And worse, the police can't figure who did it. They're too busy going after Trump, conservatives, parents, etc. instead of doing what they should be.
>> WTF is he paying taxes for?
for the harassment of conservatives, mainly pro-lifers
Shaddap and obey your corrupt black-robed masters when they tell you you’ve committed a felony.
Howard County used to have a pretty good police force. I guess things have gone downhill since I left in 2012.
Well, I guess that is one approach.
In some third world places, some people who are sick of bicycle thieves are setting out decoy bicycles, locked up like they are valued, and when the lock is cut, a safety is released, and when the thief jumps on to pedal away, a spring loaded pointy shaft in the seat post tube is triggered, and penetrates the bicycle seat and a couple inches of thief nether regions.
Not that I advocate such a thing, especially in an American city with hundreds or thousands of attorneys who may be in hot pursuit of ambulances and/or police who don’t like civilians defending their property.
Police are Too busy writing traffic tickets and stealing money via civil asset forfeiture to deal with actually helping victims of crime. Policing for profit is all the rage. Policing to protect the hardworking citizens not so much.
Hmm...15,000 pieces? That’s a revolving cache of ‘product’ that could be sold to surrounding pawn shops. Move the oldest out first, and keep ‘resupplying’ the inventory to pawn.
Police should be looking at all the Pawn Shops for the most prolific ‘pawners.’
The story says they have suspects, and they will be arrests soon.
The older I get the more wisdom I see in early American draconian punishments for “simple” offenses.
Sure stealing someone’s circular saw doesn’t sound that bad…unless he is depending on it for his kids to eat that week.
This from the 1700s England, one would think the colonies were similar.
All punishable by DEATH. Maybe a tad too extreme but we have went far beyond the opposite end:
High treason, including offences against the Protestant succession and the Protestant establishment
Other offences against the State
Offences against public order, including riot and destruction of flood defences and bridges
Offences against the administration of justice
Offences against public health
Offences against public revenue, including smuggling
Petty treason and murder
Stabbing, maiming and shooting at any person
Rape, forcible abduction and other sexual offences
Simple grand larceny and allied offences
Burglary and allied offences
Larceny from the person
Larceny and embezzlement by servants, Post Office employees, clerks and other agents
Blackmail
Offences by bankrupts
Forgery of deeds, bonds, testaments, bills of exchange, stocks, stamps, banknotes, etc.
Falsely personating another with intent to defraud
Destroying ships to the prejudice of insurance companies
Coinage offences
Malicious injuries to property, including arson
Piracy
The government didn’t want to find the thieves. It would just be a bad optic. The same was true of bicycles in the 1970’s.
Amigo Tool Co.
But young rich kids, offspring of stockbrokers, lawyers and doctors, get their college loans written off so they can go on European vacations...
Trade workers?
Get the police defunded, criminals embolded, must buy new equipment.
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This would not be a crime in Boston.
The government is communist. The police are there to serve and protect the interests of the party. Thieves are not a threat to the party. On the other hand, Trump, conservatives, and kulak parents are an existential threat to the party and revolution.
The right needs to get it through their thick skulls that the USSA has become the soviet union with better PR.
Note to self....time to implement the various security measures I’ve been considering in the past few months.
I doubt that the thieves are citizens of this country.
So I missed it. What did the thieves plan on doing with 15,000 used power tools?
Obviously, the police don't have enough evidence to pursue convictions. They should enlist Alvin Bragg to help with filing charges.
Good luck with that. /s