As many thieves that are out there, there must be just as many people purchasing stolen property. It's hard to believe that there are so many dishonest people around. Chester

It's called willful blindness. You pretend you're too stupid to have figured out that the great deal was a result of stolen property.
You justify it by convincing yourself that the guy was blowing it out because he really needed the money.

Apparently, 10 - 15 grams of lead is a good antidote for this type of behavior. I don't know anybody that can run 2400 feet per second.

:-p

Is 10 - 15 grams equal to one 180 grain shell or is that two shots?

the effect would probably be the same....

I think "grains" refers to the number of grains of wheat that are used to slap the wrists of these turkeys after they have been sentenced.

People have car alarms. They are told to lock their cars. They are told to keep valuables in their cars out of sight. The message? DO the best to secure your belongings in a car, including your car itself, especially when it is parked in an easily accessible location, especially a part of town unknown to you.

So ........ the ATVs sitting exposed for all to see open and accessible is stollen. I wonder if they were even locked to the pickup the same as someone might lock a bicycle to a post.

I am amazing how fast people want to shoot other people, especially when it is all about man's best friends - his toys. Yahoo minds beget yahoo justice, I always say. I bet you in real life you guys are probably real pussycats. ;-)

Owl...Sometimes your so full of it. WHY do we have to live locked up? Lets just punish the lawbrakers and if shooting THIEFS that break into your home or steal from you Help stop this madness. That have good people locking up every thing and the dirt bags laughing at us,WITH NO FEAR OF PUNISHMENT...SO BE IT...

Some claim that the crime rate is steadily declining and there is no reason to be alarmed.

So, give it another 50 years or so and then you can take the bars off your basement windows, the chains and padlocks off your lawn furniture, barbeque, ATV, and snowmobile. Hey, you may even be able to cancel your eighty dollar/quarterly CHUBB monitoring contract and leave the club off your steering wheel.

Never give up hope, it is just a blip in the crime rate that causes a Rash of ATV Thefts.

Soon everything will be coochy-cozy, why get upset in the meantime?

It seems to far too much of a co-incidence that there is such a rash of Quads stolen, as well as cabins broken into, outboard motors stolen etc. at the end of tree planting season each year.

I have nothing against tree planters, but I would like to suggest we set up road blocks at the BC/Alberta borders and inspect every quad leaving BC as well as every 5 ton moving truck, rent a truck and trailer. I think we would be surprised at what is found. Chester

Boy, you really are hard up for theories aren't you Chester? Should put you in charge of finding the culprits and at that rate you would have employment for the rest of your life. No success, of course.

I think slighting a group like treeplanters who are typically hard working university students living in questionable camp conditions does not solve the problem.

If you can remember one thing, the word "but" typically negates the words which come before. So your statement that you have "nothing against treeplanters" is a bunch of bull.

Owl, I wouldn't have made the suggestion if it wasn't based on circumstances that would cause me to raise the issue. I happen to be very familiar with tree planters and a number of companies and their owners.

I am also familiar with friends who happen to own cabins at local lakes who have had quads, outboard motors, motorcycles and all of the other things one would find at a more remote lakesites stolen. Rental trucks were spotted leaving these areas where thefts occured.

It's also interests me that the timing of the thefts often coincides with the timing of the end of tree planting season. This isn't the first year this has happened. I could have easily referred to seasonal workers.

So, to not unfairly slight any particular group of people, let me change my comment to just setting up roadblocks at the BC/Alberta borders and inspecting all rental trucks, u-hauls and trailers heading east during the month of July.

Either we are interested in reducing the amount of thefts in our community or we are not. I choose to take an interest in reducing thefts. Owl, do you have any theories to offer us? Chester