Posted by Brokenwrench on November 18, 2014 at 15:22:55 from (184.60.48.173):
The post about the stolen motorcycle brought to mind a fiasco I self-created a month ago.
I was home alone one evening and gonna do some tinkering on a tractor. I went to grab some wrenches out of my service truck and it was gone, vanished into thin air. This truck is my at home, farm toolbox, not much of a truck but a lot of tools in it. It commonly sits right next to my machine shed unless it is in use.
Panic hit me as I realized we had just got back from being gone for the weekend, it could have been gone a few days and I wouldn't have noticed. My shop in town had some things stolen early this summer, so now my brain is in high gear thinking someone is casing me out.
I called a friend to see if he took it, nope. I called the neighbor, he hadn't seen it. My dad didn't take it. I hopped on the 4 wheeler and did a quick property search, nothing.
I went in the house and was on the phone with the sheriff when my cell phone buzzed, it was the neighbor I had called earlier. I told the dispatcher I would call her back. (for the record, I had used the non-emergency #)
He happened to be standing in another neighbors field talking to him. This guy owns land across the ditch from my 80. From where they were standing they thought they could make out a white truck behind a treeline along my field.
I thanked them and ran over there with the 4 wheeler. There it was, tucked in behind the trees, nothing missing. I was just left with trying to figure out why someone took it and left it there.
I was still pretty fired up about someone "stealing" my truck when my wife and boys got home.
I was telling them about it, and how mad it made me that someone had the gall to come into my yard and take my truck.
My 15 yr old had a worried look on his face and said "Dad, last Thursday I brought the truck out there and parked so it was there with a roll of netwrap in it in case you needed it." You brought me home in the tractor.
To this day, I can't remember doing that, but my whole family insists that is what happened.
So, by now I have the whole neighborhood stirred up, my family thinking I'm going senile, and a deputy standing at my door because I forgot to call the dispatcher back.
To top it off, guess what the hot topic was at our annual neighborhood get together a few days later.
Yeah, I'm a bonehead. BW Anyone else pull any good ones this past year?
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