My father owned and operated a VW repair shop from our home in rural Maine. There were always many customers VWs in our unsecured yard. It was rural maine afterall. We didn't ever lock our doors and always left the keys in the ignitions of our own vehicles. Anyway... one night, coming home late from bowling... we smell gas and find a siphon hose sticking out of a customers VWs gas tank and still gas still flowing. The 5 gallon jug is full but the gas is now going onto the ground.
Evidently, we caught the perp in the act and he/she bolted, leaving their can and hose. LOL!
Another time, I was in the woods near the "junkyard". I found a pile of about fifty 12 volt car batteries. At the time (mid 70's) used batteries were bringing $5 each for scrap. I asked dad why he was putting the batteries in a pile in the woods!? LOL! He wasn't! Evidently, a neighborhood thief was removing the batteries from the 100's of junk cars in the junkyard and piling them up in the woods to eventually take to the scrap yard.
Crazy what people will do for money huh?
