Posted by NCWayne on April 29, 2013 at 18:42:36 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: legitamate rant? posted by Tony in Mass. on April 29, 2013 at 06:11:03:
Don't feel so bad. I've got a customer that caught a thief trying to steel a 5000 lb dropball with his skidsteer, with his kid watching. The guy stopped the thief by getting into the cab with him swinging a shop hammer. He probably would have beat the guy to a pulp but looked up and saw his kid watching from the top of a big rock. The cops let the guy load up his machine and leave, and the DA refused to do anything because there wasn't enough 'probable cause' that he was actually going to steal it. As it stands, and last I hear, they had taken him for close to $17,000 in scrap over the pasrt year or so, and that's just the mising items he has been able to track and knows what scrap yards they went to.
The good thing about the whole deal is the guy was so scared that he literally crapped his pants (had to excuse himself into the woods and stripped them off) when he saw someone coming into the cab with him swinging a hammer. Now, due to the hammer deal, as well as things that were said, in conversation at the time, in front of the thief ((((ie- alot of people are getting fed up with the authorities letting criminals go, and we've got keys to some big machines, and you'll never find a body 20 feet under))he has been spreading the word around. My customer was told by a lady the other day that the scrap thieves are now second guessing themselves as there have been a few over the past few years that disappeared, etc, etc. In other words his "reputation" has now got the locals scared so he hasn't lost anything else recently as a result.
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