Crazy Busy ... and Gone
The photo is of the basement pit for a new home being dug a lot away from my house. You can see my pickups in the distance. Everywhere around here you see ads for "Call Before You Dig" and this contractor did just that. They painted lines for every utility in the area ... including my gas line to my house ... and even though it's on the wrong side of the fence for the digging .... I had a yellow line painted on my grass for it. The best I can tell the painting of the lines gave the digger a target to aim for and he successfully cut the power to the street lights for two blocks! I've been trying without success for over a week now to get them turned back on. About 2:AM Wednesday morning I'm sitting out on my porch swing while the girls are taking care of business and looking for rabbit trails in the yard ... and even though my Chevy 2500 HD is white ... you can just barely see it it's so dark out there! We go in and sleep until 7:00 AM and then I put the girls out again before breakfast. My Uncle passed away last week and I was planing on taking the day off and driving to southern Indiana to attend the funeral. I go outside to call the girls in and I notice ... my Chevy 2500 HD is no longer parked where I left it. It's gone! I call the police and get an officer out to take the report within an hour. We look where the truck parked and see a small pile of window glass laying there. Now that I have my police report ... I call my insurance agent to report it stolen and by the time this is done ... there is no way I can drive the two hours I need to drive and make it to the funeral in time. I go on into work, but with the stupidity going on there ... I probably should have stayed home! A few hours later I learn there was an attempted theft of a neighbor's truck a couple of blocks away. They smashed the window and tore the steering column apart and I was figuring my truck suffered the same fate! Sleeping was pretty difficult last night as a result! I could just see my truck in a vacant lot someplace stripped down to the bare bones! About 10:AM Thursday morning I get a call from IPD that they have found my truck and figuring the worst ... I have them tow it to the impound yard. I get there and look it over and the only damage I can see is the smashed driver's side window and the overhead cab light yanked out. I put the key in and it starts right up! I head back to work and wait until my daughter can give me a ride up there to get it. It puzzled me how they drove it off that way, but I came to the conclusion they towed it away. It was found with a car dealer's plate on it which I figure was stolen as well. Once I got the transmission linkage reconnected ... I drove on back to the house and put it into the garage. Then I took the Firebird back to my storage unit and brought the little Chevy home. I feel very lucky they found it as quick as they did and the damage was no more than it was. I've got repairs to make and a new truck plate to get to replace the stolen plate, but at least it's home again!
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Shuttering Yukon said:
It sure makes you feel violated eh!
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Alan Mays said:
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Clickity Click said:
As for the digger, it seems something always goes wrong ... you'd think they would know what they were doing ... ha ha, NOT!
Talk about lowlifes in the big city, my brother lived in Detroit and in a somewhat dubious neighborhood. I was always afraid to get there to visit him. When he told me that there were ocassions where they would find a body dumped in the ally behind his garage, we just stopped going there. It's a good thing the neighbors looked out for each other and they did a good job of if as rarely would someone try to break in. Neighborhood Watch volunteers would patrol that block nightly. One night they heard someone screaming and found a young man pinned up against a garage door(face first) with the owner's great dane holding him in place by standing on his hind legs and his front legs against the guy's neck and shoulder. Must have been quite a shocked to try to break in to the garage only to have that big animal come over the fence out of the dark and back you into the garage door. They arrested him and I bet he was very happy to have the dog called off of him. No pity here.
Indycaver (Norm) replied to Clickity Click:
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autofantasia said:
Here's hoping things get sorted and back to normal asap at least on the home front! :)
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