And again....

[skydark]

Stolen truck in our parking lot...again. They are easy to tell, they usually have smashed up driving columns. We haven't had one in a while, but we usually average about 5 or 6 a year. Also anything metal around here not tied down is stolen. Our neighbors had their air conditioner torn off the side of the building. We've lost tons of stuff before we bought the big trailers, and they get broken into ad infinium (but no one wants tons of paper).

Should I blame the two metal recycling companies down the street from us? (why yes, I think I should) Not to mention the inordinate amount of flat tires we all get from the road leading down to them being littered with nails and bolts.

I hear tale that the actual neighborhoods down the street (we are a street that is half industrial/half residental where I work) are working to have the recyclers move away.

I have to say I hope they win.

Comments

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. Do people steal the trucks, joyride them then dump them, or are they stripping the expensive bits out or something?

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

It's both. They usually strip them, if they have time they cut the catalytic converters out of them. Then they leave them here for us to deal with.

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

D:

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

It's an epidemic here. The area I work in is not the greatest. I would NEVER leave my car here overnight. We use to have large metal tables for our UPS delivery packages, but they were stolen. We use to have a bin of metal press plates out there, but they were stolen. They stole some scrap metal we had, they stole the metal bars off the bottom of a trailer, pretty much anything they could get their hands on. When we got the big semi-trailers to lock up everything in, they came back, got pissed off we had locked things up to prevent them from being stolen and shoved several large carts of recycle paper off the end of our dock creating a giant mess. My boss use to say he was going to come at night and sit on the roof with a shot gun. They use to steal out water through a spicket on the outside of the building. Our water bill got outrageous so we made it so you can only use the spicket if you turn the water on from the inside. That pissed them off so much they broke the spicket off the side of the building.

There are some real winners here in this area.

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

D: D:

Wow. I hope you don't have to work late/if you do there are security guards about?

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

I don't work late, my job is designed so I never have to work late. However, I am occasionally in the office alone. I usually just lock the door when I'm here by myself, we have next to no office visitors since we are a trade company. I now knock wood, but when I leave it's full daylight. There is a car repair company across the street (ironically) that's always open when I go and we know those guys. So I'm good that way!

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

Good good! I hoped you were going to say something like that - since you always seem to be up and off to work at the crack of dawn and if you worked late it would be a kabillion hours a week!

[enemytosleep]

That is all so ridiculous! I used to work in a bad part of town like that when I worked for the lawyer. People must really be desperate to go through the trouble ... or something.

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

I dunno what it is, but we've pretty much stripped the outside of our building to nothing because it would just be stolen otherwise.

[straightcogar.livejournal.com]

Geez, around here people just make meth!

Lol, actually we have the scrap "pickers" I use that term losely. Lady was blocking my alley the other day with her stolen shopping cart going through everyones trash. I honked at her and she just continued to go through trash. I had another guy, when my husband was home even, waltz up onto our poarch and steal a bunch of bags of cans we were saving.

But seriously, the nerve of those people! Oh how dare they try to prevent us from stealing! We are going to break their shit! WOW.

[sky-dark.livejournal.com]

He came up onto your porch while your husband was there?! Wow, that's when you need the hall closet with a shot gun or a big vicious dog to let out, srsly.

I know, how dare we try to keep what is ours!