Tis The Season

JamesNLA

It was bound to happen. Sometime last night / this morning someone broke into my tool box in the truck. They got:
18V cordless DeWalt circular saw
Bosch corded circular saw
2 14.4V drills
drop light

Now, I know this isn't as bad as a few others on here but it hurts just the same. Today I was thinking how if I had lost more or all my tools, the impact that would have on feeding my family and providing. Anyone messing with that stuff just makes me F-ing angry.
The 600-700 to replace isn't worth an insurance claim as I have a 1000 deductable and while it hurts to eat that amount, I can set over it. God this month...money has been flying out the door.

Anyhow, I think it's a neighbor kid up the street. He had my entire set of snap on sockets and wrenches on the ground...as if he was making a pile. He left that and took the rest. Dumbass didn't know those sockets were as expensive as all the other crap he took. He left my crappy grinder and palm sander as well as my pipe wrenches.....azz hole

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dougchips

I just cancelled my tool insurance, so my tools are all over the place. All extras are now in my warehouse, some in my trailer and some in my truck. I got hit hard a few years ago, it took weeks to add up all of the missing stuff.

Good luck checking the pawn shops and flea markets.

wackman

Got any cop buddies or watch enough CSI and I bet you could get some prints off those wrenches. Maybe no record yet to trace to, even if you find some, but oh so sweet it would be if so.

Michaeljp86

you need to get some security cameras up.

JamesNLA

I'm looking into software for recording. Just pisses me off.

No Cop buddies, my experience with the police around here is keep your nose clean and hope they leave me alone. Anytime I have ever needed them or called in a DUI they are all but useless.

Going to the pawn shops tomorrow, just hope he is dumb enough to do that.
Even when I was a degenerate teenager, I wasn't that dumb.
Karma is a real bitch sometimes.......

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Tmrrptr

Sry to hear you got hit.
It hurts.
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Putty Truck

BWAHAHAHA! Serves you right...

I used to fight when I was a kid, so much that some big time gangsters took notice. But I became a plumber instead.

Karma...man, as I get older, the punks are like pups trying to take down the old wolf. In my mid-forties, I got stitched up more than the previous 20 years. Karma, it be a bitch.

Michaeljp86

You may want to get on ebay to and do a search for what you lost and see what somes up within 5 miles.

Susan Betz

Our Pods storage was broken into on our last job. They got an $800 saw and a few other goodies. They left chainsaws and other expensive equipment - it looked like they knew what they wanted.

We just bought a 53 foot used dry van, a decommissioned grocery van with a steel floor and a side door. Let's see the punks break into that (knock on wood, cause they'll try).

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wizendwizard

I hate to say it but i could have the doors off in 15 minutes.....and if near chicago they could be in it in 5

Cole

Past experience?

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wizendwizard

hmmmmmm.......now where did all those TV'S come from???? lol

Michaeljp86

Corless tools are perfect to use to break into things, corless grinders, saws. All good for hinge and lock cutting.

deckman22

I know it hurts as I've felt the pain too. Crackheads have hit my house 3 times in the last year. The first time it was my son-n-laws truck they got, took the whole jobbox out of his truck, about 2500 he lost. I started locking everything in the garage after that except cords/hose misc. stuff, they took that stuff too. Last time my oldest daughter took the truck up to the store for some ice cream late at night. I told her at least 3 times, make sure you lock the doors, she forgot. Fortunately I didn't have much in there that night, circular saw, a couple of drills, cords & my nailbag. SOB even took my nailbag. I was so pissed off I couldn't go to work right away. Left about 10, got the corner of my street & guess what, the freakin crackhead is walking down the street with my circular saw ( in plastic case w/handle). I whipped over to the curb & ran up to him, snatched it out of his hands & opened it up to make sure it was mine, sure enough it was. I turn my back to throw it in the back of the truck & grap my cell phone to call the cops & the crackhead has all ready rounded the corner of the strip center. Niether the cops or myself could find him, but at least I got my saw back. I bought a 12 gauge the next day & keep it loaded with 3" magnum buckshot & deerslugs. The slightest noise out front & I'm out the door cocking the shotgun on the way now. I pity the next crackhead that tries to rip me off is gonna get it. It's legal here in Texas to do so.

Al

Susan Betz

You could open those things with a can opener. We were mostly hoping to discourage petty theives, we weren't planning on real ones (it was a rural property, somebody knew what they were doing).

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KillerToiletSpider

I can have one open in less than 3 minutes with a hammer and a pin punch. If you need urban security you are much better off with a cargo container that has internal hinges.

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wizendwizard

To Susan...... Is it one of the old lester coggins trailers? lol
I used to drive for that company out of okahumpka,fl.
If so it probably smells of OJ or Flowers.

K2

Low tech, cheap. but these things work. I put them in a baggie to keep them clean and put them in my job box, vacant house, or you could put them in the medicine cabinet during the christmas party.

Try a few out but don't tell the whole world about them.

I caught a painter snooping around the bedroom when he was supposed to be working on the kitchen door. Scared the chit out of him too.

These things are loud. Nobody is going to hang around long enough to find out you have a ten dollar alarm.

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JohnJ0906

A couple of months ago, someone jumped the shop fence and sawzalled 2 catalytic converters off vans - one was mine. (Quite a shock when I started it the next morning)

Over Thanksgiving, we got hit, big time. I don't have all the details, but here goes -

They jump the fence, alarm goes off. They smash the motion detectors outside, jump back over, and wait for the cops - who never show! They jump back over, and start busting into the vans - generators, drills, personal hand tools, etc. Need a truck for the loot, so they smash the window to the shop, grab some van keys. 1 van is used to ram the gate, load the rest into another, and take off. (When the shop window was broken, the alarm company finally took some action, and the VP and cops were called) Evidently, some stuff was dropped off, but most of it was still on the truck when they were pulled over for almost rear ending someone.

They will be spending some time in jail. Most stuff was recovered so far, but some of the guys personal stuff is still gone. Only 3 vans ( out of about 15) weren't touched, and thank God one of them was mine.

Guess what - one was a former employee. Employed 2 weeks, called out at least 5 days, and was fired. Thats how they knew where the keys were, and the motion sensors were.

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daArch

"Disgruntled" ex-employees are many times the culprits.

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