I HATE THIEVES

ddigger · Jan 31, 2011

So, I show up at my excavator this morning to find my locks cut, all 4 batteries gone, cables cut, not unbolted, and about 130 gals of fuel gone. Well at least they left me a set of bolt cutters on the tracks. JERKS!

Johndeere3720 · Jan 31, 2011

ddigger said:
So, I show up at my excavator this morning to find my locks cut, all 4 batteries gone, cables cut, not unbolted, and about 130 gals of fuel gone. Well at least they left me a set of bolt cutters on the tracks. JERKS!

I hate people like that!

Fordman1981 · Jan 31, 2011

don't get me started on Thieves the last place i lived before buying the property i live at now I had some neighbors it was like 2 weeks after i moved in the came over talked for a bit and here it came we work at the Mill around the corner here we get paid friday but we're out of heating oil can we borrow $20 till pay day. Thinking kinda weird to be asking for money on a first meet but i said sure waiting to be a good neighbor didn't see them for a long time the next time i seen them some other sob story this time i said all i have on me is $10. Again no sign of them till once again they need money at the end of my rope i say u never paid a penny back but thats not the problem u are not even seen until u need money sorry but no more. The next thing i know i come home my building door is busted open my dirt bike push mower is gone. My wife actually spotted them behind a local used atv dealer the cops got my property back and investigated my neighbors. Next thing to happen i come home and my dog is gone now he is at this time an 8 yr old neutered lab nothing more than a family pet. Long story short in NC its a felony to steal a mans dog never could prove they took him but he was tied in an old basement site on their property left to starve luckily we heard his distinct bark real faintly one night. We finally had enough and sold the place and moved to where we are now. Sorry for such a long story but thieves really really really upset me.

gengine · Jan 31, 2011

I hear ya man...I work at a gravel pit, and one day we showed up for work to find all of our wires cut and gone. I'm assuming for the copper? Somewhere around $12,000 to replace it all.

The dirt doctor · Jan 31, 2011

Yeah it sucks. I just had a 6 ton skid loader trailer stollen, and about a year ago, a pipe laser and a dual plane rotating slope laser were taken out of my truck. We found the rotating laser on eBay being sold by a pawn shop in the city. Got that one back, but they already sold the pipe laser and law protects the pawn shop and the buyer so we couldn't get it back. The pawn shops in the city are just ad crooked!

houston burt · Jan 31, 2011

was wiring a adition to a church theives stole about 9000 dollars worth of wire we didnt charge labor to fix what they cut out to try to help they caught them they were church members. someone also kicked in the sheetrock on my house to steal the wire when i was building it

wrenchturner · Jan 31, 2011

A friend of mine runs a small sawmill. A man comes up and wants some wood because his family is cold. The owner tells the man he can cut up some logs for firewood but the man has no saw. So my friend lends him a saw to cut some logs up on his lumber yard. Later, my friend looks for the guy but he has driven off with the wood and the saw.

Groo · Feb 1, 2011

definitely needs to be harsher punishments for thieves.

with the dropping prices of mini DVRs, I'd suggest you hide 'em all over a work site and equipment.

greasemonkeyok · Feb 2, 2011

What state protects a pawn shop that buys stolen property? I don't think that is the norm as a thief cannot pass title to a purchaser.

johnrex62 · Feb 3, 2011

The dirt doctor said:
but they already sold the pipe laser and law protects the pawn shop and the buyer so we couldn't get it back. The pawn shops in the city are just ad crooked!

greasemonkeyok said:
What state protects a pawn shop that buys stolen property? I don't think that is the norm as a thief cannot pass title to a purchaser.

I don't know of any that do what Dirt doctor implies. Stolen property is stolen property as long as it can be identified.

I can believe they may hold the pawn shop harmless if the item was not identifiable as the stolen item or not reported as stolen when the item came out of pawn and was sold. That takes a while so whose fault would it be if the police sheet does not list it as reported and the pawn shop can't tell it's stolen? I would expect that regardless of when it was reported that the buyer could be contacted and the item retrieved with no charges pressed due to the circumstances. It would be between the pawn shop and the buyer as to if they get a refund though since neither was at fault for the problem.