Just Caught my Neighbor Stealing my firewood

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Originally Posted by Book

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Originally Posted by Antonio

The only excuse for their behaviour would be if they were starving to death and half their kids were already dead from freezing.

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Could be heroin addicts.

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I posted this one in the music thread for Antonio. Probably more appropriate here.

Are there kids living with the family next door?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl9ZkYViEIs

In need? I will give you firewood, or we can cut a bunch together and split it up.

Steal it from me? Rock salt....to start.

OHL- got a stick of butter, some flour, chocolate chips I can borr.... Ahh hell, just make me some cookies, I'll be in your pool. :-)

I expect this to get a lot worse, and common.

Here in DC area, it doesn't happen yet with firewood. (Mostly GPS and catalytic converter theft).

But firewood here is very expensive. The OP sounds like he is in some rural, more or less, area. I imagine a pickup truck load probably runs 50 FRNs. Here a cord goes for between 200 and up to 280 FRNs. At these prices, you can see how it can get stolen. I bought 3 cords this winter at 200/cord, thought I got a good deal but none of it turned out to be seasoned. I put a cord outside to dry. I totally would not be surprised to see it gone one day.

As the economics deteriorate, sheep will move onto petty crimes they would have never thought about before. Firewood outside is a "low hanging fruit".

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Originally Posted by Hillbilly

Just got home tonight and found a $5.00 Grocery Story type bundles of Firewood on the front porch. They have stolen over 50 Dollars worth of wood over the last month or so, but I guess it's a start.

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Not much of a start.

Only after they were caught red handed are they willing too act like they were borrowing it and to top it off they are now they are adding insult to injury because they think you don't know how much they have borrowed stolen

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Originally Posted by k-os

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Originally Posted by Antonio

You cracked me up. You clearly see rock salt but think for a sec it`s crack? Lets see now, when I finished a major coke run 15 years ago
( in a hospital, I may add), for about a month after whenever I saw ANYTHING white like a white table, all I could think of was coke ;)

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So because you are a filthy drug addict, you falsely see others as filthy drug addicts? Got it.

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A wise woman once told me that we do not see people as they are but we see people as we are.

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Originally Posted by Camp Bassfish

OHL- got a stick of butter, some flour, chocolate chips I can borr.... Ahh hell, just make me some cookies, I'll be in your pool. :-)

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Howdy folks

Great Thread! Great posts too.

Lots of good stuff in this thread, I had to sign in to post, cause bassfish cracked me up

This is a tuff one...I'm not exactly sure, How I would deal with a thieving Neighbor ???

No one like's a thief....but they are your neighbor .

There are certainly a lot of factors that come into play :dunno

I'm a wood scavenger and I pick up wood wherever I can. I won't steal from somebody's pile but I must admit, the neighbor that had a couple of cords of madrona firewood delivered into a pile in his driveway just to let it sit month after month had me thinking about it.

There is a reason rustling cattle and stealing horses was punishable by death back in the day.

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Originally Posted by Hillbilly

Just got home tonight and found a $5.00 Grocery Story type bundles of Firewood on the front porch.

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Case closed or will you be making this thread into a weekly series?

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