Just venting. I work hard to take care of my family and these low-lives are too lazy to work, so they steal. I'd hate to catch them out there. I wouldn't be able to shoot them, so I've been thinking about what I would do. Paintball gun? OC spray?
And "venting" is all you can do, as if you act, the police, when and if they ever do appear, will arrest you!
Last year he had a couple of guys in the yard steeling cats.
We pulled up the recording and followed the guy from the rear of the yard to his truck.
We noticed that he droped something about half way to the road.
The police officer and I went out and found his wallet with his ID and money in it.
He got 8 years in the pen.
So far we have caught 8 different thieves and put them away in a 6 year tome span.
Greg
Well Greg, be glad for the law enforcement available to you; but as for here in central Florida,............well we have cameras, the thief left his backpack at the scene, with his I.D., and even his appointment notice to appear before his parole officer, result,.................nothing!
In another instance, I witnessed the crime being committed (ran his arse off!), supplied vehicle description with license plate numbers, identified the hoodlum in a photo line-up (how did the police already have his photo?) and,...............nothing!
In another instance, a hoodlum breaks into my house, steals stuff, the neighbor's camera catches a fine video of him ridding off on his bicycle with a small trailer in tow with my stuff, the officers upon viewing the video call out this perpetrators name (they knew him by name on sight?)...............nothing!
In another instance, a purse snatcher comes running down the middle of street with a hoard of do-gooders (and perhaps a few vigilantes mixed in), hot on his tail, he runs into our shop holding the entry doors closed to separate himself from the good citizens, I come up behind him and with one rack of my Winchester 12GA. pump, his eyes the size of tangerines looking at me, decides to chance it with the crowd! They manage to tackle this crook in the middle of the street, stopping all vehicular traffic, applying a liberal dose of punishment, what turned out to be an unmarked police car in the traffic jam stopped just say ten feet from me, standing by with my 12ga. just in case the perpetrator should break free, rolls their window down three inches and inquires as to what was going on. After explaining to them the situation, they rolled their window back up, and drove off!
Then, there was the time when our four wheel drive club had the shoot-out (and I hadn't brought along enough ammo!) with the Outlaws Motorcycle Club! Well..................., nothing other than some bullet holes in vehicles shared by both parties................ otherwise..............nothing from law enforcement, heck, they wouldn't even get out of their vehicles at the scene!
And then there was the time..................well. I think you get the point!
Heck, when the alarm goes off at our shop in the middle of the night I will respond, upon appearing at the premises (most often before the police have!), they will generally send me in to sweep the buildings (yep, with an "arresting" devise in hand!
), they wait outside for the 'all's clear' signal! But at least, should it be, they don't generally give me the "False Alarm Notice" with my participation.
I went to court over one perpetrator who had stolen stuff, in my testimony I referred to him as a "thief", well that judge interrupted me saying he's not going to have any name calling in his court room, and warned me that I was in contempt of court and risk the repercussions if I did it again and said sit down! Then the "defendant" (thief) says I was wrong as to my stated value of the property he had stolen, and produces from his pocket the pawn shop ticket for the 'stuff' saying it was prof of that!
Of course, restitution,...............nothin'!
Then there was the time we dragged (we said it was their choice: them or the media) law enforcement to the known scene of the crime of the theft of our race car. We arrived, no one was present, we all witnessed the perp. leaving the scene, in hast, they assembled in the shade provided by a race car trailer in the parking lot and said there was nothing they could do, as the door to the warehouse was locked, there was no evidence of any illegal activity, so we're leaving! As the law enforcement officers were informing me of the situation, leaning against this trailer, my eyes wandered noticing that the welded-on I.D. plate had been removed from the trailer tung? Finding that curious I said well that might just be a stolen trailer, isn't that evidence of illegal activity? Their response was it would be if one could prove it was stolen, but with no I.D. tag there was no possible way to determine such! So I then proceeded to point out that the trailer had had vinyl lettering on the sides now removed, which had preserved the paint from oxidation, and provided a readable telephone number; which I proceeded to dial, and the party who answered said that the trailer had been stolen three weeks ago! I handed my phone to the officer.
Now they were able to search the premise, but I was not permitted to enter the warehouse and participate in the search for my property as I wasn't law enforcement. After a period they emerged stating they found no evidence, we're leaving. I said, can I at least use the 'head' before we leave? In my limited access, I realized that the wall paneling in the rest room didn't fit well, a little tug and out fell parts to our car!
O.K., I'll stop!
Scott.
