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stonerock · Dec 25, 2017

friend of mine about ten miles away got his shop broke in to last nite he said hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel and drums of oil , 27 batteries, 8- 24.5 drive tires, lots of tools and boxes, mig welder, torches, two golf carts and a 625I gator....sheriff never showed up...they were gone from 6:00 to 10:00 came home and found this, she was scared to go into house

grizz02 · Dec 25, 2017

How could the sheriff not show up I would call the local DA in that county 🚜

RusselAZ · Dec 25, 2017

Would have been a good time for a camera. Where was this? Doesn't do much good to tell the story and not have people in the area notified. Or the rest of us for that matter. Every now and then some body will stop by the shop and be trying to peddle something.

Had to be someone who knew where they were going and how long the owner would be gone. Maybe the sheriff helped. These thieves did some pre planning to be able to handle all that "merchandise".

schrade · Dec 25, 2017

I agree how does law not respond. If they took all the things listed they knew what was there and when owner was going to be gone. This was not done by one person with a single vehicle.

JoeM(GA) · Dec 25, 2017

right after I called the local news channel

Olliejunkie · Dec 25, 2017

Friend of mine got ripped off 6 months ago. They got a safe full of guns and ammo. Had all kinds of guns including assault rifles. You think the sheriff would show up. Nope! He even knows a couple and use to be on the posse
The only way you can prove it is if you have cams..

tim s · Dec 25, 2017

It's hard to get the law to help here too,,but if you have a fertilize or manure spill the come running

oliverplow · Dec 25, 2017

A week ago, we saw a homeless druggie walking through our fields. When he disappeared, I went looking for him before it got dark. I found him hiding in a cattle pass tunnel close to my house. I called 911 and in less then ten minutes I had three cops here with their guns drawn on him! They slammed him to the ground, cuffed him and hauled him away. Guess I'm lucky where I live. I think the cops knew coming and getting him was the safest thing for him too. Never thought I would have to deal with that four miles out of a small Minnesota town in December. Really woke the whole neighborhood up!

kcm.MN · Dec 25, 2017

(quoted from post at 18:32:35 12/25/17) Friend of mine got ripped off 6 months ago. They got a safe full of guns and ammo. Had all kinds of guns including assault rifles. You think the sheriff would show up. Nope! He even knows a couple and use to be on the posse
The only way you can prove it is if you have cams..

I have to say, we're both THRILLED with the Sheriff's Dept out here! ...Then again, they know by now that if I call in, I have MORE than ample photos, video or both!! :wink:

County Prosecutor hates me! *lol* The person that bugs us so much is one of his customers. Things have been really quiet the past few months, so hopefully there won't be any more problems.

pinball · Dec 25, 2017

If they got all that done in 4 hours then I would say he better look close to home as I would suspect someone who knew these people knew they would be gone at that time. hope they find them and put them away for a long time.

Wheat47 · Dec 25, 2017

So sad to hear that so many are losing tools and such!! I try to keep my shop locked up, but a good solid kick will open it. I guess I'm going to invest in a game cam or two. At least one on my shop, facing the door and maybe another on the driveway. Anyone else do this? If so how good did it work? Thanks, Jon

kcm.MN · Dec 25, 2017

(quoted from post at 20:49:51 12/25/17) So sad to hear that so many are losing tools and such!! I try to keep my shop locked up, but a good solid kick will open it. I guess I'm going to invest in a game cam or two. At least one on my shop, facing the door and maybe another on the driveway. Anyone else do this? If so how good did it work? Thanks, Jon

Best thing to do is to get your cameras (<-- plural!!) and mount them up somewhere where they cannot be seen (if possible), and then DON'T TELL ANYONE! If anyone knows you like old tractors, they may monitor your posts now and then.

Game warden has told me they stopped putting out trail cams for poachers cause they got tired of coming back to find the cameras missing. Only way around that is to use trail cams that can send the pics through a cellular connection to email, your PC, smart phone, or wherever. Best thing is to have cameras where you need them, and have a recorder in a secure place somewhere else. Personally, I don't trust wireless cameras. I know the technology is getting better, but it's too dang easy to buy/build a device that can scramble the transmission(s).

I highly recommend cameras! In this day & age, don't matter how long you've lived there, or even whether the perps have a record a mile long. Still, the court will side with who has the best evidence, and if they can screw up your evidence somehow (steal cameras or scramble wireless transmissions), then it's basically your word against theirs.

I don't flaunt what we have, and I certainly don't say where it's mounted, but we are well-monitored! Even in the autos, there are views front, back, and both sides. It's just so much more simple to make your case when you have solid video to back you up!!

SVcummins · Dec 25, 2017

Sheriff is usually to busy pulling people over for going two under the speed limit might be a drunk driver ya know

Gambles · Dec 25, 2017

Several years ago, I had two vehicles stolen from me. (Thanks to being really, REALLY stupid, the perp was caught a few months later) No cops ever did show up to investigate. When talking to them, they said they would have gone out, but a few days after being reported, it snowed, so they said all clues would have been covered. Cops arrested him a few months later with over $100K in stolen property. Except for a few hours after being arrested, perp didn't spend any time in jail. I was given two days notice to retrieve my vehicles from an impound yard an hour-and-a-half away. If not retrieved in two days, they would have gone on public auction. I had to pay $150 from my own pocket to get them out of the impound yard. The cops said they were feeling generous, so they waived the towing fee. Prosecuting attorney had no court experience so she (against everybody's advice who had stuff stolen) recommended compensation, in my case alone amounted to over $4K. Perp and his lawyer agreed to that amount. I checked with the prosecuting attorney a few weeks ago on why I hadn't received any compensation yet and they told me that it was out of their hands. They DID tell me that the perp hadn't even paid his fingerprinting fees yet and they had a good laugh about it. Perp now says he is disabled, lives off the taxpayer's dime, and can't pay off any of the victims.
Sorry to be blunt about it, but don't lose any sleep over your stuff. You won't see it, the DA doesn't care and if the perp DOES get caught, taxpayers will pay for his lawyer.

used red MN · Dec 25, 2017

I hope the OP thought that the Sheriff should have been on patrol and caught them in the act. If not I would like to know what area of what state that is in so I don?t travel through there. I don?t know what the government hiarchy is in your area, but county commissioners are the Sheriff?s bosses in the counties I have lived in. If the Sheriff or a deputy can?t serve the people by investigating a theft of this size they don?t deserve to hold those paid offices.

Oliver 500 Wa · Dec 26, 2017

Sherriff's department here used to be terrible.

About 5 years ago there was a drug house just down the road. All the neighbors filed complaints, took pictures, got plate numbers, did everything we were asked to do to try to get it shut down. The Sheriff's dept. stalled and stalled and fed us lines of BS of why they could not do anything. Finally after writing to our Federal representative to step in, the Sheriff's dept raided the joint and cleared out 3 folks and a bunch of drugs and supplies. Later on we were told by a retiring member of the department that the Sheriff had been telling his people to lay off the place and just try to keep the neighbors as quiet as possible. Turned that the Sheriff had been family friends with the parents of the guy running the drug house. He opted to not run for re-election when his term was up. Would have made for a pretty juicy bit of news for the local paper.

It was like what you'd expect to hear about in some third world country, not in the US.

Got a new sherriff about 2 years ago and seems like it might be a bit better but still nothing that one wants to trust their safety to.

MarkB_MI · Dec 26, 2017

Doesn't sound like a random robbery by a typical doper. Drums of oil are difficult to transport and even harder to sell. And most of the other items would have been ignored by your average thief. Whoever broke into that shop knew exactly what they were going to find and what they would do with it. And they had a pretty good idea the occupants would be gone long enough for them to cart it all off.

showcrop · Dec 26, 2017

All it takes is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$. My little town in NH has the highest median income in the state. When we moved here in '73 the pop. was around 1700. Now it is nearly 5,000. We are like a destination resort for the highly paid executives from many insurance, IT, medical research, and high tech companies around Boston. Their wives are soccer moms, and when town meeting time comes they love to go and vote in any increase requested for the schools, Fire Dept. Police or highway dept.. The police always have plenty of officers on duty, and whenever any of the area small towns have a call all of the on duty officers from the neighboring towns will respond as well. Our property taxes are now around $5,000/ year. The only saving grace is that a lot of these people come to live in our rural town in order to have a little land for horses and they love to be able to tell their friends how much they pay for their top quality hay.

Traditional Farmer · Dec 26, 2017

You're right about advantages to living in a semi urbanized area,except for some more taxes.I'm in an area where Gov't folks from DC like to retire and some that work for the Gov't live here too,plus the UVA folks.
I can get the cops here in 5 minutes 24/7,very low crime rate and the Commonwealth's Attorney will go after law breakers big time.Fire Dept is 1st rate.Plus land prices are very high so the basic criminal element/drug heads
aren't able to afford places near me either.My neighbors also keep an eye on things on the far ends of my place that border them and they'll call me if they think something is going on that shouldn't be.

K Effective · Dec 26, 2017

I agree that this was a planned job by someone with some info- that had to be a whole semi-load of equipment! The only time we have had someone enter the barns and steal stuff, the police responded promptly, but with little hope of catching the thief. No CSI-type work at all, even when I pointed out a used bottle of sports drink and cigarette butts used by the lookout/case guy.

They filled my wheel barrow up with my tools and pushed it down the driveway to the neighbors where they broke into his shop as well, then loaded the stuff into a truck and left the barrow in his yard.

Having the cows with access to the barn makes it nearly impossible to totally keep people out, if they want in. Locks really only dissuade honest folks, cameras really sound like the best defense- but I wonder if the thieves knew about the cameras you might be able to force them to find an easier mark?

BarnyardEngineering · Dec 26, 2017

If you're expecting Gus Grissom and team to descend upon your place and pull prints, find bits of hair and soil, then solve the case in a dramatic interview-room confrontation where the perp breaks down crying, you watch too much TV.

This is petty theft in a small rural town, not a high-profile murder in a big city. I agree the sheriff should at least show up, though.

Around here you call the STATE police if you need help.

kj(seil) · Dec 26, 2017

but you can get thier attention in a second at 2 over the limit.

DoubleO7 · Dec 26, 2017

(quoted from post at 10:28:35 12/26/17) but you can get thier attention in a second at 2 over the limit.

That's because they might have an excuse to confiscate everything of value via civil forfeiture by [i:d1bf14471b]claiming[/i:d1bf14471b] it all was obtained with drug money.

WGM · Dec 26, 2017

I'd be calling my insurance first then "Law and Order". Maybe they could do a show about this.

DoubleO7 · Dec 26, 2017

(quoted from post at 12:00:10 12/26/17) I'd be calling my insurance first then "Law and Order". Maybe they could do a show about this.

If and when you tell LEO you have home owners insurance, the do even less than not show up.
Your lucky if you can get them to fill out a report that says it appears you were indeed robbed.
In order to get any compensation from your insurance company.

mj · Dec 26, 2017

(quoted from post at 18:11:03 12/25/17) friend of mine about ten miles away got his shop broke in to last nite he said hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel and drums of oil , 27 batteries, 8- 24.5 drive tires, lots of tools and boxes, mig welder, torches, two golf carts and a 625I gator....sheriff never showed up...they were gone from 6:00 to 10:00 came home and found this, she was scared to go into house

We have a great sheriff's department here. A call like that would've brought a deputy PDQ, Lights A Blazin'! :lol:

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