Re: Attempted Tractor Theft

Posted by NE IA Dave on January 15, 2007 at 13:55:26 from (12.206.8.41):

In Reply to: Attempted Tractor Theft posted by sammy the RED on January 14, 2007 at 20:28:24:

A friend of mine was at his brothers funeral and had his safe broke into. They found the guys later that year, they had watched the newspaper for family members that would probably go to the funeral.

I personaly have used the beware of dog signs, I add a very large orange flag beside it. I have no dog, so they can not see where he might be comming from.

I did have alot of stuff stolen (toy tractors) from a old barn while we were remodeling our house. They were not real bright. They had no idea we discovered them stolen, so I placed a large, make that a very large glass from a picture window in front of the door. I cleaned the glass very clean and set it offset a little so it did not appear to be directly infront. They did not come back, so left no finger prints. I also took a rake and stired the dry dirt infront where they had backed the pickups (probably three) to load the toys. This was all usless as they did not return.

I was very upset that the police did not find the guys, but that is small town USA.

Approx six months later the cops called, I was to meet with the DCI, so I was very excited that they had maybe found the toys as I had very little insurance on them. Probably the second question was --HOW LONG HAVE YOU HAD THESE TOYS INSURED?---I guess they are only doing their job, but as I look back they sure could have improved their investigation.

Dishonest people should just ask me if they need something as I will probably give it to them, but now I dare them to come near my remote farmstead. Please do not lecture me on where I will spend the rest of my life if they do try to steal from me---sorry I do not care--The way I see it is if they can accidently steal something from me, (and a stupid judge will buy into that crap) why can't he buy my story? It was a accident they got hurt.

Sorry guys I'm waiting on a return phone call so I will keep at this. Any way while doing a small construction job in the heart of my small town, a guy that had a history of stealing kept driving buy each day a little slower each time. I decided that if he actualy did stop,-- I would play a trick on him--, as I knew him fairly well. I tossed the 12 guage pump on the front seat with a hot one in the chamber, sure enough Monday morning he came to a complete stop and got out to see how things were going on the project. After he had looked all the tools over very well etc. I told him to excuse me while I got a new carpender pencil from the glove box. He followed me as we made small talk, and observed the shotgun. I told him it is a 870, and to be careful as I handed it to him because she had one in the chamber. What the heck! he said, man that is dangerous and all, also he asked me why. I stared at him as I gave my simple reply that since Nam I have been hearing voices that said I should kill someone and a big line of bull, and asked if didn't most people feel that way untill they actualy find a reason to kill some one?

The combination of that statment and perhaps a little growing up seem to make him extra friendly to me, and I do not feel uncomfortable when around him anymore, I'm not sure he feels as comfortable around me.

Unrelated (still no return phone call yet) My sons have stolen my show when a persistant salesperson that thinks they can make a sale if they high pressure the indavidual. So after rescheduling the second appointment the sales person comes to the door, The one brother (who is supposidly not to stable) hides in the closet with a shot gun. After a short time and a whole lot of stimulation the drinking buddies that accidently happen to be in the house at the same time, find my unstable son that has been missing (for a hour or so) in the closed and he has a gun. The unstable son with the gun finaly is coaxed out of the closet by his half drunk buddies and sits next to the salesperson with the shotgun and a blank stare. Every now and then as the normal son explains not to upset his unstable brother with the gun. The unstable brother pumps the shotgun and looks at the sales person without cracking so much as a grin. He then looks away agin, pumps the shot gun, shouts out some jiberish, etc. etc. They have more fun doing that, and seems to be a very effective way to get rid of pesky salespeople. I did try to do that one time, but I just could not keep from laughing part way through.

In your case doing the right thing at the spare of the moment is not realistic, but having them hauled off to jail would have been great.

NE IA Dave

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