Seventy seven saws? Granted it was over the period of a few years, however, did he not think that Amtrack might actually look for the missing saws ? Possibly, maybe, perhaps ?
“did he not think that Amtrack might actually look for the missing saws ?”
Having indulged in some ill-thought out schemes in my misspent youth, let me say, the first time you steal something you are 100% certain you will get caught, and if it doesn’t happen in a day or two, you feel lucky to have gotten away with it. However, once you get away with it a few more times, you start getting overconfident. Thieves don’t tend to think five years into the future, they think like the Jane’s Addiction song says: “I walk right out the door... if I get by, it’s mine, mine all mine!”