GungasUncle
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Tyler and I fished the Wilson last Thursday from sunrise to sunset.
Had an OK day - I got a few tugs and a hook up swinging flies for steel before saying sod it and switching to trout gear (which brought to hand a few nice SRC's, one of which ate a grass hopper dry.)
We ate lunch at the little diner near MP9, and headed up river after lunch, parking at MP 17.5 (half mile west of Keening Creek, by the western yellow locked gate). We fished hard down river, seeing lots of big fish, but not getting any. Tyler got his first fly caught stream trout this trip.
When we got back to the car around 7PM, we realized the car had been broken into. The (%*&!@(%*&!@$(%*&U thief or thieves got away with Tyler's back pack, cell phone, android (not used as a phone), and my Fuji digi cam.
They have absolutely no taste, or they got scared off - as they left my two new fly rods untouched in the back (thankfully!). They also missed my cell phone, and a full box of .380ACP that was in the center console next to Tyler's android. (No, there was no pistola in the car for them to gack.)
I called TCSO when we got home to report it. Didn't hear back from them, so I called again Friday, only to find out that they were passing the buck off to the state police. After a chat with an OSP dispatcher, she said she would mail a form to me to make a formal report.
I realize that TCSO is small and doesn't have much in the way of crime fighting resources, and it's such a low priority crime that OSP probably will file my report away and we'll never get anything back, and the thieves probably won't be prosecuted for this one. I hope that the buggers wind up breaking into the wrong dude's car, and get caught, and thus get what's coming to them in whatever way that it comes. Damn thieves.
This is one instance where I'm on the side of Sharia law - you steal from someone else - you loose your hand(s). These probably weren't the same guys who took Brad's fly rods a while back - since they left mine alone. These thieves didn't have any taste - and were probably meth freaks looking for easy pickings so they could get their next fix.
While it didn't help my camera was sitting out - these bathtubss popped the lock on the back passenger door (furthest from the road, least visible to passing cars) and took their time rooting through the middle section of the car. They took Tyler's bottle of water out of his back pack and drank it and left the empty on the back seat.
I wouldn't be hurt if these guys wound up getting eaten by a bear or a mountain lion the next time they're out breaking into people's cars.
Make sure you lock your crap up, and keep valuables left in your car to a minimum. Could've been worse for me - they could've smashed a window or taken my fly rods.
Had an OK day - I got a few tugs and a hook up swinging flies for steel before saying sod it and switching to trout gear (which brought to hand a few nice SRC's, one of which ate a grass hopper dry.)
We ate lunch at the little diner near MP9, and headed up river after lunch, parking at MP 17.5 (half mile west of Keening Creek, by the western yellow locked gate). We fished hard down river, seeing lots of big fish, but not getting any. Tyler got his first fly caught stream trout this trip.
When we got back to the car around 7PM, we realized the car had been broken into. The (%*&!@(%*&!@$(%*&U thief or thieves got away with Tyler's back pack, cell phone, android (not used as a phone), and my Fuji digi cam.
They have absolutely no taste, or they got scared off - as they left my two new fly rods untouched in the back (thankfully!). They also missed my cell phone, and a full box of .380ACP that was in the center console next to Tyler's android. (No, there was no pistola in the car for them to gack.)
I called TCSO when we got home to report it. Didn't hear back from them, so I called again Friday, only to find out that they were passing the buck off to the state police. After a chat with an OSP dispatcher, she said she would mail a form to me to make a formal report.
I realize that TCSO is small and doesn't have much in the way of crime fighting resources, and it's such a low priority crime that OSP probably will file my report away and we'll never get anything back, and the thieves probably won't be prosecuted for this one. I hope that the buggers wind up breaking into the wrong dude's car, and get caught, and thus get what's coming to them in whatever way that it comes. Damn thieves. This is one instance where I'm on the side of Sharia law - you steal from someone else - you loose your hand(s). These probably weren't the same guys who took Brad's fly rods a while back - since they left mine alone. These thieves didn't have any taste - and were probably meth freaks looking for easy pickings so they could get their next fix.
While it didn't help my camera was sitting out - these bathtubss popped the lock on the back passenger door (furthest from the road, least visible to passing cars) and took their time rooting through the middle section of the car. They took Tyler's bottle of water out of his back pack and drank it and left the empty on the back seat.
I wouldn't be hurt if these guys wound up getting eaten by a bear or a mountain lion the next time they're out breaking into people's cars.
Make sure you lock your crap up, and keep valuables left in your car to a minimum. Could've been worse for me - they could've smashed a window or taken my fly rods.
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. it just pisses me off so much!!! My backpack only had clothes an a couple dollars worth of spare change. i hope i can find them one day and get a little justice.
