Opinions?
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Don’t steal other peoples stuff. Hope he doesn’t get charged. 
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That’s great he tracked him down, but turn that information over to the Police Department…
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There’s a limit to my involvement.
Let my taxes work for me.
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I was reading through the article comments, after skipping all the ones talking about beer, and found this one.
A lot of people were stating that the Police won’t track down stolen vehicles until 2 weeks after the theft, other just don’t think the Police are allowed to police so they should take matters into their own hand.
Me? The truck is insured.
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I got my first new car stolen as a young adult. About two months later, it was found torched. I had a loan on that car, and I had to keep paying on that until the insurance company settled, which was after the car was found. In the meantime, I had to rent a car and use a credit card for that. I had a credit card with a $500 limit. To keep renting the car so I could get to work, I had to send money every two weeks (when I got paid) to the CC company. Thankfully, the insurance company sent ckecks to cover that each month or I would have not had enough money to continue renting the car, and then I would have had to stop working. I was making less than $20K/year then. It was very tight financially.
Then there was the initial suspicion that I was somehow involved or had it repo’d. I was told later by an officer that sometimes people do that when they are behind on their loans. That does not make any sense to me. I lost about $4,800 in car payments, netting about, if I recall correctly, $1,400. I then had to buy another car. Tell me about how great it was to have my car stolen and covered by insurance rather than having found my car.
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Wish I could give you 100 thumbs up. People who are financially on thin ice have little tolerance for thievery, from lost car to no job to homeless could be a really quick transition.
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I was speaking of myself, I have no payments.
That’s why I stated Me.
But thank you for sharing
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Texas economics 101.
Guy spends $4.39 ( 20 miles, 1 gallon, roughly ) for gas to track down his own truck, locates suspect (free), expends a round at .39
Total out of pocket expenses = $4.78 curbside justice, case solved, case closed! Taxpayers dollars spent, zero!
Ruled self defense, tentatively, free!
Not taking matters into your own hands can cost everything. Truck, job, home, life.
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You still lose a lot, as you would only get replacement value and spent how much for the vehicle? Then have to buy another vehicle. My last car was $30k. No payments, too, but I sure would still not want to have it stolen and get peanuts from the insurance company for it.
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I agree that it would not be the outcome I would want to go through, but, it’s better than possibly going to prison for trying to reclaim my property or dying trying to do so.
Make sense?
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Agree, but I would have only located the vehicle and contacted the police, not confronted the perp. Big difference.
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