Strangest Car Theft Story Ever?

[Snake45]

Certainly the strangest one I've heard of this year, anyway. And, it's a "Florida Man" story to boot: 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/florida-man-arrested-after-allegedly-burying-two-stolen-race-cars-with-an-excavator/ar-AA12BadO?li=BBorjTa

[Mark]

The story doesn't say what happened to the trailer, which is probably the object of the theft to begin with. 

A lot of stolen trailers end up getting used by people selling items like counterfeit sports gear, where they can't make enough money selling that krap to afford the trailer.  Or they get stripped down and used for hauling landscaping equipment. 

In this case the cargo was too personalized to be easily sold under the radar, so in the hole it all went.

[Reegs]

I used to work for a company that sold crappy off-shore made polyester clothing by mail. A trailer full of our goods was stolen. They never found the trailer but did find our stuff by the side of the road.

[keyser]

I would have let him dig it up, then buried him in the same hole. Not dead, just buried. Asshat. Using work truck to do it. Nice. Lawyer can probably make the poor guy whole with business  insurance. 
Florida man never sleeps. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, keyser said:

I would have let him dig it up, then buried him in the same hole. Not dead, just buried...

I would have put his lower half through a chipper first, maybe just to the knees, tourniquets.

I have a really really bad attitude towards thieves.   

[keyser]

 

[1930fordpickup]

Around here it has been discovered that they use stolen enclosed trailers to hide the loot.  They will take the trailers and pull it up to a building and fill it up. Then they take the trailer miles away and let it sit for a time until the coast is clear before they sell the items inside.  Yes they were caught on cameras and it was a group of people doing the job. 

[Tabbysdaddy]

People from Florida suck.

Edited October 5, 2022 by Tabbysdaddy

[espo]

22 hours ago, Snake45 said:

Certainly the strangest one I've heard of this year, anyway. And, it's a "Florida Man" story to boot: 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/florida-man-arrested-after-allegedly-burying-two-stolen-race-cars-with-an-excavator/ar-AA12BadO?li=BBorjTa

The sad thing is I doubt if the guy really had sufficient insurance to replace these cars, 

[Ace-Garageguy]

10 hours ago, espo said:

The sad thing is I doubt if the guy really had sufficient insurance to replace these cars, 

Which advocates even more for the wood-chipper/buried alive punishment as a deterrent to those contemplating a similar crime.

My shop was hit in '77, I was under-insured, and I had to work for other people for years to get back to where I'd been.

Until you've lived through it, you probably don't really understand how it feels.

Edited October 7, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy
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[espo]

11 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Which advocates even more for the wood-chipper/buried alive punishment as a deterrent to those contemplating a similar crime.

My shop was hit in '77, I was under-insured, and I had to work for other people for years to get back to where I'd been.

Until you've lived through it, you probably don't really understand how it feels.

Many years ago, mid '80's to be exact, my wife wanted to go back to collage to finish her degree. We bought a pretty clean '66 El Camino for her to drive and park in the student parking lot. We wanted something that we wouldn't lose any sleep over when it got a door ding as opposed to our new '85 Monte Carlo SS. During her exam week she come out to the lot and was unable to find the El Camino. Talking to the Campus Policy we learned that they were losing on average a half a dozen or more cars every month. Just so happened my wife, the accountant, thought we could save money on our insurance bill by not having Theft Insurance on our policy on the El Camino.  

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, espo said:

...Just so happened my wife, the accountant, thought we could save money on our insurance bill by not having Theft Insurance on our policy on the El Camino.  

When I was building my first business, I was plowing as much of my income back into top-line tools and equipment as I possibly could, something I'd done from day one working as an apprentice mechanic after I left Tech. I neglected to keep enough insurance coverage to replace what I'd accumulated, and was dead in the water, business-wise, until I could buy enough tools to open the doors again...mostly with used stuff to maximize bang for the buck.

Immediately after the '77 theft, the only tools I had left were what was in the emergency box in my car, and it was tough being taken seriously when I was applying for work with so few tools.

I never replaced my beautiful SnapOn stuff, or the dozens of special tools I'd made for obscure operations, or the exotic OEM tools like a set of engine assembly fixtures for the NSU Ro80...special tools that most likely ended up in a dumpster, or as scrap, when the thieves couldn't pawn 'em.

Did I say I have a really bad attitude about theft?

Edited October 7, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy
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[espo]

1 hour ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

When I was building my first business, I was plowing as much of my income back into top-line tools and equipment as I possibly could, something I'd done from day one working as an apprentice mechanic after I left Tech. I neglected to keep enough insurance coverage to replace what I'd accumulated, and was dead in the water, business-wise, until I could buy enough tools to open the doors again...mostly with used stuff to maximize bang for the buck.

Immediately after the '77 theft, the only tools I had left were what was in the emergency box in my car, and it was tough being taken seriously when I was applying for work with so few tools.

I never replaced my beautiful SnapOn stuff, or the dozens of special tools I'd made for obscure operations, or the exotic OEM tools like a set of engine assembly fixtures for the NSU Ro80...special tools that most likely ended up in a dumpster, or as scrap, when the thieves couldn't pawn 'em.

Did I say I have a really bad attitude about theft?

Yours was obviously a far greater loss, but it does point out the need for proper protection for your investments. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 minute ago, espo said:

Yours was obviously a far greater loss, but it does point out the need for proper protection for your investments. 

Like shotguns wired to the doors, but sadly, illegal.   

[espo]

Just now, Ace-Garageguy said:

Like shotguns wired to the doors, but sadly, illegal.   

That may depend on two things. One, where you live. Two, do you have a backhoe?