salem
Central Valley, Ca
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Well, I may as well tell one of my favorite true stories. Years ago a man down the road placed a pile of used tires along the road with a FREE sign on the pile. They set for a few days with no takers. My other neighbor finally explained to this guy that no one wants something that basically has no value. So, they put a big hand painted sign on the tire pile that read, "USED TIRES $5.00 EACH." That night someone stopped and stole the whole pile.
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ventrman
Yakima, WA
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When I was at Fort Hood Texas, we had an American Soldier who took a Trip to Mexico. While he was there he stole some Toothpaste, shaving cram a Bar of Soap and some other stupid stuff and was put in a Mexican Jail. He is probably still locked up down there. What was he thinking??
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Doug4.7
Hartselle, AL, USA
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ventrman wrote:When I was at Fort Hood Texas, we had an American Soldier who took a Trip to Mexico. While he was there he stole some Toothpaste, shaving cram a Bar of Soap and some other stupid stuff... Okay, via a long story, I am guilty of stealing toilet paper when I was back in college. I just hope the statute of limitations has expired for that crime.
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down home
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The Cemetery flower theft was deer at wife's family's grave. At Ft Custer, the deer are familiar with the gun salutes and other things attendant to burials. As soon as there is no one around they come out of the trees and eat them. It does not good to leave flowers for more than that day or part of it anyway.
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dieharder
Ottawa, ON
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There is someone on my floor at work that takes rolls of TP of the holders in the stalls. Never fails... every day at least one disappears.
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colliehauler
Mc Pherson KS USA
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There was a string of gas thefts from farm tanks. One farmer drained his tank and filled it with water. About a week later there was a car by the side of the road a couple of miles away.
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Mountain Mama
N. TX
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We went to an outdoor evening concert back in the 70's. Someone's battery had died so they just took a battery from another car...I'm not sure how far that cycle went! LOL!
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ExRocketScientist
Laurel, MD
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Worked in a building with an obsolete digital phone system. Nearly every day people would come in to find their phone gone. Company security looked into it and looked at the theft reports and the logs of the prox card usage for the building. It all pointed to one person. In fact, for one of the thefts, that person was the only one in the building that night. So they worked with the local police to get a search warrant for that guards apartment. He lived alone in a two bedroom apartment. The second bedroom had over 100 phones in it he had taken from our building.
Later on all of the first aid supplies kept dissapearing from the first aid kits overnight. They finally figured out it was the cleaning crew from Nicaragua. They were shipping the supplies to the contra rebels.
My dad had some old tires he needed to get rid of. He drove a pickup with an open bed to work. He asked someone at work where he could get rid of the tires. They told him just to put them in the back of his truck . . . they would be gone before quitting time. So he brought them to work the next day and they were gone by lunchtime.
Another place he worked (machine shop) he had problems with someone stealing his bottle of coke out of the fridge. These things had twist off caps. So I took a coke, twisted off the cap and froze it in the freezer. Then I put salt in it and twisted the cap back on. We let it thaw and he took it to work.
Now the way this works is the salt is more soluable in water than the carbon dioxide, so it will displace the carbon dioxide. Well sure enough, several machines away a fairly new employee suddenly has a Coke spewing all over a quarter million dollar lathe. My dad explained what happened to the boss, and the boss made the guy clock out and clean the machine (about a four hour job). For the next few days all eyes were on this thief. Finally he quit.
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krisfelix19
Dublin, Georgia
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Wow must be desperate times for them.
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Cookielady
Tampa, FL
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One of the many things I used to love about camping was I felt fairly safe that nothing would be stolen at campgrounds. And for many years, nothing was. But, things have changed. In the last ten years, I have had fishing poles, a basket, a useless strap, folding chair, coffee cup, a yard game, and muffins. The muffins was a raccoon but the rest is still a mystery.
So now, we have to put everything up each time which is rather inconvenient but it is what it is.
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