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Did you go out today?
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message oups.com... snip We found a stolen Rug Doctor machine, and as we initially drove down the lane to the farmhouse we spotted a truck parked at the gate. Blew the horn and a guy walked out from the house area. Said he had been hired to demolish an old barn, but was thinking he might not be in the right place. We told him he wasn't. As he was towing a trailer, he asked if he could pull into the turn around between the house and the barn to head back out to the street. We said sure. When I went into the house I heard somebody upstairs, turned out it was a buddy of the guy driving the truck. The guy upstairs didn't see me and thought I was his buddy as I walked in. He hollered something about "wire up here". I called to him to get downstairs, and when he came down he couldn't give me any decent explanation what he was doing in the house. I told him to "clear the hell out of here, now!" He walked out to the turn around to meet the guy with the pickup truck and trailer. As they were turning around, I made a point to be very obvious about writing down the license number of the truck. I told the driver he had better hope nothing happened to my FIL's farmhouse, because if something did his license number was going straight to the police. I'm pretty sure they were ready to start ripping into the walls for copper wire and pipe, they'd probably get enough to support a meth habit for 2-3 days. snip... Your father-in-law was darn lucky you showed up when you did. Theft of copper wire & pipe is a big deal locally. One idiot stole the few few of small diameter pipe leading from an outside 200 gallon furnace oil tank spilling contents all over the ground. Another fried himself trying to steal wire at a power substation. Local power company now has a special spray-on paint that includes minuature dots or numbers that can be traced at the scrap yards. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia...per-theft.html |
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