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tbran 
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 8:48am |
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There is a rash of thefts in the mid south. So far our local Kubota, Deere, an Lawn Mower Shop in our county then several in surrounding counties. We lost a 1 ton Ford white 350 V10, 18' trailer and 3 zero turn PZ 3061 -Ec2761 Bush Hog mowers. They either found the hidden keys or hot wired it, hooked to a trailer it was blocking, then pushed 3 mowers to the rear on the snow/ice and used combine chaffers we had pulled for customer as loading dock ramps. They crashed the gate on the Deere lot a while back and got UTV's, and on the Kubota lot who even had the starter relays pulled, dodged the passing cars and inserted missing relay fuses and drove to a loading place. All plates were covered and they wore ski masks. They have the capability to cut cable and chain. So if some one has a deal that seems too good to be true....
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Tracy Martin TN
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 8:53am |
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Tim, I hope they catch them. Hopefully some video tape will trip them up.
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 9:23am |
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We had a bunch like that here a few years ago hitting everything from dealers to job sites. If they are well organised and can manage to keep their mouths shut they are hard to catch for sure.
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tbran
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 9:30am |
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Yes these operate by finding a market, then stealing what they sold, then ditching the truck. They caught one from an undercover buyer who thought when he received the stolen unit would turn up on a list, ha, it was stolen only a few hours earlier from a town 60 miles away. So far no one is talking. It is so cold in tn we can't water board anyone, is there such a thing as snowboarding????
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 9:32am |
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on second thought, we could force the thief to drive either an M farmall or WC over frozen plowed ground till he breaks. Tractor boarding ?
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 9:48am |
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keep track of Craigs lists thru-out the whole country! we had a zero turn mower recovered in Calif. just 30 hours after being stolen in Nebr.
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 10:17am |
POst the Serial#'s here......
Also, post an ad wanting the same thing on Nashville Craigslist and see who turns up..... You might catch em.....
I might get in on that BUST myself, If i can get a few licks in...
Worthless Thieves.
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 10:19am |
SearchTempest.com will help you do a craigslist search all...
or just Google Craigslist Search Engine....
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 10:23am |
We had a jack wagon here that was stealing ATVs and the like and selling them on CL dirt cheap. A local cop caught him leaving a small dealership with a new in the crate 4 wheeler one night. He rammed the cop car but wound up jack knifing his trailer trying to get away. The cop put a stop to it by breaking the driver side window and sticking a Glock in his left nostril. He decided to surrender at that point.  Several people that bought stuff from him had the stolen items confiscated and are without the cash they paid too. A deal that's too good to be true can be pretty dang expensive in the long run.
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 11:29am |
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Nothing I hate more than thieves. You work hard for what you have and these low lifes think they can have the stuff for free. Is that $300 worth of copper really worth years in the pen if you get caught? Mind boggling if you ask me. Get a job!
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 12:23pm |
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Some got caught a few years ago in Des Moines, Iowa. They stopped at a gas station at 3am with an old ratty truck, new trailer with new JD ridding mower. Guess the police were there getting coffee, and that did not look right. The trailer and mower were stolen for the JD dealer that I worked at a few minutes earlier.
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 12:33pm |
 tbran wrote:
on second thought, we could force the thief to drive either an M farmall or WC over frozen plowed ground till he breaks. Tractor boarding ? |
Tim, you need a security guard. Redgy Ross might be the man for the job.
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 12:41pm |
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We have a family friend who was a long time Deere dealer in Louisiana. A few years ago he lost a couple of brand new riding mowers that were still in crates. They apparently stole a trailer from a dealer down the road, then came and loaded up his mowers. The police told him that all his "security light" did was allow the theives to see what they were doing!
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 12:44pm |
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thnx C - PZ3061 - sn 12-15114 and PZ3061 sn 12-15123 and
EC2761 sn 12-15088. All new large Zero turn 2014-15 models.
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 12:45pm |
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Just learned from a friend near Nacadoches, TX that he went out to his country place a few weeks ago and found four B and C tractors gone. They were rough but they were his and parked next to a rent house. Advised two fellas showed up on a Sunday morning, gave their business card and told his renter that my buddy had sold them the tractors for scrap. Large truck pulled up with a mounted crane, loaded a tractor trailer flat bed that had other old tractors and was gone in less than 30 minutes. Apparently hit quite a number of places while folks were at church that day. No leads so far . . . .
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 12:46pm |
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David G - he never stays home...
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 4:00pm |
tbran wrote:
So far no one is talking. It is so cold in tn we can't water board anyone, is there such a thing as snowboarding???? |
I'm sure we could figure something out. An old hand crank telephone magneto run thru a model coil..........
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 4:01pm |
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Connected to the right places,I think a guy would talk!
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 5:43pm |
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Too bad you dont have OnStar on that F350. Maybe they could track it.
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sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?"
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Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 9:11pm |
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Local auto salvage yard was hit a few times last summer. Mostly taking catalytic converters so the owner and his son-in-law decided to spend the night in his tow truck in the yard with his 357, a Taurus Judge and 10 gauge. They saw the bad guys at around midnight but the bad guys didn't see them. The owner called the sheriff and told them to come up the back drive so they'd corner them. No, the deputy instead decided to use his loud speaker to call for the owner at the front gate which the two bad guys heard and started to take off. This while the owner was on the phone with 911. Owner jumped out to stop them but the 911 person told him to stop the chase. He hung up on her in mid sentence, chased them to their truck warning them that they had guns on them. The two bad guys jumped in the truck and put it in reverse to try and run the owner down so the owner........certainly didn't shoot out the tire, that would be against the law in commie minnesota but........... the tire did suddenly developed about a 3/8" hole in it with a loud bang and the bad guys found forward real fast and missed the driveway, headed out across a tall cornfield at about 60 mph in pitch darkness. They found a waterway to head down but in the dark didn't see until too late, the huge steer sized boulder the farmer pulled into the waterway last Spring. Anyway the owner was left back at the yard yet but he did here a crunch followed by an even loader crunch. When he, the SIL and the deputy got to the bad guy's truck they found skid marks up to one side of the boulder and an upside down smashed truck on the other side of the boulder, a bit of blood but no bad guys.
In the end, even though they knew who's truck it was and the salvage yard owner got close enough to recognized them, the sheriff would not go the their residence to arrest them. He said that if they happened to run into them like in a traffic stop then they'd arrest them. That sheriff lost his election last fall.
Salvage yard owner I know pretty well, well lets just say those guys were very lucky. He's short but wouldn't fight fair and would fight to win. He looks like a short ZZ Top band member.
Edited by Lonn - 23 Feb 2015 at 9:20pm
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Posted: 24 Feb 2015 at 2:22am |
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I know when they stole my pickup they loosened the camper shell and would slide it back to unload and load up stoln stuff. They CS ers got my tacklebox which had stuff i had since i was a kid. this was about 6-8 years ago and i aint been fishing since. just took the heart right out of it.Lot of stuff was marked with ac orange since names and numbers get ground off.Also watch your local police auctions. Sometimes they are real handy about not notifying people that they might have recovered their stuff. They just ask me ,"Dont you have insurance?" At least they dumped a few things ddown the street and police got a print off of that. But i never heard back.Had ac parts in there ,tools my tacklebox. They left someone elses tacklebox in there and my two acetylene tanks! Was hopen they would blow up. Police found truck a few days later on the street with both sidewindows knocked out by a baseball bat.the truck was takken at daylight because i just had got home from chitown in a semi. Mom's car was stolen and police found it with someones paystub in back seat and they wouldnt arrest him!
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Posted: 24 Feb 2015 at 5:00am |
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laws are made for protecting the criminals! probably cuz the law makers had to protect their kids!
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Posted: 24 Feb 2015 at 6:57am |
Whut Brand(s)??
tbran wrote:
thnx C - PZ3061 - sn 12-15114 and PZ3061 sn 12-15123 and
EC2761 sn 12-15088. All new large Zero turn 2014-15 models. |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2015 at 7:02am |
Probably!
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laws are made for protecting the criminals! probably cuz the law makers had to protect their kids! |
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Posted: 24 Feb 2015 at 9:00am |
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THANKS!! Now that you have my blood pressure up again....
Really, this is NOTHING to laugh at. It seems that the criminal element has the upper hand in all of this. Even caught in the act, they get their wrist slapped and just go back into the stealin' business.
NOTHING pi$$es me off more! Had some of my stuff stolen a few years back and never found. Somebody got a good backblade and some weights.
Best thing to do is buy a backhoe and a shotgun and if you catch em, just put em in a DEEP HOLE.
I'll keep my eyes open for cheap mowers and parts from all of the stuff. JUST amazing the cops don't do squat!
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Posted: 25 Feb 2015 at 11:56pm |
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I think there's situations where the best action, is simply to apply a ventilator to the perpetrator.
Y'know... it wouldn't be cruel and unusual punishment... if we did it every day.
It'd just be cruel.
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Posted: 26 Feb 2015 at 5:29am |
That was funny Dave
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Posted: 26 Feb 2015 at 6:15am |
SHAMELESS wrote:
laws are made for protecting the criminals! probably cuz the law makers had to protect their kids! |
when our law makers are criminals.......
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Posted: 26 Feb 2015 at 7:33am |
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The three S rule applies here I believe.
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Posted: 26 Feb 2015 at 7:35am |
TimNearFortWorth wrote:
Just learned from a friend near Nacadoches, TX that he went out to his country place a few weeks ago and found four B and C tractors gone. They were rough but they were his and parked next to a rent house. Advised two fellas showed up on a Sunday morning, gave their business card and told his renter that my buddy had sold them the tractors for scrap. Large truck pulled up with a mounted crane, loaded a tractor trailer flat bed that had other old tractors and was gone in less than 30 minutes. Apparently hit quite a number of places while folks were at church that day. No leads so far . . . . |
Tim, this is too close for comfort. Only a few miles from me. WHEW.....
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