04-04-2006, 11:42 AM
[cool][#0000ff]Bummer! It is really getting so you don't dare leave your vehicle, boat or fishing gear unattended anywhere anymore. I am getting so I won't fish anywhere I can't see my car or at least know that others can see it while I am out fishing. I have my "stories" too, and don't know many anglers who don't have similar tales of woe.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]About the only comfort you can take is that the ones who did it are probably not real sportsmen. There seems to be an element that travels back roads looking for "targets of opportunity". They find vehicles without anyone apparently watching them and then break into them and take anything that they think they can sell. Often it is a drug situation, and the perpetrators have no concept of respect for others or their property...only getting money to feed their habit. The vandalism is purely to keep you from chasing them down if you happen to catch them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]If I would have caught them they would not have been able to outrun a bullet.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]About the only comfort you can take is that the ones who did it are probably not real sportsmen. There seems to be an element that travels back roads looking for "targets of opportunity". They find vehicles without anyone apparently watching them and then break into them and take anything that they think they can sell. Often it is a drug situation, and the perpetrators have no concept of respect for others or their property...only getting money to feed their habit. The vandalism is purely to keep you from chasing them down if you happen to catch them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]If I would have caught them they would not have been able to outrun a bullet.[/#0000ff]
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