Yea, that was a little harsh. However I have just had it with theft. We live in a very nice neighborhood that is in close proximity to a bad part of the city. We have been having real bad problems with theft for about two years. It started out with just vehicle theft with the perps walking the neighborhood and checking for unlocked doors. Caught me once as my truck sleeps outside with the wifes truck and my trailer with the 4 wheelers sleeping in the garage.
Anyway, they got me on Christmas Eve, now normally I lock my truck every night, don't leave anything laying out exposed, etc. All of which is totally and completely unnecessary as its on my property, but I'll play along we need to be tolerant of others. They hit me hard. Also hit my office where I had all my tools, and most of hunting and offshore fishing gear stored.
Drove up on a weekend not long before the Christmas Eve incident to find someone had knocked the door off of my workshop with a sledge hammer and crow bar and took everything but the dust on the floor. Turns out it wasn't covered under my insurance policy because we have to have a separate rider for an outbuilding, not connect to the main office.
Well lately the vehicle theft in my neighborhood has escalated from just checking unlocked doors to actually smashing windows to gain entry, this has further escalated to vehcile theft and home burglary with them casing house during the day and coming back at night in people who have carports and the little aholes removing one of the window pains and using a grabber or pole with hook to get people keys and purses off of wall hangers and counter tops. Not long ago they actually tried to get into one of the houses with a 80 year old woman inside who rolled into the living room with a revolver.
We now randomly have cops on rooftops at different locations in the subdivision at night and heavy police patrols, just this past Sat night I had three patrol units in front of my house from 5.30 am to 6.30 am when the sun came up as just this past Thursday night a surburan was stolen from backyard neighbors house. It gets to be real old real quick, having to bolt everything down on your property, install alarms, have and keep dogs, make sure every damn door and window is locked all the time everyday, etc, etc. When this is all unnecessary and completely absurd, this is my house and property which I work for tail off for, and to have constantly be on guard is crap. So I'd think that if one of these little punks got their cap peeled it would probably deter the rest of the degenerates aholes from continuing their crime spree.
Until your in a situation like this where you have a whole bunch of crap stolen, repeatedly, can't rightfully afford to replace it all at once because the econo is in the crapper and live in nice area that is on lock down after dark because of the local hooligans. Then don't throw rocks, because you don't know what its like. Beyond frustrating and my comments reflected that. I'm not sorry and I hope something is done these individuals to deter further crime from continuing to happen before someone like the old lady at the back of the subdivision gets hurt are killed because these individuals have never been taught any consequences or boundaries in the name of tolerance.
Just not feeling real tolerant any more. By the way there was a whole lot more in my truck that got stolen that Christmas Eve night than just my $80.00 knife, which is now worth $300.00. Just that knife and cash was over $600.00. The stuff in my shop at the office which is about mile and half from house was over $5,000.00. So yes, I'm a little pissed, but forget about the money. People need to be taught by whatever means necessary keep your Fing hands to yourself and stay the f off of peoples private property. PERIOD.
There is simply no excuse for theft and disrespecting someone else's private property, NONE, whatsoever. Why is ok for the Federal Government to have all of these ZERO Tolerance Policies as their just not going tolerate it anymore, but I as a tax paying citizen must be tolerant of this crap?
When not in use my knives live in my safe.
