Several years ago some neighborhood kids rifled through my glovebox and took some CDs. There was fresh snow on the ground. I followed their footsteps back to their house (just around the corner) and knocked on the door. The mother opens the door and I tell her what happened. She goes to the back of the house and I can hear her yelling at and wailing on the two miscreants. About a minute later she returned with my CDs.
Duke wrote:Kenny_McCormic wrote: In reply to WildScotsRacing: I think you might have crippled and/or killed a guy over the contents of your glove compartment.Yeah? And...?
Last I heard that's some sort of felony in every state of the union, maybe excluding Texas.
theenico wrote: Several years ago some neighborhood kids rifled through my glovebox and took some CDs. There was fresh snow on the ground. I followed their footsteps back to their house (just around the corner) and knocked on the door. The mother opens the door and I tell her what happened. She goes to the back of the house and I can hear her yelling at and wailing on the two miscreants. About a minute later she returned with my CDs.
LOL Reminds of Ralphie's mom telling Mrs. Schwartz that Ralphie learned the F-Word from from little Schwartz...
My Honda Del Sol was stolen from my school parking garage when I was in college. I purposely parked right in front of the CCTV cameras everyday. Upon noticing the car was gone I called the police. When they arrived they informed me that the cameras hadn't worked in years. Awesome.
My car was found a couple days later in a DC alley sitting on cinder blocks. Here is where the story gets fun. The car got towed to an impound lot where the tow company backed it into a Cadillac. They then left the windows down for 3 days...in a rain storm. The thieves didn't take much, wheels, intake, head unit, and a couple other things. It was the tow company that was responsible for most of the damage.
Because my car was at my school when it was stolen, my parking pass was in the car. When the car disappeared, I borrowed an extra car from my parents and had to buy a replacement parking pass for $75 (even though it was stolen from their garage)! Upon recovery of my Honda, my old parking pass was still inside. My school refused to refund the $75 for the replacement.
The part of this that bugs me the most? My car was stolen the day I finished ordering the last of the parts I needed for my turbo setup. Some day I will buy another Del Sol and finish what I started.
WildScotsRacing wrote: In reply to Jay: Jay, I just happened to have left my Form DD-214 in the glovebox, and THAT is a piece of paper worth more than it's weight in gold. There was nothing "tough guy" about what I did; I never intended to give him a chance to explain himself, or give him a "fair fight" (fair fights are for sanctioned sporting events). That individual KNEW before he ever opened my car door that what he was doing was wrong, decided he didn't care, and proceeded anyway. I had no desire to involve the police, because that scenario has unpredictable consequences in these times, nor did I want him to be able to identify me visually for the same reasons. I hold my all of my personal property, expensive or not, to be of equal value which I will defend with "extreme prejudice". Right or wrong, I view most theft as equally egregious regardless of the monetary value. No, I did not "leave him bleeding in the street" because none of those three strikes opened his skin, but I'm quite sure it took him a week or so before it quit hurting. And, NO, I'm not going to lay into someone physically for swiping a quarter off my desk, so don't even go there. Just don't steal from me, and we can get along.
I have no idea what a "DD-214" is, nor do I care, but no piece of paper is important enough to justify giving someone massive head trauma over. If you were that worried about it why the berkeley was it in your glovebox in the first place instead of in a safe in your house?
You sound like a violent thug. I don't like thieves any more than anyone else but where I come from you don't resort to violence unless you're threatened yourself. You're not impressing anyone with your internet chest-thumpery.
Unfortunately, where I come from, thievery leaves you open to any and all kinds of violence. If you don't understand that you could be killed for stealing something, you need to find a new hobby. If I personally found someone stealing from me, given the chance, I would beat the Hell from them.
I did cringe at the temple shot, though. That can easily kill someone. Big difference from the Hell beat from you and death.
In reply to Appleseed:
The temple thrust wasn't that hard; the objective was to keep him off balance and get him to turn away from me. It worked. I took no personal pleasure in dealing with this walking turd, but when a person steals from another, he is taking more than just physical things. Every object earned requires a piece of time from one's life, which is finite on this Earth, that they can never get back. A thief takes with him a piece of someone's life. I guard my life jealously. If more good people did the same, there would be far fewer individuals who choose to be thieves.
Jay wrote:WildScotsRacing wrote: In reply to Jay: Jay, I just happened to have left my Form DD-214 in the glovebox, and THAT is a piece of paper worth more than it's weight in gold. There was nothing "tough guy" about what I did; I never intended to give him a chance to explain himself, or give him a "fair fight" (fair fights are for sanctioned sporting events). That individual KNEW before he ever opened my car door that what he was doing was wrong, decided he didn't care, and proceeded anyway. I had no desire to involve the police, because that scenario has unpredictable consequences in these times, nor did I want him to be able to identify me visually for the same reasons. I hold my all of my personal property, expensive or not, to be of equal value which I will defend with "extreme prejudice". Right or wrong, I view most theft as equally egregious regardless of the monetary value. No, I did not "leave him bleeding in the street" because none of those three strikes opened his skin, but I'm quite sure it took him a week or so before it quit hurting. And, NO, I'm not going to lay into someone physically for swiping a quarter off my desk, so don't even go there. Just don't steal from me, and we can get along.I have no idea what a "DD-214" is, nor do I care, but no piece of paper is important enough to justify giving someone massive head trauma over. If you were that worried about it why the berkeley was it in your glovebox in the first place instead of in a safe in your house? You sound like a violent thug. I don't like thieves any more than anyone else but where I come from you don't resort to violence unless you're threatened yourself. You're not impressing anyone with your internet chest-thumpery.
I happen to agree with WildScotsRacing ... and the DD-214 is worth that much ... the aggravation of getting a replacement is impossible for someone that's never been in the service to understand
you can call him a violent thug all you want ... I'd suggest that you not steal from him ...
had he been "caught" by the police, he would have had to take the consequences for his actions ... JUST like the thief had to suffer the consequences for his actions ... since there was no "serious" results to the beating, I'd say the thief got off easy ... though I doubt that he "learned anything" other than ... don't get caught ... most folk that steal, couldn't care less about being caught and wandering through the legal system ... most find that to be their normal habitat
good on WSR
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