chub
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My wife came home with the children from school on Thursday afternoon. As they pulled up my eldest son (14) spotted someone crouching next to my bed through a very small crack in the curtain. My wife wasnt quite sure so they proceeded to go inside ...to find the whole house ransacked. The back door was open and the keytag on the key was still swinging, so the criminal HAD just been inside and had just left! My wife called me on my cell, I was about 4min away putting some fittings on a tank so hands full of jointing compound. Needless to say I raced down the hillside as fast as possible.
We live on a farm and I run a big building team so I checked in with them...nobody saw anything. Drove over (with my son to possibly ID thief) and checked the nursery and contractors ....nope. We then drove down to our other neighbours who have a substantial security force. These guys are also developing and have 3 contracting crews building houses...nope. On my way in I told the security gaurd what had happened....as I left the site he told me that one of the crews had seen a guy with backpacks heading into the neighbours plumb orchid and vineyard.
Around 30 minutes had elapsed so I didnt have too much hope at this stage. Anyway , as we drive the mile long trip to the orchid my son spots a worker doing something on the plumb trellis. Only problem is its the middle of winter here. No fruit and the pruning is all done!!. As we drove up he took off -with my kids backpacks !! full of cell phones, wedding rings, my wifes jewelery,playstation games, controllers, headsets etc etc.
Hard to describe what happened next but about 15minutes of lost him ,found him ,lost him. Son was calling the heavy security at the neighbours. Describing our location. Think NWA music video meets Dukes of hazzard meet Starsky and Hutch. Ended up running him down and wearing him out. He was throwing bags and phones etc as he realised he couldnt be outrun. A crazy game of cat and mouse. Ended up meeting security in the midst of it all. Dude surrendered but I was so pumped with adrenaline by now I leapt out and grabbed the 45inch Stilson holding all its weight like a baseball bat.
Police arrived. Dude had gang tattoos and two teardrops (double murderer). Anyway we recovered everything except the peridot wedding ring...lost somwhere in the pursuit. Today it was fine and sunny so out with the F75. I have been busy since March with a business opportunity so havent been detecting much. Wasted an hour walking vineyard rows...then decided to be sensible and use my tracking skills. Im no expert but not too bad (was better when I hiked alot). Followed the tracks back and after 45 min or so found a depression in the grass. Got a clean 36 -37 (normally gold is 50/51) may have been the sim card in close proximity?
Anyway, Boom. There it was.
Wife is thrilled, get our stuff back next week.
Work Truck got a punctured radiator and bust one of the shock mounts.
I dont own too much valuble small items and Im not overly materialistic. But all that stuff represents a quite few months of disposable income! After he was cuffed I went to grab the F75 and Nokta pointer and ran them over his stomach and cavity area.No beeps.
Theft is always a faceless crime. But not this time. He was pleading to be let go and said he was just hungry. However ,the fridge and food cupboards were untouched. In his cigarette box was a few rocks of TIk ( meth). I actually felt a bit compassionate - but probably only because I got everything back. If it hadnt ended this way I would probably still be feeling gutted and violated. Im glad it didnt end (or start) in serious violence or loss of life, as it so often does here these days.
All the best
Chub
Does anyone have a similar story to share? When the good guys win and the bad guys lose?
We live on a farm and I run a big building team so I checked in with them...nobody saw anything. Drove over (with my son to possibly ID thief) and checked the nursery and contractors ....nope. We then drove down to our other neighbours who have a substantial security force. These guys are also developing and have 3 contracting crews building houses...nope. On my way in I told the security gaurd what had happened....as I left the site he told me that one of the crews had seen a guy with backpacks heading into the neighbours plumb orchid and vineyard.
Around 30 minutes had elapsed so I didnt have too much hope at this stage. Anyway , as we drive the mile long trip to the orchid my son spots a worker doing something on the plumb trellis. Only problem is its the middle of winter here. No fruit and the pruning is all done!!. As we drove up he took off -with my kids backpacks !! full of cell phones, wedding rings, my wifes jewelery,playstation games, controllers, headsets etc etc.
Hard to describe what happened next but about 15minutes of lost him ,found him ,lost him. Son was calling the heavy security at the neighbours. Describing our location. Think NWA music video meets Dukes of hazzard meet Starsky and Hutch. Ended up running him down and wearing him out. He was throwing bags and phones etc as he realised he couldnt be outrun. A crazy game of cat and mouse. Ended up meeting security in the midst of it all. Dude surrendered but I was so pumped with adrenaline by now I leapt out and grabbed the 45inch Stilson holding all its weight like a baseball bat.
Police arrived. Dude had gang tattoos and two teardrops (double murderer). Anyway we recovered everything except the peridot wedding ring...lost somwhere in the pursuit. Today it was fine and sunny so out with the F75. I have been busy since March with a business opportunity so havent been detecting much. Wasted an hour walking vineyard rows...then decided to be sensible and use my tracking skills. Im no expert but not too bad (was better when I hiked alot). Followed the tracks back and after 45 min or so found a depression in the grass. Got a clean 36 -37 (normally gold is 50/51) may have been the sim card in close proximity?
Anyway, Boom. There it was.
Wife is thrilled, get our stuff back next week.
Work Truck got a punctured radiator and bust one of the shock mounts.
I dont own too much valuble small items and Im not overly materialistic. But all that stuff represents a quite few months of disposable income! After he was cuffed I went to grab the F75 and Nokta pointer and ran them over his stomach and cavity area.No beeps.
Theft is always a faceless crime. But not this time. He was pleading to be let go and said he was just hungry. However ,the fridge and food cupboards were untouched. In his cigarette box was a few rocks of TIk ( meth). I actually felt a bit compassionate - but probably only because I got everything back. If it hadnt ended this way I would probably still be feeling gutted and violated. Im glad it didnt end (or start) in serious violence or loss of life, as it so often does here these days.
All the best
Chub
Does anyone have a similar story to share? When the good guys win and the bad guys lose?
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Glad you were not hurt in all the commotion.
