Thieves

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We came to the shop this morning to a nice kick in the pants. All of our trucks were broken into and they cleaned shop. We are missing 12 chainsaws so far. I can't tell what else we are missing until the detectives finish finger printing and what nots.

My fingers are crossed that my gear bag is still in the truck. Unfortunately the doors are closed and I can't see til 2pm. It's killing me.

The only thing keeping me from going on a killing spree is that the grcs is still there in the opened box. I'm hoping that if there thieves are so stupid to not know what at grcs is then hopefully they didn't take off with all of my gear.

I did have a security system in place for my gear bag. It's called buy everything in the world so that only a human crane can lift it. Let's hope it worked.
 
No fingerprints could be lifted from the trucks.

Good news. I have ALL of my climbing gear and ropes. The scary part. They lifted my bag out of the truck to get to chainsaws that were in there, opened it and then put it back in the truck.

I have taken an inventory of all of my gear, followed by pictures and photos.

It looks like the insurance company is only covering 5,000 worth of damages. We are out at least 9,000 worth of saws.
 
Thieves either didn't know what the grcs was, or they did, and knew it would be a lot harder to unload for anything at a pawnshop. Ditto for your gear bag and ropes, unless they were climbers. Sounds like the thieves were pros, who just wanted stuff they could pawn quick and easy. Marc, you might want to be thinking of anyone who's been by your shop in the last few weeks, looking for work, or making any kind of sales call. Hope you can retrieve your gear.
 
If you find out who did it, I will transfer my rage against you, Marc, and level it on their poor souls.


I will rip them limb from limb, all the while unleashing a barrage of swear words unheard of since Ralphie beat the crap out of the bully in "A Christmas Story".


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Wow sorry to hear that. Good thing all they wanted where saws. Did you keep track of the serial numbers on the saws?
 
We accidentially had serial code numbers.

I started making calls around 7 immediately after I got the frantic call from my boss that the entire shop had been stolen (he made it sound like they literally took the shop from the foundations. Also, thanks Cam, Paul and stephan for holding my hand this morning)

My first set of calls were to all of the local chainsaw repair shops. One of then had a record of every saw they had ever worked on for us and their sc#.

The only thing missing from my gear was my climbing helmet, but I found it after walking through the woods that the thieves had taken as an escape route ( a route that the police had already walked and they "didn't see anything")

So after we checked our truck inventorys we called the insurance company, realized that my boss had a significant amount less coverage then he had thought (we thought that there was at least 20k, turns out there was only 5k. Good thing my climbing gear wasn't missing) and then we called around to the local chainsaw shops to get prices to replace all of the saws and replaced 6.
 
Sorry to hear about your losses.

When my rig got unloaded the police asked for serial numbers of the gear. The pawn shops are on a network that register their incoming equipment. I would hope chainsaw repair shops do the same.

Glad you still have your climbing gear. Several climbing harnesses and even rope splicings have some sort of registration number.
 
I REALLY hate theives. We've been broken into twice in 7 years, and it always looks like someone who knew what they were after. Mainly chainsaws gone. Cameras showed gloved and hooded punks going right to the bins where they were. Never were seen again. Probably sold at a swap meet to other unlicensed cons.
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Last time one of them even took a dump by one of the bucket trucks. Cops haven't matched the DNA yet...
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