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Sorry, I don't rant on here much but I'm ticked! We had a storm Thursday night and the lights on my garage in the back yard start flashing. My girlfriend tells me, so I get the keys, go out to the garage, check around to make sure nothings gone inside, turn off the lights and go back in....thinking nothing of it. Fast forward to yesterday afternoon/evening. I get home from work and pull into my back yard. I look at the back of my Jeep Liberty, which I drive in the winter months (long commute) and notice something isn't right. The spare tire & alloy wheel has been STOLEN off the back of my vehicle. The thief actually took the time to unscrew the bolts (tire attached to the back of SUV) and take the tire. Estimated cost to replace, roughly $400. There are a bunch of punks running the streets in the town that I live in. This is the second time something like this has happened. Almost a year ago two punks broke into my garage, slashed some of the benches on my weight equipment and assaulted my girlfriend with a baseball bat. I wasn't here at the time. If I ever catch these morons in the act, oh boy !!! Has anyone had problems with recurring thieves? 
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Damn, sorry to hear that.
There's punks like that everywhere, unfortunately. Hopefully, that's the last of it for you.
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My girlfriend's son told her there was a kid who got busted for doing this about a year ago. I called the police last night just to tell them it happened and to keep an eye out. I told them no use filing a report because it wasn't worth claiming it on my insurance.
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Has anyone had problems with recurring thieves?
I had some tools and such stolen from my garage one time when I left my garage door open.
Nope.....nobody likes a thief.
Get a dog or two. They are about the best alarm system you can get as long as you aren't out of town and have to board them somewhere.
They don't even have to be big. A small barking dog draws attention...and attention is something a thief doesn't want.
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Almost a year ago two punks broke into my garage, slashed some of the benches on my weight equipment and assaulted my girlfriend with a baseball bat.
Man that's terrible,I hope your girlfriend was ok. An attack like that should have a mandatory jail sentence for the offender. Sorry to hear about your loss as well,it seems like in the summertime these kids are out on the street just to cause trouble 
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Almost a year ago two punks broke into my garage, slashed some of the benches on my weight equipment and assaulted my girlfriend with a baseball bat.
Man that's terrible,I hope your girlfriend was ok. An attack like that should have a mandatory jail sentence for the offender. Sorry to hear about your loss as well,it seems like in the summertime these kids are out on the street just to cause trouble
I was away when she got attacked. It's a very small town. Even though I've only lived here 5 years, everyone knows everyone/everything. They timed that break in when they knew I was away. They know better than to try something like that when I'm here.
The thing that stinks about the tire getting stolen is that, in hindsight, it might have been partially my fault. I'm not justifying the theft but I'm a dummy.
When I went outside, the floodlights on my garage were flashing off & on. The neighbor ladies complained last summer that they couldn't sleep because the light would flash in to their window when the sensor was set off. Everytime a rabbit would run through the yard, the sensor would get set off so I just starting leaving the sensor lights off at night.
Well, my girlfriends son, when he got done lifting, must have hit the wrong switch activating the sensor. When it started flashing and I went out to check, I bet that was when the thief was out there but didn't get to finish the job. When I turned the sensor lights off he/she had a clear path to do there business when the coast was clear.
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I feel for you man.
But how about this.
My wife and I went to visit our daughter and granddaughter last week. Just gone overnight, didn't get home until late evening the next day.
I have my camper parked beside the garage, I took some trash out, not thinking anything about it, but something didn't look right though.
I keep the camper plugged in as I use it for business about every other week, started looking, someone had pulled my power cord out of the camper and taken heavy duty cutter and cut the power cord off at the camper.
Don't know if was for the copper wire, or just wanted a new cord.
Anywho, had to turn around, go to the dealership, which is about 45 minutes away and buy a whole new cord, took me a day to tear everything apart and replace it.
Called the poilice, they wouldn't even come out and look, said they would file a report, nothing they could do as there were no witnesses. Our tax dollars at work.
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I've never had a huge problem with thieves but when I lived in Akron it was in a student neighborhood and not the greatest area. I had my car broken into twice and we had people break into our house a couple of times (once when I was sleeping on the couch)
In my car they stole my books, CD's, CD player but left a $600 ham radio so it shows they were just out for a quick fix. They were a group b/c the Akron PD said over 50 cars in the area were broken into and all of them had similar things stolen. I felt very violated and thats when I brought my gun down.
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I can feel your pain brother. In September of 2007 two crackheads (which I know they were since the police found a good amount of this drug in the vehicle, well they stole our 2007 GMC Envoy not even a month after we purchased it. THank goodness they found the vehicle, it even mad the news since there was a 45 minute police chase involved.
Unfortunately though the idiots when the noticed they were running out of gas went the wrong way down a major road, and the police were forced to use stop sticks which caused roughly 7,000 dollars of damage, the insurance covered it obviously, but you almost feel raped when something like this happens. Now the jackasses are doing 5 years in the pen because of their actions, but that doesn't change the way we feel. Punks are everywhere, and it sucks when it affects you and your loved ones,
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I cant stand a thief....I had a car stolen on Good Friday about 20 years ago, that still ticks me off!!!!!!!!!
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Ohh man, if someone ever stole my car I would hope they just wreck it b/c I would feel like you did, raped, and I wouldn't want my car back b/c it would never feel the same. One of the first things I did was get LoJack on my car, bought a clutch lock just in case someone was to get slick and try to steal her. But if they did and I got it back I would trade it in and get another b/c it would just feel,,wrong 
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my girlfriend works dispatch in a suburb just outside of chicago, and about 6 months ago they had a problem with people selling things on craiglist, and then robbing the buyer when they would meet up, the people were eventually caught, but it's just really cruddy to see how far people will go to get a few extra bucks
i've had things stolen, shoes (in school), a bike..
the one thing i do, is make sure i don't really leave anything important/valuable in my car... i try to keep it as empty as possible, most of the cds i keep in my car are burned as it is, so i don't worry too much about that...
i bought my ps3 yesterday, and the cops at my girlfriend's work want to use the box it came in as a bait box, to set in a dummy car... lololololol
only if i can watch.
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Get a dog or two. They are about the best alarm system you can get as long as you aren't out of town and have to board them somewhere.
They don't even have to be big. A small barking dog draws attention...and attention is something a thief doesn't want.
Precisely. Plus, the fear of waking up the owner, and also the fear of getting bit - dogs are great at not stopping theft, but preventing the possibility of theft. If no one is home, the bigger the dog the better. But at night, when you're sleeping, even a small dog barking is often times enough to prevent someone from breaking in simply because of the fact that they know the owner will probably be awake. Theives like easy targets.
My brother used to live in DC. At a block crime watch program (whatever it was called) the cop doing the program flat out said people with dogs don't get broken into any where NEAR as often as people without dogs.
Guns are good for when a thief is in the house IF you're awake. Dogs more often than not will prevent a thief from even entering the house.
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Just a tip for you bro. Move just a bit out farther in the sticks. Then sit and wait for the bastids. Shoot them and burry them in the back 40. Nobody will even come looking for them, and if they do they will never be found 
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sad to hear...
My guess is that the thief didn't need the wheel for his jeep, so you can count on it being for sale on Ebay or one of the other internet based auction sites.
I'd watch those sites to see if it shows up...
Again, sorry to hear
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Just a tip for you bro. Move just a bit out farther in the sticks. Then sit and wait for the bastids. Shoot them and burry them in the back 40. Nobody will even come looking for them, and if they do they will never be found
We will be moving closer to my work, in Cleveland, in the not so distant future. I plan on building a house up that way (somewhere around Ravenna/Streetsboro/Mantua). I have a ton of weight equipment/weights in my garage or otherwise, this wouldn't have happened because the vehicles would be in there. That won't be a problem when we move.
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That's Sebring for ya!
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Get a dog. Any pit bull, Doberman or Rott should do the trick. Also, hang signs around your yard that read "Beware of Dog" and "Guns Don't Kill People, I Kill People"... that should help. Booby traps work wonders too. You can also slap a bumper sticker on your vehicle that reads "I have no problem going back to prison". 
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You can also slap a bumper sticker on your vehicle that reads "I have no problem going back to prison".
LMAO...
Thieves are just about the lowest of the low.
LOL - The Rish will be upset with this news as well. KS just doesn't prioritize winning...
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Moved to Canada. That stuff doesn't happen often here. I haven't locked my front door in 9 years and I lived right in the capital city of Ottawa for 6 of them. The "bad area" of the city at that. We couldn't do that growing up in the suburbs outside of Cleveland when I lived there for 25 years.
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It is so true Peen, a dog is a serious way to keep people with bad intent away from the house.
A small dog often makes more noise then a big dog.....and it actually does not matter....noise is noise!
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It is so true Peen, a dog is a serious way to keep people with bad intent away from the house.
A small dog often makes more noise then a big dog.....and it actually does not matter....noise is noise!
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sad to hear...
My guess is that the thief didn't need the wheel for his jeep, so you can count on it being for sale on Ebay or one of the other internet based auction sites.
I'd watch those sites to see if it shows up...
or they may just peel the tire off and sell the rim for scrap.. and maybe get a few bucks..
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[I plan on building a house up that way (somewhere around Ravenna/Streetsboro/Mantua).
I just moved to Rootstown, it is great. I am 5 minutes from KSU or Ravenna. Streetsboro is nice if you are going to be commuting to CLeveland because of its access to I 480 but it has gotten expensive with all the developments.
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I work in Solon. My preference is going to be to build in either Streetsboro or off of 422 just outside of Mantua. I've been checking out a development out there (La Due?) I'm doing 2+ hours, round trip, to and from work and $400-500+ gas bills, per month, aren't amusing me.
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Yeah the drive from Streetsboro to Solon is nothing. You can just shoot right up 82 and be there in minutes. I still work in CLeveland and it takes me 40 to 45 one way. I live right by RT14 so I jst take that right up to I480 up to the hood where my job is. I am familiar with La Due resevoir, I dont know if that is where the development you are talking about is.
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