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

[DonTraver]

Sorry to hear about your tools, that really sucks. It's a shame that you have to protect yourself all the time, but that is todays reality.

We've had that problem where I live and I live in a great neighborhood. Great neighbors and we all watch out for each other.

One time, 4-5 guys pulled up across the street, pulled out a pizza and started eating and looking around, looked strange to me, I'd never seen them before and was working on the 914 in the driveway. I went in the house and got my camera, started taking pictures of them. They saw me, loaded up the pizza and left. Very interesting.

Now I keep a camera in the garage, take pictures of everyone walking/driving by. I'm not saying that just taking pictures did a lot, but things seem to have gotten better. Digital camera's are neat. So far since I've started doing that, we haven't had any crap going on in the hood, knock on wood. Most thief's don't like having their picture taken.

So keep a camera handy, doesn't even need any film in it, they don't know that.

I have motion detectors in the garage, you can pick them up at Harbor Freight for about $20, they are wireless, so you can carry the alarm around with you.

It's a shame we have to live like this, but if we don't protect ourself, who will? The police, yeah right.

Good Luck, Don