Chuckle! Bright & thief. Can you use those two words together?
Harold
Chuckle! Bright & thief. Can you use those two words together?
Harold
The police weren't involved until after I discovered the theft when the bank statement arrived. Even I was smart enough to figger out what happened as soon as I saw the check numbers of the phony checks on the statement and warned the bank about the number range of the missing checks. Fortunately the theft occurred about halfway through our bank statement cycle, it could have been a lot worse if it took longer before I became aware of the theft.
The cops said there'd been a rash of similar daytime "walk in" office burglaries in the town our place is in. The perps are well dressed and usually come during lunchtime when many offices are only sparsely occupied. If questioned they feign suprise and ask, "Isn't this the Beeswax Company?", then they apologise for being in the "wrong place" and quickly leave. A lot of notebook computers and purses that ladies leave under their desks "grow legs" that way. (As well as our business checks, those guys know what to look for.)
Jeff
Or maybe a second key that turns on a Ford like starter relay that turns off and disconnects the battery. (maybe a bypass to clocks... only )
To bad about the rack - I have a rusty one here for a econo van - wide and long. I'll have to drag it down here to cut up or have a dumper take it to the dump.
Not pretty stuff for Ernie. :-)
Martin
"PrecisionMachinisT" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:
I got a good story about a stupid thief. A buddy of my father buys a 69 Camaro new. Drives it for a dozen years and it's pretty tired. It's no rust bucket, just well worn. It gets stolen out of his driveway around
Dan
I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show Gunner wrote back on Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:16:03 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :
I lucked out: got the car back, most of the contents (99%), but they stole the duffle bags - just the bags - and they left a couple Payless shopping baskets and some speaker wire. Weird part - the car wasn't insured for theft, but the contents were covered under my renter's policy.
Of course, when you get your vehicle stolen, you get everybody's weird stories. Like the gal who had her little truck stolen, and a couple days before the insurance was going to pay off, it was recovered, with a front end alignment job done too.
And then there was Kelly. Car was stolen, then recovered with new seat covers. Stolen again, recovered with new stereo and tires... Kelly really is tight with the man upstairs. :-)
tschus pyotr
I was planning on driving down in a few weeks anyway to work on my sister's house. Now I just fly down, and drive back.
Yeah I was think of one of those. That is a good price.
My "I need to do this" is a Mico-Lock
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Chuckle! So crime pays. In reverse!
Great story, Dan.
Harold
15 days later God gave her a massive heart attack, and multiple surgeries since then. To go with her declining health, looks and figure, her boyfriend doesnt want her any more.
Now Im taking care of her again.
Somebody kick me, please.....
Gunner
Rule #35 "That which does not kill you, has made a huge tactical error"
When the thief broke in, he was using a bright flashlight.....
Now *that's* justice.... Ken.
There are lots of bright thieves. Most are in politics. A few work at oil companies. The rest are lawyers.
GS
Man, those are some hard-working cops!
For the price of a steering wheel at the wrecking yard, those are defeated very easily. Something more of a deterrent would be one of those locks that prevents your brake pedal from being depressed. I've seen some cheesy ones, but there's a few that look pretty solid.
Then, there's the hidden ignition killswitch, and/or a fuel cutoff valve with hidden switch.
Jon
--Great news! :-)
reminds me of a story i read. a guy living next door to someone with an old abandoned John Deere tractor in a garage. i believe the story was the guy asked his neighbor for the tractor and the neighbor gave it to him. the guy spends hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars restoring it to cherry mint condition, proudly owns it for a while and then the original owner confiscated it and legally kept it. sad but true story. i can't remember if this happened locally here or if i read it somewhere as national news.
b.w.
Ernie, I seem to recall that you lost a hefty supply of hard-to-replace welding rod with the truck. Were you lucky enough to get that back?
I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show Gunner wrote back on Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:38:36 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :
You're doing a good job of it, yerself.
Now, what was it the Ghatma said about overcoming ones own desires? Think of it as working off bad Karma in this life. :-)
tschus pyotr
Nope. The only thing left in the truck was the bedliner.
When my Mom got the truck back to her house last night she did a quick inventory. She found a 2 drawer steel file cabinet in the bed, 2 pair of big heavy bolt cutters behind the seat, 3 car stereos on the passenger seat floor, and a pile of legal paperwork from the guy who was arrested driving the truck.
The in dash stereo was gone along with all the speakers.
There was a bunch of trash in the cab, and the sliding rear window is broken. All in all, I got off easy.
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