gotcha!!!!!!

glennster · Apr 21, 2011

just hauled in an impounded vehicle for the sherriff. seems two kids have been swiping iron from a farm. farmer had it set up with the sherriff, he waited in the corn crib, two youths showed up, hooked up to a grain auger and were gonna drive away. quick call on the cell phone and the boys in blue nabbed em!!!!! woo-hoo!!!!

C.R. · Apr 21, 2011

hope they get more than a slap on the wrist

641Dave · Apr 21, 2011

Makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside!

I hate thieves!

flying belgian · Apr 21, 2011

I set my glenco field cult. for sale out by state hyway 14. on edge of my farm. It's about quarter miles from my farm yard. Before I left I chained it to a hyline pole with padlock.

older than dirt · Apr 21, 2011

Had a friend they took his 4840 from under his shed a couple of months ago then sunday night he had his 550 case dozer setting in a field and they took it. They are not going to be a happy camper if he catches them

Earl Gray · Apr 21, 2011

They will cut the chain and sell that for scrap too!

Greenday · Apr 21, 2011

it only takes 10 seconds to cut a chain!

the tractor vet · Apr 21, 2011

IF ya remember two years ago just before Christmas some low life went into my buddy's barn and drove off with his skid steer on the coldest night of the year. We got lucky on that one as the guy that bought it off the crooks was braggen about the super deal he got on a nice New Holland LX665 with new tires at the coffee shop to his friend and someone else over heard them talking and spoke up and said that one sounds like the one that was stolen two weeks ago about fifteen miles from here. He then called the sheriff and they came out and checked the s/n and yep it was We got it back a couple days latter . The guy that bought it off the theifs was out 4500 buck.

Ky Hauler · Apr 21, 2011

I heard a few guys talking about this the other day. They stole six gates twice off one farm. He has to chain them and weld the chain. I imagine they'll bring a torch or sawzall next time. I caught a burglar in my garage in 1987. Put about sixty stitches in his head. He got 6 years for PFO, too. The bad part is if your cattle get out and killed or a car hits one then you are out money again.

the tractor vet · Apr 21, 2011

Also my uncle had three tractors Borrowed and never found there way home . A two year old Farmall 460 Diesel with wide ft. , a year and a half old 64 Farmall 706 Diesel with wide ft. and flat top fenders and a John Deere 4520 . Gone history never to be found . Back in 76 someone tryed to borrow my 460 gasser one night as at the time there were a bunch of tractors dispairing over night . I had left mine in the field but removed the rotor and placed a piece of paper between the points and shut off the fuel at the tank and removed the key , yea i know one key fits all . But it may slow them down a little . The big plus was the battery was a weak small one and if she did not fire wright up ya usually did not get more then two trys and she was dead. That night someone tryed real hard to help them selfs to it as they unhooked the disc and tryed to move it on the starter before the battery went dead as she was setting about six feet from the disc then next morning.

Jeff-oh · Apr 21, 2011

Happy Easter.

The Teacher for us all still has work to do.

Jeff

Ultradog MN · Apr 21, 2011

Chalk one up for the good guys. Thanks for the post.

GordoSD · Apr 21, 2011

DO I have this right? I am driving the speed limit past your place at night. Suddenly I see your black cow about 100 feet in front of me. As I am traveling about 80 feet per second, I have no chance to stop and I plow into it. I total a vehicle, spend a week in the hospital, months for rehab. And of course I should pay for it all, as it was my fault for driving down the highway?

Pat-CT · Apr 21, 2011

Im thinking he's just saying that to add to the fact that someone stole your cattle fence gate, someone hits your cow and then your a getting rear ended twice by the crooks

CBL95 · Apr 21, 2011

had an old landlord and good friend that caught two kids taking EVERYTHING they could out of the barn on the propery we used to live on and supried them just as they were getting in the truck and said (kindy) "now boys since you done loaded this for me hows bout putting it ALL back in a nice ordery fasion". they did alright and bob had the sheriff come and give the boys a little lesson. we still had parts and a JD Quik-tach 4 row mounted culivator in the barn and his dad had untold years worth of items and memorys in it plus two cars and a IH TD9 bulldozer. Who knows how they manged to load and unload it all but they sure did. Bob came the next day and took everything to the fertilzer barn (they own a fertlizer and trucking business)But enogh of my stories and GREAT FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Richard from SE AZ · Apr 21, 2011

Coolest gotcha story I ever heard was about a divorced man who lived out in the country from town that worked all day and his place was left alone for about 10 hours daily. He owned a gas, service station in town. Just before he was going to close down for the night, a pickup pulling a trailer pulled in for gas. As he was filling the truck (it was few years ago)he recognized the trailer.It was his. Looking closer, all the stuff they were hauling was his also. He casualy told the other person getting gas to call the cops ,walked back to the pickup, pulled out his Zippo stuck the gas nozzle into the cab and told the two guys inside " I don't know were you were taking my stuff but this is as far as it goes."

Ron in Nebr · Apr 22, 2011

Yep, I think Gordo was reading it wrong...the blame was placed, in this situation, on the lowlifes who stole the gates, thus allowing the cattle to get out. Problem is, the cattle owner, not the lowlifes, is who's "responsible" for whatever happens. The passing motorist isn't at fault, no matter if it was the owner not keeping his fences up or some scum who stole his gates who really caused the problem.

Doug in Illinois · Apr 22, 2011

That wasn't up by Bushnell, IL by any chance was it?

It was in our local paper a couple weeks ago that someone had stolen a lot of stuff for scrap, but left behind "some items of their own" that the farmer (and the law) knew they would have to come back for. BUSTED!!

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