Munkey Boy
Well-Known Member
- First Name
- matt
- Joined
- Jan 16, 2021
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- Location
- Prescott, AZ
- Vehicle(s)
- Mazda CX-3, '79 CJ5, '21 JT Sport S manual.
- Occupation
- Camp Maintenance
One of the reasons I moved away from there. I worked down on 3rd St. next to the West Oakland BART station, saw cars get broken into all the time. They'd steal the batteries mostly, mark the car, then wait for it to show up the next day with a brand new battery.I will have to agreed here. I been living here in the SF Bay Area since early 90s and it's out of control now. My car/truck had been broken into twice.
Don't we all goes to works is to pay for bills and properties? If it's ok the thieves to take stuffs than why are we still locking our house doors.
But there is occasionally a silver lining. I lived the dream.
As anyone can attest to, the one thing EVERYONE says when someone breaks into their car is, "I just wish I had caught them." I did. Back in 2002 my Taco got broken into just outside where I worked. I heard it, walked outside, and saw some guy pushing a grocery cart past me with a cigar box I kept in my front seat. I went back inside, grabbed an aluminum bat, and stopped the guy at the corner. He denied it of course, then he grabbed a cane from his cart and actually took a swing at me. I can't explain the sensation other than time slowing down, but I watched this thing come at me and I just simply rotated my hand, grabbed it, yanked it from him, and threw it under a car in one motion. Then it was MY turn. I hit him several times in the legs, and he tried scurrying away. He ran around another car and picked up a chunk of concrete there. Just as he got ready to throw it at me, square shot to the top of his head and it was lights out for him. Dropped like a sack of potatoes. Police said, "The guy brought a cane to a bat fight and it didn't end well for him." He was taken to the hospital where the cop later told me he put up a fight there too. So, they held him down and "the doc stitched him up like a football."
But the absolute best part was going to the jail where he had the right to question his accuser, me. A cop escorted me to a room where the idiot was sitting in a wheelchair (you're welcome) and a district attorney was documenting and controlling everything. The guy starts staring me down trying to be intimidating, he was rather large and I'm definitely not. But the DA goes through the instructions and tells everyone that it is recorded audio only without video and he turns it on. I immediately said, "If you think that you can intimidate me by trying to stare me down, you forget that I'm the one who put you in that wheelchair." The DA bites his lip and I hear the cop behind me laughing to himself. It went downhill from there for that piece of shit and he did a year for parole violation. The cops told me afterwards that if I ever needed anything to call them. Hope that I'm still a good story for them after all this time.
Sorry to hear about your troubles, OP. One thing I hate most of all are thieves. I think a hand is fair trade like the others here. Or at least a good start. Repeat offenders will end up looking like a McNugget.
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