How they steal tractors in my place

[Industrial Toys]

When someone is smart and intent on total criminality and knows how the system works, they are almost untouchable. Almost like the cops would rather just not even bother and go for lower hanging fruit. Like someone texting!

 

[3Ts]

Y'all with USAA - how are you getting homeowners insurance from them? I've been with USAA for almost 50 years now and had car, life, long term care, and homeowner's with them. But when I moved to Texas, they told me I no longer can have homeowner's insurance with them because I have more than 10 acres. What are you finding the homeowner's criteria to be?

 

[fried1765]

Y'all with USAA - how are you getting homeowners insurance from them? I've been with USAA for almost 50 years now and had car, life, long term care, and homeowner's with them. But when I moved to Texas, they told me I no longer can have homeowner's insurance with them because I have more than 10 acres. What are you finding the homeowner's criteria to be?

Oh boy ......you touched on a sore subject.
This 290 year old house has been in my family now for 88 years.
I owned two different houses in Minnesota, and one actually burned (1987).... USAA was truly great.

When my mother died in 1988, I took over this house with 11.7 acres, but USAA would not insure it...."too old".
5 years laterI tried again, and they decided that age was not the problem, but that it was in a hurricane zone (Cape Cod).
I tried to reason with them...WTF ....it had been standing here for only only 262 years already.....Nope!
I gave up, and began using Lloyd's of London.

Last year in a different discussion with a USAA agent, the subject of this house came up. (I exposed my USAA frustration!).
The end result was that I dropped Lloyd's. I had no problem with Lloyd's, but USAA coverage was better, for less money....and with a yearly dividend.

I have been a USAA member for almost 59 years.
Sometimes they frustrate me beyond belief, but I do keep going back.....mostly because of the dividends, and the excellent way they treated me with that major fire in 1987.

P.S. I was so frustrated with them,( long ago ) that when they asked how recently the electrical wiring had been done, I told them I did not know, but I did know that the electrician was a guy named.... Ben Franklin.
There is no knob & tube, with the oldest wiring being Romex type, from the 40's.

 

[two_bit_score]

The father and the 2 sons (one adopted) and others cousins and relatives terrorized our neighborhoods for most of the 70’s and early 80’s. The father was the main ring leader. Once things went bad, they turned on each other. Father shot sons fiancé and killed adopted son. Bodies dumped in woods just 1/2 mile from me. Big FBI & State Cops crime scene. I was just a kid then. Son was also shot, but survived and turned states evidence on father. Father did time in local prison and actually escaped about 10 years ago. He was a crafty old bugger and State Police we’re searching for him for weeks.
Check out the movie “ at close range “. It’s pretty good.
We had 2 other notable movies filmed in my area. “ Marley and me “ and “ The Village “

Sounds like a Whitey Bulger kind of story. When one goes bad sometimes they take the whole clan with them.

 

[Hay Dude]

Sounds like a Whitey Bulger kind of story. When one goes bad sometimes they take the whole clan with them.

Check out the movie. Its pretty good.

 

[gasmancwby]

i remember when a john deere key or a cat key fit every piece of equipment they made. **** i've drivin many tractors that didn't have keys, flip a switch for power and then start it. this world is gone to ****. gps trackers, hidden switches, cameras, special keypads, what a waste of money on something we shouldn't need.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I guess, soon you will be calling a social worker when your equipment gets stolen. Although for anything property related, they won't consider that important. So yeah, you will just be out of luck with any help from the state.

 

[tradosaurus]

Having gun friendly laws sometimes makes a criminal wonder if stealing a piece of equipment is worth their life.

 

[CobyRupert]

I guess, soon you will be calling a social worker when your equipment gets stolen. Although for anything property related, they won't consider that important. So yeah, you will just be out of luck with any help from the state.

Calling social worker when equipment gets stolen? Really?

Oh well, I guess that’s better than having cops show up and shoot you after you call in a robbery.
I’ll wait for the “it was his fault” from the “we need friendly gun laws” crowd.

KING: Black Indianapolis man shot by cops after calling police to report robbery - New York Daily News

 

[Jframe]

I live in a state that has strong stand your ground and castle laws. Two or three years ago in a large city here a woman spotted her own truck, which had been stolen, as it was being driven slowly through a shopping mall parking lot. She put some holes in the truck, unfortunately missing the driver, and fortunately no hitting anyone else. The police told the newspaper the woman would not be charged for shooting her own truck (or for anything else). Courses taught by LEOs that I have taken have taught that if you have to shoot a miscreant be sure your account is the only one the police will be able to hear ("two shots in the heart" is what they teach), don't talk to the police until later when you are calm and have counsel, and it doesn't hurt at all if the deceased miscreant is found to have picked up one of your guns and put it in his pocket. Shooting requires practice, but it's fun to practice. Dry firing is important and can be done easily and conveniently. Sam Colt and John Browning made all men and women equal. No one should live in fear.