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.

[et2]

Old-Biscuit wrote:
Theft is theft......even a 25 cent brick.

All of the 'justifications' posted crack me up.

Guess I was raised different.
If it isn't yours---ask first. Can't ask....then leave it alone. It ain't yours.

It's the owners lot. They can remove debris as they feel fit. We don't know exactly where these were placed. They could have been outside the OP's boundary. I pick up trash off neighbors lawn and ours on trash day ( some blows loose after critters get to it) - it doesn't make me a thief, just someone who cares what the neighborhood looks like.

I certainly don't mind the scrappers taking stuff off my lawn on garbage day either. If this guy is really upset about some sand - he should have secured it.

[Old-Biscuit]

Theft is theft......even a 25 cent brick.

All of the 'justifications' posted crack me up.

Guess I was raised different.
If it isn't yours---ask first. Can't ask....then leave it alone. It ain't yours.

[JohnG3]

Suck it up cupcake, you left what sounds like about a dollar's worth (new) of bricks that after being used for who knows how long and are now worth about 25 cents and you're getting heartburn?

[Oaklevel]

Really?????

Saw a guy camping last year that had an extra utility trailer along, he picked up all the broken chairs from the beach trash barrels and along with the chairs in the trash piled up along the roadways on trash day....... he was recycling the alum.

Bricks discarded along a fence recycling ? 🙂 May the storage owner picked up the trash along the fence & gave them to your neighbor to use...........

[hershey]

They were stacked against the fence, not in use, looked like they could be there for anybodies use. I'd say, get over it and buy your principles a cup of coffee and relax.

[Crowe]

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.

Question is how clear are the boundaries marked? Do the space markings go all the way back to where the bricks were? While I still consider it stealing, is it possible that the perp thought it was sort of a no-man's land and figured if it was out there nobody wanted it? Just a thought.

[OkSixpack]

Homer wrote:
If it is not on your property leave it alone. You have no right to remove it! You have no idea what the owner of the property the item is on may eventually want to do with the items.

Stuff that is left on a camp site by some one after leaving is a little different. However, if they come back to retrieve the stuff give it up, it is still theirs.

Yep....the thing to me is, you may not not know who it belongs to, but you do know it doesn't belong to you.
Jim

[fj12ryder]

I've never considered the spot where I park my toyhauler in the storage lot as "my space". IMO anything on the ground and not obviously in use, has been discarded. Anything I want I put in the toyhauler, not on the ground.

Shoot, if I had seen those bricks and I needed a couple I probably would have helped myself too. I would have figured they were discarded and not wanted.

[Grit_dog]

Too much time on your hands, I'd say, if you're even worried about it. BTW they weren't stolen, they were borrowed and you know right where they are at!

[Homer1]

If it is not on your property leave it alone. You have no right to remove it! You have no idea what the owner of the property the item is on may eventually want to do with the items.

Stuff that is left on a camp site by some one after leaving is a little different. However, if they come back to retrieve the stuff give it up, it is still theirs.

[coolbreeze01]

Sounds like a good place to take stuff you don't want.

[PawPaw_n_Gram]

The places I stored my boat/ TT before we went full-time have a line buried in the middle of all the contract legal BS that says something to the effect that anything left in the site and not attached to the vehicle is considered garbage and subject to being removed/ thrown out by the management.

And I might be billed for the cost of such removal.

Did you talk to the owner / manger of the storage property about your issue? That's where to start if you suspect the bricks were stolen.

[Dog_Folks]

A very cheap lesson about some of your neighbors.

Be forewarned.

[Water-Bug]

Actually, th local PoPo probably confiscated them as lethal weapons. Every time a riot breaks out, the rioters search for idle bricks to toss at the cops. The fewer idle bricks there are laying around, the safer an LEOs job is.

[Steve1950]

. The storage lot manager probably took the bricks to clean up the place.