ha ive been readen forum for some time .had my sportsman on trailer chained locked survailane camera on motion light a 400am they cut the lock lifted the wheeler of trailer rolled it back aways hot wired it my son saw them drive it out the ally way he got me up i ran after them in my under ware. could not catch them.called cops. looked all that day.with a friend. no luck. looked for tire marks my friend told me that a wheeler aways leaves a mark from tires. when turning.the next day me and my son went looking hit every where we were going home and we saw a ally way i had not went down my son said go for it . i drove slowly looking for tire marks towards the end of the ally way. buy a garage in the concete i saw what looked like tire marks we stoped i looked in gararge through a crack in door say something coverd up. my son went to the front and said dad its your camouflage cover. he kicked in the door a said the best words ive heard in a long time its your quad dad. i put so much time in fixing this quad up another trans misson ujints axles brakes i did all the work myself 104.00 for manual .im telling you to have insurance. if they want it there going to get it. ps i did not have any insurance .the day it was stolen i put a new 3000 p wench on. had $2500.00 in machine. i trailer it went to insurance co and insured it



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Now that's justice. Not sure about NY but around here,,, the chances of getting one back are slim to none. Glad you got it back in one piece.

 

so did the cops do anything beside right a report, and did you tell them you broke in and stole in back lol. glad you got it though. i would have done the same thing for sure.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

where i found it no one lived there. called cops. took finger prints. will see what they find out. thks ed

 

if i was you ed,
i think i woulda took that one step further and camped out in my car with a baseball bat and waited for them to return, (have a talk with them..lol) drop the bat by their twitching carcus and then called the cops to run some prints and then maybe they could catch them

itch

 

I know it isn't according to legal guidelines but I lean towards the course of action favored by my esteemed colleague itch. Something tells me that staking out the garage and waiting for the thieves to come back to claim their prize and then taking appropriate administrative action with the necessary implements of application would be more than satisfying but would provide society with more of a deterrent effect and deliver more justice than would ever be found in a modern courtroom.

Then again I'm all for stringing up vehicle thieves from the nearest tree so maybe I'm a little zealous on the subject. We (family and neighbors) use to do that with horse and stock thieves around here not so long ago. I can show you a tree they used that still stands.

 

Yeah, I can only imagine how relieved you must have been when you found it!!! Not much chance anyone is going to get arrested over it and not to go along with itch but sometimes old school justice is the best justice. No chance around here to get your quad back if taken to many places for it to disappear to and when was the last time you saw a cop at your riding area just stop you to ask if you saw a stolen quad???????

GREAT advice about the insurance though, at least you can get back riding again fast with a small investment with insurance!

By the way still using the same trailer and locking technique?

 

no i keep it in a garage alarmed. it sucks to have to go through this trouble.just to keep a little fun save. ....