Thieves!

[PA_Penjing]

 

[leatherback]

But the fun part is, we can leave the doors unlocked. They don't want any police here, because police is bad. So they do their crimes elsewhere, stash their goods elsewhere, and they keep an eye out for each other. Gentlemen agreement.

You in Spijkerkwartier Arnhem? It was exactly like that when I was living there. Loved the pink lightbulbs too.

 

[leatherback]

one cut the lock and the cable and stole the trailer.

:|
Idiots

 

[Iowa newbie]

State's Attorneys and police brass have a way of messing with crime numbers.

Want less car thefts to exist? Downgrade it to trespassing to motor vehicle.

Want less assault? Call it disorderly conduct.

Want felony theft to go away? Just call it misdemeanor theft.

The real pickle is murder, though. Can't re-define a corpse. Also, medical responses to trauma are always improving.

Many aggravated batteries of today would have been murders in the past. If you were shot 100 years ago, you were probably toast.

The DA in Chicago just choose to let two men go free without charges because they were "mutual combatants" and were trying to shoot each other. In Texas, we have a high school kid shoot another student and a teacher, then let out on bail the very next day, where he celebrated by throwing a party and celebrating on social media. I do not like the weird version of reality we have spun into.

 

[rockm]

Statistics must be true.
With the so many losses of Amazon delivery boxes I myself have suffered (some of which I actually have videos) and then watching my neighbors losing their tools, their trailers, and my trailer as well make the experience so personal that I feel it is rampant.
News like this didn't help our feeling either. How many of the 1.7 million packages lost per day wind up in the FBI property crime database? I call the local police when I lost several of mine and they told me don't bother. If the one in three persons lost a package then that property crime rate chart is going through the roof.
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this is like saying that cybercrime has gotten so much worse in the last two decades. Yeah, it has. But not because of some spike in the population of criminals. Its new opportunity with lax security. These kinds of thefts are rising because the incidence of fast home delivery has exploded in the last decade and exponentially in the last two years). It's simple opportunism. Porch pirates have always been around--brick and mortar stores are more familiar with them as "inventory shrinkage" or shoplifters or if you were alive in the 70's--mobbed up truck hijackers who stole truckloads of electronics, food, etc...Petty thieves have simply shifted their targets of opportunity to stealing off front porches. It's easier and has potentially more return value.

 

[Cajunrider]

Theft in my area is a bit different. For a long time, we didn't lock doors, we leave things outside and all was well. Then the hurricanes hit, we couldn't do the repair ourselves and brought in construction crews. Right after that, everything that wasn't locked down and in constant surveillance mysteriously disappear. The traveling construction crews often have members that are a little more loose in their respect for property rights.

This brings something to mind. I have a 16ft heavy duty equipment trailer. I better disable that sucker some how. I don't trust the lock I have to carry the day. Removing the wheels might work but it's a pain in the butt each time I want to use the trailer.

 

[hinmo24t]

The DA in Chicago just choose to let two men go free without charges because they were "mutual combatants" and were trying to shoot each other. In Texas, we have a high school kid shoot another student and a teacher, then let out on bail the very next day, where he celebrated by throwing a party and celebrating on social media. I do not like the weird version of reality we have spun into.

1984!!! ministry of truth

 

[rockm]

Theft in my area is a bit different. For a long time, we didn't lock doors, we leave things outside and all was well. Then the hurricanes hit, we couldn't do the repair ourselves and brought in construction crews. Right after that, everything that wasn't locked down and in constant surveillance mysteriously disappear. The traveling construction crews often have members that are a little more loose in their respect for property rights.

This brings something to mind. I have a 16ft heavy duty equipment trailer. I better disable that sucker some how. I don't trust the lock I have to carry the day. Removing the wheels might work but it's a pain in the butt each time I want to use the trailer.

That kind of fraud has been going on for a very long time. Fly-by-night traveling repair crews have been a problem forever...Crops up after every hurricane. Ask your grandparents about "The Travelers..."

 

[Gr8tfuldad]

Bummer, sorry to hear about your loss.

 

[MrWunderful]

I wonder how many threads we need to watch the same people explode in the same exact way every time

I guess I now understand why people have PM'd me telling me that many folks with a strong interest in bonsai have abandoned the site to folks with tens of thousands of posts and apparently no trees

I'm very sorry for your loss and hope it is recovered.

I thought it was just that obvious to me too lol.

Something gets stolen= collapse of america/nanny socialism state/great replacement theory, etc. whatever the “in” Right wing buzz words are. Just ignore them and laugh. I just wish they would keep that garbage on facebook, and off this site.

@Cajunrider , look into trailer boots in the future, as well as removing the tow hitch. Trailer thefts are actually extremely easy, and we always lock ours up (including trailer generators) because they are so much easier to boost than most think.