Nope was all locked up in a pole building. They pried the door open. With that much stuff I have to assume they made multiple trips. Neighbors noticed the lights on ~4am then noticed a white truck a few hours later but didn't get ahold of us until much later.
I've sent an email to my Sis-in-law who has a house in Kirkland and Mattawa to be on the lookout (she knows what the 1125's as she lusts for my 09 XB12r).
In the Jax, FL area the professionals will have a stack of bikes out of state in a matter of hours. Usually one bike with GPS tracking will get them all recovered.
Well the guy that stole my bike was so smart he put it up on farcebook marketplace the following day along with my welder and a few other things. I was stoked the guy could be that dumb and figured it would be an easy open and shut case.
Then the guy came back about a week later for round two. I'm not even sure what was taken the second time.
King County Sheriffs department is so inept and worthless and drug their feet for so long by the time they finally got an "undercover unit" to msg the guy about it the bike was supposedly gone.
This was after we sent loads of pictures to the "detective" of all our stolen stuff. They even had my wife contact the guy on her moms account to get the address.
Good God, that's helter-stupid. Perp and po-po both. Would it be worth the effort to go to your local newspaper and tell your story? Folks need to know how worthless your sheriff's department is in this case.
heh, in one of the instances I was on the phone with the detective he was just giving me excuse after excuse. I asked him if I needed to just go get my crap myself. He said "...uhhh...well....I'm not saying that..."
Reminds me of attending a neighborhood meeting last year with the mayor and a police representative to discuss speeders/reckless driving in the area. Without fail, every suggestion was shot down by the mayor. The police officer came equipped with a powerpoint rig that he didn't know how to operate, then he switched to charts that had information either 7 or 10 years out of date. At one point a buddy/neighbor down the street piped up and suggested just tossing a beach ball in the road- mayor shot that down too.
Sure hope you resolve all that crap one way or another...
Great way to have a driver veer off into a pedestrian...or a parked car...or another moving vehicle...or a living room...
Go to an industrial supply house and get 50' of uber-thick nylon rope (like, 2" thick or more - think "shipyard mooring rope"). Nail the ends to the shoulders of the road, and string it across as a makeshift speed bump.
If you go to the news, the po-po will be all over you for retaliation. It's a no-win kind of thing. It should be done to move the lazy out of their positions, but the retaliation is hard to deal with.
A soccer ball worked in my neighborhood, but the road is so narrow, there was no risk of hitting a car, just a redwood.
Several people slid to a stop in front of my house where they were greeted with a couple of folks "reminding" them of the 10mph speed limit.
Speed bumps just made people speed up and in a lot of locations, open you up to liability for vehicle damage even though they are breaking the law speeding...
The fabric of our society is tattered and torn in too many places. God bless and hold those who become poor and homeless.
That town hall segment was telling. Here in Knoxville the mayor had one major homeless camp near downtown closed down and cleared, now many of those displaced have migrated to South Knoxvil1e. Hard to say what the solution might be.
One major cause for theft is the mounting opioid/meth problem. I've been following stories of lawsuits going after the drugmakers and distributors, God I hope they pay for what they've done... if not in this life, they will in the next.
Orman, keep us posted on things. Sure hope you can see some positive results soon.
Later in the video they get into the drug aspect. It’s not a homeless crisis it’s a drug crisis. Seattle has decriminalized drug possession, enabling users to continue using. They have also effectively decriminalized theft, since very few people are ever tried for it. The thieves know they will get away with it. Hence the immediate posting of stolen items for sale. No fear of being arrested. As we see, and as the video suggests, the police won’t waste their time going after people when they stand no chance of getting convicted.
Oh wow- didn't catch that you were in Seattle, Orman. Dang. Hoot, if I can tolerate the rest of the vid, I'll try later. Too purty of a day here in TN to give a shiznit, going outside now.
Good luck Orman, might start Zillowing youself outta there. Tennessee is awesome. just don't tell anybody. I'm starting to see too many out of state plates around here.
I'm starting to see too many out of state plates around here. ; ) The place I lived in East Tenn. in the early 70s had so many northerners move in since that I don't see how the South is goin' to rise again.
Truth is just truth. Anyone can move there. Only being born there makes you one. I was treated much better in Texas when I put it out there up front that I was just passing through.
The place I lived in East Tenn. in the early 70s had so many northerners move in since that I don't see how the South is goin' to rise again.
Au contraire, mon frère!
The South will indeed rise again. If, and only if, enough Northerners move to the South. There's talk and then there's action. You want action, look to a Northerner. IMO, of course...
Damned yankee: A person from the northeast who moves to the south.
no offense to anyone here.
No offense on my part, I moved from the 'Midwest' NOT the Northeast.
Although I might have offended some with my opinion regarding the South rising again... Approaching 17 years South of the Mason-Dixon, so I wouldn't consider it a snap judgement...
I’m a transplant from Seattle. I didn’t say ‘north’ because i would be impugning my own character.
I saw the writing on the wall almost two decades ago and hightailed it. Seattle has not fared well from the influx of Californians fleeing the politicians they voted for. Too bad they didn’t connect the dots. It used to be a great place to live.
I thought about going to the news but I didn't know if they would even care. I'm moving out of state so I don't particularly care about any retaliation.
It's just frustrating that we had them dead to rights. Multiple ads on facebook of my crap and the cops sat around for nearly a month before they bothered to engage anyone, even after they had a mountain of evidence that WE provided. So now this waste of flesh (Derek Terry of Maple Valley Washington) will get to go along burglarizing more people.
I was thinking of making a bunch of signs and flyers with his facebook profile pic (of him and his daughter) and posting them around his house with a big bold “DEREK TERRY IS A THIEF” with his address.
The proper steps are local police, State Police, then FBI. IF the local wont move then keep going up the list. Don't tell the first you are moving to the second and so on. Corruption is an ugly thing and could be what your up against. My local sheriff of many decades lost his job because of his son's sticky fingers(property room theft).
You should have already been with your insurance company and told them about the farcebook sales. Also I think you can contact your Dept. of Motor Vehicles with the VIN stating it is stolen. That should get other state agencies looking at the sheriff.