Someone Stole our Plow

We have several pieces of old farm equipment along the driveway to our place. Dad put them there years ago. Kind of neet to look at when someone drives in. Some low life bottom feeder came in and stole an old walking plow. I just noticed it gone today. All that is left is a rusty print on the ground. That really chapps my back side, I can put up with a lot, but don't steel from me. Stan

The way thihgs are going it will get worse. I haven't missed anything yet buuuut . B W

You've got theives in your yard and I had a buffalo cow wander into a 100 acre field that I was working yesterday.

Must be a regional thing 'cause that's the only other livin' creature I've seen in a week. :>(

Allan

Mmmmm.
Buffalo burgers. When are you inviting all of us over?

We sell pumpkins every fall and display them at the end of the driveway. One year someone stole our $30 sign so we had a street light put on the pole, then last year we had 16 pumpkins left and they got stolen along with our new sign even with the street light.

Two nights after the pumpkins and sign were stolen 4 young girls stopped in after dark and told us who stole them, they knew who stole them and they didn't like them. We got the Sherrif involved and got the sign back and they paid for the pumpkins. Two 19yr old girls were the thieves. They were dared to do it!! Boy did I give them a reaming in front of the one's mother and in front of my wife and son. My wife didn't know I could get so mad. The girls and the mother wanted to give the pumpkins back but I made the keep the pumpkins for another 5 days so I could inspect them on Saturday in the daylight, they ended up paying for them. I wanted the money rather than the pumpkins any way. Once something is stolen it seems to be filthy if you get the chance to get it back.
We had to press charges for the sherrif to follow thru with proceedings but once they paid for the pumpkins I dropped the pending charges. I had to keep something hanging over their heads. Both girls now work at convenience stores in town and it's pretty hard for them to greet me when I pay for gas.

It ended up that the mother and the grandmother of one of the girls worked with my wife years ago so they knew each other but didn't know me.

It's a small world!!

Never trust a person who can't look you in the eye when they talk to you, they will lie to you and liars steel. Telling a lie is stealing trust!

Wish I lived out your way !! We average 24,000 cars a day past our place, two lane State Hiway.

I gave a walking plow to a guy I did not even know other than a friend told me he had 6 months to live. I guess there was a plow in his front yard when he was a child, and it gave him good thoughts of his childhood, and wanted it that way for his grandkids. The guy cried when I said no cost, and made me feel kinda bad.

The problem was he told his friends I was a great guy that gave him the plow. Three plows turned up missing as the word got out I gave walking plows away, so they helped themselves without asking.

Anyone notice a pattern in my life?

But I guess my good feelings are priceless any. way

People always seem to help themselves to stuff we have sitting in our back sheds. Anything that isn't bolted down seems to be fair game. Even have had people come to the house and ask about buying stuff that isn't visible unless you go snooping on the property. Then get mad when you tell 'em no. :roll:

Just wait until ACORN and their community organizers come around with the census.

They will be confiscating and stealing with the full power and authority of the federal government.

Last year I had 3 Noble Xmas trees stolen. I put up a Camera with a flash and that ended the theft. Got a nice picture of two guys in a pickup late one night the flash scared them off. I would rather scare them off than catch them and have to go though the Police to get back what is mine. Then the judge says well they probably needed the trees and couldn't pay for them.
Walt

Send them to me. I have a tractor I wish someone would steal. Get one thing fixed two others break.

Several years ago along the 11 mile loop road in Cades Cove in the Smokies an older guy sold honey on the honor system.He placed quart jars of honey at the road with a box to put money in. Someone took a jar and tore out a page in the Bible and left it for him. Don't know which page it was. End of the honor system.

i'll tell them go ask the bull anything you want as he has the answers

I don't like ACORN or what it stands for but, why would they be confiscating or stealing while taking the census?

Farmed 20 yrs in AZ. 40 mile north of the Mexican
border. Our community had 2 or 3 tractors stolen
at night during that time and went into mexico.
One theif backed his truck up to a soft dirt berm
and left a perfect imprint of his license tag in the soft dirt. Mexico truck license tho and never caught him. One farmer had his nice 4+4 pickup stolen and saw a high ranking poice officer driving it in Nogales mex. ,but couldn't get it back.

at my old farm we had a cast iron hand well pump along the fenceline may 30 or 40 feet off the road. originally there was a cattle lot there and the pump was used to water the cows. well one day i was out mowing and the whole dang pump was gone. a set of tire tracks were backed up to the casing from a dually pickup and they used a torch to cut the pump off the casing.

Sorry about the plow and your misfortune. Amazing how people are though. We can feel sorry for or sympathize with someone that has a value-less ( except to you ) piece of machinery taken but in my case I had a horse worth thousands of dollars stolen and hardly a whisper from anyone of regret for my situation. Most said I was better off. Oh well. My faith in humanity hasn't been lifted over the last couple of months on here. The insurance company won't pay because we can't prove the horse was stolen. Figure that one out. ...Randy

Saw a photo of a sign in a paddock.
"No trespassing.
My Bull can run 100 yards in 10 seconds, can you."

Hmmm, a thousand cars an hour or 166 a minute, that's a lot of cars.

Seeing as how I live in Canada, I can't S,S&SU, but it seems that with the ever increasing gun laws that favor perps, the rate of thefts has increased with the inability to defend one's person and property. Sometimes I wish I lived in a state with "man's home is his castle" laws.
As it is now, I have to welcome them into my yard, say, take whatever you want, and make sure no one hurts himself lifting my property into the back of their trucks.