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Blaze

Blaze

The Jeeper Reaper
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Aug 9, 2005
Location
Wake Forest, NC
My next door neighbor came over tonight and said that someone drilled a hole in the gas tank of his Honda Pilot last night, drained the gas out on the ground. They didn't do it to steal the gas, just to be malicious. Guy is about as nice as he can be, works from home, etc. Can't imagine anyone anyone harboring any ill will towards him or his family.

I live up in the sticks, there are like 15 houses in my neighborhood and not many other houses around here. We had an incident over the summer where someone knocked on another neighbor's door and when she answered they threw urine on her and ran off. Again, family about as nice as they come, just some asshat being malicious.

And last month someone let most of the air out of two tires on my wife's Trailblazer. I didn't think anything of it at the time, she works in Durham so just figured it happened there and she drove home. Now I'm wondering if it happened at the house. Probably did.

Probably some kids or something, but man it sucks bad for my neighbor. It's their main car because his other one is having transmission problems too. Really blows.
 
Probably some bored 15 year old neighborhood kid(s), wanting to prove they are rebels.
Sucks, not sure there's any way you could patch that.
 
Could have ended a lot worse. Electric drills will light gas. A guy at the shop i use to work at learned this the hard way.
 
They did that to a passenger van parked at our church a couple of weeks ago.

What they'll do is fill whatever they have...if it's just a five gallon gas can, they'll fill it and leave....they don't care that the other 15 gallons runs out on the ground.
 
Did that at a company I used to work for in garner. We called the police and they said it always happens this time of year. Po-Po says the hobos use it to make fires and stay warms.
 
Air being let out of the tires is happening around me and to all of my vehicles even my dually they let all of the air out of the tires that are furthest from the house im about ready to put up a couple trail cams hidden under the vehicles
 
What may have happened is the potential gas thieves drilled the hole in the tank planning on sliding their catch pale under to catch the gas and realized it was to tall to fit underneath.
 
I am just surprised that they didn't come down behind my house to my shop if they wanted gas. There are 10 cars sitting down there, and not single one was touched. There is even a full gas tank from a Jeep sitting there that they could have taken with them for all I care.

It is just kind of unnerving knowing that happened, and probably about the same time that I was down working inside my shop.
 
Blaze said:
I am just surprised that they didn't come down behind my house to my shop if they wanted gas. There are 10 cars sitting down there, and not single one was touched. There is even a full gas tank from a Jeep sitting there that they could have taken with them for all I care.
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They'd have to know that the cars actually had gas in them, and that tank did, too.
If a car is fairly new and sitting in somebody's driveway, it's a pretty safe bet.
A car sitting down in the back yard, amongst a bunch of others... no telling, and it could be old nasty shit. Plus - that guy is more likely to have a dog and a gun....
 
RatLabGuy said:
Probably some bored 15 year old neighborhood kid(s), wanting to prove they are rebels.
Sucks, not sure there's any way you could patch that.
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Had it happen to me one time... Messicans, caught them with a game camera. I took a large rivet and some RTV and patched it until I could find a replacement.
 
RatLabGuy said:
They'd have to know that the cars actually had gas in them, and that tank did, too.
If a car is fairly new and sitting in somebody's driveway, it's a pretty safe bet.
A car sitting down in the back yard, amongst a bunch of others... no telling, and it could be old nasty shit. Plus - that guy is more likely to have a dog and a gun....
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True and true. My neighbor also has a dog and a gun, but the guys just got lucky. :lol:

I'm like 5 miles above 98, there is literally nothing up here.
 
I've been to the OP's house a few times for ZJ parts. Really nice guy and seems like a nice neighborhood in WF.

Do the neighbors have teenage children? I would suspect dumb kids being vandals that might know them. And a cheap ebay/amazon trail cam would probably be a nice Christmas gift that could help his and your driveways.
 
Makes me glad that we keep our DD cars garaged. My F350 is sitting out side though. OP, you need to set up some good cameras.
 
Yeah, I think I am going to get some good cameras. I know it probably doesn't help THAT much, but if someone walks through the backyard at night it lights up like daytime. I have three motion lights on the house, then two dusk-till-dawn lights on the shop and one motion light on the shop. My grandfather is an electrician, I am a big fan of exterior illumination. :lol:
 
Sounds like it's time for some sort of animal alarm...dog, geese, something, and maybe even some motion lights or something. I live in a similar surrounding, neighborhood carved out in the middle of nowhere. I've had a couple of instances where lights and animals alert me to something at 3-4 am. Have a little old lady and her husband on dialysis next door...some punk decided it would be a good idea to steal gas out of their boats and motor homes. Let my dogs out and ended up greeting him with a crow bar in hand. That situation ended up pretty well, all damages fixed and reimbursed. Had one at my own house a couple weeks ago, I get in on a red eye...just lay down...my dogs start going crazy...not typical for them, unless someone is at the door. Grabbed my 9, let my dogs out back, they take off to the side of the house, I fire a couple warning shots in to the ground. I find one of my little bro's friends pinned between 2 of my trucks with a couple dozen rolls of toilet paper...I let him keep one...he thought I was gonna be out of town. Bottom line...I don't think there is much you can do to prevent or protect those sort of things from happening, but alerting you that something isn't right is all I'm after. Hell, the entire reason I have an alarm at home isn't for protection, but so a loud ass siren goes off and alerts me, and so a loud ass notification goes off on my chicks phone, so she doesn't walk in on something.
 
UTfball68 said:
Grabbed my 9, let my dogs out back, they take off to the side of the house, I fire a couple warning shots in to the ground. I find one of my little bro's friends pinned between 2 of my trucks with a couple dozen rolls of toilet paper...I let him keep one...he thought I was gonna be out of town.
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That could have been some harsh punishment for someone attempting to roll your house with TP. But if things are bad enough that he was going all Les Misérables stealing your toilet paper to provide for his family and all, you extended grace on this modern day Jean Valjean. Victor Hugo would be proud.
 
ManglerYJ said:
That could have been some harsh punishment for someone attempting to roll your house with TP. But if things are bad enough that he was going all Les Misérables stealing your toilet paper to provide for his family and all, you extended grace on this modern day Jean Valjean. Victor Hugo would be proud.
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When I saw who it was, I just had to laugh...I've known him since he was 5-6 years old. I think he learned his lesson. Apparently it did make it's way around the local high school not to roll my house, but I was willing to keep it our little secret.
 
Got to be teenagers. That sucks. Are there teenage boys in your neighborhood?
 
kaiser715 said:
So....you are entering an unknown situation, and knowingly cause yourself to enter into what may (unlikely) be a firefight, and you purposely go in two rounds short? Warning shots are for center mass.
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Meh...I had 17, and another in hand, after the 2 warnings, if 32 didn't get the job done, I had bigger problems.
 
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