gunDriller
1st May 2011, 02:05 PM
or should i say, "Local Crime Incidents - 2" Lead Spring Spheres Stolen from Estate Sale at Mobile Home" ?
(just tossing in a wise-crack about the Easter Egg PC nonsense :oo-->)
i am hearing really interesting stories about local crime.
for example, i was talking to a neighbor who does estate sales. he was working one sale and his wife was working another on the same day. i had been to the estate sale his wife was running, she was asking $2 each for some humongous lead fishing weights. maybe they were more than 2 pounds each, they were 2 inches diameter.
anyway, i asked him to call her, to see if she still had them on Saturday, when they cut the prices another 50%. it would have been a good deal. i think i probably would have hung on to them, they were just cool.
but - they were stolen ! that was Friday April 29 or Saturday April 30.
then i called someone about doing some chain saw work. their tools were stolen out of the back of their truck. they're not dummies crime-wise, but their assumption that their truck was safe in their driveway turned out to be wrong.
that was about 2 weeks ago.
then i was talking to some other neighbors about their eBay days. they were having an eBay liquidation sale, they were losing money on eBay, after many years of being an eBay power couple.
the guy had a collectible, i forget what it was. he sold it for $3000 to some corporation on the East Coast. they sent him a counterfeit cashier's check. he tried small claims, appealing through his credit union, everything - the East Coast collectibles corporation was legally fire-walled. that happened about 6 months ago.
these are just anecdotes, i don't have a full picture of crime stats, but my God, seems like crime of all sorts is going up.
is there a Cosmic Connection between the Talmud-worshippers current crime spree, which is more corporate crime, and local crime, people stealing $5 here, $500 there, and $3000 else-where ?
personally, i wasn't too surprised by the chain-saw stuff being stolen, or some Florida business writing counterfeit cashier's checks.
but stealing 2 pound lead fishing weights from an estate sale in a mobile home ? putting them in your pocket and walking past the 2 women running the sale, the proceeds of which go to a family that probably could use the money ?
for me that was the "face-palm" crime story of the week.
(just tossing in a wise-crack about the Easter Egg PC nonsense :oo-->)
i am hearing really interesting stories about local crime.
for example, i was talking to a neighbor who does estate sales. he was working one sale and his wife was working another on the same day. i had been to the estate sale his wife was running, she was asking $2 each for some humongous lead fishing weights. maybe they were more than 2 pounds each, they were 2 inches diameter.
anyway, i asked him to call her, to see if she still had them on Saturday, when they cut the prices another 50%. it would have been a good deal. i think i probably would have hung on to them, they were just cool.
but - they were stolen ! that was Friday April 29 or Saturday April 30.
then i called someone about doing some chain saw work. their tools were stolen out of the back of their truck. they're not dummies crime-wise, but their assumption that their truck was safe in their driveway turned out to be wrong.
that was about 2 weeks ago.
then i was talking to some other neighbors about their eBay days. they were having an eBay liquidation sale, they were losing money on eBay, after many years of being an eBay power couple.
the guy had a collectible, i forget what it was. he sold it for $3000 to some corporation on the East Coast. they sent him a counterfeit cashier's check. he tried small claims, appealing through his credit union, everything - the East Coast collectibles corporation was legally fire-walled. that happened about 6 months ago.
these are just anecdotes, i don't have a full picture of crime stats, but my God, seems like crime of all sorts is going up.
is there a Cosmic Connection between the Talmud-worshippers current crime spree, which is more corporate crime, and local crime, people stealing $5 here, $500 there, and $3000 else-where ?
personally, i wasn't too surprised by the chain-saw stuff being stolen, or some Florida business writing counterfeit cashier's checks.
but stealing 2 pound lead fishing weights from an estate sale in a mobile home ? putting them in your pocket and walking past the 2 women running the sale, the proceeds of which go to a family that probably could use the money ?
for me that was the "face-palm" crime story of the week.