Storage Shelter Etiquette

[Ruthless]

Has anything like this ever happened to you? I recently replaced my bricks for use under my stabilizers with Lynx Leveling Blocks. There's a fence behind where I park my travel trailer at the storage shelter. I put the bricks behind my travel trailer by the fence. They had been sitting there for about a month. Even though I wasn't using them, and really didn't want them, I noticed today that they were stolen. I think they were taken by the guy two spaces over. There was a stack of bricks behind a tire on his utility trailer, but I'm not 100% sure whether or not they were there before. Is there some unwritten storage shelter rule that if someone leaves something unattended to, still within their parking space, that it's assumed that the item is free for the taking? Another reason why I hate parking my travel trailer at a storage shelter.

[colliehauler]

Ruthless wrote:

HackerAce wrote:
One has to wonder how much those bricks are worth. My guess is not enough to worry about 😉

Now, rather than rotting away behind your TT they are being useful in their new home.

It's the principal, not the value of the bricks. Like I said before, I didn't want them anyway.

If that's your biggest problem in life your a very lucky person.

[azrving]

Ruthless, Don't worry about that stuff. Be glad they didn't use a pry bar on your door or steal your power cord. You need to find a storage place like mine. While working on my FW these characters would stop by for stale popcorn, potato chips or anything else. Yes, the grass was greener on the storage facility side of the fence.

[et2]

That will teach you for not writing your name on your bricks.

[JiminDenver]

I understand about the principle but it sounds like they did you a favor. First, you don't have to get rid of them. Second, your space doesn't look trashy with the garbage you don't want anymore.

With that in mind, could it have been management cleaning up the place?

[pitch]

OP has already decided that they were stolen. He knows he has a thief for a neighbor. Op really did not want an exchange of opinions, just agreements
I think he should hang out and beat the guy half to death just to teach him what his mama didn't. Freakin brick thieves are every where these days!

[mich800]

Ruthless wrote:

DutchmenSport wrote:
I would not call that "theft". It sounds like you stacked the bricks up, appearing to abandon them. Someone else saw a purpose for them, and since there was no name written on them or they were not locked up, someone took them and put them to use. If it were me, I'd probably do the same thing.

How many times have I surveyed campsites after someone has pulled out and gone to find some small, but delightful surprises they left behind. I've found all kinds of bungie cords, rope, tent pegs, even a monocular once (it's still in my truck and use it more than my binoculars to this day).

So, if something is just left out, stacked up, unclaimed, I think it's available for open grabs, especially if it's abandoned.

The person who took the blocks probably watched for some time to see if they were being used. After some time, of never moving, he/she probably thought,
"I can use them"... so they did!

So you would go onto someone's parking space at a storage shelter and take whatever you wanted if it wasn't bolted down? That sounds like stealing to me.

If it is anything like many of the storage lots around here you just get a gravel area on the side or back of the inside storage units. There is often abandoned miscellaneous items set along the chain link fencing. So without knowing exactly what the OP's area looks like, yes I can see someone re-purposing some bricks just sitting outside. Sounds like the OP did not make any overt effort to make them appear as if they were his or wanted to keep them. Of course this is based on what I see locally. Maybe the OP has a lot where their spaces or more clearly defined.

[azrving]

What part of NC are you in? Do you have any nice lawn chairs?

[Ruthless]

DutchmenSport wrote:
I would not call that "theft". It sounds like you stacked the bricks up, appearing to abandon them. Someone else saw a purpose for them, and since there was no name written on them or they were not locked up, someone took them and put them to use. If it were me, I'd probably do the same thing.

How many times have I surveyed campsites after someone has pulled out and gone to find some small, but delightful surprises they left behind. I've found all kinds of bungie cords, rope, tent pegs, even a monocular once (it's still in my truck and use it more than my binoculars to this day).

So, if something is just left out, stacked up, unclaimed, I think it's available for open grabs, especially if it's abandoned.

The person who took the blocks probably watched for some time to see if they were being used. After some time, of never moving, he/she probably thought,
"I can use them"... so they did!

So you would go onto someone's parking space at a storage shelter and take whatever you wanted if it wasn't bolted down? That sounds like stealing to me.

[DutchmenSport]

I would not call that "theft". It sounds like you stacked the bricks up, appearing to abandon them. Someone else saw a purpose for them, and since there was no name written on them or they were not locked up, someone took them and put them to use. If it were me, I'd probably do the same thing.

How many times have I surveyed campsites after someone has pulled out and gone to find some small, but delightful surprises they left behind. I've found all kinds of bungie cords, rope, tent pegs, even a monocular once (it's still in my truck and use it more than my binoculars to this day).

So, if something is just left out, stacked up, unclaimed, I think it's available for open grabs, especially if it's abandoned.

The person who took the blocks probably watched for some time to see if they were being used. After some time, of never moving, he/she probably thought,
"I can use them"... so they did!

[Ruthless]

HackerAce wrote:
One has to wonder how much those bricks are worth. My guess is not enough to worry about 😉

Now, rather than rotting away behind your TT they are being useful in their new home.

It's the principal, not the value of the bricks. Like I said before, I didn't want them anyway.

[HackerAce]

One has to wonder how much those bricks are worth. My guess is not enough to worry about 😉

Now, rather than rotting away behind your TT they are being useful in their new home.

[Ruthless]

I know that two wrongs don't make a right, but I thought about getting the bricks behind the tire of the utility trailer two spaces over, and throwing them over the fence and down the hill. But I'm not 100% sure if he stole my bricks, or if he already had a stack of bricks; even though a part of me feel like it's too much of a coincidence that he has a stack of bricks also. I guess it's possible. That would make me just as bad as the person who stole my bricks. And if the guy two spaces over already had a stack of bricks, then I'm a thief also. I don't want to stoop to their level, but I was pissed about someone coming into my area/parking space and stealing my property whether I wanted the bricks or not.

[Ruthless]

sch911 wrote:
Sad but, why do you need leveling blocks while in storage?

I don't use leveling blocks in storage. Before I got the leveling blocks, I used the bricks when camping, and stored the bricks in my travel trailer while in storage. After getting the leveling blocks, I now store the leveling blocks in my travel trailer. That's why the bricks were against the fence.

[sch911]

Sad but, why do you need leveling blocks while in storage?

[Oasisbob]

No unwritten rules I am aware of. You simmply got educated on why you should put stuff away. I would love to live in Mayberry. Sadly neither of us do.