BOLO - Stolen tractor

[workinonit]

Around here owning tractors is closely associated with owning firearms. I use my tractor often and wouldn't think twice about using my firearms to protect my tractor and other belongings. I hate a theif. Don't mess with my family, dogs and stuff. In that order. If you do, you will be shot. Theives know that's the general feeling of farmers around here.

 

[workinonit]

maybe not so great. . . wouldn't replacement value be a better choice?

Yea, that's not very good insurance. That's way too subjective on the insurance companies part. Mine is what ever it costs them to put me a new one in it's place.

 

[Tinhack]

Theives know that's the general feeling of farmers around here.

The whole state here. To wit, the recent mag-dump at armed robber in a Houston cafe. Turns out he had a plastic gun. Oh well.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Happens around here. Local new Holland dealer had some stolen a few years back during fair week, when fewer employees around. Even Messicks near me had SVL stolen but it was recovered as thieves used a stolen under rated trailer that broke on them.

 

[Yander]

Around here owning tractors is closely associated with owning firearms. I use my tractor often and wouldn't think twice about using my firearms to protect my tractor and other belongings. I hate a theif. Don't mess with my family, dogs and stuff. In that order. If you do, you will be shot. Theives know that's the general feeling of farmers around here.

Here that would be a good way to go to jail. You cannot shoot people for stealing things. You would have to make a case that you feared for your life. Only way you get to shoot someone, even though a lot of people say they would, they would also go to jail.

Now, I would go out to check on things with Gun in hand and if I needed to protect myself, say they came at me and I couldn't get away, then it is self defense

 

[workinonit]

So let me understand. You get a gun, that I assume is loaded, go out to confront someone stealing your stuff and just let them walk with your property without using said weapon to stop them? That's not how it works here. By the way, I never said anything about getting caught and going to prison.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

This guy got caught

Man in stolen tractor leads police on hours-long chase, hitting a dumpster and a church: 'What a day'

A now-viral TikTok video shows a police chase in North Carolina involving a John Deere tractor, reaching speeds of up to 20 mph, in the city of Boone Tuesday

www.foxnews.com

 

[jezreel]

This guy got caught

Man in stolen tractor leads police on hours-long chase, hitting a dumpster and a church: 'What a day'

A now-viral TikTok video shows a police chase in North Carolina involving a John Deere tractor, reaching speeds of up to 20 mph, in the city of Boone Tuesday

www.foxnews.com

Haaaaaaaa. . . I literally just read that on Fox News 2mins ago, then I came and read this thread

 

[TractorTYMe]

Thieves should know that I don't own anything worth dying for (for them). I will use everything I have to keep what is mine on my property.

 

[tradosaurus]

So let me understand. You get a gun, that I assume is loaded, go out to confront someone stealing your stuff and just let them walk with your property without using said weapon to stop them? That's not how it works here. By the way, I never said anything about getting caught and going to prison.

I've heard the saying "Dead men tell no tales" and "A man worth shooting once, is worth shooting twice".

If you have to pull the trigger make sure you are the only one to tell the story.