Thanks SW.
And since it's insured it will cost me $2,000 to get one now, which I can afford by never going to movies, eating out, going to bars, taking vacations (except a couple hours away where I live in a tent), eating crap that college students get by on instead of something good, not owning a cell phone, DVD player, new furniture and appliances, a motorcycle, snowmobile, new car, riding mower, etc. I've been sacrificing a lot MY WHOLE LIFE and living like a bum to afford what I have. I never even had cable TV until I got a computer, AFTER I went out on disability and needed something I can afford to do like surf online instead of going someplace and having fun like most people do. I can spend $2,000 on an ATV I need ONLY because I don't spend it on things most people take for granted. But I can't come up with enough money to build even a small garage unless I take out a home equity loan for as much as I can possibly get. If I could even get it, it would take decades to pay it off and I'd be stuck here until it's paid off. I had to quit working overtime 10 years before I quit working altogether. I spent all my savings years ago on utilities, food, and gas.

I had pepper spray confiscated too after I used it during one of several assaults by my neighbor. The police and prosecters around here don't do anything about the criminals. They disarm the victims instead because it's so much easier to do. Fighting crime takes more of an effort so they don't do it. Any time someone tries to kill you and the police don't show up until days later, after you get home from the hospital, it makes you lose any faith you had in them. When the guy who tried to kill you doesn't even get arrested that just drives the point home. They don't care.

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Rowe

Damn Sidewinder have a bad day or what? You sound like my wife when she comes home from work and something bad happened.



JF you could probably buy a shed if you took a 2 week vacation instead of a 3[img][/img]</end quote></div>

I don't spend much more on vacation than I do at home. I drive 2-3 hours and set up my tent since I can't afford anything else. And I spend way more time sitting in front of a campfire than I do riding. I only rode 300 miles in 3 weeks so that wasn't much gas. I would have to go years without any vacation at all to save enough money to cover the cost of a shed. But I guess I'm going to have to tear down my fence and put another shed out in the back yard anyway. The one I have is full of power equipment. Even if it wasn't I don't think my ATV would even fit through the doorway.

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Sidewinder500

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Rowe



Damn Sidewinder have a bad day or what? You sound like my wife when she comes home from work and something bad happened.







JF you could probably buy a shed if you took a 2 week vacation instead of a 3[IMG][/IMG]</end quote></div>



LOL actually no had a good day till i read a couple posts about someone being blamed for being a victim.... whats next they gonna go into a rape crisis center and yell at them all for having a vagina?&lt;----- can you stay that on here?</end quote></div>

You were reading my mind. I was thinking two hours ago how the rapists usually get away and the victim gets blamed.

If no one out there will give me $30,000 for a new garage, I'm going to spend $2,000 to get a new ATV if I don't get mine back. I can't stop anyone from stealing it but I did lower my deductible from $500 to $100. I still have to pay the difference between the price of new and used.

 

Note to self.... Leave Flint MI off list of job searches.

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: upnort

Note to self.... Leave Flint MI off list of job searches.</end quote></div>

You don't want to visit the Rape Capitol of the U.S.? I don't blame you. I'm trying to get out.

 

Hey JF, I know how it is to pinch pennies and what not. I kept my atv's outside for years chained to a tree and covered them up with plastic I was able to get off the gas guys putting a well in near my house. I found a 10'x12' metal shed at sears for $300.00, and it came with a floor kit that allow you to use plywood for a floor. If you cant afford the wood you don't need it, it will work without it. Just put the thing right on the ground you don't plan on being there that long anyway.

Now these things are easy to break into but I park my work car right up against it so they have to break into it first and move it then get into the shed. If someone wanted it they would get it but it would take them a little longer than just cutting the lock and going. Now if you get a shed I'll let you know the plans on the security alarm and you can put it in there too. All you need is something audible inside your house to let you know they are there.

I'm not trying to get down on you just trying to help you out!

 

I'm thinking that if you're worried about razor blades and trip wires then the wood chipper is probably a bad idea too.

 

I've lived in this house 17 years and almost 30 years on the other side of town, and never had any problems until a crack-head moved in next-door. There's no such thing as a good neighborhood when someone like him can move in. The first real sign of trouble was about two years ago when my two ATVs got stolen at the same time. For 14-15 years it seemed like <u>a decent neighborhood on the good side of town</u> and I had no ATVs stolen the first 9 out of 11 years I rode them, then had 5 stolen in 2 years. Other people around here leave ATVs and jet-skis and snowmobiles and boats outside, but only mine get stolen. Anyone who thinks they wouldn't leave an ATV outside in this neighborhood needs to realize that this can happen to anyone in any neighborhood. It's not a bad part of town at all but someone has singled me out to be a victim.

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: hddoperator

I'm thinking that if you're worried about razor blades and trip wires then the wood chipper is probably a bad idea too.</end quote></div>

[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] You're right, but they wouldn't go running to the police or sue me afterward. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] There was a guy who shredded his wife and got busted for it, but he was on the river bank next to a highway. DUH! I know places MILES away from paved roads where people can just disappear in over a million acres of forest. By the time the scavengers got done there wouldn't even be a speck of DNA to test. I would never do it for real but it is tempting.

 

Thats right dead witnesses can't talk! j/k. I know how you feel though! I hope you find you're bike and the pigs who keep doing this.