Burglars in the Barn

kayaker · Mar 6, 2011

I remember as a kid, when Dad was building our new home, someone was stealing our FIREWOOD! We had tons of it. They were backing down the entrance and loading up and night and heading out. Being a carpenter, he used 2" x10" about 10 or 12 foot long. Then loaded it with 16 penny nails!! Then buried them just under the surface of the road leading to the stacks of firewood. We place 4 or 5 of them to make sure we got them tires good. Needless to say they came back! But no wood was missing. They back over everyone. They noticed one and pitched it to the side! Never again did the bandits come back! To this day we never found out. He put the word out to every tire shop in town, for someone coming in with 4 blown tires!

banditbooker · Mar 6, 2011

hi everyone, i like all these ideas. i've had things stolen from my place three times in the 3 years i lived here. the first time when i just bought my house they took a 500 dewalt power tool set, the second time i lost my 500 pound propane tank with $200 dollars worth of propane in it and the third time they took some electronics out of my car and a rifle that was in my buddies truck that he had in my driveway. the last one was late at night and we heard them shut the doors and saw them driving away. we followed them and they dismantled the gun and threw it off a bridge into a creek. we finally confronted them at a gas station and made them go back to the creek and fish out all the pieces of the gun. oh, and by then it was 3 in the morning and in the middle of February at ca cool 20 degrees. lol then we called the police to come and get them. they went to jail and i get a restitution check every once in a while.

I will be setting up cameras though when I get some other projects taken care of.

toy · Mar 7, 2011

There was a news story on our local news where two young thugs did a home invasion and beat a 79 year old woman nearly to death. She was in intensive care for a few days and when she got out they showed her and she was beat black and blue all over where you could see. Today they reported that they had caught the two low lives, pieces of trash, hope they give them the max and if the max isn't enough I hope the neighbor hood gives them the rest of what they are due. I hope these two low lives hasn't took away this woman's independence and left her with a fear for the rest of her life of living alone.

I hope you catch whoever is breaking into your barn. I know that if you do catch them that they will be tried in a county or state court but couldn't they also be tried in a federal court for infringing on your constitutional rights in your pursuit of happiness and even liberty? Maybe that is a silly idea since I haven't heard of anyone doing that, or maybe no one has thought of it yet.

rd_macgregor · Mar 7, 2011

Years ago a friend told me about a neighbour whose mountain log cabin was broken into...with a chainsaw!!
BOB

Haywire · Mar 7, 2011

rd_macgregor said:
Years ago a friend told me about a neighbour whose mountain log cabin was broken into...with a chainsaw!!
BOB

That's the bad thing.. if it's a pole barn, any cordless circular saw will get into it no matter what you do.

Ian

horsinaround · Mar 7, 2011

Haywire said:
That's the bad thing.. if it's a pole barn, any cordless circular saw will get into it no matter what you do.

Ian

A good knife and some strength will cut right through the tin on a pole barn. The tin just keeps the rain out.

dcyrilc · Mar 10, 2011

horsinaround said:
A good knife and some strength will cut right through the tin on a pole barn. The tin just keeps the rain out.

99% of theives aren't smart enough to figure that out though.

We had a job shack for years that the walls were almost falling off of, but it had a solid door and 1/2"x3" steel bar to secure the door. It was amazing how many marks were on the bar from people trying to break in. One night when leaving the job, I realized I had locked my keys in the job shack. It took me less than 60 seconds to pull the siding away from the framing and slide into the shack get my keys and get back out. I then got a hammer and nails out of my truck, renailed the siding, and went home.:confused2: