Stolen junk

[pennwalk]

Two thinks that amaze me.

1) The number of people making their living by stealing.

2) How many seem to get away with it.

Does there seem like there is more stealing than ever?

Chris

 

[pennwalk]

I was just thinking if someone had called my Sister in law and asked her if she wanted the junk cleaned up she probably let them have the steel and payed them a little too.

Chris

 

[TripleR]

The main reason for that is "meth heads". They're looking for anything they can sell to get another fix.

I wouldn't doubt it, Missouri is second in the nation behind California I think. You can't even buy cold medications containing pseudoephedrine around her anymore without a prescription.

I told our renter that his sons were welcome to pull it all out to make a little extra money and keep people off our property.

 

[dmccarty]

hey pennwalk how much they take they hit my place n took 8 ton and 2 days age i was water my garden like 12 strewberry plants were gone i dug down the roots were gone the ground hogs ddidnt eat them how low can the scam go

Years ago they opened a bypass around my town but before we lived on our land. I was driving out one day to the property on the new bypass when I came over a hill and saw a truck sitting on the side of the road at an overpass that has just been landscaped. A man and a women where pulling the just planted bushes out of the ground and tossing them in the back of the truck. They tossed in two more plants in the truck and left. I did not have a cell phone back then and I could not get the license plate number.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

Our county used to let people go into the metal and appliance scrap bins. At first anyone could do it. Then they made people get a permit. This all ended when two guys got into a fight over the contents of a bin and one of them pulled a knife.

Later,
Dan

 

[timster2]

I live along a fairly active town road and have noticed a lot of pickups and trailers loaded with scrap. Never gave it a thought just thought that people were cleaning up going to the dump etc. Now I look at this in a different light. Perhaps these loads are not what they appear to be. I guess I will be locking up all my attachments that are stored behind the garage and put a camera on them just in case.

 

[D7E]

We had an interesting one recently here !

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j...8fGcDA&usg=AFQjCNF_wwjIYifFxRp8SxZ86mEzSRrjOA

 

[300UGUY]

What I think really is wrong is the fact that some goof in a ratty old truck can show up at the scrapyard, loaded up with usable equipment, and the scrapyard thinks it is ok? especially if the same goof shows up day after day with thousands worth of scrap?

 

[Jstpssng]

What I think really is wrong is the fact that some goof in a ratty old truck can show up at the scrapyard, loaded up with usable eipment, and the scrapyard thinks it is ok? especially if the same goof shows up day after day with thousands worth of scrap?

My thought also. That used to be called "receiving stolen goods" .

 

[coobie]

Somebody dropped by the barn Friday night and made off with half of my scrap pile. I feel two ways about it. If they had gotten it all I would have almost been happy to have had the mess cleaned up. On the other hand I'm wondering what they will come back for next. So I was thinking how nice it would be to have a camera on the barn but I am cheap so I was wondering if a dummy camera would do any good. What is your experience?

Chris

Why not buy a cheap wildlife/deer camera?$50-100 bucks verses a dummy camera?They now make pretty cheap cameras to take decent night photos.Just a thought.coobie