OT: thieves stole my stuff! Options

[Trekkor]

I was out for a few hours today and they came and took my welder and on the way out they snaked my mechanic hand tool box from under my car trailer.

The welder was a nice Lincoln wire feed and my tool box was full of mostly Craftsman wrenches. About 50#'s worth. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/headbang.gif)

They got me for about $1300 worth of my stuff.

I'm upset by this, but not raging.
I'll be honest, I have a feeling like someone kicked me in the nutz. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/icon8.gif)

I wonder if they were lured by my 914 on the trailer?
They could have hooked up and drove away except I had a wheel off to size up a spare.

Now I have to live with all the locks and worries that I have been free from for the past 15 years.

Sheriff is here lifting prints and taking a report.

The losers tried to get in the house, too.


The day is coming when ALL thieves will be killed by God himself.


KT

[biggy72]

I'm in my first year of college and 400 miles from home. I had been building my tool collection since I was 14 or so (7 years or so). My collection probably wasn't as extensive as yours, but in early november I had my top box and everything I had stolen with a bunch of specialty tools. To make matters worse it was the second time in a month I had stuff stolen, just the second time they found my tools. My parents home owners paid for some of it, but their deductable was pretty high, and after depreciation and everything I didn't get back much...

BUT if you go to sears, and don't buy the first good deal you see, you can get a hell of a set of everything in a package deal for relatively cheap. I got a catalog and shopped around for a couple months before I bought a new top box, huge tool set, and a smaller box for toating around for a fraction of what the amount of money I originally spent on my smaller tool set. Sears has "close out" sales all the time, so don't pay much attention to them, just figure out what you want and give it a little time.

So now my tools are locked in my room in my closet where nobody could get them out of let alone even find. If only home owners would have paid for my deck, subs, amp, intake and air cleaner, drivers door window, and incredibly bad feeling of being completely and totally helpless. You want to talk about feeling like running home with your tail between your legs...But now I've learned my lesson, my car doesn't get parked anywhere except directly outside my bedroom window with it's alarm on, and my closet is always shut with a tool box all locked up in it.