Seems to me I heard stories as a kid about how safe from crime certain Middle East countries were because of the swift and certain punishment. Like a thief losing a hand the first time he stole.

So, as long as I'm joining the group to watch the parking lot, I'd take my little Gerber kindling axe. Once you started to see one handed folks getting driven around by some scraggly blue-gummed gutter sluts, you'd know you were making a positive impact for posterity!

You'd recognize the really stupid ones by the homemade prosthetics for BOTH hands...

There's only one way to deal with horsethieves in the American West.

I'm with Sol on this one;

"If I caught some POS breaking into a rig I would be unable to act in a law abiding fashion"

What a nightmare I'd probably end up dead or in jail.

Maybe we could figure a way to photograph them and their vehicle with a camera trap or video. Then let the victim decide how to use the images.

Simple-Elegant

Here's an interesting article where a fisherman actually had a shootout with car thieves at the river.

http://www.eurekareporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=16863

he was fired on and he only responded with one round?!?!?!?! How about emptying the mag into those POS!!!!
SO when the cops show up and haul away the POS tweaker/thief/criminal (who happens to be full of lead with my doberman attached to the carcass), will the saying that I have heard "he was asking for it/deserved it" still apply like it supposedly does to the people who lose gear locked up in their vehicles????

How would I respond? Let me just say I'd be mader than an African American dry cleaner pressing a KKK gown. I'd hurt the little fuc%er.....BAD. I've gone down hard on first-degree assault before. I know my limitations.

Property is just stuff and it can be replaced.

You are right. But it's my stuff and I worked for it just like many of you.. Long hours in the mud and cold to let some tweaker get it for free.

That's funny, I know the feel of violation... I got home last night a bit late and always enter through the garage. As I passed the hallway to my kitchen I noticed the front door ajar. I immediately grabbed the closest gun I knew was available (300 win mag.) and patrolled the house room by room. Fortunately there was nothing missing and figured I had probably left the door ajar for the cat but when it catches you off guard it's a pisser... Lucky I didn't find someone prowling in the house or they may have been painted everywhere...

Keith

I heard Tom Saukamoto had his gas line cut, all the gas drained at Bethel Tuesday.

FH5,

Right there on the road? That takes some time if they waited while it drained into a bucket so they could use it. Or did they just cut and drain it on the ground?

OK, don't park at Ben Howard or Sultan on the Sky.
Don't park at the mouth of the Toutle.
Don't park at Bethel on the Hump.

Guess that means I can park and fish the Skok, Chehalis, and Cowlitz without worrying about my car until I come back. And I'm such a peaceful guy. It's really gonna' cramp my style if I have to stick an Uzi in my fishing pack. No wonder all the signs at fishing accesses are shot full of holes. The tweakers were gone when the angler returned, and all they could do was shoot the signs. Ya' think?

Tom is the kind of guy that will find the dweebs that did it and make them pay.

Salmo, don't know the details
Jerry, I hope so!!!!!!!

anymore comments on tweaker theft deterrents? how about removing idiots form the dark side?

I sure miss Tim!

I just picked me up some more Tweeker repellent a couple days ago.
Pretty cool and creates quit a hole.

How about just removing your downriggers when you are not on board. It may be a pain in the ass but it's less hassle then buying and installing new ones.All electronics are on removable brackets, certainly more effective then random rants about "Vigilante Justice". I wouldn't count on the police to help, they are just trying to not get shot in a traffic stop. Bob R

I've been retired since 1997...I base many things, between working years and after 1997….

It the period, after 1997 there were many items stole from lock rigs in Region 6. Windows broken out, canopy glass broken, to gain access to whatever was inside.

There was a period when "catalytic converters", were stolen while person was out fishing. Fuller Bridge, Hiway parking lot, Satsop West Fork boat...tough to catch the axxholes, because of cell phones.


There is no easy answer, and it seems even if caught, slap on the wrist and out the door.


If you think shooting someone, or at someone, isn't going to get YOU in big time trouble, think again. Even to "thump on someones body", could get you in trouble......might make you feel good but ?????


Of course I feel different now, age 78, than I did 30's and 40's.....can't fight, can't run, ….. I just talk loud, hope that would scare them off....lol