A Tale of a girl and her tools

Jul 3, 2017 6:48 AM

yomomsaman

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On June 14th, I came home from a wedsing planning trip to find my property had been broken on to. Someone stole every tool I owned. And for anyone who knows me, knows my tools are my world. Brand new Dewalts, trimmers, every bit, zip tie, grandfathers tools (he died 31 years ago) and blue tooth speaker had been stolen.

They thrashed it all. Went through all they could.

They were nice enough to leave my $100 lights I was about to install.

Stole everything but they missed my clamps, so that was nice.

3 dewalt drill kits, gone. The one i bought the day i got hired at my job to celebrate, gone. I was crushed. But more so, i was fucking pissed! So the next morning, i started looking for mine and my 82 year old dad's tools.

I tracked down one of my trimmers. A guy had bought it, fixed it and was reselling it. Took 2 days, but i got the trimmer back. He bought it from someone on letgo. There it was. The ad with all my tools in it. I wanted to stab someone. But i resisted. I got the cops involved.

We got the storage unit our tools were in, locked down. Took a week for a search warrant. By the time we got into it, we were only able to find $600 of our tools. None of our bigger tools. Just my small tools. All my drills, wood burning tools, it was all gone.

We know who the guy is..we have his name. We know where he lives(homeless as of 3 months ago) and we know his accomplice is an informant for the cops. We also know he came to our yard sale. He fucking scoped us because we were tryingn to make some money for our wedding.

I never knew it possible to feel so much like shit because of something someone else did. I use those tools to make extra money to pay bills. And it fucking sucks because i dont have the money to replace them. House insurance deductible is as high as the amount stolen so we cant even do that.

Sorry to vent but it just fucking sucks that there are such douchetools on this planet. And its people like me and his other victims who get fucked over because some dicksmuggler wont get a fucking job like the rest of us.

I dont make shit. I work 3 jobs. Still scrap by and yet it has never crossed my mind to fuck someone else over.

Long story short. Life sucks. People fucking blow. But at least i got my bluetooth speaker back. So i got that going for me.

If someone is homeless, nobody is going to come looking for them if they disappear. Why did you get the cops involved in the first place?

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 9

I was hopi...expec...uh too hard to think.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You need to get this in your local paper OP. No, really, people can be good when they have a reason. You can be that reason

8 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

A guy with broken legs cant run

8 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

For those who have asked. Yes i do have a gofundme set up.https://www.gofundme.com/41zk17s

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

What a scumbag to steal tools, its like stealing the food out of your mouth

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Happened to us too. There is a huge feeling of violation and immense anger. It felt almost irrational at the time since no one was hurt.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I agree. Ive been obsessed with tracking the guy. Mainly just want him arrested.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I have some of my grandfathers tools if I lost them it would destroy me. I feel for you, tools are special.

8 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

Totally. Not many things can be both heirlooms and something you use all the time. Good tools never die if you use them right.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

He'll get what's coming to him when he break into the wrong house and gets blown away with a shotgun.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Had i been home, thats exactly what his fate would have been

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Part about the grandpa tools hurts the worst. I have a pair of 80yo channel locks. Every time I fix a pipe I hear my Papa's voice. Sorry @OP

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Shove half a cucumber up his ass!

8 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thats a waste of a perfectly good cucumber man.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Well maybe thats why only half of one. U get ur revenge and still have a half of a cucumber left

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not if there's nails haphazardly shoved in it.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I think I can say we'd like to help fuck that guys day up for you.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dear Darla, I hate your stinkin’ guts

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

People not respecting what is yours is awful.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

@OP, I think some Imgurians may like to help buy you some new stuff. Do you have a go fund me or a paypal?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Go fund me?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I do. Just hasnt had much bites except from my cousin. https://www.gofundme.com/41zk17s

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Reply to some comments and messages with it. All it takes is one super generous person.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Years ago, our house was broken into. We knew who did it, it was our next door neighbor. Cops even lovingly referred to him as twinkle-toes.

8 years ago | Likes 230 Dislikes 0

Same here. I'm pretty sure I know who broke into our house 3.5 years ago. He even had a key. Cops didn't even question him. Bullshit.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Stupid shit filed off the serial number on one of my father's guns and sold it to his dealer. It was strike three for him. Life in prison.

8 years ago | Likes 232 Dislikes 1

Was it a nice gun because if someone took a file to my dads python I would be going to jail

8 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 1

The robber himself got away with it (what we had was hearsay) but it felt good knowing at least some scum got off the street.

8 years ago | Likes 87 Dislikes 1

Put his name out there on the internet with this story and see what happens to him.

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Thats my plan once the case gets a little closer to close. My brother got us a new address for the douchebag.

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

This angers me greatly. I'm so sorry OP. I'd contribute what I could to a gofundme to get you some new tools.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Thank you for the offer. Here is the link to my current gofundme. https://www.gofundme.com/41zk17s

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Donation made. Good luck and build some amazing things. Don't let this slow you down!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thank u so much!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

theft always hurts, someone broke in to my car on christmas eve and stole all my micromaster transformers...I was crushed.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Looks like you're going to have the clamp that theif.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Glad to here it op, my truck tool box was broken into and I lost $600 of cordless power tools, never got them back.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Bush trimmers and faces make a very good combination... just saying

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Will letgo not share the information of who bought your tools? I would think all you need is a warrant and you could track people down

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Thats what i thought. But apparently the cops dont want to do that. Detective said let that go.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Tell the detective to give you all his tools then see if he will "let that go"

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Tell them you don't want to let it go, get them to pursue it.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Any insurance you have on your property will cover this! Especially with the police report. Any deductible you may have to pay will be (2)

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

less than the value of the tools. Use what you got!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Find him. "Convince" him to sell one of his kidneys to pay you back. "One kidney, or both along with all your other organs. You choose."

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't understand why these criminals aren't legally require to pay you back for what they stole...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Some DAs will make restitution apart of the sentencing. Thats what im hoping for. Ill never see a dime but itd be nice lol

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

House got burgled, no insurance lost everything. I vowed to the dark lords I will destroy the next people who try to rob me. No cops...

8 years ago | Likes 47 Dislikes 1

I never had insurance until a few years back after an apartment in Austin required it. I'll never go back, a few hundred a year is cheap.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Honestly, I know people say "that won't solve anything", but as previous victim of theft, id rather a little knuckle Justice over legal

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Same. Here. Destroy!!!!!

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The cops don't even care. When we got robbed the cop wouldn't even fingerprint the doors. He didn't question the guy who probably did it.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I have a wealthy neighbor, kids break into my house regularly, they wear blankets over their heads so video doesn't show them. Cops no help

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A gang of rich people's kids constantly burgled their neighborhood in Sacramento. Some as young as 4. Cops couldn't or wouldn't do a thing.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Get a gun. They wont come back when one is dead.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Use the tools you got back to build the cunt a coffin, he gonna need it

8 years ago | Likes 367 Dislikes 2

Make it shitty

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And a shovel to bury it.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

You should make a hunded black coffins for a hunded bad men!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Shoot, shovel, shut up. I like it!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But not like, a nice coffin. Make him a kinda ordinary one. Maybe skimp on the sanding so it's got bits sticking out. Yeah.

8 years ago | Likes 74 Dislikes 0

Make it out of pcb, that'll show 'em

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Make the top the thickest so he can't get out when he gets buried alive.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yeah, lots of splinters and shit

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

3 years ago my condo was broken into, and approx 10 grand worth of stuff was stolen from me, including my grandpa's trombone. I found my --

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

star wars statues on ebay, and were able to get most of that back, not my grandpa's trombone though, among other things. Turned out to be --

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

the people across the hall from me. The cops had all the evidence stacked against the guy, he died before the court proceedings were over --

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

and his girlfriend got off scott free. At least you got some back, but I know the feeling is the worst, and will stick for a long time.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

What happened to him? How did the shit die?

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

They were heroine addicts, he had Hepatitis whatever letter from sharing needles. He needed a liver(?) transplant, but was low priority.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

gofundme page? would be willing to give you some of my hardearned cash to ease the pain.

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Thanks man! I really appreciate the offer. https://www.gofundme.com/41zk17s

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

you are very welcome! will see what I can donate later today. will not be much, but I'll try what I can. looking good so far. be happy!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think it would still be worth going through insurance to replace them. It would be the same right now, but it would help in the future

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

in case you have to make another claim

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

So your insurance deductible is over $2000?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Around $1600

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's a crazy high deductible!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0