Rebecca's journal-may be time to restart this

[savingdogs]

How is your horse today? We all hope doing much better!

 

[hillfarm]

Theives are definantly getting bolder. I had a freind who brought her boat into the driveway to pack it for some fishing and water time. Hubby took truck to town for gas and snax. She comes back out to add some things to the boat only to find it gone.

They backed into her driveway and drove off with it. She said at least it was insured, but the worst was the cooler was packed with beer and soda. She was complaining that those arizona ice teas were a dollar a peice. LOL. It is getting unreal how bold some are getting.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

We all may need to get in the practice of tying wheels together of trailers and such, with those steel ties and locks.

 

[Denim Deb]

They do sell locks you can put on your hitch to prevent it from getting stolen.

 

[valmom]

Oh, that's awful about your trailer. And horrible about the horse! Is it a stitches sort of slash? I hope they find the trailer. (There is an upside to having your trailer snowbanked in for half the year, I suppose.)

 

[rebecca100]

Denim-the sad thing is that we had just looked at one of those hitch locks not a month ago and talked about getting it and then decided that we didn't need it. I saw the horse yesterday and the cut was not nearly as bad as what I had imagined from his description. It was not a huge gash like I thought. It was through the skin about 4 inches across over one of her legs on her chest. It still didnt look like a wire cut though. Anyway he took her to his house to tend her and is going to put her on a different pasture later on. He took all his horses off that one and as far as I know will not be renting it any more. I filed a report on the trailer yesterday. Grrrrrr...... I walked in and explained that our horse trailer had been stolen and was handed a piece of paper with a place for my name and address and phone number and blank lines and told to fill it out and an officer would come up to take it. I was like, okay. So I filled it out the best I could with what I knew. It is amazing how you mind goes completely blank on what something looks like when you really need it. I got home and realized that I had forgotten some very important details-for example that it was a 4 horse trailer and bumper pull and that it had new springs on the front. I have the feeling it was probably one of the worst reports they have ever gotten, but the bad thing is that it really didn't matter to the officer what I wrote. He truly didn't seem to care. I was told it wouldn't be investigated unless it were seen by someone or someone came forward with where it was. Double grrr.... So I asked him what he thought would have happened to it. He shrugged. I asked what we could do to help find it. Another shrug and a "well you could always drive around and look for it." So my hope for ever seeing it again has dwindled to almost nothing. The friend who went to borrow it asked around the neighbors and no one saw anything. DH has been aggravatingly calm about the whole thing. Here I am wanting to make Stolen posters and hang all over the county and put an ad in the newspaper and drive down every road I can find and he told me no AND is making me wait until Monday when the scrap metal places are OPEN to check them out. I wanted to go today or tomorrow-closed or not. He thinks it was stolen and loaded with scrap metal and the whole thing sold. People have been metal crazy around here. An old nonrunning car is bringing upwards of $300 and there is no telling what a horse trailer loaded down with scrap would bring. One of our friends who hauls scrap thinks he saw a horse trailer at the yard he sells to. He promised that he will check it out if he got there before we did. The thing that really aggravated me is that we have had so much stolen. All the junk that was stolen from our place while we were in LA, and now our horse trailer. I am really ready to move. We are in a very poor rural area with few jobs, the drugs have been pouring in from mexico, and with the ecomomy like it is the theft has become unbelieveable. The police just can't keep up with it. They really didn't seem to worried about an old horse trailer anyway. I had expected them to at least give me an idea about why it was taken or what could have happened to it- not just give me shrugs. He didn't even really pay attention when I described the trailer to him.

 

[framing fowl]

What would happen if you called the scrap places? Maybe if they were on the alert right away Monday morning it would help. That way they would all have the info quicker than you driving around.

Do you have an active craigslist in your area? You could put a free ad in there. I don't understand why the DH doesn't want you to put posters up. I thought that was a good idea. Are you able to offer a reward at all? That might help. I don't know -just trying to help you brainstorm here.

I know how frustrating police officers can be. We had our house broken into and our firearms stolen. Police did nothing. They said if they were ever used in a crime, they would run the serial numbers. Then our house was broken into in the middle of the night when we were home. Let's just say we didn't call anyone.

Knowing how bad things are in your area, is there anything else you need to secure so that nothing else happens?

 

[rebecca100]

I thought of craigslist also, but dh and friend have both been against any immediate advertising with the thought that it would make the theif uneasy and perhaps make him do away with it or something to keep from getting caught. As it is they said right now if it isn't already in a scrap yard then it is probably just hidden and when they feel comfortable then it will reappear. Friend also said that it would be better to go to the scrap yards in person that way we could look for ourselves to see if it is already there. At least that is their thinking-not mine. And we are definately getting locks for our boat and stock trailer and we had already put padlocks on any out buildings after the last go around. One thing we are both doing is calling everyone we know to be on the lookout for it. Most of them have jobs that require them to be on the road all over the county and they all know what it looked like.

 

[FarmerDenise]

It sucks big time, when your stuff gets stolen!! I know!
all I can offer is and hopefully you will get it back and the thieves get caught!!!

 

[AnnaRaven]

Good luck on getting your trailer back. Cops these days are there to take the report so you can make your insurance claim. That's about it... Glad to hear that the horse is doing okay!