Kids these days...

[harriw]

Rotten Thieves...

Went out to go to work this morning and discovered that some @hole stole my radio and CD wallet right out of my truck overnight.

It was nothing terribly special - just an older Sony Xplod like you see in walmart (came with my last car, and I moved it over to the truck so I'd have a CD player instead of the factory tape player). But we moved to this nice, quiet, suburban neighborhood last year where everyone has pretty flower beds and picket fences, etc., because we wanted a nice, safe neighborhood for the kids to grow up in. Whoops. Serves me right for thinking it was a safe enough place to leave my driver door unlocked in my own driveway. It just pisses me off to know that some kid in my neighborhood thought he/she was entitled to walk off with my stuff (I'm assuming it was some kid - no idea really who took it). I'm just lucky they didn't hit the garage door opener and help themselves to my tool collection. They also left a few dollars in change that I had in the arm rest for tollbooths, etc. (it had obviously been rifled through). What - you want my radio and my Pink Floyd CD's, but my change isn't good enough for you?? I guess they had no use for quarters, jumper cables, or ratchet straps.

Oh well. Police report has been filed, garage door code has been changed, all car doors will remain locked from here on out, and I've learned my lesson (just because the lawns look nice in your neighborhood doesn't mean there are no thieves around). </rant>

-Bill

 

[snake]

I hate a damn thief...

 

[simonsays]

I hate a damn thief...

x2
<==on me man.. u sound like u need one.

 

[LittleBigFoot]

When I had my doors off I made the dumb ass decision to leave a 77 Les Paul, a few other guitars, and some gig gear in my truck.

Dumb ****s only took my pack of smokes. I got lucky.

 

[93Ranger4x4]

A buddy of mine has a 05 jeep liberty(3inch lift and 31s ARB bumper etc.) Parked at his bosses house one night to ride with him to work, had it all locked up and alarm set,Came back that morning only to find out that someone had gotten into it and stolen the cd player(ripped the wires outta the plug and everything so pretty much the cd player was useless) and all of his stuff was thrown around the jeep. Funny thing was, he said he locked it when he left, and it was still all locked up when they got back from work. Also, they didnt even touch the 12" MTX subs in the box behind the rear seat lol.

Still sucks getting your stuff stolen tho, i make it a point to lock my rigs up no matter where i'am at, hell i even lock my truck when i'm at my parents house.

 

[Ozwynn]

Like Jeff Foxworthy stated .......... see an engine swinging from tree ..... buddy thats a house where a gun lives...........

I would never leave my car unlocked in a manicured lawn white picket fence neighborhood. more good stuff and less chance of meeting an angry homeowner with a gun. Redneck (not hillbilly or white trash meth block) neighborhood on the other hand ......... lots of angry homeowners with guns, makes me feel nice and safe.

 

[rangerbum]

I know that situation way too well. We're in a nice, newer neighborhood and have had thieves all over since we moved in.

2 nights ago I lost my mountain bike, but in a peculiar way. I woke up because I heard something(probably our shed being opened), and just layed back down. I hear a really loud screech and a yell. I go running outside with nothing but a pair of shorts on, run down the road and there's my mangled bike under my neighbor's f-250. The thief ran off through our field, and my neighbor was freaking out. There was blood on the winch on his road-armor bumper and a small splat on his hood lol.

He's a pretty rough dude so when he realized it was a thief he said wished he would have been going faster.

 

[GreatWhite]

I know that situation way too well. We're in a nice, newer neighborhood and have had thieves all over since we moved in.

2 nights ago I lost my mountain bike, but in a peculiar way. I woke up because I heard something(probably our shed being opened), and just layed back down. I hear a really loud screech and a yell. I go running outside with nothing but a pair of shorts on, run down the road and there's my mangled bike under my neighbor's f-250. The thief ran off through our field, and my neighbor was freaking out. There was blood on the winch on his road-armor bumper and a small splat on his hood lol.

He's a pretty rough dude so when he realized it was a thief he said wished he would have been going faster.

I dont know how that one will go in court. Good luck to him

 

[v-8power]

There is a good chance the thieves were not from your neiborhood. They may have targeted your area because, like you said it's a nice place.

 

[TheTopher]

I've had the same shit happen to me, man. The area around here is getting pretty bad, but my neighborhood has been mostly untouched because there's only maybe twenty houses in it...

So anyway, about 3 years ago I had just bought my Integra, I had it for 3 weeks and hadn't even made my first payment on it when someone thought it would be a good idea to go through the ENTIRE neighborhood and break into everyone's cars. They pulled 4 stereos out of the first house on the street, a couple other houses got hit, they stole two moving boxes full of DVDs out of my brother's jeep and on my Integra, they had pried the top half of the door off and stolen the stereo, my CD wallet, my toll money AND my pack of cigarettes with only 3 cigarettes left. On the upside I had just broken my stereo a week before and the insurance company gave me a MUCH nicer brand new one to replace it, and payed for the damage to the door.


To you man, it always sucks.

 

[Cheaplabor]

I cant stand thieves. Id say since they only stole a cheap cd player and your cds it was most likely some kids from your area. Usually the people that come in from other places try to grab the higher dolar stuff that can be turned faster not the walmart sony stuff.

 

[88rangerboy]

I live in the stick and I still lock my truck up. Doors on the house stay locked too. Ever since an inmate in my area escaped and they found him in the woods behind our house we don't take any chances.

 

[RedneckSTX]

yeah it sucks having someone steal your stuff i live in a tiny village with a pop. of about 400 where everyone knows everyone but because of pill junckies you have to keep everything under lock and key or it is gone heck last summer they took bags of aluminum cans from behind my garage

 

[93Ranger4x4]

Yup, corning is a very small town, buddy of mine lives there but he also said gotta watch for everything.

 

[Ozwynn]

you know i used to live 20 miles from the Oregon state prison farm on ore. hwy 6 near the county line for washington/Tillamook County in a little hole called Timber, we actually lived 3 miles out of timber and we left the house unlocked ..... most of the times the doors open..... we all had a bad habit of leaving keys in the cars. when I was 13 my mom left her keys in her jeep and that night it got stolen. it was found at the mexico border. Some guys had just walked right off the prison farm that night and stole her jeep........ they must have been bitten pretty bad because our dog was tied up (we never tied the dof up) and had some broken ribs and some missing teeth but there was blood everywhere..... you could even see where they had come in the house to look for bandages and to steel food.