GolfAddict
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Would the guy that ran the plates give you the name of the owner?
Very nice stolen dump trailer sitting a block from my home for over a week.
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If law enforcement does in fact know that the trailer is stolen, why hasn't it been towed and impounded? It is evidence in a crime, after all.
k0ua
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What do you guys out in Cali have for law enforcement? Back here they would have been all over it with one call. Way back when I was a law dog, I know we would have sure checked it out. Heck we used to go on cow out calls. I remember once about 2am we got a call for a cow out. We hunted and hunted for the cow. I finally found it. I pick him up and carried him back and set him over the fence. It weighed maybe 40 or 50 pounds:laughing:
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Things are a little different out here... at least in my city.
Police are very selective in what they will respond and much "Police" work is left to technicians.
An example...
A few months ago I posted about a burglary in progress and police responded overwhelmingly with the first car in a couple of minutes.
About a week later my neighbor came home and found his house burglarized, window broken, took jewelry, cash, computer and the police NEVER came out... he was told to file a report online.
Two weeks after that the City Manager of a nearby city home was burglarized in my city... no police response... she called her police chief who called the chief of my city and then received a full response with fingerprints, photos, etc...
There are 14 homes on my street... we had a meeting and it was suggested we could install cameras with remote monitoring... I and another volunteered are homes for sites, another had access to hardware and another did the install... each home was asked to contribute $100 and within 24 hour we had $1300... the one that did not contribute was not asked... 98 years old and in a continuing care...
We are also thinking of paying for private patrol which is a significant on-going expense... another group did this and the patrol caught someone breaking into a car... there was a struggle and the perp was shot... now everyone is getting sued because "After all it was just a kid breaking into a car"
The officer that ran the plate is a friend of a friend and subject to disciplinary action if personal information was given out and works 90 miles from here. I've had the same at work... except I'm within earshot when the information comes back over the officers radio...
There is another option... I can go to DMV and pay a fee, provide all my information and in 7-10 days I will get a postcard with the info... they need to first make sure the plate does not belong to an elected official, law enforcement... etc.
What surprises me is nothing has been taken... the tools, rebar, tires, battery, etc.
Police are very selective in what they will respond and much "Police" work is left to technicians.
An example...
A few months ago I posted about a burglary in progress and police responded overwhelmingly with the first car in a couple of minutes.
About a week later my neighbor came home and found his house burglarized, window broken, took jewelry, cash, computer and the police NEVER came out... he was told to file a report online.
Two weeks after that the City Manager of a nearby city home was burglarized in my city... no police response... she called her police chief who called the chief of my city and then received a full response with fingerprints, photos, etc...
There are 14 homes on my street... we had a meeting and it was suggested we could install cameras with remote monitoring... I and another volunteered are homes for sites, another had access to hardware and another did the install... each home was asked to contribute $100 and within 24 hour we had $1300... the one that did not contribute was not asked... 98 years old and in a continuing care...
We are also thinking of paying for private patrol which is a significant on-going expense... another group did this and the patrol caught someone breaking into a car... there was a struggle and the perp was shot... now everyone is getting sued because "After all it was just a kid breaking into a car"
The officer that ran the plate is a friend of a friend and subject to disciplinary action if personal information was given out and works 90 miles from here. I've had the same at work... except I'm within earshot when the information comes back over the officers radio...
There is another option... I can go to DMV and pay a fee, provide all my information and in 7-10 days I will get a postcard with the info... they need to first make sure the plate does not belong to an elected official, law enforcement... etc.
What surprises me is nothing has been taken... the tools, rebar, tires, battery, etc.
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Maybe it's a police setup like the "Bait Car" show?
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Always a possibility... just not likely in my opinion...
Spoke to the homeowner directly across the street... she asked when I was going to move it and that she had already called it in... told her it was not mine.
Then she said they heard a loud scraping noise in the middle of the night and saw the trailer and a truck with no lights...
The scraping was from pulling the receiver pin and then dragging the trailer until the hitch pulled out...
I posted the plate if anyone wants to PM me and I will contact the registered owner...
I'm thinking of putting my name or phone number on my equipment... somewhere inconspicuous... in case similar were to happen to me...
California Plate
4NF7800
Spoke to the homeowner directly across the street... she asked when I was going to move it and that she had already called it in... told her it was not mine.
Then she said they heard a loud scraping noise in the middle of the night and saw the trailer and a truck with no lights...
The scraping was from pulling the receiver pin and then dragging the trailer until the hitch pulled out...
I posted the plate if anyone wants to PM me and I will contact the registered owner...
I'm thinking of putting my name or phone number on my equipment... somewhere inconspicuous... in case similar were to happen to me...
California Plate
4NF7800
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i don't know what to say... Things are just so much different here.
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I get that a lot... my first cross country trip was very educational on many levels...
If I had never ventured away I would have thought California or the SF Bay Area representative of the rest of the country.
If I had never ventured away I would have thought California or the SF Bay Area representative of the rest of the country.
Sounds like you need a new police dept. I agree with calling the local news. May help, may not. Worth a try though.
Even if you decide to go the DMV route, I'm sure the owner would be more than happy to reimburse you for any fees incurred attempting to contact him. I know I would. Good luck either way.
Even if you decide to go the DMV route, I'm sure the owner would be more than happy to reimburse you for any fees incurred attempting to contact him. I know I would. Good luck either way.
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If you ever get a chance to come out my way, look me up, I will show you a different world. You would be pleasantly surprised what a nice house costs back here too! I see on some of these home and garden shows, the terrible prices for housing in your area, and cannot believe it. You have shacks out there selling for $300,000.00 dollars, that we would consider bulldozing over and building a new house on the lot. I may be exaggerating a little, but not a whole lot.
And I am not saying we don't have crime here, I don't think it is of the level that you guys have and at least we have the means to defend ourselves. Anyone of age here can have a handgun concealed in their car as long as they are not felons, and CCW here is of a SHALL issue situation. Not dependent of the whims of some public official. And no, us armed "cowboys", don't shoot each other either. It is small town America, where you can't go to a restaurant without saying hello to a half dozen people that know you and all about you and your family. So not much "getting away" with things, you are either a respected member of the community or you are not, and you are expected to be a clean upstanding citizen.