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Worse Thievery you know of?
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What is your worst story or someone you have known get ripped off... At Dad's funeral during the showing at night. I was parked next to my 1st Cousins chevelle. We all come out his family and mine and start to get in the vehicles. I am putting my wife in the passenger side when he cranks up the chevelle.. It won't start. I smell gas. He cranks some more ..nothing. He gets out and raises the hood. Someone had stolen his distributor , intake manifold and carb off the top of his 327. He was beyond mad. Done at the funeral home.
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Wow! While easy enough to remove it still takes a minute.
U.S. govt income tax system
I can think of anything worse than the Federal Government and the fact most is wasted.
Know a construction crew that was running an air compressor on one side of the house and they were working on the other. Air went dead. Checked problem, compressor gone.
last election
My brother, an equipment installer had borrowed my generator while his was in the shop. He stopped at. 7-11 and while inside , someone drove up behind his truck ,stole. my generator and hauled buggy
Mother-in-law was in her kitchen cooking. Started getting uncommonly hot. Went to adjust the large window AC unit. Couldn't as there was nothing but an open window staring at her.
Members of Congress collecting their pay as if they are doing a good job, but consistently voting the party line that the party bosses tell them instead of voting for what is best for the people or the country.
In the county where I worked, the coordinator of Crime Stoppers was arrested and convicted for stealing money from Crime Stoppers !!
I am no magician but when Vegas had Trump at -1600 at 01:00 and then millions of votes came in for Joey, hmm, smell lots of rats in the political sewer system. And YES, I really believe the system was hacked and rigged because of the miscalculation when Hilty lost they made darn sure plan B was in mode for 2020.. ymmv, my won't/
This was probably 1997 or 98.
I was in the Navy and stationed in California. I am maybe 19 years old, definitely not 21 yet. I was the proud new owner of a 66 Plymouth Barracuda with a decent 340 4bbl, it was a slant 6 conversion but I was so happy to have it!
Purchased the car in Sacramento. I am a lowly enlisted guy and spent nearly every dime on this car, which was of course, a fixer-upper.
It was still daylight and the car had no gas in it. Pulled into a sketchy gas station, filled up, and then for whatever reason, I parked in the back of the gas station so I could go inside and maybe use the bathroom and get something to drink.
I come out, car won’t start.
Nothing, zip. Pop the hood; *the battery had been stolen*! They also stole the Edelbrock air cleaner that every hot rod had back then, and my battery tie down was gone too.
This was before I owned a cell phone, And I walk to the closest auto parts store, buy the cheapest battery possible, and begin my walk back humping a new battery. Battery is $75 ish bucks at that time. This took maybe 1 1/2 hours round trip.
Fast fwd: fire it up, good to go, but wait, A QUARTER TANK OF GAS!!!
I’ll never know if it was part of the battery heist but sure enough, someone had siphoned my gas right at the gas station!
Another $35-40 bucks in gas and I limp it 3 hours or so back to the Navy base. I clearly remember I didn’t have enough money to fill it up.
I make it! I get my Barracuda onto the base and it’s late at night but I am so happy!
It’s after midnight and there is a nice sweeping curve on the way to the barracks, and I have to drop it down a gear and smash the throttle.
It was glorious! Well, for about half a second, the little Mopar had no problem kicking sideways, which shot the battery off the tray and into the radiator, where the fan promptly chopped one of the battery cables and caused a whole bunch of other chaos, which killed the car.
So there I am, dead car, a few hundred yards from the barracks parking lot, by myself and pushing this thing across the “finish line”.
That's a bad day.
too many stories to post
just say there is a lot of dishonest people including family when money is involved temptation and greed has gotten the best of a lot of people
Back in basic training, someone stole my hat that was in my back pocket in the chow hall. May not be a huge financial loss but what I had to endure from the drill Sgt.'s being caught without a topper outside was an unforgettable nightmare!!
After reading of your exploits over the years you calling Trump a sociopath is worse than the pot calling the kettle black. He at least told us the truth
The Marines always said -If someone steals your gear,you steal someone elses gear.
When I was stationed at Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio for my AIT training..........we were, of course, in barracks buildings, six soldiers to a room, little to no privacy or security.............morning and day classes........the company was split in half..........one cohort went to class in the morning and the other in the afternoon. Of course, we were young and naiive........and security of our stuff was not even a second thought. Hey......we are all in the same boat.......being taken care of.
Turns out that not all of us had the same ideas or ideals..........there was a "crew of two" who wanted to help themselves to other soldiers' stuff. They would avoid the fire guard by going in through windows and take what they could. I lost a check book and had some stuff bought on my account at the mall in San Antonio..........
Needless to say..........it blew up because of the scope of the theft, and CID got involved. Didn't take CID long to put all the pieces together and apprehend the two "HOMIES" involved. There was lots of store camera footage from the mall and other places implicating the two guys. They were both in my unit and my training class. I only knew them peripherally......and was glad they were gone.