Burglary of RV
Brother stores his Redwood 5th wheel at a covered storage place in the Ft. Worth area. Someone broke into it by breaking out the skylight in the bathroom and dropping in thru the roof. They took his l...
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flguppie wrote:mlts22 wrote:
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My defense is to store my rig a number of miles from an interstate, and miles from a paved road. Few thieves will jump a locked gate that has prominent purple striped posts in rural Texas in order to look for goodies. Even the meth heads are not that obviously suicidal.
Storing a rig in Austin, I'd do a totally different tactic. All televisions would be popped off the racks and put in drawers so if they vanish, they vanish, and don't take a wall with them. I'd also probably leave a dead TV or other thing in the storage compartments, a concept similar to mugging money, since a tweaker is less likely to trash a rig if they snatch something than if they are empty handed.
Just curious......I'm at a lose......What is the significance of purple striped poles? Does that mean something special in Texas? I'm just not familiar with this and would like to know.
Also, the dead tv so they won't trash the place is a clever insight. I hadn't thought about that before. Thanks
I was wondering the same thing.
The dead TV and a few bucks in a drawer sound like a good idea.
