07-12-2008, 07:52 PM
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#21 | | Firearm Enthusiast
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Originally Posted by Cr@ckSH0t  | Yeah, the traps can get you in alot of trouble. There is a story in my family about one of my second cousins. Someone kept coming onto his property and stealing all kinds of expensive junk from his shed way in the back of his property and he filed all kinds of reports with the police but they never did anything. So he sets a crossbow tripwire (Do not ask me the technical details) near the front of the shed, and about a day later he goes to his shed and he sees his 15 year old neighbor pinned to the wall of the shed with a bolt through his shoulder almost dead from blood loss. Well, the mother sued and he got a few years in jail for assault, not to mention a boatload of money taken away for emotional damage to the boy. The boy walked home free because they had no sufficient evidence to back up my cousins claim the boy was actually stealing from the shed, not just walking in front. However, he was tresspassing, but they had a stupid judge and a good lawyer. | If I were him i would have killed the boy and his family.
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03-04-2009, 03:30 PM
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#22 | | Firearm Zealot
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Still the thefts go on, Pookie one our OTZ residents heard dogs barking at 3:30am was blowing snow pretty good, he got up to check the yapping neighbor across the street turned his mutts loose and used them to cover his fuel theft activites, Pookie saw sombody by his tank, by the time he got his boots on the shaddowy figure was gone and had abandoned a plastic gas jug, down the street the neighbor had his muts back on a leash (said he was walking his dogs) walking your dogs in a 15-20mph winds in OTZ Alaska at 3:30am?????? Ive heard of some wierd stuff but that ranks right up there, Cops didnt do anything by then the tracks were coverd and Pookie dident have positive ID on the guy attempting to steal his heating oil.
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03-04-2009, 03:42 PM
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#23 | | Firearm Zealot
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rex sounds like its time for a stake out...
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03-04-2009, 05:12 PM
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#24 | | Firearm Enthusiast
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Originally Posted by rondog | I read something once about lawn sprinklers connected to a motion detector, to deter animals from a garden I think it was. | I like this idea. If only you could find a way to incorporate some indelible dye in the sprinkler's water supply...
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03-04-2009, 07:51 PM
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#25 | | Firearm Enthusiast
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i live in baltimore30 years ago i was on oil heat
one day i had a oil truck driver came to me with a deal he would sell me oil at half price iask him how he could do that he explanedhe couldtrim oil from deliverys by opening a bypass valve and the meter reads thatyou got say 200 gals but you gey only 150 then he just kept count till he had 150 gals or more then he would sell the extra to someone he knew. I SAID NO
THEN i change over to gas becase he could do the same to me
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03-05-2009, 07:05 AM
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#26 | | Firearm Aficionado
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Originally Posted by Riana | I like this idea. If only you could find a way to incorporate some indelible dye in the sprinkler's water supply... | Skip the water and hook them up to the oil tank (that's what they're there for anyway) and rig some road flares to trip wires.... Should at least get their attention and give you some light for targeting!!
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03-05-2009, 12:11 PM
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#27 | | Firearm Zealot
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Refill the tank with Coleman lantern fuel. That should do it.
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03-05-2009, 07:17 PM
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#28 | | Firearm Enthusiast
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They make trip wires that use 12 guage shells. They aren't for killing they are for scaring. Set several on the way to the tank. "defense in depth" If the first one doesn't scare them away the second or third will. At the least it will draw attention to them and your place.
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03-05-2009, 09:56 PM
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#29 | | Firearm Zealot
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When my cousin was in Vietnam gas was being stolen at a location he was at, they suspected some of the natives were the culprits,so they took some 5 gallon cans and sugared them, placed them were they would be stolen and in a short time he said there were a lot a locals pushing their motorcycles around, maybe it would be worth you buying a 5 gallon can of gas put some sugar in it and see what happens.
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03-05-2009, 10:10 PM
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#30 | | Firearm Zealot
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^ What a great idea ^
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03-06-2009, 10:44 AM
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#31 | | Firearm Zealot
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If the perp is stealing fuel oil, fill the tank halfway up with gasoline.
When it is stolen, flush and refill with fuel oil. When a neighbor's heater flashes off and his house burns - Bob's yer uncle! You have ID'd the thief and meted out punishment.
Just hope he doesn't have a wife & kids in the house...... 
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03-06-2009, 04:16 PM
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#32 | | Firearm Zealot
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We found the method of denying thieves is to box in the tank or fence in useing chainlink fenceing panels, no matter how much one tries to catch the thieves the greatest percentage the time they slip in un-observed (kinda like coyotes) there never around when your looking, a passive method is best, The VPSO (village public safety officer) of WLK found 34 sugar cubes in his boat's gas can (he was punked) seems the sugar cubes dident disolve it needs a little water or very coarse inlet screens to allow the sugar granuals to pass.
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03-07-2009, 12:06 AM
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#33 | | Firearm Enthusiast
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Rex: I'm curious, what are you paying for fuel?
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03-11-2009, 08:26 PM
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#34 | | Firearm Zealot
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Heating oil is $6.35/gal deliverd and $6.10 if you pick up at the tank farm
Motor gas is $5.85 if you take your 55 gal drum down to the tank farm for filling.They only deliver heating oil minimum is 53 gallons = $336.57
a heating oil theft cuts into a guy's budget pretty fast.
Gasoline at the pump is going in excess of $7.35 a gallon.
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