The criminals in the "triangle" aren't too swift.
One stole my air compressor a few years ago. I talked to my neighbor because my daughter had seen someone running from his back yard and dropping throwing someing into his car the night before . . . she got the car's tag #. Turns out the guy had broken into 6 or 7 cars and a couple of utility building the same night. He had stashed all the stuff he stole, including my air compressor, in the bushes behind my neighbor's house. My daughter must have spooked him when she pulled in the driveway and he never came back after the loot. Every one of the cars he broke into, he did so by busting out the driver's side window with his bare fist. The police were able to trace his steps by following the trail of blood . . . after every break-in, the trail got bigger. They were able to tie all the recovered loot to the idiot's crime spree cause it all had his blood on it. The funny part is, 3 of the cars he "broke" into were not even locked. :lol:
About a year and half ago, someone stole my mother-in-law's car from behind our house. She was gone out of town and had left the car there for our oldest daughter to use while she was gone, so I didn't think anything about it when it wasn't there when I came home from work one day . . . until the next day when my daughter came over to get it. After a week and a half, we had pretty much written it off figuring it had been stripped and chopped up by now . . . until my wife saw it going down Main Street one day. She followed it and called the police. It pulled into AutoZone and a young lady with two well dressed, well behaved kids got out and went in. Well, it turns out that my mother-in-law had left the car unlocked and left the keys under the floor mat . . . and had the title in the glove box with her registration and insurance paperwork. The guy that stole it destroyed the dash taking the radio out (must be something to do with the LaFayette, GA radio theaves code or something) then, he found the title and decided he could make a few bonus bucks and sold the car for $500 (Blue Book retail value was about $3000 at the time). He signed the title took the cash and, I'm assuming, headed out to his crack dealer for his fix. When the police started questioning the lady driving the car, she said her husband had just bought it from a man he worked with and that she had the title . . . Well, she did. She had my mother-in-law's title with the seller portion on the back filled in with the idiots real name, correct address and SIGNATURE! The whole situation would be funny, but it took almost a year for me to find the parts and get all the crap he tore up fixed, she lost her radio . . . and the LaFayette Police took over a year to complete their "investigation" and get the guy in court. The real looser in the deal was the couple who made what they thought was a legitamate purchase and ended up being out $500.
