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CROWBAR CHARLIE
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CROWBAR CHARLIE CROWBAR CHARLIE Undoubtedly you have a Crowbar Charlie in your neighborhood. Crowbar Charlies are those men and women who cruise around neighborhoods looking for things they can "salvage." As times become tougher, and the safety net of communities shrink, the Crowbar Charlies of this country multiply. Things begin to disappear into trucks and vans that aren't just salvage. Perhaps your one-year old lawnmower that you forgot to lock in the garage the last time you mowed the lawn was something Crowbar Charlie recently acquired. Human nature is such that people who are desperate will do desperate things. When a man or woman has nothing to lose-- when they're living in a car, a van, a bus-- a cardboard box in an alley-- they aren't too worried about getting arrested for theft. Southern California is plagued with the theft of COPPER. All kinds of copper, whether it's wire or pipe, clamps--anything made of copper is worth $4.00 a pound (the last I heard). It's hard for me to understand the mindset of someone digging up underground cables to acquire the copper from them, or to rip out copper water pipes to salvage the copper, but I've never been THAT desperate for money. Now that summer is here and many secondary schools are empty, there's a break-in seemingly every week at some unguarded school. Computers are a target, and so are the copper pipes, and even in some instances the light bulbs, and wall switches. Two weeks ago in my area, a man and woman were caught by a sheriff's deputy digging up chainlink fence posts from a home where the owners had left for the summer. ( Many people who can't tolerate the summer heat leave their homes during this time of year and go to a cooler place for the summer)... This Crowbar Charlie couple, had rigged two old bumper jacks (one for him and the other for her), with metal straps that they could hook around the fence post and then very easily pull the metal post out of the ground with a few easy cranks of the bumper jack. I suppose if this couple had been able to get away with the posts, the next day they'd come back for the chainlink fence itself. Some people who visit me, call my place a fortress. I've learned through the years there are always people who will break and enter a home if they believe they can get away with it. I've tried to secure my place in every way I can think of. When I was an eight year old snoopy , I spent a couple of years sneaking into houses through an attached coal bin door that led to the hot water furnace-- heated by coal. It was a small hinged door with a drawbolt that few people ever bothered to slide closed. The town was called Sheridan Parkside, in the suburbs of Buffalo, N.Y. Many of the houses had been built by the same contactor so they all had the attached coal bin. I never took anything, or vandalized any places, I just snooped around. The first dirty pictures I ever saw, were in a bureau drawer I opened to peek inside, in one of these "home invasions".. Has your home ever been burglarized? What about your car? FORCIBLE home invasions happen often in the Palm Springs area. I think most of those types of robberies are drug related, but I bet if something like THAT happened to you it would really blow your mind. I know it would mine. Car jacking is another wild-assed, very scary, crime in this area. I don't think I'll ever have to worry about having my cars or trucks jacked. I like to drive vehicles well over ten years old, and most of the car jacking is done to get newer vehicles. Be safe my friends. The world has always been a dangerous place. by davidstardust, Wednesday morning, June 27, 2012   |
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Thanks for all the information, sweet Lola.. The way S-California is going I would hate to be living in the L.A. area at this time. Believe it or not I still drive my 1978 Dodge Colt, and 1978 Nisson 1/2 ton truck. Imogene (now deceased) and I bought them both new and I've never had much of a problem with them...If we take a long trip--which is seldom--we rent a new vehicle..I don't drive my '84 Ford LTD Crown Victoria very much anymore--it's too big for these country roads. xxxxdavid
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well in my area on garbage night we do have a man in his truck that drives up and down the streets to see if there is anything on the curb left out as garbage that he can pick-up...........As for break-ins. I've not heard of any.....
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well in my area on garbage night we do have a man in his truck that drives up and down the streets to see if there is anything on the curb left out as garbage that he can pick-up...........As for break-ins. I've not heard of any..... silky... 
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That's true. This sort of thing has been going on since the world began. The really BIG crooks are in Washington and in the banking industry.. xxxxdavid
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