So we all complain when a dirty scumbag theif breaks into out trucks and takes one of our quads to something like that. The other night I finally got at least one of them back, and encourage more of you to do similar things to deter them. Maybe if enough of us pull tricks on them they will stop their actions.
Here is what happened to me after having my car broken into a few times over the last yr in my driveway during the night....

I cook a lot of turkeys in those outdoor turkey fryers. After 4-5 birds I change the oil out. The best way I found to do it was to just put the old oil in a 5gal red gas can.
Because I spilled a little down the side, I left if on the side of the driveway just in the grass so the oil could run off it and not stain my garage floor (till I had time on the weekend to dispose of it properly). Also because I knew there were punks in the area that were doing car vandalization and breaking into cars to steal change or anything of value...
So sometime during the night, someone decided to drive by my house (I live in a very nice community in Melbourne, Fl) and take 5 gal of free gas that wasnt theirs. Apparently in their act of thevery, they didnt notice that it wasnt gas, but oil. After filling their car/truck, they then just threw the can back up toward the house and drove away thinking they just got away with 15$ of free gas....
I drove around the next day hoping to find a car that was broken down, but didnt see anything. I would have stopped to help them and then looked in the gas filler to see if I saw any cooking oil, then beat their ***. But couldnt find a broken down car. They probably had enough in their gas line to get a few miles down the road. I guess carma must have caught up to them by now. So now everytime I put something in a gas can that is not gas, I always leave it out by the corner of my house just in case.....

 

That is priceless! I am glad to hear you got the can back! But I now have a few ideas of my own.

 

That's great. I hate theives. Thanks for sharing, definately puts a few ideas in my head now also.

 

A number of years ago someone was stealing gas from cans on piers. BB left a 5 gallon can of raw fuel on the dock hoping someone would take it and toast their engine.

 

We had a problem with people stealing gas from one of our tractors, so we concocted a mixture of diesel and gas (to keep a halfway decent smell) and antifreeze and filled up a tractor we don't use much (also pulled the rotor out of the distributer to prevent a accident) A couple days later the tank was dry again, and after a good flush the fuel level stayed where we left it...

 

Best way to stop a theif is a good 2 way paging system...

Sneak up behind them and chamber your 12 gauge while they are in your truck....garuntee that ***** themselves

 

You better hope they didn't reealize it was oil and add it to your tank. That would really suck.

 

Hope they didn't drive a diesel.........they just saved themselves 20 bucks.

 

lol, well... you do need a conversion kit to run biodiesel, but yeah to someone it might have been good as diesel! lol

 

If they drive a diesel they shouldn't be syphening fuel out of a Farmal H for it, we had enough gas in that that whatever they put it in wouldn't be very happy with it.

This was probably 10 years ago when it was cheap.

 

A freind of mine works for an auto glass company, so he gets to drive his little company van to and from work, lives way out in the country in a trailer with about a 100ft gravel driveway surrounded by cornfields. Well some punks had broken into his van and stole all of his tools, not once, but twice within a month. So we decided to play dirty. Took a shotgun shell and cut off the very end of it (the little flaps that fold over), dumped out all of the shot (BBB my goose hunting loads) and left it empty so all that there is was the powder and the plastic wad. So when you pull the trigger nothing comes out except for that little plastic wad that would normally help push out all the shot. pretty harmless we think.


after a couple nights of tinkering around we rigged up his 20ga. shotgun to sit in the back of his van so that when you open the rear doors it pulls the trigger. Every night for the next weeks he would set the trap after he got home, even making sure to leave the truck unlocked so he wouldnt have to replace yet another lock. sure chit, after 3 weeks of nothing, one night while sleeping he was woke up by a shotgun blast. By the time he ran to the front door he saw the young kid running back to truck that was waiting for him out by the road. i wish we could have seen the look on his face when he opened that door. I hope he at least chit n pissed his pants.

Havent had a problem since.

 

No you don't. My truck can run B100 no problem. In warmer weather it could run on pure veggie oil (what the OP had in the gas can).

 

Well his gas can had more of a oil/turkey combo




That's a pretty good idea to keep them away, but like that other guy said make sure they don't find out and put it in your tank.
We haven't had any thieves in our neighborhood but there are vandals. The worst case I've ever seen was some kids that were going around with either a bat or a metal pipe or something, and they would shatter all the windows on a vehicle just for fun. My vehicles were in the garage but my neighbors Expy was outside
The framing for the rear window was bent also and they had to have a TON of mounting hardware and framing replaced, too. There were so many Glass Replacement Vans in my neighborhood that day.

 

someone stole my broken ipod

 

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