Why do people think they are entitled to MY STUFF?!?!?

Neost · Post by **Neost** » September 2, 2003, 2:11 pm

Ok, the old lawn mower lost its will to live at the beginning of this mowing season. So I head out to Lowe's and buy a nice, 6.5hp self-propelled lawn mower.

I've used it maybe half a dozen times.

I left it sitting in my carport after I mowed my Mom's yard this weekend. I walked out yesterday to fire up the grill and noticed that it was gone. GONE. Not there. Removed from the premises. No sign of it anywhere.

Ok, I probably shouldn't have been lazy and put it in the back yard or whatever.

But what is it that makes anyone think they are entitled to something that belongs to someone else? Now that someone took my lawn mower, am I supposed to drive around the neighborhood until I see a fairly new one that I like and take it to replace mine? Why do some people think it is ok to take stuff that belongs to someone else? I just don't get it.

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » September 2, 2003, 2:16 pm

Because they are assholes... Sorry to hear about the mower man

Marb

Drolgin Steingrinder · September 2, 2003, 2:19 pm

I know the feeling.

Some dickless asshole stole my bicycle the other day. It wasn't fancy, it wasn't new, it was my main method of transportation round Copenhagen, and some idiot decided to grab it, probably to save himself 2 minutes of transportation time before he dumped it in the harbor.

Kneecapping is too good for him.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » September 2, 2003, 2:42 pm

speaking of lawnmowers, don't run 2-cycle oil in them.

which brings up another subject, i got a new lawnmower this weekend!

Elidain · Post by **Elidain** » September 2, 2003, 2:45 pm

I had my car stolen from my driveway while I was home. I was upstairs with my G/F and when I went to walk her to her car I noticed it was gone. Pisses me that a friend of mine saw it at 1:15 am and when I went outside at 2am it was gone. FUCKERS!

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » September 2, 2003, 2:57 pm

Drolgin Steingrinder wrote:I know the feeling.

Some dickless asshole stole my bicycle the other day. It wasn't fancy, it wasn't new, it was my main method of transportation round Copenhagen, and some idiot decided to grab it, probably to save himself 2 minutes of transportation time before he dumped it in the harbor.

Kneecapping is too good for him.

Sorry to hear about your bike Drolgin. Maybe this will be a good replacement for those crowded Copenhagen streets!

Gzette · Post by **Gzette** » September 2, 2003, 2:59 pm

I had a bunch of towels stolen from my apt complex's laundry room this week. Not as bad, but I was still pissed.

Kaelina · Post by **Kaelina** » September 2, 2003, 3:06 pm

I think Drolgin needs one of these:

That sucks about the lawnmower. =(
It seems some people are just born without a conscience.

Neost · Post by **Neost** » September 2, 2003, 3:29 pm

It's not really the lawn mower, or even the value of the lawn mower. Just the absolute GALL that anyone would think they need my stuff more than I do. If I didn't need it, I wouldn't buy it. fucktards.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » September 2, 2003, 3:35 pm

i have an 'extra' lawnmower you can have Neost.

it doesnt work, so i dont need it.

Neost · Post by **Neost** » September 2, 2003, 3:36 pm

I have the old one that gave up the ghost sitting right next to where the new one used to be. I don't need another non-working one.

Thanks for the thought though you bastard.

Cartalas · Post by **Cartalas** » September 2, 2003, 3:38 pm

Kaelina wrote:I think Drolgin needs one of these:

That sucks about the lawnmower. =(
It seems some people are just born without a conscience.

I think there is a load limit on those.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » September 2, 2003, 3:52 pm

Neost wrote:I have the old one that gave up the ghost sitting right next to where the new one used to be. I don't need another non-working one.

Thanks for the thought though you bastard.

no problem assclown!

Drolgin Steingrinder · September 2, 2003, 3:54 pm

Cartalas: Your point being?

*~*stragi*~* · Post by ***~*stragi*~*** » September 2, 2003, 3:55 pm

Cartalas wrote:
Kaelina wrote:I think Drolgin needs one of these:

That sucks about the lawnmower. =(
It seems some people are just born without a conscience.

I think there is a load limit on those.

Yeah because drolgin is morbidly obese...
its 250lbs btw.

Cartalas · Post by **Cartalas** » September 2, 2003, 4:00 pm

Drolgin Steingrinder wrote:Cartalas: Your point being?

Simmer down Twiggy it was a joke.

Drolgin Steingrinder · September 2, 2003, 4:04 pm

Shrug, I was just wondering what you meant. But whatever!

Cartalas · Post by **Cartalas** » September 2, 2003, 4:07 pm

Drolgin Steingrinder wrote:Shrug, I was just wondering what you meant. But whatever!

I was just implying you were fat ala the load limit joke.

Midnyte_Ragebringer · September 2, 2003, 4:08 pm

Sorry to hear about that Neo.

On a bright note, I picked up a slightly used lawn mower this weekend. I was driving by and saw this lawn mower outside your house with a sign saying "Free Lawnmower", but the sign appeared to have blown away before I got there. I knew better though.

Neost · Post by **Neost** » September 2, 2003, 4:10 pm

HaHa. Funny. This from a masked assling. We shoot those around these parts.

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » September 2, 2003, 4:38 pm

Kaelina wrote:I think Drolgin needs one of these:

That sucks about the lawnmower. =(
It seems some people are just born without a conscience.

Why does Drolgin need an Asian guy? And who tested the load limits on Asian guys?

Kaelina · Post by **Kaelina** » September 2, 2003, 4:45 pm

Kilmoll the Sexy wrote:Why does Drolgin need an Asian guy?

I dunno, must be a Swedish thing!

masteen · Post by **masteen** » September 2, 2003, 4:49 pm

You should go on a rampage this weekend. Kick open all your neighbors' doors and DEMAND that they turn over the rat bastard what stoled your lawnmower. Be sure to do it in your bath robe/PJ's.

Wait, you live in TX, right? NM, doing something like that might make you eligible under the "needful killin'" statute...

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » September 2, 2003, 5:08 pm

I wonder if you loaded up a "honey pot" mower w/ nitro and left it in your drive, would you get in trouble when some asshole stole it and blew their legs off =) I'm betting you would...

Xzion · Post by **Xzion** » September 2, 2003, 5:18 pm

a week ago these 2 assholes were supposivly trying to jack my new kawasaki waverunner, luckily my dads friend was boating and saw them, its just a matter of greed and inconsideration

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » September 2, 2003, 5:20 pm

a couple of months ago i left my driver's side window on my car halfway down overnight, but had nothing of value inside the car - or so i thought! some cheetohead actually shoved himself through the window in order to steal the less than $1 in change i had sitting in my center console.

that lawnmower thing takes the cake though. somebody has some guts to actually walk up to your house and just take something. especially a lawnmower rofl, that's not exactly an item that you can shove under your coat and conceal.

Ashur · Post by **Ashur** » September 2, 2003, 5:48 pm

You say the lawn mower was self propelled? New?

How were you treating it? Maybe it just self-propelled itself back to its friends at the retail outlet display? Maybe some left-wing organization liberated it so it could "run free" in the wild grass?

Seriously, though - that sucks.

I've only been robbed once and the insurance covered it and it was on sale cheaper when I went to replace the stolen item.

Neost · Post by **Neost** » September 2, 2003, 5:49 pm

The honeypot, self-detonating lawnmower thing did cross my mind.

I guess it's time to put the aircraft landing lights and motion activated cameras back up.

Couple of years ago, someone slashed the tires on my son's camaro. I installed 6x1000 watt halogen lights with motion detectors and X10 cameras. The cameras I connected to my VCR and each night I would put a tape in and set it on record.

My neighbors accused me of trying to land aircraft on the street in front of the house. Out of courtesy, I've turned them off so the family across the street wouldn't see a false dawn every time a stray cat walked across my yard.

P.S. No, Masteen. I don't live in Texas

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » September 2, 2003, 6:23 pm

Neost wrote:The honeypot, self-detonating lawnmower thing did cross my mind.

I guess it's time to put the aircraft landing lights and motion activated cameras back up.

Couple of years ago, someone slashed the tires on my son's camaro. I installed 6x1000 watt halogen lights with motion detectors and X10 cameras. The cameras I connected to my VCR and each night I would put a tape in and set it on record.

My neighbors accused me of trying to land aircraft on the street in front of the house. Out of courtesy, I've turned them off so the family across the street wouldn't see a false dawn every time a stray cat walked across my yard.

P.S. No, Masteen. I don't live in Texas

OMG, can you come and explain the difference between paranoid and prepared to my wife =)

Cartalas · Post by **Cartalas** » September 2, 2003, 8:17 pm

Neost maybe someone just borrowed it? It might find its way home, I understand this is about the time of the year Kyoukan shaves her bush. The blades might need to be sharpened but what the hell.

Neost · Post by **Neost** » September 2, 2003, 8:24 pm

If my lawn mower gets near anyone's bush, they can have it. I don't care who's bush it is.....if it needs a lawn mower for trimming, i would most definitely NOT hit it.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » September 2, 2003, 8:33 pm

this must be another one of cart's careful button pushing to bait me into a rage. a devious one he is.

Fovol · Post by **Fovol** » September 2, 2003, 8:40 pm

Drolgin Steingrinder wrote:I know the feeling.

Some dickless asshole stole my bicycle the other day. It wasn't fancy, it wasn't new, it was my main method of transportation round Copenhagen, and some idiot decided to grab it, probably to save himself 2 minutes of transportation time before he dumped it in the harbor.

Kneecapping is too good for him.

I'm sure you know this, but while I was in The Netherlands (particularly, Amsterdam), I was told it was pretty common for people to steal bicycles, and that they referred to it as 'recycling'. People would unattach their wheels from their bike and carry the wheel around with them to discourage anyone from stealing it (who wants a bike without a wheel?), since chains would just be cut. Also, people would scratch up their bike if they bought a new one so it wasn't as big of a target.

Semi-unrelated, I know, but I found it interesting.

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » September 2, 2003, 8:47 pm

Made me think.. who else had an unstealable car in their youth? When I was 17 I had this car:

Not only was it resprayed an incredibly poxy powder blue at one point, but it also had at least 180 degrees of "play" in the steering wheel, so was almost undriveable for most people

Tons of fun though..

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » September 2, 2003, 9:25 pm

My wheels when I was in high school:

Vrooom! Fun car. It survived the high school parking lot with the convertable top never being vandalized. Woot!

Cartalas · Post by **Cartalas** » September 2, 2003, 9:29 pm

Winnow wrote:My wheels when I was in high school:

Vrooom! Fun car. It survived the high school parking lot with the convertable top never being vandalized. Woot!

Great car!!!!

CobsTheWarlord · Post by **CobsTheWarlord** » September 3, 2003, 1:34 am

I've had 2 weed-eaters stolen...i predict it was the asshole guy down the road.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » September 3, 2003, 10:59 am

mine was blue, and this is a 72, mine was a 77.

i had the 351 V8. took a bit to get going, and took awhile to slow down, but was fast as shit for 2 tons of steel.

Neost · Post by **Neost** » September 3, 2003, 11:04 am

Mine was slightly different from this one. It had a black vinyl top and a Z package. Big black stripes down the hood and trunk.

Bought it at a police auction in 1976, had some minor damage to the right front. Guy had run it into a ditch trying to outrun the cops with a pound of pot in the car with him. I sold it 2 years later for 2600 bucks. Hated to part with that one.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » September 3, 2003, 11:23 am

i bought mine for $700, got 30,000 miles out of it, went to college (after collecting 3 speeding tickets in one month and my parents dropping me from insurance, then the car not being used

), and when i came home for Christmas it wouldnt start.

Sold it for $200 and the guy towed it off. *sniff*

Ennia · Post by **Ennia** » September 3, 2003, 11:44 am

heh my boss had his garden shack plundered last summer, someone took everything, lawn mower, leaf blower, all the rakes and shovels, chain saw. Pretty much cleaned the shack down to boxes and shelves. It sucked.

You don't know how much shit you have untill you need it and it's missing. It cost him over 2k to replace everything.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » September 3, 2003, 11:45 am

hmm i bet homeowner's insurance doesnt cover stuff that is in your shed either...

masteen · Post by **masteen** » September 3, 2003, 11:46 am

My first car was a '84 Plymouth Horizon. It had the rust colored accents on the hood and roof, plus the deluxe power steering package with a leak just smaller than Niagra Falls.

I paid $0 for it (thx Mom!) and when I was rearended by this stupid bitch in a van, I got $1600 from the insurance company.

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » September 3, 2003, 12:23 pm

'81 mercury lynx here. What a bumper crop of dogcrap car that was

Ashur · Post by **Ashur** » September 3, 2003, 12:30 pm

'79 Camaro - in that awful powder blue. That thing could haul ass though...

Pilsburry · Post by **Pilsburry** » September 3, 2003, 12:33 pm

Sunserae wrote:some cheetohead actually shoved himself through the window in order to steal the less than $1 in change i had sitting in my center console.

I've heard of people getting thier windows smashed out for the same. One of the reasons I wanted to leave Stamford, CT so bad...it's just shitty there.

I mean for you it's $200 or so to fix a window, for them it's a free $0.87

I leave my door unlocked, my philosophy is most criminals know how to break a window.....therefor locking the door does little good.

Melrin_Specclaster · September 4, 2003, 1:13 pm

Here's the problem though, lots of people want toys with their car, which means toys inside their car. I had a 80' Camaro Berlinetta that fucking rocked. Anyway, I had the norm, my wallet (empty), radar detector, CD player and such in it, I always left it unlocked at home. Anyway, some assclowns road through the neighborhood and hit like 30 cars one night, I was pissed.

Now I have a '03 black Monte Carlo with tinted windows. I don't have any toys yet, but Im sure I will soon enough. I live in an apt. 2 cars close to mine had the windows smashed out, but mine didnt and the restored car next to it didnt. I live in the 'ghetto' to hear one friend say it, so I'm hoping that the hoodlums stay away from it cause I'm a hoodlum and its a fucking awesome looking car. Back in the day I woulda creamed a caddy but left a monte carlo alone. But I live in Denver now, not Louisiana and the hoodlums are probably much different.

Adex_Xeda · Post by **Adex_Xeda** » September 4, 2003, 1:24 pm

In Texas the neighbor would see the crime in action and shot the guy for you.

*~*stragi*~* · Post by ***~*stragi*~*** » September 4, 2003, 1:50 pm

Does everyone in Texas get one free murder?!

Skogen · Post by **Skogen** » September 4, 2003, 2:19 pm

Melrin_Specclaster wrote:I had a 80' Camaro Berlinetta that fucking rocked

LOL!!

Did you have a mullet & a flourescent muscle shirt too?

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Why do people think they are entitled to MY STUFF?!?!?

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