stealing things

[karl f]

i'm not gonna even say what i'm thinking right now.

my brother informed me it appears the fenders off our super c farmall have been stolen. this could have happened between fall 2007 and now. the tractor is broke in half, has been awhile, just more important things to do or spend the money on. while it is parked outside, you cannot see this tractor from the road, or if you casually pull into the drive way. you pretty much have to either know it's there or SNOOP. Now whatever the reasoning behind taking them, it does not matter, as it is not yours. Frankly i can send the whole works right to the scrap pile if i so desire, even if it is mint; or i can ask 5000$ for it as it is now, or 1000$ for any part off of it; etc. The truth of the matter is you've helped make me into more of a crabby old man before i've even reached the age of 30. Now i will spread your negativity to everyone i meet, no more friendly help, no more bragging about what i've got, I might not ever participate in the tractor community again. You've also crushed my hopes of one day restoring grandpa's tractor with as many original parts as possible.

I need to see what else may have been tampered with now, since my brother doesn't know the machine like i do. I hope that nothing else is missing.

If anyone in MN happens to hear someone bragging about a recent acquisition of c/super c fenders and it sounds fishy, they might be my family's. Please do your part to set them right. I would like either 500$ or the fenders returned.

crabbier than usual,
karl f

 

[Mark]

Just who is this "you" referred to? I don"t know if you got a bad bag of weed and have taken a trip without leaving the farm, or have stumbled and ran a cob up your a$$. But to come here and start referring to "you" as if "we" are the culprits just doesn"t sit too well.

I"m sorry your fenders got cobbed, but it"s not like the family jewels have been absconded with. If they meant that much to you, maybe you should have parked it in the barn. While you may feel it makes no difference where it was...stealing is stealing.....I agree. But, sometimes you need to make it more difficult for a thief to practice his trade.

 

[karl f]

oops. edited a bunch of times before posting and lost the "to the thief" indication.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Yup, you've been violated and can't do much about it. The law even prevents you from shooting if you catch them.

I have been mugged in a shopping center parking lot, my house was broken into and they took the wifes jewelry, the TV, the stereo, the coffee pot, and my guns. My truck was broken into in the driveway and they took the radio and my laptop but I can't do anything about it. My wife was mugged and the perp dropped some personal I.D. so after about four months they caught the black fatherless son. He got a slap on the wrist (fine and probation) and was set free and told not to do it again. Some country we live in where we can't take action to protect ourselves.

 

[RayP(MI)]

Know how you feel. Had the battery swiped put of my tractor, right in my yard, last fall. Cost me $80 to replace it. Violated is the term that comes to mind. Especially frustrating when it is a part like fenders that you'll have to search high and low to replace.

 

[1936]

Vern-MI

Live in wayne county??

 

[Anonymous-0]

Yes I do. How did you guess?

 

[jay-eye-see]

Do you have a quilty conscious Mark? I doubt you do as it seems hard for me to believe that anyone could think he was pointing to anyone in particular. Do you run people off the road when you percieve that they looked at you funny ? You seem like the type. relax and take a hit of that funny stuff yourself , sounds like you could use it.

 

[Mark]

J I C,

Hehehe........I wouldn"t walk across the room for a truckload of FREE Super C fenders, let alone break a sweat taking them off some wreck sitting in the weeds. Besides that....it"s a long way from KY to Michigan.

I"ve been called a lot of things during my life, but thief and liar......are not amongst the various titles I have known. Hard headed and a$$ kicker come to mind, but I am getting to old to kick a punk"s a$$, so now, I just carry my gun.

I will tell you this, if I own something I don"t want stolen, I keep it put up.

 

[Rick in Michigan]

"Besides that....it"s a long way from KY to Michigan"

And here I thought the stolen fender escapade happened in Minnesota...

Vern - Castle Doctine in Michigan. You might want to read up on it.
It'll be a sad day for the family of anyone who breaks into my home if either my wife or I am there. There will be no slap on the wrist from a judge...just a funeral.

 

[karl f]

speaking of batteries, 30 years ago my dad had a tractor parked in the field overnight to finish chopping or whatever the next day. The radiator was drained for fear of frost. He came back the next day to find it running without batteries. maybe the perps couldn"t figure out how to shut it off (1256 IH with throttle stop control). at any rate the tractor was never the same after that.

karl f