I've been ripped off.

[odie1969]

I would wire a alum. wheel up to a electric fence power supply. so it shocks the fucker who touchs that shit. and I'm real sorry for you stuff walking off. If I ever catch a guy in my shit I will take his ass to mexico and leave him on the beach naked, tattooed and a electric muscle stimulater attacked to his taint o ya tide to a pile of crabs.

 

[Original_Ranger84]

Nicotine sulfate is a nasty organic poison and it is hideously toxic. Just a little will kill a large animal and is fairly easily adsorbed through the skin. Might consider throwing a few nail strips around the yard as well. Just remember where you put them!!!

This is turning into a home alone type of senario.

If you get the rims and stuff back you could rig them to do something like drop paint cans or a chest full of books or something.

 

[AZranger]

easier would be to setup a few perimeter silent alarms and go shoot them next time they trespass.

 

[Original_Ranger84]

easier would be to setup a few perimeter silent alarms and go shoot them next time they trespass.

and just to be ridiculous you could rig the perimeter with explosives or firecracker, oh oh even better set up a flaming moat so they walk into hell and can't escape . Muahhahahahahaha.

sorry about your stuff though, hopefully you are in city limits and stuff because I got my nice subs stolen out of my garage while i was away at a soccer trip, I put them in the garage so they wouldn't get stolen out of the back of my truck. Well guess what 3 days later gone, and the local police wouldn't do anything because its outside city limits, and insurance wouldn't cover it because it wouldn't be cost effective for anything less than 500$. worst part I live in like the middle of knowhere so some one had to know stuff and plan it.

Go to your house insurance and see if they will atleast cover the value of the goods they stole.

 

[koda6966]

This is turning into a home alone type of senario.

Oh, but the home alone kid never tried to kill.

 

[reno]

Go to your local recycling centers and look at the rims they have taken so far, report this to the managers. Call the police and file a report,this way if you find any or all of the rims, you have a case number, they will come out and recover your rims, get the name of the perp who sold them, go and arrest him\her. Then hopefully there were others involved and that one squeals on the others. They will be arrested for grand theft ( if you can show the rims being valued at over $500), this is a felony.

Don't set your self up to be a target that will cost you everything either, booby-trapping your yard\shed or home will land you in more trouble than any thief would ever receive. Put up motion detector lights, motion sensor alarms or a fence or at best all the above. If you must have something of value left out, buy some heavy chain from home Depot or Lowes, and get a stainless Steel Circular lock, chain them up to a tree or something. And if ya go out at night because ya heard something, don't shoot first and ask questions later, make sure you are within your rights to pull that trigger. You must be in fear of your life, they have a gun, or an object that may have looked like a gun and started to point it at you. If you shoot, shoot to stop and not to kill (this is very important to say when the police arrive).

And as a side note, don't leave out rim shops, pawn shops and swap meets. If you think you know who did it, checkout any garage sales in his area and his friends vehicles.

-=Reno=-

 

[Will]

Wiring the fence to some wheels--I like that. I know that would work. Every time those fawkers touch anything metal after that, spears of electricity will shoot up their spines at just the memory.

 

[metalmacguyver]

Go to your local recycling centers and look at the rims they have taken so far, report this to the managers. Call the police and file a report,this way if you find any or all of the rims, you have a case number, they will come out and recover your rims, get the name of the perp who sold them, go and arrest him\her. Then hopefully there were others involved and that one squeals on the others. They will be arrested for grand theft ( if you can show the rims being valued at over $500), this is a felony.

Don't set your self up to be a target that will cost you everything either, booby-trapping your yard\shed or home will land you in more trouble than any thief would ever receive. Put up motion detector lights, motion sensor alarms or a fence or at best all the above. If you must have something of value left out, buy some heavy chain from home Depot or Lowes, and get a stainless Steel Circular lock, chain them up to a tree or something. And if ya go out at night because ya heard something, don't shoot first and ask questions later, make sure you are within your rights to pull that trigger. You must be in fear of your life, they have a gun, or an object that may have looked like a gun and started to point it at you. If you shoot, shoot to stop and not to kill (this is very important to say when the police arrive).

And as a side note, don't leave out rim shops, pawn shops and swap meets. If you think you know who did it, checkout any garage sales in his area and his friends vehicles.

-=Reno=-

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[AllanD]

the thing is where this stuff was I simply don't know when it disappeared

It could have been gone for a month or six weeks.

It's semi rural here, outside "city limits" I guess would be a good descriptive
(state police jurisdiction) I can say it IS NOT illegal to discharge firearms here.

I just wonder what someone wanted with an aerostar axle without
brake backing plates.... it's not like I can't get another one for $50-ish

and the main reason the bronco2 rims are "annoying" is because I discovered they were gone when I went to load them onto a friend's truck to be delivered to my brother in wyoming.

What's weird is they took two wheels with tires mounted, but left the other
explorer rims with damn near new BFG-ATs behind....
(if those had disappeared Any BFG's other than the ones on my truck
in that size with a 5mile radius would be sprouting bullet holes)

I can be both patient, methodical and vindictive like you wouldn't believe.

Being honest I think it was either the kid next door or one of his friends.
I'm thinking someone local who can tell when I'm home and when I'm not,
who sees enough to recognze patterns.

BTW, Nicotine sulfate has nervous system effects (in relatively large doses it behaves like a nerve agent), but that's not it's purpose here.

It's a vasoconstrictor which would act to stop bleeding quickly
and thus not wash out via bleeding the bacteria in the excrement
that is the real "weapon" the barbed wire is simply the delivery system.

The other effect of the nicotine is to prevent insects from
eating away the primitive "bio-weapon", thus increasing the chances of
serious infection without my having to renew it quite so often.

Reno, this stuff ain't gonna turn up at garage sales, it was probably scrapped
at a commercial recycler weeks ago.

13 rims average scrap value would be about $15 each so "around" $200.

No adult would risk sneaking around here for that and there is other stuff
MUCH more valuble (tools, etc) left in the open that didn't disappear.
and nobody messed with my truck either, my radar detector, Satellite
radio and GPS are untouched.

I've got a stack of bare transmission cases next to the garage that haven't been touched, but my plan for those is scrapping them myself before someone else does
it for THEMselves.

It's annoying that it'll cost me $350-$450 to replace stuff that sold for half that much.

IF I had actually installed the 3.73 gears and 28-spline Limited slip that I had on my workbench ready to install in that rear (which is why I went back there looking for it)

I'd have really been torqued.

What would have torqued me even more... I'm not gonna say that I've got gasoline in 5gal cans stashed under or behind every bush, but I've got several hundred dollars worth of fuel in portable container that somone could pick up and walk off with.

Which also leads me to conclude "kid after CASH" because any adult with
an armfull of aluminum wheels would drop them without a second thought
to grab a 6gallon can of gasoline.

Yet all my cans are present or accounted for.

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[85_Ranger4x4]

Fence off your area and get a couple sheep, suppliment them with some grain but they will do a great job of keeping the weeds down (dirt cheap compared to a lawn mower)

They will harass anyone that enters wanting to be fed like mindless zombies and make a pretty good racket in the process. Unless you have a buck they will not hurt anyone, they will just huddle around whoever is in the pen and scream to be fed at the top of their lungs. Might want another pen to put them in when you are working out there though... they are easy enough to herd around just by showing a bucket.

Gotta feed them grain though to make them happy to see people, otherwise it is no big deal.

There are other animals that are good at this, but they are more expensive to buy and maintain, and can hurt people (I hear llama's like knock over and sit on intuders for example, how much better of a watchdog can you get?)

 

[BlackBII]

I have been chased by an Ostrich before, pretty F%^$ing scary if you ask me.....

 

[MAKG]

Fence off your area and get a couple sheep, suppliment them with some grain but they will do a great job of keeping the weeds down (dirt cheap compared to a lawn mower)

They will harass anyone that enters wanting to be fed like mindless zombies and make a pretty good racket in the process.

Really? I went hiking among WAY too many sheep in New Zealand. Aside from dodging "land mines," they were completely irrelevant; they ignored me completely.

Frankly, a more effective long term solution is just not to trim back the poison ivy along the fenceline. It's a VERY effective deterrent. Poison oak is MUCH better (more potent), but I don't think there is all that much in eastern PA. 6 weeks of massively itchy oozing messy ugly Hell is a strong deterrent.

 

[mhughes165]

Really? I went hiking among WAY too many sheep in New Zealand. Aside from dodging "land mines," they were completely irrelevant; they ignored me completely.

Frankly, a more effective long term solution is just not to trim back the poison ivy along the fenceline. It's a VERY effective deterrent. Poison oak is MUCH better (more potent), but I don't think there is all that much in eastern PA. 6 weeks of massively itchy oozing messy ugly Hell is a strong deterrent.

i wonder if poison oak seeds could be purchased lol

 

[Will]

How about a wildlife harassment cannon? Maybe you could hook it to a motion detector? Or, if you hate your neighbors, just set it to go off like the noon whistle and during periods of your absence.

 

[AllanD]

the reaction to poison ivy is almost an allergic reaction.

some people don't react to it at all.

Personally I don't, but I know other people who are so sensitive
to it (my mother and last two girlfriends come to mind) that are
so sensitive to it that even secondary transfer makes them react.

I can actually handle it and I have poison Ivy AND poison Oak
(but no poison Sumac) on the property, "cultivating" it suddenly
seems like a good idea., then again so does "seeding" my yard
with some mine simulators (basically an M80 triggered by a thin trip wire)

Then again just harvest a bunch particularly when it's especially virulent fruit is on the plants. buy a food processor from salvation army and make a poison Ivy/oak puree and put the resulting puree into glass jars and place them so that they will be shattered by the mine simulator...

Bio-Chemical weapon!

I even have the proper sign...
white with Red Letters: "Danger Mines"
MIL spec for marking minefields.

I can see the master card ad already....

Food processor from salvation army thrift store: $10
Mine simulator from army surplus store $5 each.
Nitrile gloves $8
Glass pickle jar from recycling bin $0

Seeing the thieving bastard that stole stuff from you
perforated with glass fragments and SOAKED with
poison ivy juice running off your property near the nearest emergency room... PRICELESS!

Now if I REALLY wanted to by "nasty" I'd let the puree sit in the referigerator in a sealed jar overnight and just collect the OIL
(the active ingredient)from the poison ivy puree.

Imagine the effect of filling a "bouncing betty" simulator
with that oil...


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