Rotten stinking lowlife scum!

[Christopha]

Went to the beach not far from home here in my little seaside town where nothing ever happens ( we had a siege yesterday!!!). Took the daughter and the grandmonsters, parked close, went "Abbing" for half an hour, got back to the ute to find that some stinking filthy lowlife piece of schidt has stolen my Makita scms.... BARSTEWARDS!!! How low can someone get to steal a mans tools of trade? The "fellow" must have been in a hell of a rush as he left nail guns, small power tools etc and just took the dearest. Rang the insurance company today to find that if my ute had been parked in my own driveway and not in public I would have been covered. Merry bloody Christmas you mongrel, mine is knackered! :((:((:((

[munruben]

Like you said mate, just low life scum.

[Rossluck]

Bummer mate.

[wheelinround]

shall we keep an eye out for it on e-bay Chris

[Gra]

Hanging is too good for em mate.....

You got a cash converters/pawn shop locally. Keep an eye out in there for it. Probably just some opportunistic druggie, they will sell it on quick for their next hit

[watson]

Chris,
You've got to stop holding back...stop bottling things up....vent you're true feelings :wink:

It's a bummer mate

[Christopha]

Chris,
You've got to stop holding back...stop bottling things up....vent you're true feelings :wink:

It's a bummer mate

It really is a bummer mate, I can get a new saw on special for $1000..... Thats my christmas stuffed, any spare I had for a bit of time off with my kids, my grandmonsters and my special lady is now history.... I am a chippy and I need a dropsaw. Mates will happily loan me their old ones and spare ones but the saw still has to be bought sometime and the thing is on special now and is about $200 cheaper than retail.

[Ivan in Oz]

Do you have its Serial Number and a Photograph of it?

Maybe now's a good time for others to record the Serial Number etc
and take a Photo of their Tools.........

NO!!! NOT That One.........:oo:

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[Christopha]

Do you have its Serial Number and a Photograph of it?
.

No Ivan I don't, one of those jobs I was "Gunnado". It will be a priority for me to do just that though as soon as I get the new SCMS and I shall go right through the lot too, I willl engrave them with my name and drivers license number to boot. Some of my tools are engraved but I have not kept up to date with it.... Bugger!

[againstthegrain]

You might also want to file a police report...may not seem like much good but then at least you have some documentation if you see your saw on ebay or cash converters.

Or if you see some other tradie using your saw on a work site.

Good luck (looks like you could use some!)

[Groggy]

Thieving mongrels :((
You might also want to file a police report...As hopeless as this may sound without a serial number, you'd be surprised what the police find when they nab some dude on another theft. Usually they turn up an Aladdin's cave treasure trove and have trouble finding the original owners. If you identify it visually you may get it back (ie special marks etc may be sufficient).

[Christopha]

You may have seen our little town on the TV news yesterday, we had a siege! A reeal piece of scum and his/her sons murdered his ex a couple of months ago and he had been on the run since last weekend. He holed up in his girlfriends holiday house just around the corner and trhreatened to blow himself up. So, after I discovered my SCMS had grown legs I went up to where the siege had been and reported it then and there. Got my police report number this morning... So the headlines should have read something like "Murderer nabbed and SCMS flogged!"

[astrid]

You could try to appeal to the thieves "better" nature and post a reward, no questions asked for their return.
this might seem nieve but a fairly well known muso did this in ST kilda and got his guitar back.
also ring every cash and carry within 50km ,if you post a reward big enough to be more than they will get at a pawn shop, you might get them back

sometimes life stinks

hey , but have a happy christmas anyway

astrid:)

[woodhunt]

Unfortunately this happened to me and I spotted my stuff down at the local cash convertors.

Despite having no excuses (they had also stolen the car) all the police could do was charge for receiving stolen goods as there is no proof of the actual act of stealing...

If they made receiving the same penalty as actually stealing it would close down another loophole for these lowlifes.

[Ivan in Oz]

Unfortunately this happened to me and I spotted my stuff down at the local cash convertors.


Good one Woodhunt:2tsup:

How did you Identify it?
Did They [Mr Plod or C/Converters] require much proof?

[jmk89]

If they made receiving the same penalty as actually stealing it would close down another loophole for these lowlifes.

Woodhunt

A bit of a trick here - if the stealing is a major indictable offence, then receiving has a 10 year tarrif, if not it has a three year tarrif. Some of the "majors" have a less than 10 year tarrif, some have more...

Either way, my experience of the law (25 years in study and practice) suggests that so long as the penalty is not totally minimal (usually $1000 or less) the size of the penalty does not affect whether or not people commit the crime. That's why capital punishment has been shown statistically to have had no effect on crime.

[echnidna]

except that capital punishment can get the scum out of the community for a while.

I reckon the old fashioned stocks could be a real deterrent based on the embarrassment targeted at the scum

[jmk89]

except that capital punishment can get the scum out of the community for a while.

I reckon the old fashioned stocks could be a real deterrent based on the embarrassment targeted at the scum

capital punishment gets them out of the community forever - but juries don't convict because they hate the thought that they might make a mistake.

[Matt88s]

Thats a bummer Christopha. :no:

I remember back when I was running a lawn service, sneak thieves were always a bugger as you always had to be keeping track of your equipment and watching out for people stopping, pulling in by your truck and trailer, just even neighbors of the people where you were, you'd be in back mowing and you'd see people slow down as they drove past, eyeing your equipment and wondering where you were, not knowing that you could see them. Then you had to watch out for the professionals, they setup to look like a lawn crew, have a trailer setup for leaves or such, full of leaves or such, but under the leaves would be a plywood tunnel, they'd run teams, have people out canvasing looking for easy targets, open garages, lawn crews being careless with equipment, etc, they'd call the team with the trailer and stand watch while the trailer team moved in and nicked the stuff and in the tunnel under the leaves it would go and then off they'd go looking just like any other lawn service in the area. We had some in the area for a while that were pretty darn good.

I've often seen tradesmen running about locally, with saws and other misc equipment in the back of their trucks just sitting there. I've often thought as I was getting into my truck or car, and staring at a truck bed full of equipment beside me, "Don't people ever steal their stuff"? and wonder why they leave it out like that. :? If it was my truck, it'd be picked bare before I got out of the filler station with my cuppa joe. :roll:

I would never take anything, but I was always taught to keep it out of sight and thus out of temptation as even if its in a locked car if you leave something of value in sight its always a temptation for someone nick it even if they have to break the window or whatnot.

I always go take the time to put anything of value out of sight and lock my doors even if I'm only going to be gone a minute, its worth it to me just so I don't have to deal with the trouble of having something stolen, or dealing with the person if i come out and surprise someone in the act.

For tradesmen this is a bit harder, they usually can't sweep all their tools and equipment under the seat or paper or in the trunk, but all you can do is what you can do, where there's a will there's a way, people will always figure out somehow to steal something if they want it bad enough. :~