Stolen Crap Thread

I had a welder/cart/tank, skillsaw, sawzaw, winch cable, highlift, and various had tools stolen. I was only gone for maybe 15min. all the items were under a carport behind my house. I went to lowes to get flap discs.....
 
I had tools walk out of my garage once. We had just moved in (new construction) and the GC had punch items to do. Him and his subs were in the house. They had to do it but i had no proof.

Found out stuff was missing by looking for it to use it. If it was in a small toolbox, it all got gone.
 
When we were building our current house I decided to help out friends that were in the building trades by using them. Gave all the dirt work to a buddy that had a grading company, gave the plumbing to a plumber buddy, HVAC went to a friend of a friend type deal. So the first thief turned out to be my grading buddy that accidentally broke into my barn and helped himself to 2 almost new Stihl chainsaws and a weed eater and backpack blower. I caught his sorry ass trying to head out the back of my property with all my stuff. He got out of the truck when I chased him down acting very nervous and making up a story about recovering my stuff from someone no one else had seen. After a real good ass whipping from me the sheriffs department was called in and he took a ride in an ambulance before going to jail. His equipment stayed on my property for about 3 months before I had it hauled to a storage facility. The plumber buddy ended up stealing about $1000 worth of plumbing and pipe fitting tools and cooper fittings that were in the barn that I was letting him use on the job. It’s been 11 years and he still hasn’t been seen or heard from. The HVAC guy didn’t steal from me then but we had nothing but problems with the system and replaced everything after 7 years. With friends like that who needs enemies.
 
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Back about 1983-4, I had a daypack stolen when on a camping trip. I had left it beside my tent, and it got snagged right around dusk, maybe in a 30-minute window.

To back up a bit...couple of the guys with us were Vietnam vets. At this point, it was 15 years past the war. One guy in particular, I sort of knew, but hadn't spent much time with him camping and hiking. He didn't tell many war stories, but when he did they were always short, but good ones, too good to be true....like going solo outside the wire at night to hunt VC...special forces ninja raids, etc...typical BS stories you might hear from a cook or truck driver.

Anyway, he was late getting there that weekend...drives up maybe about 10pm. He starts out tracking about 11pm. Cuts a circle, finds where someone had come up the gully back behind where my tent was. He was truly in full-on ninja mode...as in "turn out the lights, you're screwing my night vision up and I can't see where these turkeys went". Half-mile from camp, found where chuckleheads had stopped and opened up the pack....buried some minor items under some leaves. Followed their trail to a USFS campground...but not much we could do about it at that point, unless I saw my stuff. Lost a gregory daypack, down jacket, Olympus camera.

To cut a long off-topic story short, I hiked and camped with this guy a good bit over the next 5 or so years. He was truly the sneakiest, ninja-est person I have ever met. It was a game to him...you'd be 5' behind him on a trail, look down, look up, and he's gone. Absolute quiet, no sign at all. Or, you'd be well ahead of him on the trail -- well, at least the last time you saw him you were in front....then, you'd get up someplace, and find him waiting for you. Dude would make better time cross-country than others would make on an open trail. Did some night-hikes over the years...guy could see in starlight like I could under a full moon. Or better.

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Had my brother baby sitting my dog for a week. He said the dog was living on his back porch,started raising hell one night so he lets him out,this is about 0300. Turns back to go inside when starts hearing screaming. Grabs his gun an flashlight run out side to find out the dog is halfway up the neighbors ladder, looks father up theres a guy screaming an crying. Drags the dog off the ladder by now the cop shows up. Find out the guy was breaking into cars to steal whatever he can. Brothers car door was open with bag next to it with stolen goods. Had to take the guy to hospital for bites. Damn dog
 
Had a little dude helping at work a couple years back. Let him with a couple easy projects one friday and took off. Monday hes sick. Tuesday it was 11 am before he calls in witha story of how my tools had gotten stolen over the weekend but not his. In a bad neighborhokd a skinny white boy didnt belong in (i had nicknamed him twitch). Well after a police report and headaches he starts raising hell cause he hadnt been paid. I chewed his ass out on the phone and asked him if anybody ever got paid without an invoice or time card. When he finally showed up with a b.s time card i brought out my paperwork and showed him i didnt owe him half. Paid him and put him on the road. 2 months later a cop comes to my jobsite to drop off my tools. Some chick had pawned them. Always keep serial numbers, it save me a couple grand.
 
i still won’t forget the time my cool lil Blue Point 1/4” socket set in the blow molded case with just about every attachment ever needed, got lifted at pullapart in Winston-Salem. Man that was a weird day, I went alone, and it felt like the only other people there were 100mexican lurkers. I didn’t even clue in to the fact that I was being cased out, numerous ‘cans were doing fly bys , coming down the same row as I was in. In my head I was thinking wtf are all these muthafuckas doing. When I noticed my socket set gone, I realized what was up, and suddenly there were no more people around. Silly me, that was an expensive lesson. Sort of, I won that set in ECORS, thanks @snappy , I still miss it.
 
Got a call from the sheriffs department today. Looks like they recovered my pistol. Hispanic guy had it on him during a high speed chase in a stolen car. He racked up a slew of charges. Too bad the cops didn’t just kill him. No timeframe as to when I might get the pistol back. It’s sitting in Columbia, SC as evidence. At least they found it though. A win for the victim this go around.
 
CarolinaHD said:
Nice, 1 month to the day.
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It will probably be longer than that. Suspect is looking at a bunch of Felony charges. It will be at least a year to get on the trial calendar if the suspect wants a trial and doesn't take a plea deal. Then if there is a trial and he is found guilty there is a period of time for an appeal to be filed. If the appeal is filed than it could be years. If he takes the plea deal then you should be notified fairly soon.
 
Brand new set of firestone destination ats, way to many coolers, Milwaukee 1/2 chuck drill, nail guns, $4000 metal strapping set, skill saw, Milwaukee saw saw, snuff lots of snuff, surf rods, several log chains, electric grease guns, dunno how many hitchs, buckets full of trailer pins, a bottle of forty creek, lots of miller lite
 
My mom reminded me of another one the other day. I was about 10, so this would have been early 70's. We had spent the weekend at Wrightsville Beach. About 4 or so on Sunday afternoon, came in from fishing, to get the boat ('67 North American S-22) loaded on the trailer so we could head back to Sanford. Except the trailer wasn't behind the car anymore. Somebody stole it while we were out in the boat. Ever try and find a replacement trailer for a 22' boat late on a Sunday afternoon (pre-internet to boot)? Finally did at a boat shop near downtown Wilmington. Somebody knew the guy, called him, he met us down at the shop, and loaned us (sight unseen) a trailer to take home for a couple of weeks.
 
I let my brother borrow my 1980 Toyota corolla liftback while he was working out of town in Winston Salem/Highpoint in the late 90's. He had parked it on a construction site he was on and left the keys in it. I did not have comp. ins. on it............. I really miss that car.
 
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I have $2000 or so in cordless brushless DeWalt tools plus who knows how much in other tools in my truck every day. I don't leave it unlocked ever. It's a shame but I have to cable some bigger stuff in the bed or trailer too. Lowes will get ya, people hang out there to see what people will leave unattended.
 
I have only had a few piddly things stolen here and there.

The strangest thing was I had a small pile of scrap metal at my house, probably like 150# of it or so. One day I go out to take the trash out and my trash can is gone. WTF, where did my trash can go? I look over and the scrap metal is gone. Some dude filled my can up with like $12 worth of scrap metal and took off. :lol:
 
Back in March my alarm went off while I was at lunch. Alarm company calls and I tell them it is an active burglary as I was not home. I get home hoping to roll out the welcome mat but the cops beat me there. I was impressed that it took less than 10 minutes for them to be standing in my bedroom. They were in my house less than 2 minutes and got nothing but did $15k in damages to my house. I hate a theif!
 
Me and @jcramsey had a dude steal our wallets out of dorm room at NC State back in the day. I saw homie walking out of our suite as I was coming out of the bathroom. I noticed my wallet was missing and ran outside to watch him getting in his car......kinda wish I would have went with my gut and hauled tail after him....still pissed about that $3 he got :lol:.

We were walking back from the gym a couple days later and lady from WRAL news stopped us and asked if we had heard about the guy going into dorms stealing stuff.....glad they used jcramsey instead of me for the interview. I think I probably would have been like the folks they usually find describing what the tornado sounded like :gitrdun:


Also had full dining room table and chairs stolen from the back of truck at Asheville Mall 30 minutes after me and my wife picked it up from her aunt. They also got my ugly stik trout rod which I was more concerned about than the table. I wish I could slap them in the face with that rod till it broke......
 
ramjo said:
Me and @jcramsey had a dude steal our wallets out of dorm room at NC State back in the day. I saw homie walking out of our suite as I was coming out of the bathroom. I noticed my wallet was missing and ran outside to watch him getting in his car......kinda wish I would have went with my gut and hauled tail after him....still pissed about that $3 he got :lol:.

We were walking back from the gym a couple days later and lady from WRAL news stopped us and asked if we had heard about the guy going into dorms stealing stuff.....glad they used jcramsey instead of me for the interview. I think I probably would have been like the folks they usually find describing what the tornado sounded like :gitrdun:


Also had full dining room table and chairs stolen from the back of truck at Asheville Mall 30 minutes after me and my wife picked it up from her aunt. They also got my ugly stik trout rod which I was more concerned about than the table. I wish I could slap them in the face with that rod till it broke......
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I started to type this story up earlier today but got distracted. Probably better that you did, since I was asleep when ole boy took our wallets. Pretty sure we got something in the mail a couple years after we graduated saying that he’d been arrested for breaking into the dorm rooms. I think he got less from me than he did from you....:D

Lol at the tornado joke. Doubt I sounded much better.

Only other thing I can think of was some dude stole the beater Chevy truck from dads shop. He literaly only kept about a gallon of gas in it at a time so it made it from Glenwood to Nebo before he ran out.:lol:
 
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I started to type this story up earlier today but got distracted. Probably better that you did, since I was asleep when ole boy took our wallets. Pretty sure we got something in the mail a couple years after we graduated saying that he’d been arrested for breaking into the dorm rooms. I think he got less from me than he did from you....:D

Lol at the tornado joke. Doubt I sounded much better.

Only other thing I can think of was some dude stole the beater Chevy truck from dads shop. He literaly only kept about a gallon of gas in it at a time so it made it from Glenwood to Nebo before he ran out.:lol:
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Alternator was bad......battery died before it ran out of gas but it was probably neck and neck of which one would go out first :D. I watched it drive off from the shop while I was doing some work on their house. I just thought it was dad doing something with it....doh! Good thing we drive :poop: and just keep enough gas in them to get a couple miles down the road
 
Well, got hit again. This time at a church. Met my dad for s banquet at a church in Lancaster, SC. I had a baby swing for my son, a stool for my work table in the garage, and an old non running poulan chainsaw that I’d planned on tinkering with in the bed of my truck. Come outside after the banquet, my tailgate is down, and it’s all gone. WTF! If I can ever catch one of these SOB’s in the act they’ll make a movie about it. Chainsaw doesn’t run so the jokes on them. they don’t need the baby swing because I’m certain none of his kids know him.
 
Wes said:
Well, got hit again. This time at a church. Met my dad for s banquet at a church in Lancaster, SC. I had a baby swing for my son, a stool for my work table in the garage, and an old non running poulan chainsaw that I’d planned on tinkering with in the bed of my truck. Come outside after the banquet, my tailgate is down, and it’s all gone. WTF! If I can ever catch one of these SOB’s in the act they’ll make a movie about it. Chainsaw doesn’t run so the jokes on them. they don’t need the baby swing because I’m certain none of his kids know him.
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Which church? 2nd babtist? Im in la a good bit and know a few leo down there. Ill keep a lookout
 
Wes said:
Yeah, it was second baptist. I grew up with the Chief of police’s wife. I haven’t said anything to them. It’s a lost cause
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Sadly it is. I've been to a couple sportsman banquets there.
 
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