That could be the only way to describe the antics of some of the Border region’s most ignorant crooks.

Anyone who breaks into people’s homes or businesses to help themselves has to be condemned, regardless of the excuse they might come up with to justify their actions.

But on the scale of criminal merit, this fool – or fools, if there were a few – ranks as right up there with the worst.

Our region’s brief, incredibly wet spell has already given way to a return to summer heat, and no doubt there it will only get hotter as the weeks pass by.

It means we’re well and truly in the middle of the most dangerous time of the year for bushfire risk.

Getting ready for the fire danger season isn’t something though that comes to the fore only when the warmer weather is upon us.

It is something that we all have to incorporate into our thinking our planning all-year round, especially for those living on the fringes of our bigger towns and certainly for those in rural communities.

That is certainly the case for those who year-in, year-out have the job of putting preparations in place for the fires that inevitably will break out and, in many cases, put lives and property at considerable risk.

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For our volunteer fire services that involves making sure brigades have the equipment required so fires can be fought in the most effective and safe way possible.

That means brigades put a lot of effort into raising money in order to buy the latest, most modern equipment – everything from the tanker down.

It’s at this point that the knuckleheads have come into the picture, those people who broke into the Browns Plains CFA station and stole radios and other firefighting equipment.

Did these people honestly believe that the brigade could then respond to a fire call-out in the same way as it did before this equipment was stolen?

Their thieving really beggars belief.

Anyone with information about the theft should not hesitate to contact police.