Scrap Thieves Hit Yesterday!

gdb
gdb Posts: 6,012
edited January 2012 in The Clubhouse
Sumbitches stole a truckload of stuff from my locked barn while I was away at the Doctors office. Scrap prices are so high now that Nothing is safe from these cockroaches. Heres my list that I have made so far.



Stainless chimney sections (double wall 8")-massive chain fall maybe 300-350lbs.-large Dayton 2cyl./2stage compressor-Chevy 307 engine- approx. 150lb. Peter Wright anvil (signed)- Heavy blacksmiths leg vise - rear transaxle for Cub Cadet 1250 (hydrostatic) - small 1 1/2 ton chain fall/hoist - 1978 4hp Mercury outboard engine - approx.1-half of a large spool of 12-2w/ground romex with white sheathing - (2)pressure washers with 8hp engines (1 w/ no pump)(1 on stainless steel pipe cart)- 2-8' lengths of 1-1/4" aluminum square stock - 12ft. of 3" aluminum conduit and 1 long sweep/elbow 3"dia. - several heavy boxes of old/antique tools - 4 1/2' clawfoot bath tub (white) w/faucets - huge 2hp. general electric motor large shaft w/double groove pulley (gray) - 5' section of well casing w/green cap - large oxygen cyl. (rusty) - Small green enamel woodstove (Jotul)- medium Vermont Castings "Defiant" woodstove w/out the glass doors - several tractor PTO couplings, drawbars, ect.-more to be discovered stolen. Reward for the identity of the person/s in possession of these items !

These people (and me) are very fortunate that I didn't discover them in the act, as they'd be lying in the coroners office and I'd be sitting in jail.:mad:
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited January 2012
    Drinking lots of coffee until daylight and the Sheriff's Deputy come.
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  • BeefJerky
    BeefJerky Posts: 1,320
    edited January 2012
    Wow, I'm sorry to hear this happened to you. I hope you or the police track them down and they get what's coming to them.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited January 2012
    Thanks, that's my hope too !! Be a shame to shred a $2000.00 woodstove for it's scrap value.($ 0.10- $0.14 a pound)
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,223
    edited January 2012
    You must have been at the doctors office for some time. It would take awhile to load it all up and not knowing when you would be back home or how far a drive you took..

    We lock all our scrap at the shop up in a trailer till Fridays when the scrap truck comes and hauls it.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited January 2012
    Wife dragged me to Costco, Wal Mart,pizza place after doctors. We were gone about 7 hrs. To be honest, they might have been working at it for more than one day because they forced the 14'x16' door and not the locked walk-through entry door. But....guess what, the A'holes Ford diesel truck broke down in front of my neighbors house and.....it's still there! (now empty). The 20 yr. old female deputy they sent out is calling in a detective and hopefully I'll be seeing my stuff again real soon. I'd really hate to lose that nice anvil!:cry::lol:
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  • BeefJerky
    BeefJerky Posts: 1,320
    edited January 2012
    gdb wrote: »
    Wife dragged me to Costco, Wal Mart,pizza place after doctors.
    Figures. :cheesygrin:
    We were gone about 7 hrs. To be honest, they might have been working at it for more than one day because they forced the 14'x16' door and not the locked walk-through entry door.
    That's certainly possible. It's too bad you didn't notice earlier if that was the case. I suppose you might get in the habit of checking your barn on a daily basis now.
    But....guess what, the A'holes Ford diesel truck broke down in front of my neighbors house and.....it's still there! (now empty).
    Hah! Hopefully it's actually registered to the name of someone involved, rather than stolen or borrowed from someone else.
    The 20 yr. old female deputy they sent out is calling in a detective and hopefully I'll be seeing my stuff again real soon.
    Good luck! Keep us updated on the progress.
    I'd really hate to lose that nice anvil!:cry::lol:
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited January 2012
    http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/long_island&id=8512682
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited January 2012
    Face wrote: »
    http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/long_island&id=8512682
    Wow, that is really lowlife in action!
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited January 2012
    Hope they get caught.
    Michael ;)
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,147
    edited January 2012
    I hope you recover your barns missing contents asap.


    This country needs to start cutting FN' fingers off of convicted theives. We have to!!!!!! it's getting bad. I was hit, my neighbor hit, the neighborhood hit and all in the past 9 months.

    Cutting can start with a thumb is what I say.
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  • Glowrdr
    Glowrdr Posts: 1,103
    edited January 2012
    Damn thieves!

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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited January 2012
    Caught the little bastages after they retuned A THIRD TIME !! A 12 gauge blast point blank in their front tire reduced their driving range and the deputies found them less a mile from my house. I told them to wait for the LEOs but they tried to flee. 2 18 year olds and a juvenile are in some hot watter tonite ! I must think up an offering to the karma Gods !:cheesygrin:
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  • DMara
    DMara Posts: 1,434
    edited January 2012
    That's great news!!! They deserve to rot in jail.
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  • FTGV
    FTGV Posts: 3,649
    edited January 2012
    gdb wrote: »
    ... A 12 gauge blast point blank in their front tire reduced their driving range and the deputies found them less a mile from my house. I told them to wait for the LEOs but they tried to flee. ...:
    I would call you a Rube but then I'm likely to get shot.:eek::cheesygrin:
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited January 2012
    Yeah the Deputies got all kinda torqued up about the "weapon use":loneranger:. I have 15 days to get Mr. Mossberg back from them.:eek:
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  • del44
    del44 Posts: 686
    edited January 2012
    Glad you caught the scumbags. It realy stinks that nothing is safe anymore. My wife bought a used baby monitor from the goodwill. I put it in my detached garage. That thing is so sensitive I can hear a mouse ****. I pity the fool that tries to break into my garage in the middle of the night.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited January 2012
    del44 wrote: »
    Glad you caught the scumbags. It realy stinks that nothing is safe anymore. My wife bought a used baby monitor from the goodwill. I put it in my detached garage. That thing is so sensitive I can hear a mouse ****. I pity the fool that tries to break into my garage in the middle of the night.
    That is a great idea!:idea:
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,114
    edited January 2012
    Third times a charm, at least you get the mossberg back, did you get any of your stuff back that they tried to scrap?
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  • codyc1ark
    codyc1ark Posts: 2,532
    edited January 2012
    Everyone in my town is in a big stink over this article, but the **** did it two nights in a row, serves em' right....

    http://www.wxii12.com/news/29692849/detail.html
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,147
    edited January 2012
    codyc1ark wrote: »
    Everyone in my town is in a big stink over this article, but the **** did it two nights in a row, serves em' right....

    http://www.wxii12.com/news/29692849/detail.html


    Yep, now the victum is the one charged with being out of line in this scenario......Good grief.

    I've seen it many, many times and that's why thieves KEEP THIEVING!!!


    The thieving has to stop and if it comes to this, I'm sad for the families of the stupid desperate thieves (all over the world) when their actions result in their demise. For some strange reason I don't feel any sorrow for the thieves who get hurt or killed . I think I should but I don't.
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,147
    edited January 2012
    DMara wrote: »
    That's great news!!! They deserve to rot in jail.

    X2

    But..... they will probably be treated with respect and compassion through out the due process and then probation. But maybe they will get 10 years. But the bad part of that is it cost taxpayers 50,000.00 a year per inmate to incarcerate their butts. Sickening!!
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited January 2012
    gudnoyez wrote: »
    Third times a charm, at least you get the mossberg back, did you get any of your stuff back that they tried to scrap?
    Apparently, the stuff was sold locally at a new facility called "Copper Jack's" . I hope to recover everything, if not I might get their 97 F350 Powerstroke theft vehicle (needs one tire, right front) as reparations.:cheesygrin:
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,147
    edited January 2012
    gdb wrote: »
    Apparently, the stuff was sold locally at a new facility called "Copper Jack's" . I hope to recover everything, if not I might get their 97 F350 Powerstroke theft vehicle (needs one tire, right front) as reparations.:cheesygrin:

    What a criminal name for a business huh. They had to know it was stolen property!! They need to be arrested too. Round em all up and find a cinder block wall.

    Good luck with the recovery of items.
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  • ratster
    ratster Posts: 324
    edited January 2012
    gdb wrote: »
    Caught the little bastages after they retuned A THIRD TIME !! A 12 gauge blast point blank in their front tire reduced their driving range and the deputies found them less a mile from my house. I told them to wait for the LEOs but they tried to flee. 2 18 year olds and a juvenile are in some hot watter tonite ! I must think up an offering to the karma Gods !:cheesygrin:

    You need to work on your aim :cheesygrin:
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited January 2012
    ratster wrote: »
    You need to work on your aim :cheesygrin:

    Yeah but.....I'd rather THEY be in custody and not me. Now, if someone busts into my house, they can give their soul to God because.....their **** is MINE ! I coulda slit the tire's sidewall with my Gerber but, that wouldn't have had the 'pucker the ****" effect like the boom of a 16.5" barreled 12 gauge does. My wrist hurts a little, did the deed with one hand. :lol:
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited January 2012
    gdb wrote: »
    Yeah but....like the boom of a 18.0" barreled 12 gauge does.:lol:

    Fixed it for ya. Glad you caught them. Hope everything comes out good.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited January 2012
    Doh, I meant 18.5" ! I'm planning to be the first "customer" at the scrap buyer's yard in approx. 5 hours. With a 6mm kidney stone that needs to be shockwaved and a brand new lyme tick bite........this theft/firearm crap was the LAST thing I needed !
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited January 2012
    Glad you caught them GDP! Hopefully you get your stuff back. We set up a game camera outside my grandpa's place when it was getting broken into. Caught the POS on video. We had changed the locks though, so he couldn't get in. On second thought, I wish we wouldn't have changed the locks; he would've done more jail time then.

    Oh, and move to Texas. Then you wouldn't have to worry about using deadly force to protect your property ;)
    codyc1ark wrote: »
    Everyone in my town is in a big stink over this article, but the **** did it two nights in a row, serves em' right....

    http://www.wxii12.com/news/29692849/detail.html

    I'm cheering for that guy. I'm a firm believer that if more thieves were in fear for their life, there would be a lot less stealing going around.
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  • engtaz
    engtaz Posts: 7,663
    edited January 2012
    Congrats on catching them.
    engtaz

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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited January 2012
    I long for the old days when one could introduce rock salt to a thief's epidermi and not be in trouble for it !:wink:
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