Nicksterdemus
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I have been hit a coupe of times recently on an old mobile home used for storage and a small shop. About two months ago two 15-16 year old heathens started this process. One has since moved back out of state.
I'm sure more than one was responsible for the last heist. They're cherry picking what is there and it isn't much. I found a LED mini lamp about an inch & 1/2 long that had a swivel on the end. I'm guessing that was hunting type headwear that they are using for a light source inside of the buildings as they aren't currently hooked-up to power.
The one remaining kid that I caught earlier rides a school bus past my property. Naturally I suspect him being involved though this could've escalated by word of mouth. Young man telling about all the abandoned "treasure" laying around.
When the young man and buddy broke in before they pried the door to the mobile home, took a pry bar and peeled back the tin on the shop because they couldn't defeat the lock and pried the side glass off a 1981 truck, busting the glass and destroying its frame(they seem to think this is a quieter glass breaking process).
Fast forward to the last few days and someone threw a piece of wood thought the mobile home door glass, broke a master lock off of the shop and took a few items, but not much so I'm still thinking kids.
I replace the lock and just cover up the hole in the door glass. Two days later they come back, sometime after midnight, and break the new lock off the shed. I guess they thought I'd put something new/valuable inside. Didn't need to bust the mobile home door coz I hadn't fixed it yet and rammed my gate from the street.
The gate held though the pipe frame bent like a horseshoe so they back up, get out and bust the lock securing the chain latch. Open the gate, drive down and load up some junk, leave a empty insulin syringe pack and a heavy gauge speaker 2- wire about 16" long.
I'm guessing they fell out of the truck w/mud grips when the thugs opened their truck door, I don't know. Anywho, they have become quite brazen for no more "booty" than they are snagging. None of the stuff taken was worth much. Couple of hundred dollars worth.
The odd thing was this last time they took an old blanket from inside the MH and hung it on the window that is next to the entry door. I always left this window open and it's the old two pane style that swings out when you crank it open. (Early to mid 1970's MH)
It appears to me that they are marking this spot. The window's screen wasn't cut. They went in and picked up this blanket and took it outside drapping it over the open window.
They are walking past stuff they could steal and taking time for this. I'm thinking that if the one remaining young man, that I originally caught, was a part of this then he might have done that so he could see it from his school bus as he rode by.
I don't know that he was a part of it and the storage/sheds are about 450' off the main road. When I first saw the blanket, from a distance, it looked like someone trying to crawl into the window or as if someone was on a ladder.
The level of destruction has certainly went up from prying a door and a truck glass to throwing lumber though glass and trying to bust a gate by vehicular force. Of course the empty insulin syringe wrapper sheds some light.
If this slow(special ed) kid wasn't a part and didn't mark it to show his buddies on the bus then is it being marked as a easy hit/treasure map much like hobos used to mark various places?
They closed the MH door and the bent 10' pipe-gate while wrapping the chain through sans lock on their way out.
Feel free to ask anything or add to w/comment.
They didn't come last night, yet I'm sure they will continue until they have relieved me of everything they want or can sell.
I probably would have given it all to them if they had agreed to take everything and clean-up the property.
I'm sure more than one was responsible for the last heist. They're cherry picking what is there and it isn't much. I found a LED mini lamp about an inch & 1/2 long that had a swivel on the end. I'm guessing that was hunting type headwear that they are using for a light source inside of the buildings as they aren't currently hooked-up to power.
The one remaining kid that I caught earlier rides a school bus past my property. Naturally I suspect him being involved though this could've escalated by word of mouth. Young man telling about all the abandoned "treasure" laying around.
When the young man and buddy broke in before they pried the door to the mobile home, took a pry bar and peeled back the tin on the shop because they couldn't defeat the lock and pried the side glass off a 1981 truck, busting the glass and destroying its frame(they seem to think this is a quieter glass breaking process).
Fast forward to the last few days and someone threw a piece of wood thought the mobile home door glass, broke a master lock off of the shop and took a few items, but not much so I'm still thinking kids.
I replace the lock and just cover up the hole in the door glass. Two days later they come back, sometime after midnight, and break the new lock off the shed. I guess they thought I'd put something new/valuable inside. Didn't need to bust the mobile home door coz I hadn't fixed it yet and rammed my gate from the street.
The gate held though the pipe frame bent like a horseshoe so they back up, get out and bust the lock securing the chain latch. Open the gate, drive down and load up some junk, leave a empty insulin syringe pack and a heavy gauge speaker 2- wire about 16" long.
I'm guessing they fell out of the truck w/mud grips when the thugs opened their truck door, I don't know. Anywho, they have become quite brazen for no more "booty" than they are snagging. None of the stuff taken was worth much. Couple of hundred dollars worth.
The odd thing was this last time they took an old blanket from inside the MH and hung it on the window that is next to the entry door. I always left this window open and it's the old two pane style that swings out when you crank it open. (Early to mid 1970's MH)
It appears to me that they are marking this spot. The window's screen wasn't cut. They went in and picked up this blanket and took it outside drapping it over the open window.
They are walking past stuff they could steal and taking time for this. I'm thinking that if the one remaining young man, that I originally caught, was a part of this then he might have done that so he could see it from his school bus as he rode by.
I don't know that he was a part of it and the storage/sheds are about 450' off the main road. When I first saw the blanket, from a distance, it looked like someone trying to crawl into the window or as if someone was on a ladder.
The level of destruction has certainly went up from prying a door and a truck glass to throwing lumber though glass and trying to bust a gate by vehicular force. Of course the empty insulin syringe wrapper sheds some light.
If this slow(special ed) kid wasn't a part and didn't mark it to show his buddies on the bus then is it being marked as a easy hit/treasure map much like hobos used to mark various places?
They closed the MH door and the bent 10' pipe-gate while wrapping the chain through sans lock on their way out.
Feel free to ask anything or add to w/comment.
They didn't come last night, yet I'm sure they will continue until they have relieved me of everything they want or can sell.
I probably would have given it all to them if they had agreed to take everything and clean-up the property.
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