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There is a little red haired freckle face boy about ten years old and weighs a little more than a bushel of grain who gets into the grain trucks at weigh in and cannot be found when weighing out empty. Farmers and other drivers give him cigarettes, candy and soda pop. I have not hauled to that elevator for some time.
 
Years (and years) ago, I worked at a large Iowa Co-op and ran the scales during harvest. A local farmer always brought in his corn with his pickup truck (small acreage guy). And every time, after he unloaded and drove back onto the scale, he would quickly jump out and step off the scale, pretending he really was interested in watching the big dial move. And every time I had to remind him to step back onto the scale.

He made a lot of trips with that pickup. He knew better, but probably got a small thrill in seeing if he could get the trick to work. And gas was about 35 cents back then.

Local hdwe store owner told me he had to watch this guy closely otherwise tools disappeared off the shelves.

Every Sunday the guy always sat up front in church, and was even on one of their boards. I"d guess that he was never their treasurer!

Can you say "Kleptomaniac"?

LA in WI
 
a farmer from the St Joe area apparently used to have a habit of adding sand to the bottem of his grain truck when he hauled corn in to local elevators. He is now deceased but apparently all the closeby elevators caught on and refused to take anything from him, eventually forcing him to haul honest, but much, much farther.
 
Got all that beat. Years ago farmer with team of horses and grain wagon. Dog followed behind, lay down under wagon in shade on scale when weighing. Farmer drives into elevator to unload, dog moves over into shade of building. Every trip.
 
There used to be a story about an old guy that owned and operated an elevator in Iowa, don"t know if it"s true or not. Supposedly he would set his cigar on the scale beam every time he weighed someone back empty, it was such a habit nobody ever noticed.
When he passed away there were thousands of bushels of extra grain in the elevator. Lee
 
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