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Austin thieves stole truck from my friend's business Saturday
My friend | 20 July 2021 | Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin

Posted on 07/20/2021 5:24:01 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Saturday, 7-17-2021, at 9 a.m., thieves stole a 1 ton truck from my friend's oilfield service business east of Austin, TX. My friend was home and did not notice the brazen theft right under his nose.

He noticed Monday morning when his crews needed the truck for work. The GPS unit hidden in the truck allowed him to find it in Austin where it had been stripped of all equipment/tools on the bed and left near a homeless encampment. The police were not eager to enter that area according to my friend. He was only able to recover what was left of the truck because the thieves had left it to see if it had a tracker and planned to come back and get the rest later.

The homeless encampment is near a row of low end shops run by you-know-who. The Austin police and city government know this is going on and have done little to nothing about it. We are turning into Mexico here with open season on all of peoples' possessions for the political gain of politicians who live protected by high security.

We are now third-world.


TOPICS: Education; Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: austin; stole; thieves; truck
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I am so upset because I know why this is happening (it is happening BIG TIME down on the border) and it is obvious the politicians are throwing all of us under the bus. I heard YESTERDAY at my job about how illegals are stealing tractors, pickups, anything that will run and moving inland with the vehicles until they run out of gas. The media is not reporting 1/10 of what is going on. We are being invaded and no one care enough to do anything about it.
1 posted on 07/20/2021 5:24:01 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

My company ordered three F-150’s just before the lockdowns. It’s for a project I’m sort of managing. We still haven’t hired the employees. They are just sitting in the parking lot at our warehouse. I worry about the catalytic converters getting ripped off.


2 posted on 07/20/2021 5:29:00 AM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Open the borders.
Defund the police.

Why not? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


3 posted on 07/20/2021 5:29:08 AM PDT by z3n
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

If it feels like we are in a Communist Revolution it is because we are.


4 posted on 07/20/2021 5:29:24 AM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Austin?

That explains everything..........................


5 posted on 07/20/2021 5:31:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Spray the entire vehicle with Fox Urine, especially the underside and the converters. You can wash the vehicles with a hose when ready for use..............
6 posted on 07/20/2021 5:36:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

You and your friend have my sympathies. This has been going on for decades. I had my small pickup truck stolen out of a San Diego public parking lot in broad daylight back in 1989. A detective working for my auto insurance company (Allstate) found it in the possession of the Tijuana police department a couple of weeks later. At which point all they could do was offer me a check.


7 posted on 07/20/2021 5:38:43 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: Red Badger

I might pick up some for deterrence use.


8 posted on 07/20/2021 5:42:34 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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the thieves had left it to see if it had a tracker and planned to come back and get the rest later.

*********

Dat some smart thieves or a great mind reader.


9 posted on 07/20/2021 5:44:11 AM PDT by deport ( )
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

They sell little GPS trackers for around $30. $20 per month no contract service.

The only question would be whether or not to call the cops after you track the vehicle to it’s thieves, or deal with the thieves yourself...


10 posted on 07/20/2021 5:44:30 AM PDT by RandallFlagg ("Okay. As long as the paperwork is clean, you boys can do what you like out there." -Fifi)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

The illegal alien inundation is bipartisan.

Until Trump no Republican would even attempt to secure the border. When he was in office both parties obstructed building the fence.

Both parties cheated him out to get the border open again.

Micro Rubio and Flimsey Grahamnesty can’t wait to give them all amnesty.


11 posted on 07/20/2021 5:46:47 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

The left wants their favored demographic to steal from their most hated demographic - sort of an advance “reparations.” Don’t expect the left to do anything about it.


12 posted on 07/20/2021 5:48:35 AM PDT by I want the USA back (To find out who really rules you, find out who you're not allowed to criticize. Voltaire. )
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no mention of how the thieves stole it . did the truck not have an anti theft device? my f-150 will honk if someone tries to open the doors even with the key. You can’t get it started without a chip key... Just asking, were the keys in the truck?


13 posted on 07/20/2021 5:54:31 AM PDT by Ikeon (Not knowing the truth doesn't make you ignorant, not wanting the truth does. )
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Don’t blame the cops. They don’t want to risk getting their rainbow patches smudged.


14 posted on 07/20/2021 5:57:50 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Begins to explain why I’ve been seeing so many Texas license plates in my state lately


15 posted on 07/20/2021 6:03:29 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

We have no border between us and Mexico. We are Mexico.


16 posted on 07/20/2021 6:04:11 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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Austin has become quite the ugly city. We spent the night there a year ago and were shocked at all the stores, restaurants, and even our hotel having bars on windows, signs saying “leave belongings in your vehicle at your own risk,” “gate requires parking pass,” etc. Even the McDonalds’s drive-in had extra security.

There are large expanses of out-of-commission overpasses that are partly dismembered, from an older highway. You have to drive under them and you wonder if falling concrete will hit you.

Some streets are similarly broken up and unavailable for travel.

I am not sure how businesses were making it when you have to hire armed guards.

17 posted on 07/20/2021 6:09:04 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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The bottom line question is:

If Texas can’t handle criminals, what will happen to the rest of the nation mostly governed by wimps?


18 posted on 07/20/2021 6:23:07 AM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: Joe Brower

I was working for a company located in the ghetto of detroit.. when the sun glistened off the razor wire in the parking lot it was just beautiful...
anyway, we were going to install a safety device at the front end of a final line flattop conveyor for an auto company. This thing took up an entire semi trailer. It was thursday on easter weekend. Semi was loaded, warming up in the parking lot, driver came in to get a cup of coffee for the road, came out and the truck was gone.
Never did find it....


19 posted on 07/20/2021 6:41:41 AM PDT by joe fonebone (bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
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About 15 years ago someone stole two fully loaded gasoline tankers out of the distribution yard in Northern Nevada. Cameras and all - they ever found a trace of them or the thieves.


20 posted on 07/20/2021 6:44:33 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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