Shop Vandalized

GeneMO

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Location
Pilot Grove, Mo.
Came home Saturday evening around 10:30. We had been over at the neighbors watching Mizzou beat Nebraska. Had a few tools in the back of the truck I wanted to put away, so I drove down to the shop. All the windows had been broken out.
You could see on the wooden walk in door where they had taken a pipe or bat or something to it.
The big shop windows were the steel frame type like in old gas stations. Each had 4 panes of double strength glass. The rolling doors each had a wooden frame, 4 light window. The walk in door had 9 lights and it is ruined. $250 deductible on insurance. I was fretting about how to get all this fixed when a neighbor comes by that does remodeling. He thought that I might just measure the opening on the big windows and have new vinal replacement units made for less than the labor of fixing the steel units. I decided to hire someone to do the whole job and not touch it myself. Let the ins. agent run interference for me with the adjuster, let him earn his commission.
Damned vandals anyway.

PS, Nothing was stolen.

Gene
 
Tweren't me. I was home watching Nebraska get clobbered by Mizzou. With Tom Osborne as AD and Bo Pellini as head coach, I think most Cornhusker fans thought it would be an instant turnaround. They're finding out it doesn't work that fast.

As an alum, and as a lifelong part-time student at the University of Nebraska, I'm a Husker fan, yes, but it infuriates me that there are students who work just as hard as any athlete preparing themselves for academic and performing competitions, yet when you pick up a newspaper you get 8 pages of football and nary a word about the other students. I'll get off my soapbox, now.

It's odd the vandals would just bust the doors and windows without stealing anything, unless they couldn't make a big enough hole anywhere to get in. And whoever did it had to know you'd be gone for the duration of the football game. I get concerned sometimes about my shop being unattended on the farm too much during the day.
 
Gene , Sorry to hear of your troubles. Hope you find out who did it and hang um high.
Goose, In all your infinanite wisdom, do you think it might be possible that football brings in more MONEY than academics??? Just a thought.
Don
 
gene, so sorry to hear about that. some people just have no respect for another mans property. hopefully you have good insurance.
 
Yeah, I know, Don. The Nebraska football team supports the whole athletic department. It still gripes me when students don't get the publicity they deserve for academic accomplishments.
 
We have the same style windows in our shop. We have been gradually making "Storm windows" on the outside out of lexan(plexiglass) everytime someone busts them out.
 
Put out a comment in the local paper, Vandalism done to "X" house, $50 reward for the responsible clowns that did this. Kids are not real smart and usually talk. The kid responsible will sing like a canary if caught with the pressure of a cop or adult in his face.
 
Someone mentioned offering a reward. I have Farm Bureau ins. and had their reward sign posted, so they automatically offer a $2,000 rerward. I am going to have some posters made up with that reward figure. No doubt there was more than one of them and $2,000 might make someone snitch. I am also going to get a camera system that records 4-5 days worth of activity, plus put up a fence and gate ASAP

Gene
 

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