I HATE THIEVES

[ddigger]

So, I show up at my excavator this morning to find my locks cut, all 4 batteries gone, cables cut, not unbolted, and about 130 gals of fuel gone. Well at least they left me a set of bolt cutters on the tracks. JERKS!

 

[Johndeere3720]

So, I show up at my excavator this morning to find my locks cut, all 4 batteries gone, cables cut, not unbolted, and about 130 gals of fuel gone. Well at least they left me a set of bolt cutters on the tracks. JERKS!

I hate people like that!

 

[Fordman1981]

don't get me started on Thieves the last place i lived before buying the property i live at now I had some neighbors it was like 2 weeks after i moved in the came over talked for a bit and here it came we work at the Mill around the corner here we get paid friday but we're out of heating oil can we borrow $20 till pay day. Thinking kinda weird to be asking for money on a first meet but i said sure waiting to be a good neighbor didn't see them for a long time the next time i seen them some other sob story this time i said all i have on me is $10. Again no sign of them till once again they need money at the end of my rope i say u never paid a penny back but thats not the problem u are not even seen until u need money sorry but no more. The next thing i know i come home my building door is busted open my dirt bike push mower is gone. My wife actually spotted them behind a local used atv dealer the cops got my property back and investigated my neighbors. Next thing to happen i come home and my dog is gone now he is at this time an 8 yr old neutered lab nothing more than a family pet. Long story short in NC its a felony to steal a mans dog never could prove they took him but he was tied in an old basement site on their property left to starve luckily we heard his distinct bark real faintly one night. We finally had enough and sold the place and moved to where we are now. Sorry for such a long story but thieves really really really upset me.

 

[gengine]

I hear ya man...I work at a gravel pit, and one day we showed up for work to find all of our wires cut and gone. I'm assuming for the copper? Somewhere around $12,000 to replace it all.

 

[The dirt doctor]

Yeah it sucks. I just had a 6 ton skid loader trailer stollen, and about a year ago, a pipe laser and a dual plane rotating slope laser were taken out of my truck. We found the rotating laser on eBay being sold by a pawn shop in the city. Got that one back, but they already sold the pipe laser and law protects the pawn shop and the buyer so we couldn't get it back. The pawn shops in the city are just ad crooked!

 

[houston burt]

was wiring a adition to a church theives stole about 9000 dollars worth of wire we didnt charge labor to fix what they cut out to try to help they caught them they were church members. someone also kicked in the sheetrock on my house to steal the wire when i was building it

 

[wrenchturner]

A friend of mine runs a small sawmill. A man comes up and wants some wood because his family is cold. The owner tells the man he can cut up some logs for firewood but the man has no saw. So my friend lends him a saw to cut some logs up on his lumber yard. Later, my friend looks for the guy but he has driven off with the wood and the saw.

 

[Groo]

definitely needs to be harsher punishments for thieves.

with the dropping prices of mini DVRs, I'd suggest you hide 'em all over a work site and equipment.

 

[greasemonkeyok]

What state protects a pawn shop that buys stolen property? I don't think that is the norm as a thief cannot pass title to a purchaser.

 

[johnrex62]

but they already sold the pipe laser and law protects the pawn shop and the buyer so we couldn't get it back. The pawn shops in the city are just ad crooked!

What state protects a pawn shop that buys stolen property? I don't think that is the norm as a thief cannot pass title to a purchaser.

I don't know of any that do what Dirt doctor implies. Stolen property is stolen property as long as it can be identified.

I can believe they may hold the pawn shop harmless if the item was not identifiable as the stolen item or not reported as stolen when the item came out of pawn and was sold. That takes a while so whose fault would it be if the police sheet does not list it as reported and the pawn shop can't tell it's stolen? I would expect that regardless of when it was reported that the buyer could be contacted and the item retrieved with no charges pressed due to the circumstances. It would be between the pawn shop and the buyer as to if they get a refund though since neither was at fault for the problem.

 

[Mace Canute]

Pawnshops are just legalized fences. I know a local guy who runs a pawnshop here, a few years back he was seen opening up the back door to his pawnshop in the wee small hours after midnight to do some business with one of his regulars. It doesn't take an adding machine to figure out what was going on there! But...try to prove that the pawnshop owners know the stuff is hot when they bought it...ain't gonna happen...they are well aware of how to protect themselves!

 

[johnrex62]

Pawnshops are just legalized fences. I know a local guy who runs a pawnshop here, a few years back he was seen opening up the back door to his pawnshop in the wee small hours after midnight to do some business with one of his regulars. It doesn't take an adding machine to figure out what was going on there! But...try to prove that the pawnshop owners know the stuff is hot when they bought it...ain't gonna happen...they are well aware of how to protect themselves!

You know one guy who does something fishy. That does not mean that the law protects him, it just means he did it and perhaps got away with it.

It does not even say he does this every night or on every transaction or even more than once. Your adding machine may be right on target with what he was doing that night, but it doesn't tell me diddly about any other pawn shop in the world and doesn't make me believe that this activity was the norm for the whole universe.

You don't have to prove the pawn shop owner KNEW it was hot when he took it in. You only have to prove it was reported to the police before he took it in and he is guilty of receiving stolen merchandise and subject to the same penalty of law as any other fence. It is required by law, everywhere in the US as far as I am aware, that the Pawn dealer check the published stolen property lists when accepting merchandise. If the dealer accepts something on the list before checking, he must notify the police and turn over the item to them. He can get his money back from the person pawning if he can, otherwise he is out the cash.

If someone or something appears fishy, he should check the list before paying out the cash. That is common sense and most dealers do that. If they think they can get away with it and not report it, they are breaking the law and can get fined or jailed if they get caught, even after the fact. If they are willing to take the chance, it does not mean they are protected by the law, it just means they are crooks and are taking the chance.

Not every Pawn dealer is a crook anymore than every lawyer (saints forgive me) is a shyster or every cop is on the take or every white person is a biggoted racist just because Carol O'Connor played one on tv.

 

[jonyyuma]

Here, they are supposed to get a Thumb print from the hocker, but is is not followed a lot.This came about on the theft of copper and ac cooling units being cut and scraped from others? Jy.

 

[Ken]

Know of a new Woodmizer saw on wheels was seen by owner leaving his place he followed into another county and notified sherriff dept about location. Saw disappeared . About 4 months later a law enforcement man notified the owner the saw was in storage yard of sherriff dept Only the tow fee the storage fee almost exceded the cost of the saw. Can it be called legelized theft.
ken

 

[jonyyuma]

That same thing happens here on stored stolen cars. tow bills are terrible.But just watch "parking lot wars" about up in Philly? OMG.

 

[Ken]

Had my pick-up stolen notified Sheriff Dept. that it was gone. About 3 day's later the Game and Fish man called me at home to ask why I had not reclaimed the pick-up he had found it in Stone county and papers in glove dept gave info. of ownership notified this countys Sheriff Dept. I drove to location and met the Stone co. Sheriff and since it was stripped loaded onto trailer. returned home called local Sherrif. No recored of any calls not even my first call.
ken