!!!!!

[@williamdeegan7840]

You shouldn't have blurred the bastards face. He's actually vandalizing stuff. You're not. You're a better man than he. I'd turn him in.

[@scooped85]

A Few quids worth still left there!

[@kexcoo]

ohh i would explore that if i knew where it is

[@Gez008]

Nice 👍

[@danielanderson5227]

correction if a car is in a breakers yard but not got a certificate of destruction issued against it it can not be saved but if not it can be saved.

[@cposky4394]

Hire me vans are from my neck of the woods they come like that on a normal day lol

[@Tomprice-xp7nd]

This in Ironbridge Shropshire

[@gavinshort660]

Didn’t know this was in Ironbridge ?

[@PhysicsAirline]

This is in Wales.

[@iainrae92]

Surprisingly plate check on the blue AX shows MOT expired in 2017 and is currently SORN'ed. Wonder if its owned by the business to sell when they become extinct!

[@grahamlonghurst1227]

I noticed a lot of smashed rea windows

[@illburnmyselfforreal]

Damn hope they didn't destroy Chryslers

[@focus3415]

This is what gets me annoyed why do youngsters have to vandalised every thing these days ( dragged up obviously)

[@paulthomas3841]

How do you find these places ?

[@russellpetrie119]

you would think they would clear it out with scrap at a hi price

[@stephenjobe883]

That ain't trees, that's Japanese knot Weed.

[@7ANGLIA]

WRONG PLACE AT WRONG TIME!!?

[@leewright6101]

where is this place, jesus,

[@peterfreeman7197]

Maybe ask the chap how to get in.

[@meinungswelten]

The sentence is: "HEY, stop it, idiot!"

[@teresapaskell5459]

Don’t blur them out . Shame them

[@CycolacFan]

They’re probably proud of being chavs.

[@johnathanrowley2707]

Although these are in scrapyard the vandels don't need to smash them up

[@RWL2012]

Mercedes are known for using too few layers of water-based paint.

[@NOWThatsRichy]

The paint process is far inferior on White vans, compared to what is used on normal cars!

[@Polkumusic]

At 17:54 is it a VR5 MkIV Golf?

[@mar5den1991]

I love going and exploring it's arseholes like that. That give us true explorers a bad name

[@lindseykaine-walley6339]

It really makes you think there must be millions of abandoned/junk cars lying around. And still more are being made! These cars need recycling in some way. Interesting video even though you didn't get to finish your look through.

[@owensteele1645]

@17:50 I do wonder if that mk4 Golf was my mum's old company car SF51UFZ. It was scrapped in February 2018 and it was the same colour as this one with the same alloys. It was a 1.8T GTi 150bhp. I would love to save the alloys off it and make them mint again.

[@tonybutt5764]

Cool explore Coln 😎 I've seen your m8s video too. Do love a scrap yard lol 😆 stay safe my friend 😁

[@jamieelliott5205]

Say something to them

[@booney6965]

The thing about the kids of this era know that if they get caught doing that kind of stuff they'll only get a slapped wrist and on their way, even the parents can't discipline them cos they'll get done for it, even at school the teachers can't say jack shit cos the wrong word and bang they've lost their job. I remember when i was at school did out wrong the cane came out then it made you think twice of doing it again. Its all these do gooders taking any orthoraty away from parents and teachers,my old man was ex army and i was kept in place when ever i got out of line, which wasn't very often 😆, av had m8's with kids still at school and the little buggers turn wround & say to them,hit me & I'll report you,kids now have the upper hand bloody serious.

[@shaneconcer3483]

Just stand there and watch them and blur there faces out 😂

[@NOWThatsRichy]

Should have been named, shamed & idntified!

[@paulabexley9201]

Are you gonna pass the video on to the police Colin

[@kadechilds201]

Scruffs smashing cars up 🤬

[@manfredschmidt4795]

you should inform the authorities this is environmental pollution

[@tdubh666]

In all honesty all of them cars i saw were scrap metal . Nothing special or worth saving

[@tdubh666]

Wiring looms and catalytic converters is all I can see , mags too

[@brookieant]

Imstokze did this few weeks back

[@NorvanMonkeyUK]

Y didn't u say something they weren't kids 😡

[@snbala]

Firstly I have to say, what disgusting individuals they are, is there any need for that? They need to be taught some respect. Secondly, never nice to see cars rotting in a scrapyard, but again it’s also a very interesting place as each car has a story to tell. However, even though those cars can’t be saved, maybe they can be saved via parts. Great explore.

[@loadedtattoo1]

2 forklifts due to directive brakes and mast chains

[@gregshearer423]

Simone has to have been seriously injured due to a dodgy forklift for the guy that owned it to be in the jail or dodgy forklifts were the tip of the iceberg

[@CycolacFan]

Dodgy forklifts, ignoring orders to repair dangerous buildings, poor safety practice and employing illegal workers according what’s online.

[@gregshearer423]

@@CycolacFan that would explain it 😂😂

[@CycolacFan]

@@gregshearer423 apparently when he did nothing after four official warnings they shut him down and he went to prison for a year. 😐

[@gregshearer423]

@@CycolacFan a right