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Stolen Truck/Shotgun Update

gunnutgunnut Member Posts: 724 ✭✭✭✭
edited September 2002 in General Discussion
Well, after having a nice heart to heart with a maggot, I mean my new neighbors down the road it seams the following happened. They were busy drinking beer and poping pills, 1 person left the "party" walking up the road and stole the truck/shotgun. I wont go into details however I will say they brought me the keys and told me the area where the truck was. It took an OHP airplane to find the truck, which had been through some fences. Insurance is covering the $2600 worth of damage, however I still do not have the shotgun back yet. I believe they swaped it for dope and I will never see it again. But im not going to sweat it to bad, as I was once told you reap what you sew, and yes they will reap! It seems that twice today at the intersection of my country road there were 4 Oklahoma Highway Patrol Cars planted writting tickets and hauling people to Jail! Someone will find the shotgun or no one will be left to worry about :) Needless to say the county sheriffs were clueless however with the help of a few good OHP Troopers "friends" problem solved.

The Nut

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  • TazmuttTazmutt Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good deal Gunnut ! We will all keep our finger crossed that you get your gun back too. Nice closure to the whole ordeal. I'd be arming the truck somehow in the future. Rig up a can of pepper spray to go off when the door is opened, or something
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Glad you got your truck back. Ya know some people just should not be allowed to breed. Keep an eye out for trouble from (down the road) in the future. You never know. It just sucks that you have to go through this.

    The gene pool needs chlorine.
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  • gmayesgmayes Member Posts: 415 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Glad you at least got your truck back gunnut. hope your shotgun shows up soon. I usually leave a firearm in my vehicle all the time but i have been taking it in a night since i heard about your story.
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    I didn't say anything then, but I will say it now.

    A motor vehicle is just about the WORST place to leave a gun. They are just too easy to loot.

    But it happens to lots of us. A couple of our officers were at a school out of town, and left guns in the truck in the motel parking lot while they were having a few cold ones in the adjacent club. When they came out, truck and guns were gone. Truck was recovered. No guns.

    Their logic was that the motel maids could steal their guns if they left them in the room.

    I never leave ANYTHING in a vehicle at a motel. It all goes in the room. My logic: If it goes missing out of the room, the suspect list is very short compared to the list if it goes missing out of the car.



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  • 101AIRBORNE101AIRBORNE Member Posts: 1,252 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    GUNNUT,
    CONSIDER MOVING. OKLAHOMA USE TO BE OK!
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  • n4thethrilln4thethrill Member Posts: 366 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    take an extension cord cut off one end pull the ground wire off for a few feet wire the hot wire to the frame of your truck plug it in if they try to take the truck you'll find them in the morning

    you can be king or street sweeper but everyone is going to dance with the reaper
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  • maggiethecatmaggiethecat Member Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    not to be an *, but, "they brought me the keys..." how did they get the keys? if they took them from inside your house thats one thing, but if you left them IN the truck, you kinda didnt really want to keep the shotgun or the truck. if i want my car stolen i leave the keys in it. you are correct you do indeed reap what you sow.

    Give your kids roots and wings. and dont forget the guns!!
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  • doomsknight62doomsknight62 Member Posts: 239 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's right...if they brought you the keys, they must have found them or received them from the thief. I'd be calling the police. Again. If they know but won't tell, that's just as bad. And besides, if the person was under the influence of some kind of substance they got at your neighbors, the police would have all kinds of options.

    " God is in His Heaven, All is Right in the World. "
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  • Matt45Matt45 Member Posts: 3,185
    edited November -1
    quote: ...they brought me the keys and told me the area where the truck was
    Jeez- "Oh yeah, BTW Mr. Nieghbor-man, one of my buddies borrowed yer rig, and oh yeah, he needed some cash too. Do ya mind??"

    Sounds real close to the definition of "Trafficking in stolen property and accessory to a crime, &, NOT to mention mis-prison of a felony" What SCUMBAGS! I hope you're right 'Nut, I hope they get what's comin' to 'em!



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  • Warpig883Warpig883 Member Posts: 6,459
    edited November -1
    I would not live in a place where I could not leave my keys and guns in the truck. My pickup and Jeep both have the keys in them as we speak. I don't remember the last time they were out of the ignition.

    Saying it is his fault for leaving the keys in the car is nuts.

    If somebody breaks into your house and comes in a window is it your fault because you did not have bars on the window?

    moc.murofsmraerifeht
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  • gmayesgmayes Member Posts: 415 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Warpig where do you live. It sounds like paradise. I have never been able to leave keys in my vehicles since i've been driving. Around here it doesn't matter if the keys are in the car or not scumbag thieves will steal it.
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  • KnifecollectorKnifecollector Member Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm with Warpig.All my vehicles have the keys in the ignition. Never have taken them out. We don't have many crooks around here. I hope it never comes to the point where I have to remove the keys.
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  • TazmuttTazmutt Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My keys never leave the ignition. I usually lose them if I take them out anyway ... We had a vendor in from NH once (quite a few years back) and he and I went for a cold one after work one summer day. I was driving my (restored) 67 Olds, we pulled in the the bar parking lot, windows down and I got out and said "Lets go". He was in a panic that I would leave the keyes in the ignition, so I went back took the keys out and threw them on the floor. He said "Man, Im gonna move here" and within 6 mths he did. We are best of friends still !

    "A Fear of Weapons is a sign of Retarded Sexual
    and Emotional Maturity" Sigmund Freud
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  • gunnutgunnut Member Posts: 724 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    maggotthecat, The keys were in the truck, The person that stole the truck had been at the neighbors, the neighbors are convicted felons that know all other scum in the area. The neighbors had birdie's tell them where to go get the stuff back. The neighbors called in some "favors" got the keys and location of the truck. I do not believe that the neighbors are pillers of the community however I do not believe that they had anything to do with the theft. The county police are useless they would not even come out to take the report, they did it by phone! I know who stole the truck who gave the neighbors the keys, who dumped the truck the whole nine yards. The situation will be handled. As far as it being my fault for leaving keys the the vechicle you can kiss my *.

    The Nut

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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well if you are the only valuable non-expendable asset in your neightborhood its time you become king of the montain and do some serious mawling and pecking as to get the control and respect you deserve.....

    They drew first blood!

    Sow the sorrows and bow to the idol devils !!!!

    HEHEHE!

    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
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  • maggiethecatmaggiethecat Member Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    dognuts, please reread my post. i never said it was your fault. it is never the victims fault. that said, you did NOT take all measures possible to avoid the theft.take the d**m keys next time, take the shotgun out of the truck. revenge is great, but does it bring back the gun, or undo all the damage that could possibly be done with it now? and as far as kissing your *, grow up man.

    Give your kids roots and wings. and dont forget the guns!!
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  • ebeshirsebeshirs Member Posts: 382 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Now kids, do I need to take my belt off?
    Those of you who live in crime-ridden cities or neighborhoods cannot imagine what it is like to live in a place with no crime. By the same token, those of us that live in no-crime places can't imagine why people would live in a place where you have to lock everything down.
    Currently, my car is outside ready to be driven off by anyone who tries. The lock is broke on the ignition switch and has been for 5 years. I go to work, the store, or wherever and it has been there everytime I came back out.
    Both my lawn mowers (riding and push) are in the backyard unlocked.
    The point is, Gunnut did nothing wrong. Blaming him would be like blaming the victim of a pick-pocket, since they both left the items "easily available". "How could that guy actually put money in his wallet knowing that the wallet was going to be put in his back pocket. What a dunce." That just doesn't make sense.
    So saggiethecat, please try to see things from both sides before you start condemning people. Sometimes the other perspective is just as sensible as the one you see.

    Do the best you can with what you've got and let the rest of the world roll right on by.
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  • VarmintmistVarmintmist Member Posts: 1,074 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There are no places with no crime. Used to leave the keys in , windows down, front and back doors open, garage door up, the whole mayberry thing. Guess what, had some stuff stolen. My father was robbed at gunpoint in our house. Learned to keep stuff locked. Oh, this wasnt big city, or even suburbia, we got a stop sign in 1988, had 1 neighbor that you could see, if it was winter, at night and he had his lights on.

    Yes it sucks, but thats how it is. I still dont pull the keys everywhere I go, but at night they are in the house. Gunnut, you will catch this one, you might catch the next, but you wont get them all.

    Those people who see nothing but grey areas, no black and white, are lost in the fog.
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  • gunnutgunnut Member Posts: 724 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    dognuts? now thats a good one :) and yes I have learned a lesson, build a moat and put out claymores :)

    The Nut

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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I can remember when the very thought of locking doors & taking the keys out of the ignition was hilarious, an exercise conducted by tourists and other lifeforms 'not from here.' Then the drug thing turned ugly - early 70s - and the addicts started appearing in every corner of the country. It's sad, gunnut, but I have to go w/ varmintmist on this one. None of us *want* to live like this, but between the social-engineering DemoCraps, TV & drugs, I don't believe there are many places left where such elementary precautions safely can be ignored . . . and if they can now, it won't last. I do like the idea of the moat & claymores . . . perhaps placing these along the boundaries of certain urban areas would be even better, after we evacuate folks like njretcop from enemy territory.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I leave my keys in my truck all the time, it seems when you want someone to steal it they never take it. My pickup may get driven twice a month, there is always keys in the switch, they rusted fast. And after looking out the window at the truck, I noticed that I still have a .22 hanging in the back window, been there since June. Heck I think there is a .22 pistol under the seat, I havent seen it for a year.

    Gunnut, glad to hear you got your truck back, I would rather someone steal my wife than my truck(it's a redneck thing). As far as the shotgun goes, make sure the cops mark the S# stolen incase it is used in a crime, thank goodness you don't live in CA, they would arrest you for leaving it there!
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