10-19-2016, 05:48 PM
6x-- Good luck with your efforts to recover your stolen gear. As others have said, most likely not a fisherman but a person in need of drugs. I lost a Honda generator to a thief who took the item out of my shop. Makes you really 
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I have mixed thoughts about catching someone like that in the act. The best scenario would be that the cowardly thief bolts and your property is safe. But what might happen if you catch or confront the thief and there is an altercation? Very likely somebody is going to take a thumpin' (see GEEZER's post above). If it is you who gets beat up you have little recourse... if the thief is caught he spends a day or two in jail and is back in business.
If the thief gets beat to a bloody pulp and is hauled of on a stretcher to recover he comes back and sews you ("sew" used as in sewer rather that sue) for taking the law into your own hands and maiming him to the point where he can no longer "work". The time and money to defend yourself can run you into the poor house.
Most of us "senior fishermen" can remember a time when a hand shake confirmed a sale rather than a lengthy and complicated contract, when people left the keys in their cars, their doors unlocked at night, and Fido was the "security system." Very
that there are now so many people who are desperate to find anything of value that they can steal just to make a quick buck to feed an addiction or whatever. A symptom of a deteriorating society.
I'm through. I'm going deer hunting.
BLK
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.I have mixed thoughts about catching someone like that in the act. The best scenario would be that the cowardly thief bolts and your property is safe. But what might happen if you catch or confront the thief and there is an altercation? Very likely somebody is going to take a thumpin' (see GEEZER's post above). If it is you who gets beat up you have little recourse... if the thief is caught he spends a day or two in jail and is back in business.
If the thief gets beat to a bloody pulp and is hauled of on a stretcher to recover he comes back and sews you ("sew" used as in sewer rather that sue) for taking the law into your own hands and maiming him to the point where he can no longer "work". The time and money to defend yourself can run you into the poor house.
Most of us "senior fishermen" can remember a time when a hand shake confirmed a sale rather than a lengthy and complicated contract, when people left the keys in their cars, their doors unlocked at night, and Fido was the "security system." Very
that there are now so many people who are desperate to find anything of value that they can steal just to make a quick buck to feed an addiction or whatever. A symptom of a deteriorating society.I'm through. I'm going deer hunting.
BLK
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