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I have been lucky for a long time, but long ago I had a trailer stolen that I had just paid 1850.00 for, a generator, 900.00, a chainsaw 800.00, and several other items of less value.
Forever now I have insured anything of any value.
Luckily games are already covered in my homeowners policy, I did check on that.
(the items I listed above were at my Dad's business under lock and key long ago).
Years later some thieves thought they were going to steal a trailer at my home, and neighbors asked what are you doing, they said they bought the trailer, and neighbors said "well, you are not taking the trailer unless Johnny is here".
It is a real shame how some people work so hard to steal from others, instead of just doing some productive work to make a living.
Even though my trailers are insured I still use locks that bolt cutters can not cut.
My deceased friend/neighbor used to keep wheel boots on his trailers. I have not seen many of those.
The worst thing about thieves is that they know, even if they have been caught before, they will not do any real jail time in most cases. People like that should at least be required to wear a ankle monitor for at least 10 years, and have someone watching those ankle monitors looking for anything suspicious.
Thieves just walk free all the time with a minor slap on the wrist. I really think a ankle monitor on the first offence would stop any more crime from most of them.
And yeah booby traps and all that is very tempting, but you can not do it, the laws favor the thieves.
I am pretty sure most prisons are mostly a for profit thing for the companies running them.
And we have overcrowding and all that so if someone is just a thief and has not hurt anyone they let them go right back to it.
To stop most of the bull crap, I think we need a new system, and on first offence a thief has to agree to wear a monitor for 10 years, and pay a company like 20 bucks a month or something to monitor them.
Now a slick scam artist, preying on the elderly, they should be (well, I can not say that here).
Sorry for such a long post. I just kept forgetting to hit the send post button, and instead of the 12 shorter posts I was going to make, well... all 12 ended up in only this one.