I called them first.......they said I was #### out of luck.
$%^&&&&#$##! doofuses.
Time to go over the first contact head on this one.
Hope you can get this squared away.
I got a recent true crime story! Whut the heck..
Boss almost got nailed bad last week, and I was kinda sorta helpful in at least catching one of the perps, accidently.
I operate the tractor here all the time, so everyone who drives in this neighborhood knows me and where I live. So..I am the apparently designated "help, stuck in the ditch" dood around here.
So last week, some guy I know who is a known local untrustworthy type, and some other real young guy came by, truck off in the ditch into our field. Well, OK, I don't want someones truck in the field, told them I would be over in less than an hour and tow them out (real early, hadn't finished my chores yet)
so..I go over there, no guys, just cops and a firetruck. They really want to talk to who was driving this thing, and it is much worse than what the guys described. They blew right across the ditch at high speed, literally snatched two decent small maples right out of the ground. smashed vehicle, air bags popped, etc.. I very quickly established this was NOT my truck, and just being neighborly to come over and help, got nothing else to do with it. So, they want to know where the guys are, I tell them follow me, we convoy around the farm to the house where the questionable dude lives. Young guy sitting in front yard, splits to the woods when he sees the cops, they jump out and catch him, I ID him.
Swell, I think I am done, go over to get diesel, one of the other farmhands there just musta interrupted a burglary in progress, door kicked into a generator room, tools spread out, other stuff at a tractor like they were trying to unhook some equipment to use the tractor, maybe to yank the gate open, who knows. this just went down with the hour. I am, wow, bet this is connected, and tell thenm about the two guys and the smashed truck in the field. timing is just way way too coincidental.
I put 2 and 2 together, decided the skunks most likely involved in both deals happening at the same time.
Go back to the smashed up truck, tow truck there by this time, but he can't winch it out, hung on another tree, so I hook it up and drag it out of the field and down to the road.
I am now telling the cops what just went down with the robbery right there and shazzam, boss finally shows up as well. I tell him, look in the back of the truck, yep, there's one of his chains sitting there along with other obviously burglarized stuff from someplace else, TVs, other electronics, tools what not. There's a security gate, so they were having to hand walk the stuff out to the street.
The young kid got hauled off for theft of the truck, stole it from his stepdad, no license, no tag, DUI, plus they are looking closer at local burglaries.
Boss collected his tools and they are now stored "elsewhere", including two saws that had left the building and were found stashed in the woods on the path out.
The local skunk is apparently skating for now, but we will be watching him closer. I had heard he was bad news, didn't really know the guy, just of him..
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