Finally caught the bastard!

[Big Frank]

By the time they get through with it you will probably need a new one Tab.

My thoughts exactly when I read Mike's post.

[TAB]

Don't worry, it will be tied up as evidence for months at best.

the detective  said I could pick it up next week.   It helps when the local sheriff  was your neighbour and you built his barn.

I have said it before and I will say it again.  It's not what you know, but who you know.

I use tools until they are used up or I can buy new ones and write them off.  Generators  tend to be shot when I get rid of them.  They still work, just either run rough or not putting out the power they once did.

[Rastus]

I'm running a 900 kVa monster right now to run and electric submersible pump pulling 450 or so HP.  The dang thing is drinking nigh on to 200 gallons of diesel a day.

[bulldog75]

At least you are kind enough to prosecute them. I love it when you climb into a dumpster to get information and the business owner finds out who it is and declines to prosecute. You spend the next 11 hours of your shift smelling like a dumpster covered in grease. 

[TAB]

Call from the same detective  as before, looks like they also found more stuff of mine that's gone missing thus year in a storage  unit these guys had that they found and impounded. Not expensive  stuff mind you, but things that are annoying when they go missing.  You know, buckets, cones, saw horses etc. Luckily  I brand( like with a hot iron)  every thing I can with my company name. Most of it i did not file reports on, since it's not worth my time/ consumables / worn out.

Spent about 15 mins talking too him this morning, looks like I got off  pretty easy compared too some other larger contractors in the area.  They were guessing total theft too be some where in the half mil range in the last 10 months( when .ca let these guys out of jail)  said most of that ended up in some ones arm.  He also said they closed 90% of the job site theft reports in the last 6 months.

Any one that says drugs do not effect all of us is full of shit. I can assure you my customers  do feel it when I have stuff stolen.  Over all not a lot,but each one does.

[Sponsor]

[Rastus]

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Any one that says drugs do not effect all of us is full of shit. I can assure you my customers  do feel it when I have stuff stolen.  Over all not a lot,but each one does.

Tab you are so right.  Now multiply that for everything you buy.  It's a big problem and getting bigger. 

[TAB]

Tab you are so right.  Now multiply that for everything you buy.  It's a big problem and getting bigger.

The retail industry  says about 17%

[Big Frank]

I saw this at one site. -> A heroin user with heavy tolerance may spend upwards of $200 every day to maintain their addiction.

And this at another. -> Heroin also costs Americans over $22 billion per year in healthcare, law enforcement, and automobile accidents.

That's just one drug, and a relatively cheap one at that. One addict said she spent $450 to $1,200 a day on cocaine. $1,200 a day would be 2.19 million dollars in 5 years. I don't think I've come close to making that much in my whole life.

As TAB already knows, all that money has to come from somewhere. And let's not forget a lot of that money gets funneled into terrorism, as if cartels killing people wasn't already bad enough. But really, drugs only hurt the people who do them, right?

[TAB]

If you are lucky you might earn half the value of what you are stealing.  If you have a $200/ day habit.  You would  have too steal 12k a month.   That is if you are lucky and making half, I know you are more likely just getting 10% of cost, that's 120k a month in theft.  Let's be super generous and say they get 25% overall.  That is still 48k a month in theft.  Or too put it another way you would need 18 more people like me.  For just that one month, even if they got full retail there would still be another 1.5 of what was recovered.    Remember, thats every month and does not include all the stuff that they sold off. 


Oh yeah it costs my state about 44k a year too warehouse  these guys.  The detective said they are facing 14 years. In 10 month they racked up well over 1 million  in damage, but I would not be shocked if it's 3, by the time they get out.  In just 10 months since they were released from jail in .ca

[Fatlip127]

Call from the same detective  as before, looks like they also found more stuff of mine that's gone missing thus year in a storage  unit these guys had that they found and impounded. Not expensive  stuff mind you, but things that are annoying when they go missing.  You know, buckets, cones, saw horses etc. Luckily  I brand( like with a hot iron)  every thing I can with my company name. Most of it i did not file reports on, since it's not worth my time/ consumables / worn out.

Spent about 15 mins talking too him this morning, looks like I got off  pretty easy compared too some other larger contractors in the area.  They were guessing total theft too be some where in the half mil range in the last 10 months( when .ca let these guys out of jail)  said most of that ended up in some ones arm.  He also said they closed 90% of the job site theft reports in the last 6 months.

Any one that says drugs do not effect all of us is full of shit. I can assure you my customers  do feel it when I have stuff stolen.  Over all not a lot,but each one does.

TAB, could you contact me via email? I saw a post of yours from awhile ago, and have a couple questions for you, if you have the time. I’m new to the site, and not sure how to message your profile. Thanks in advanced.

Mg.scott88@hotmail.com