Stealing chainsaws is very bad, you have a saw in your hands more than your woman so you get attached. Here in B.C. I had an experience with the police regarding a stolen chainsaw, I was broke and pawned my 266xp, a couple of weeks after I got it back the police came over, a detective and a younger woman in a unmarked car wearing street clothes. The guy asked me if I owned a Husky chainsaw and wanted to see it. He read the serial# to the woman and she said "thats it". The guy asked me where I got it, I told him I bought it from my old boss and that it was mine, whats the problem.... the woman touched my shoulder and asked the guy if she should read me my rights. I was like wtf, the guy had another look at the file in his briefcase and asked me if I knew what a 394 looked like. He explained to me that a 394 had been stolen during a residential break and enter with the same serial# as my saw. They run serial# from the records they get from pawnshops, right number, wrong saw.Then he gave the woman a dirty look, apologized to me and they left. At least they were doing something, the woman must have been scanning lists and got all hot when she saw the number but failed to check the model. Sometimes in the newspaper there is a reward offered for information leading to the return of stolen things, drug addicts will often rat out thier "friends" for dope money. People sometimes find thier stuff at flea markets here as well. Good luck.
