If sny of you guys visit the fishing groups I post on you may have seen this two years ago, or wmaybe last year when I re-posted it.
I was fishing the spring run of Striped Bass in the Roanoke River in NC. We had a Motel room on the river in Weldon NC and of course the boat and all the equipment in it was in the parking lot that night. About twenty boats there that night, all loaded down with fishing equipment. Easy pickings for a thief right?
What any thief's wouldn't know was that "Bozo" my Lab/Chessie mix was also sleeping in the boat. When we go someplace he never gets out of the boat unless I make him. He really acts like he thinks he will be left, and sometimes its hard to get him to leave the boat to go to the bathroom. I wasn't worried about him roaming during the night, (he has also been neutered) so he doesn't wander even at home.
About 2 am I get a phone call from the Motel manager who tells me the local police want me to go out in the parking lot and get my dog. I am about ½ awake and am trying to figure what is going on. I get outside and down at the end of the parking lot are three cop cars, three cops, some dumpsters, and Bozo. Bozo has a thief treed on a large dumpster. Every time the cops try to get the thief down Bozo tries to attack him and he screams. (The cops think this is about as much fun as Bozo does, and everyone is having a great time, except the thief). I go grab Bozo telling him what a good dog he is, the cops get the thief down. As they are taking him to put him in the back of a car he goes past Maynard, my older dog (Lab) who had come out of the Motel room on his leash with my wife. Maynard sticks his head forward (probably to smell the thief but who knows why really) and the thief jumped backwards, right at Bozo who nails him again, this time in the ass. (He had already bit him in the leg and hand).
The cops show me the bag this guy was carrying, It had fishing reels, props, depth finders radios etc in it. He had been going down the line of boats in the parking lot taking whatever he wanted. All he got off my boat was the cotter pin and the nut to the SS Raker Prop which he dropped. The cops said if I felt like it when I got home in a couple of days have the vet fax them a copy of Bozo's rabies vacation form. But if I forgot don't worry that they would start thief on the whole series of rabies shots. Also the theif was an escaped prisioner from the nearby state prison farm, and was believed steeling this stuff so he could get some traveling money.