Anyone have their tools stolen?

Someone took a 90 lb. tool box with most of my hand tools in it while the garage door was up. They got all of my S-K sockets that I'd had for 40 years; bought them when I was a sophomore in high school. Wrenchs were mostly Craftsmen from back when they made good wrenchs.

One of the items stolen was a new, still in the box, gas fireplace. It was sitting in the house waiting to be installed. The took my 2 wheel dolly to load it. I paid around $700. for it, the insurance company gave me $450. It was still in the box!!!

One of the items stolen was a new, still in the box, gas fireplace. It was sitting in the house waiting to be installed. The took my 2 wheel dolly to load it. I paid around $700. for it, the insurance company gave me $450. It was still in the box!!!

Jeremy

One rental company here started painting all their equipment bright purple to cut down on theft. Not a bad idea for your tools either. Who wants a purple wrench? Pink might be even better.

That's probably the only way the police would have caught them.

A fellow who lived on the second floor of an apartment building came home from work and found a man humping a TV set down the stairs from the second floor. Being sociable, the fellow helped the man carry the TV set down the stairs and load it into the back of a station wagon.

You guessed it. When the fellow went back up to his apartment, the lock was broken on the front door and his TV was gone.

Besides 40 years ago I decided it was better for my health not to worry or get up set about such things. I figured out that it was only me upset and worrying and it took time away from positive things I could or should be doing.

Usually its the worthless SOB you fired for not showing up and comes back braking into everything because he thinks he's "due".

Many years ago my son worked for Frieghtliner. For some unkown reason the new shop manger let the shop close for 2hrs between night/day shift changes.

In those 2hrs, they came in and stole a van truck in for service then loaded every tool box in the shop on the truck with the forklift then loaded the forklift and left.

They never did find the truck, forklift or tools.

My son said the guys came out really well with the insurance replacing tools without questions.

T_Bone

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We had a neighbor had a full cart of beans on a 4640 they unhooked it and drove it off some people saw it going down a state highway they have never found it.

Someone tried stealing a utility JD from a JD lot and didn't chain it down. They made it 5 or 10 miles and fell off truck and someone hit it and they kept going.

Lots of stuff gets stolen here in the valley. We had a copper line maybe 7 feet long connecting two propane tanks someone cut it off recent. I heard it said that for every 1000 stolen and turned in to recycle (copper etc) causes 10,000 in damage.

We need to put some fear back into the theives I am just waiting to catch one at it..... .

Ryan

A couple of years later, he came home for lunch one noon, parked his pickup in the driveway in front of his garage, locked the doors, and went in the house and ate lunch. He came back out twenty minutes later and found his pickup gone. Someone stole a locked pickup out of the driveway in front of his garage while he was in the house eating lunch. And this is a decent, middle class part of Ontario.

The local IH dealer had a tractor stolen several years ago. A salesman was dealing with a buyer on it on a Saturday morning. It was the following Wednesday before they realized it was gone. In between, the Service Manager noticed it wasn't on the line, and assumed the salesman had sold it. The salesman had given the Service Manager a list of a few items of work the tractor needed and assumed the Service Department had it. They found tracks on a gravel road a half mile from the dealership where someone had backed a truck into the road ditch and driven the tractor on.

The tractor was probably across an auction block halfway across the country before the dealership realized it was gone. They never found it.

I also heard about a farmer who had a 7520 John Deere 4X4 with duals stolen out of a field less than a mile from his house while he went home for an hour for lunch. It was never found. How the heck did they do it? None of the neighbors claimed to have seen anything. And a 7520 on a truck isn't easy to hide or slip away with.

Does anyone else have any interesting stories?

Don't EVER touch another man's tools unless he's given you permission, and do your best not to even ask. That's how I operate.