Sure wish I knew who to shoot!

RalphWD45 · Mar 11, 2011

I needed to cut board's to size, down in the pasture, this evening, so went to the shop to grab my new homelite chainsaw, I couldn't find it, so I looked for my old Craftsman chainsaw, and it also was missing. I looked around to see if anything else was gone, and can't find my new week old portable bandsaw. Rightnow I am so danged mad that I can't tell if anything else is gone or not. Probably will have to need something, before i'll miss it. It has to be someone who is normally around the place, otherwise they would be noticed by the neighbors. Now I got to Rant,at someone besides the wife. sorry guys!

RayP(MI) · Mar 11, 2011

Last December someone broke into neighbors garage and pole barn. Stole several thousand in small hand tools, power tools. Cops came out, took report. No one ever arrested. Insurance company is fighting neighbor on each and every item. Wants receipts on all items stolen. Really a PIA. Neighbor lives elsewhere. Comes up some weekends. I'm the not very effective neighborhood watch. Plow his snow, do drive thrus of driveway, cut the grass if he misses it long enough. Park a car in his drive once in a while. Still got caught flat footed.

Mark - IN. · Mar 11, 2011

I feel for you. I have been lucky so far. I could go further, but you made yours, ours, and everyone's point, the same one. There are ways to deal with such low lifes if they are caught, but this is a family oriented site, and a nice one at that, so here is no place for me to talk about such things.

Sir, I hope that you catch them and get YOUR stuff back.

Good luck.

Mark

RalphWD45 · Mar 11, 2011

I hate to admit it, but I probably could be whipped by a 15 yr old kid. Too old and slow, and arthritic, but I can still cycle a 12 ga pump gun. My place is accessable from two driveways, both out in the open,( no trees, just open pasture) Shop is 3 sided, and unlockable, but openside faces the front house windows. Somebody knows that we dont look out much, and that means they know us! We both take naps in the afternoon, guess I'll have to change habits.

PJH · Mar 12, 2011

Ralph - you need to get that building closed in and lockable. My insurance is worthless if there is no forced entry. I make a habit of locking a building or a vehicle when I go out the door. I might wear out a few locks and keys, but a locked door will slow down a lazy thief.

Hope your stuff turns up in good shape.

Paul

Anonymous-0 · Mar 12, 2011

Sounds like the same thing that happenedto me a few yrs. ago. No forced entry,no definate date of loss.Insurance Co. said mysterious disapperance and no coverage.

BDT in Minnesota · Mar 12, 2011

The last equipment that I had stolen was out on loan to a buddy... His pole shed was locked, so the thiefs easily cut a hole in the wall on the back side...

The saddest thing that you may lose, in your case, is a "friend" or someome who you have welcomed onto your property in the past.

buickanddeere · Mar 12, 2011

The plan here is to install a game trail camera with infrared, not flash.
Every once and while small stuff such as fuel, tools, birds disappear.

Spook · Mar 12, 2011

I recently had a alarm system installed. Several of my neighbor's have had break ins.

C.R. · Mar 12, 2011

it is a good idea to engrave your tools somewhere that helps to ID stuff later if you get lucky. Best way to do it is find a hard to spot place to make your mark good luck

dlplost · Mar 12, 2011

No problems here with breakins.
1. 2 guard dogs, a Lab and a Dalmatian, they"ll go check out anybody they don"t know, just bark, will not attack.
2. Reputation, they all know I will not hesitate to shoot. I"ve been arrested for discharging a firearm 3 times, Been found LEGAL by the Judge all 3 times. Last time was 20 years ago. But every one in the area knows about it.

BillinCentralMO · Mar 12, 2011

We got buglarized end of last year and I am still so mad I can hardly stand it.Packing heat now 24/7. If they come back will be their last rodeo , Auto-Shack guaranteed. I will have no qualms nor hesitation at sending them out of this world in a closed casket fashion. Hollow point 327 Magnums til the gun is empty! Hope you get your stuff back. Might check out a few pawn shops in your area. I know several people who did find their things there.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 12, 2011

Do those infrared cameras take a pretty clear picture? I would like to get one to catch our neighbor. They have made it very clear that they do not want anybody on their property. Even went so far as to put a notice in the local newspaper warning people to stay off their property. They are not some city folks that have just moved in or anything like that. They have lived her since the late sixties. Used to be pretty good neighbors to everybody around. Anyway, last summer, the wires from the battery to the electric fencer had been cut. The only people even close to it were these neighbors and they had to walk about 1/4 mile on our property to get to this to cut it. No roads within 2 miles, so it wasn't somebody passing by. Of course the sheriff won't do anything without proof, so this year I want to get the proof. Would the camera pick up the image of him cutting the wire be clear enough for prosecuting or at least good enough to make him sweat really good?

charger66 · Mar 12, 2011

the trail cam pics i have seen are incredibly clear, excellent. however i dont know if they are flash or not.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 12, 2011

Several years ago some thieves broke into my locked barn and stole a welding machine, Oxygen bottle and acetylene bottle along with cutting torch. They took several boxes of tools.There was a guy came to our yard sale and looked around and didn,t buy anything. The deputy described a man to me to see if he might be the one. Well it fitted the desscription of the man. He said he stored his stolen goods at his grandfathers farm in another county. They didn't go and check this out. I didn't have any insurance.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 12, 2011

Yeah, I don't want a flash. That way he would know he got caught when the flash went off, and then he would probably steal the camera!

Don-Wi · Mar 12, 2011

One of our neighbors was robbed last year. Open shed, they took a tire changer (air powered one, kinda heavy) among other things. Turned out to be the looser husband of one of my brother's highschool friends. They found a whole bunch of stolen property in mini storage.

Never heard if he got his stuff back, but atleast they caught the looser.

Donovan from Wisconsin

CJ3b_jeep · Mar 14, 2011

don't you love it? You get robbed and they ask for receipts? I don't think I could produce a receipt for some thing I bought last week, let alone years ago.

mkirsch · Mar 14, 2011

(quoted from post at 07:38:41 03/14/11) don't you love it? You get robbed and they ask for receipts? I don't think I could produce a receipt for some thing I bought last week, let alone years ago.

You can thank the jerks who DON'T get robbed, and claim they do, for that one... You can't take ANYBODY at their word anymore.

usetob · Mar 15, 2011

Last year we lost 2 trailer truck loads of big square bales, now have up trail-cams

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