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Welding man

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Local town near me that I do some work for occasionally, had their Bobcat skid steer loader stolen about a month ago. They
were working on a water line and left it near the road overnight. Came back the next morning to get it and it was gone. Town
police put pictures of it on facebook and put out an APB on it. No one had a clue where it went, then bingo. Seems the guy
that stole it, liked to steal other things. He stole a small ashphalt roller that had a hidden GPS tracker on it. When the
cops arrived they found the roller, the Bobcat and a couple more missing pieces. The town now has the Bobcat back and he's
behind bars. Without that little tracker, They would have never found it. It was over 100 miles from where he stole it.
 
You can only hope the guy spends time in prison and his roommate is looking for a new boyfriend.
 
Several years ago there was a county owned excavator left on a job site. During the night a man tried to load it on a too small trailer, it slipped off or broke the trailer. He couldn't get it on or off, trapped!

He was caught and arrested, search warrants issued for his properties...

The man was professional thief, of maybe a high end hoarder! He had barns full of stolen cars, trucks, boats, tractors, equipment of every description.

Even went to the extreme of building a huge 3 story storage barn with an elevator, and a false front to make it look like an ageing barn!

Strange thing, evidently he never sold or used any of it, just put it away out of sight. Some had been there 20-30 years!

Must have had some deep pockets!
 
A few years ago, when I was a County Commissioner, the County put GPS trackers in all of the county vehicles, Sheriff's Department and other vehicles assigned to key employees.

The intent was for dispatchers to quickly locate personnel in case of an emergency, and to determine who was closest to the problem.

One road foreman disabled the unit in his county pickup and drove the pickup to an adjoining county on a personal errand. He was rather abruptly no longer a county employee. Tampering with the GPS unit was actually the serious issue. Driving the county vehicle on a personal errand probably would have resulted in no more than a reprimand.
 
City of Eugene has been putting trackers on bikes and setting them out for bait. I dont really know if it does any good because our jail has a revolving door and the outlaws know it. When they clean up a homeless camp there are lots of bike parts. I also think some take bikes just to get where they're going and dump them.
 
I haul equipment and most of the newer stuff has the option of letting the owner know when it starts if it moves and you have to have a code to start it. It's a sign of the times, when i started if it took a special key they would leave it in ignition nobody messed with it. Now i have a notebook full of codes and a smaller key ring
 
BIL fired an employee for using company truck, in a different town to do a side job while on the company clock.
Employee filed a complaint with unemployment for firing him without first giving him a warning.
That didn't sit well with BIL.

While collecting unemployment the man was working for cash for another company. BIL turned him in. Unemployment people was mad at person paying him cash. That person flipped on the man BIL fired.
That man was in deep do do.
 
There was a tv piece on baiting thieves. Seems they were driving 18 wheelers full of TVs into neighborhoods and leaving them with
the doors ajar. Lost the case in court.
 
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