Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire While away hunting, some low life scum sucking meth head stole my ATV!!!

Ever try an oversized dog like a Rotweiler, Doberman, or ill tempered Chessapeake Bay Retriever?

You'd be surprised how many guys will think twice about stealing stuff when confronted by an oversized teddy bear (well teddy bear to you... flesh ripping holy-terror to them)!

People have tried that around here but when they get ready to steal it, your dog gets a diet of poison meat balls.

http://kdminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=797&ArticleID=40873&TM=8604.068

Seems like they are moving to the country, this is my buddy(Home owner) Had his 38 loaded with Snake shot!

Dang! I'm loaded, currently with a Glock 357 Sig and a Remington 870 using 3" Hevi Shot Dead Coyote (T shot size) loads... If I have to fire to protect my life, I want the perp DEAD!

Sorry to hear of your troubles. I'm most surprised to read that they rammed the ATV into locked cattle gates. Obviously thieves aren't known to be super smart, but that could well have ended vary badly had the gates not gave way. I suppose on thier 1st theft attempt they sized up the gate as vulnerable and thus they thought nothing of it and blasted it full steam ahead. (??)

I'm hoping this has a happy ending for you and you're made whole and they're caught and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

When you are geeked up on meth, reason and proper thought processes don't always mesh in a coherent manner.

I wish they had been slung over the handle bars and onto the paved road in front of them to be honest.

Win/Win for the theif. They either get the machine when the gate gives way, or, they get to sue the owner of the gate when they're injured because the gate didn't give way during their escape.

It's a damn shame ain't it.

Buddy been there, told the POS he didn't want to Kill Him!

People who do this kind of thing on a regular basis need to be caught, and killed.

Quietly, if that's more "P.C." in your area. Leave the law out of it entirely,......if it leads to a less stressful resolution.

They're Vermin.

GTC

Yup, property crimes are at an ALL TIME high here, according to our S.O.
The lowlifes are virtually ALL Prior Offenders, too.
Looks like all of the "Rehabilitation Programs" that have kept so many employed for so long were a complete wash,....eh ?

GTC

Similar story, but this one ended badly for the thief. Justified shooting obviously, but I'd have skipped the TV interview and simply said I feared for my life and where's my lawyer. This happened in south Alabama.

http://www.wsfa.com/global/Category.asp?C=195969&clipId=5336665&autostart=true

Only comment to ANYONE should be; "I want representation and I'd like to contact my lawyer."

Doesn't it just rub salt in your wounds when they cut your chain in the middle rather than the link your lock is going through? I have a couple of short, useless chains because of that kind of foolishness.

I did catch a guy in a garage he shouldn't have been in with a trail camera. He is currently cooling his heals in the lockup and will be for some time. That judge that loves pictures can't stand a burgler. He is one of the good ones!

I'm just not sure there's anything you can do to where they can't steal it or in the process of trying to steal it that they won't tear it all to heck making it worthless...

I dunno.. Mine are inside a locked pole shed (no windows) and the home alarm is tasked to the doors.. I remove the batteries in the winter and I can see the door from my bedroom window (where I just happen to keep a handy self-defense item - with night sights

Only difference in our set up is that it's an open air shed. The gates are alarmed through the house alarm, the lot's gates are chained locked. The whole set up is just outside my parent's bedroom window and there's a 357 Smith and Mossberg 500 ready to go. They were just quicker than my aging father was. Bastages waited until I went to MO to hit. Had I been home and got the call they'd got their money's worth in trying to out run me.

Makes you wonder who all knew you were going out of town.

D2D,

Very sorry to hear about your loss, quad theft is rife over here too. How long is it between the first and secnd theft? Over here they will very often steal the first machine and then turn up again several months later to steal the replacement.

No idea what costs are involved, but you my want to fit a gps tracker unit and also some sort of concealed immobiliser switch. Even if you don't get a tracker unit, maybe print off some fake gps tracker warning labels...

Security wise, I am sorry to say it, but the locks and chains in the picture are simply not up to scratch..

Do a search on high security chain meant for motor bikes, and uses one (or two ) of those chains to secure the quad to a good ground anchor..They are expensive, but are far more resistant to cutting short of the theif using a torch.

Use as short a length of chain as practical and if at all possible, chain it such that the quad is over the chain/anchor to restrict access with bolt crops ect.

A short chain is also better as it stops the theif from folding it back over it self and smashing it with a sedgehammer..

For a ground anchor, look at something like: http://www.yanchor.com/

Yeah, pretty sure I know who sold me out on that end too. He hangs with the thug we think rode it off. We're still hunting and the quail have flushed yet but the dogs are getting real birdy!

Maybe take the plug out or yank all the fuses next time so they can't ride it off your property?? Thing is with thieves, if they want something bad enough they will find a way to take it.