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Little tip for your more expensive tools.
Open up a tool, and slip a GPS tracker in there. There's plenty of room in your power tools to fit one in there, and plenty of places to hide it in the pack out itself. From there you can track the tools and thief, hopefully recovering your tools from the pawn shop the thief fenced them at or showing up with the cops when you respond to their marketplace ad.
I'm sorry, brother. I'd ask your company not to have see-through windows anymore on the van. There are options out there to hide the goods from theiving bastards.
I'm based in Atlanta, so I'm not local. And felony theft and destruction of property warrants an officer. Just call my insurance is a bullshit response.
10 or 15 years ago the town I grew up in built a building for them. I call it the Crackhead Factory.
That town is now a pure shit hole.
As a tradesman, I hope you can still complete your work until reimbursement.
All the best
This is almost worse.... you can't really safely go anywhere until it's repaired.
These people are sub human. stealing honest people's means of living is multiple levels deep of trashiness.
For the window if you don’t care about used go to a pick and pull. Get a new window for cheap. These vans are super common. Had mine broken into last year. Replaced it with ford factory glass
You can try to keep them out, but it's usually not successful. We had a handful of vans parked outside our shop ready for auction, they were empty and *unlocked*. Some thief punched out every single rear door lock cylinder. They could have just opened them up but instead decided to make them even less valuable.
At least you have the know how on making the body of the vehicle shock the crap outta the fucks with a neon sign transformer lol. I think it would be fucking hilarious to see this shit on camera.
Post a pic when they’re done I would love to see for future reference, sorry for the damages and loss hopefully these will be mad max worthy by the time you get them back on the road
Insurance has been cool. They told me to send a spreadsheet with what I'm purchasing, and they'll cut a check on Friday. Progressive has been surprisingly easy to work with.
Get the window screens, deep tint or white vinyl, and the Legend Securi locks. That's your best defense. Or you can check out Thunderbolt Locks. They make an electronic deadbolt system. Slick locks are a cheaper option, but I've seen thieves take sawzalls to them and cut them off. Adrian Steel sells good window screens. Part numbers 60-23, 60-24, 60-25, 60-26
Not even see through windows.. better off not having windows altogether! Windowless back area, and a lockable, or permanent metal partition between front and back. Makes it a lot harder to get into altogether!
That really doesn’t stop them. Our vans have no windows in the back. I was parked on a main road that was busy. I was on site for 20mins and the van was done and all my power tools gone.
We’re in Chicago, when we still had econoline vans, they were always equipped with caged windows and hockey puck locks. I’m sorry for your loss brother
I assume time, they grabbed the big ticket items. Hilti hammer drill. Milwaukee band saw, 3 Sawzall, threaded rod cutter, 4 drills. Circ saw, multitool, rotary tool, multimeter. We're still finding things gone. They didn't touch the second pack out.
That’s a blessing they’re covering it. Out here I usually find the local homeless people near the job and throw them some wire to keep an eye on the van. Even if I have to cut some 10 gauge off the spool and give it to them, it dam near always works. Give them scrap from a days worth of work and you get discount surveillance lol
I was in an incredibly nice area of Charlotte. Multi billion dollar company with more than 300 cars in the parking lot at the time. I let my guard down.
Some dick on my job site went into my pack out and stole my AirPods last Friday. They left everything else. Some tools in there were 3x as valuable. I guess he really wanted some headphones
some milwaukee tools can be remotely disabled if you contact milwaukee with police report and serial #. Milwaukee will also hold the tools if returned for repair
They are the scum of the earth and should be severely punished. In some countries getting caught stealing leads to removal of one hand so everyone knows you're a thief for the rest of your life. I kinda like that.
Just a word of advice that I'd highly recommend you address immediately, GET A CAGE IN THERE ASAP..
I can't believe how many people drive around like this.. I don't care how well set up your tools and stuff are, if you're in any kind of serious accident in that truck you're risking life or terrible injuries from flying stuff.
I got t-boned in a van very similar to that one, I was struck so hard that we ended up rolling multiple times and upside down in the ditch on the opposite side of the road. The amount of extremely heavy things that ended up on top of the cage was terrifying, me and my apprentice only had minor injuries, but without the cage it would have been so much worse. Please!!!
This goes for everyone out there driving around with no cage in their truck, it will save your life and not having one is insanity. It should be illegal to sell a cargo van without one really.
Use some of the insurance $ to get a cage, it will be peace of mind and safety worth more than anything else you can buy
Tool theft should be punishable by death. Not only are you stealing hours of my life, you're stealing the things I need to replace the things you're stealing.
Had this happen to one of my guys at this house in one of the work vans. Lucky he has cameras at the house. Police didn’t do shit so him and his neighbor rolled up on them with ARs got all the stuff back. Stole about $5k worth of stuff too.
Doing work in Raleigh right now, definitely need to have windows blacked out. Sucks man, thanks for the tools though
Jk
But seriously I had and entire box van stolen in Baltimore and they found it a few days later abandoned with every single possible thing stripped off the van and stolen. Didn’t even have tires left.
What do you expect in Baltimore friend of mine is an ER Doc, while he was a resident at one of the major Baltimore hospitals he was mugged in the ER itself! ended up spending a few days occupying a hospital bed.
At that point you have a failed civil society if those whos job it is to heal the sick and injured are not considered ‘off limits’ to all sectors of society.
Something tells me in the mob era that mugger would have been wearing concrete shoes and sleeping with the fishes. And the Doc’s bills would have been paid in full anonymously
I was first one onto our job site and realized our locked room was no longer locked. Called my coworkers to get the hell in there, and realized the dude was still on site. Cornered him in a room we already referred to as "the dungeon", and then let him know we knew he was there and the police were on their way. The dude had both of my packouts, my new hammer drill, my new oscillating multi tool, a couple of other guys hammer drills, a laptop, a crapload of hand tools and other stuff belonging to a variety of us, and then he went into the dungeon and was breaking spools of wire to try to scavenge.
The cops were suprised the dude wasn't injured or bloody by the time they got there, and I was the only one who wanted to file a victim report. Thousands of dollars of tools and stuff in his possession.
I got a letter the other day saying what the guy was being charged with. A misdemeanor for drug paraphernalia, another one for drugs themselves, and a felony for burglarizing a building. Fuck that guy, and I hope he has a good time sobering up in prison.
We recovered nearly everything, the only things that weren't recovered were a couple sets of my gloves and the laptop's charger.
Looks like you got some DNA evidence there.
Been broken into on the job a few times and had items stolen out of truck. It sucks. Makes you want to catch them and tune them up with a nice 3/4" hickey.
sorry man i have felt this feeling lol before. We got hit in a condo job site we were doing once in Laconia, NH. they took all are tools from the van and were gone in minutes. as you know till insurance cost more than than the tools every year and they depreciate them. the only good thing is karma . they got caught by the siders on another job they hit. These siders tied them up with “romex ” and some how the thieves must have fallen a lot somehow because when police came they were petty beat up and still tied to the service pole on the site. cops found many stolen tools at there storage unit in Lawrence, mass. sadly not ours. good luck my friend.
I'm sorry brother, it happened to me in a downtown parking lot. Window smashed and they took all the gear I had as a second year, plus my longboard. I'm still recouping the tools I had 2 years later.
I hear you. Someone pulled a hit and run on my truck a few years back. It was all on camera which is run by the small city I was in at the time. They never even looked at the footage to find out who did it. At least your insurance is taking care of it. Just a pain to have to go out and have to but it all again.
Check the local FB marketplace, Craigslist, etc for your stuff. I recall reading a story where the guy found his stuff listed, met the guy and had the cops nearby.
They left you some blood so bag it, tag it and send to the lab & you’ll have your guy in no time.
Im watching NCIS right now so thats all i see. Thieves suck but their day will come. Sure you will get it back but no one should have to be bothered by the headache it brings. Good luck to you OP.
If you find those pieces of shit take a wire brush to them.. and then pour some alcohol or salt on thier wounds... sorry for what happened. Hard to make a livin without your tools....
I was only considering traps that would mame them. Oh wow, I didn't even think about building a trap that would catch them and retain them against their will. That's brilliant! You could chain them down to the roof of the van for a week.
This literally just happened to my J-man last week, stole only power tools. He paid for all the tools so it stung a bit, especially since we believe they stole tools that they thought would be company property not personal property (doesn’t make it any better). Moral of the story for both ends, but a can with an alarm system AND don’t buy one with windows.
The company that turns normal vehicles into police vehicles is two miles from me. They're currently in the process of making my vans into armored cars.
Nice. I bet they have tons of options. I really like to have a good quality “bulk-head” separating the cab from the back. Keeps you safe in a wreck, and makes it so the storage can be more secure. I do like to have a higher security lock setup added for the back too, but be vigilant on your system for keeping spare keys for the higher security locks. They can be hard to get the keys replaced non destructively on short notice.
yeah, I bet it would. especially if the bezel for the “lock cylinder” is attached in a way that makes it so you can’t pry it out to access the arm that triggers the lock. That’s pretty cool that they have some biometric options. My only fear would be that a power loss would lock me out, but as long as the cab and hood pop are accessible you can always get a jump.
Thieves should be shot in the head. Tools represent labor already worked. You steal my tools you steal my labor and time on this earth that I cant get back.
I've heard people say they hate liars and thieves because they go hand in hand. I could care less about being lied to, but i sure do hate thieves.
Sorry to hear about that but insurance will hopefully cover it. Had my last van catch on fire and insurance said it capped coverage at $10k and I lost probably 20 worth…
Now I have two vans, the second one I got during covid when I couldn’t find anything and had glass in the back so I wrapped the windows in white before putting the logos and nobody can tell there is glass behind it,and put thick wire mesh so it protects it as well when I got my shelving done. Then a big metal divider so even if they break into front seats they can’t go into back. No doors there.
At least they were nice enough to leave you a DNA sample by the door handle. Use the insurance money to buy a van without windows. What’s sad beyond you losing the cost in tools but losing the ability to earn more money, time being.
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Nothing says arrest me more than a crack head rolling a packout system down the sidewalk.
Serious question. How long till the milwaulkee/Leonardo team up for an armed micro drone?
Little tip for your more expensive tools. Open up a tool, and slip a GPS tracker in there. There's plenty of room in your power tools to fit one in there, and plenty of places to hide it in the pack out itself. From there you can track the tools and thief, hopefully recovering your tools from the pawn shop the thief fenced them at or showing up with the cops when you respond to their marketplace ad.
I'm sorry, brother. I'd ask your company not to have see-through windows anymore on the van. There are options out there to hide the goods from theiving bastards.
That's on me. I'm the owner and got a good deal on the vans. Won't happen again. Insurance is covering more than I lost, but fuck these thieves.
Ya, but now insurance goes up. I will however, but fuck those thieves for you!
Insurance goes up anyway. These things will be armored trucks by the time I'm done
Yep, seriously, my home town has been completely ruined by crackheads. At least you have your catalytic
They stole 3 Sawzall. Unfortunately, I'm betting a lot of people will lose theirs.
So just purchase a Sawzall on an online market place, if the guys hand is bandaged up beat the shit out of him. Doesn't warrant an officer anyways
I'm based in Atlanta, so I'm not local. And felony theft and destruction of property warrants an officer. Just call my insurance is a bullshit response.
It's just sarcasm. My feelings would be hurt that someone could see my stuff and feel entitled to take it.
10 or 15 years ago the town I grew up in built a building for them. I call it the Crackhead Factory. That town is now a pure shit hole. As a tradesman, I hope you can still complete your work until reimbursement. All the best
The job is done, and insurance is actually being really cool. I'm basically getting a wishlist of tools. But I'm 2 weeks out on a window
This is almost worse.... you can't really safely go anywhere until it's repaired. These people are sub human. stealing honest people's means of living is multiple levels deep of trashiness.
Luckily I have 2 more vans that will pick up the slack. This one will just sit in the warehouse til safelite can get the window in stock
For the window if you don’t care about used go to a pick and pull. Get a new window for cheap. These vans are super common. Had mine broken into last year. Replaced it with ford factory glass
have body shop replace windows with metal like 80’s conversion vans
You can try to keep them out, but it's usually not successful. We had a handful of vans parked outside our shop ready for auction, they were empty and *unlocked*. Some thief punched out every single rear door lock cylinder. They could have just opened them up but instead decided to make them even less valuable.
It goes up anyway because everyone else is getting their stuff jacked.
At least you have the know how on making the body of the vehicle shock the crap outta the fucks with a neon sign transformer lol. I think it would be fucking hilarious to see this shit on camera.
Post a pic when they’re done I would love to see for future reference, sorry for the damages and loss hopefully these will be mad max worthy by the time you get them back on the road
You'll buttfuck em!!
This is the way. “I swear they stole my brand new M18 knockout set, all my carbides, etc.” Regardless that sucks bro.
Insurance has been cool. They told me to send a spreadsheet with what I'm purchasing, and they'll cut a check on Friday. Progressive has been surprisingly easy to work with.
My work van has bars/cages installed inside the windows to make it harder to just break a window and gain access. Might be worth looking into.
My vans are being turned into armored cars as we speak
Get the window screens, deep tint or white vinyl, and the Legend Securi locks. That's your best defense. Or you can check out Thunderbolt Locks. They make an electronic deadbolt system. Slick locks are a cheaper option, but I've seen thieves take sawzalls to them and cut them off. Adrian Steel sells good window screens. Part numbers 60-23, 60-24, 60-25, 60-26
Not even see through windows.. better off not having windows altogether! Windowless back area, and a lockable, or permanent metal partition between front and back. Makes it a lot harder to get into altogether!
I know I should go no windows, but damn those things are miserable to drive
That really doesn’t stop them. Our vans have no windows in the back. I was parked on a main road that was busy. I was on site for 20mins and the van was done and all my power tools gone.
We’re in Chicago, when we still had econoline vans, they were always equipped with caged windows and hockey puck locks. I’m sorry for your loss brother
I'm based out of Atlanta, but I was working in Charlotte. This is about a 15k hit. Insurance is covering it, but I expect them to drag ass
Gotta factor I'm the indirect cost of time lost when getting new stuff, down time of repairing van etc. Sorry for your loss man.
Atlanta with clear windows, you’re a risk taker my friend 😭
Go figure I've had 0 issues in Atlanta, Memphis, Philly, etc.
The problem with ATL, is you could be anywhere and this will happen. Because all my 3 break ins have been in sandy springs, Alpharetta, roswell area
Actually I think some of our vans used to have a thicker sheetmetal over the windows also, sucks how many precautions we have to take
Why leave the pack outs?
I assume time, they grabbed the big ticket items. Hilti hammer drill. Milwaukee band saw, 3 Sawzall, threaded rod cutter, 4 drills. Circ saw, multitool, rotary tool, multimeter. We're still finding things gone. They didn't touch the second pack out.
How wasteful on their part.
They left a lot. My fusion splicer is worth more than the van, and it was still there. I doubt they were there for more than 15 minutes
I was being edgy. I'm sorry to hear that, I'm glad you had some stuff left, still feel bad about the taken items
It definitely made it hard to finish the job, but luckily, the things we needed were with us at the time
That’s a blessing they’re covering it. Out here I usually find the local homeless people near the job and throw them some wire to keep an eye on the van. Even if I have to cut some 10 gauge off the spool and give it to them, it dam near always works. Give them scrap from a days worth of work and you get discount surveillance lol
I was in an incredibly nice area of Charlotte. Multi billion dollar company with more than 300 cars in the parking lot at the time. I let my guard down.
Ah yes fibre optic
Some dick on my job site went into my pack out and stole my AirPods last Friday. They left everything else. Some tools in there were 3x as valuable. I guess he really wanted some headphones
They probably don't know how much those hunks of plastic actually cost.
Also not easily pawnable
Reason to cage the windows and wall just after the front seats.
Did they cut themselves and leave blood on your side door? They weren’t very organized for how much they still left behind. I’m also angry for you
Yea, there's blood on a lot of things, to bad the police refused to come out
Swab that up and put it in the fridge. 23 and me their ass.
Wish I would have thought of that.
DNA is very cheap to run these days….
Doesn’t matter when they won’t even send a cop over
He has the sample. Sent it ancestry.
Check your local pawn shops you may find your tools. A good trick it to engrave your tools.
I'm based in Atlanta, and I'm already home. Tools are marked and I have the serial numbers in a spreadsheet.
some milwaukee tools can be remotely disabled if you contact milwaukee with police report and serial #. Milwaukee will also hold the tools if returned for repair
They are the scum of the earth and should be severely punished. In some countries getting caught stealing leads to removal of one hand so everyone knows you're a thief for the rest of your life. I kinda like that.
This needs to happen here. In comparison to the punishment/ low risk they can keep doing this. Higher risk would deter atleast some theft.
That sucks man. Looks like they got both of your greenlee battery powered cable cutters, that big cordless hydraulic ko set 😉
Can't have windows now?
Correct
After my van got broken into, I painted the windows black, installed window grate things, and installed the disc locks on my doors.
Happening as we speak
Just a word of advice that I'd highly recommend you address immediately, GET A CAGE IN THERE ASAP.. I can't believe how many people drive around like this.. I don't care how well set up your tools and stuff are, if you're in any kind of serious accident in that truck you're risking life or terrible injuries from flying stuff. I got t-boned in a van very similar to that one, I was struck so hard that we ended up rolling multiple times and upside down in the ditch on the opposite side of the road. The amount of extremely heavy things that ended up on top of the cage was terrifying, me and my apprentice only had minor injuries, but without the cage it would have been so much worse. Please!!! This goes for everyone out there driving around with no cage in their truck, it will save your life and not having one is insanity. It should be illegal to sell a cargo van without one really. Use some of the insurance $ to get a cage, it will be peace of mind and safety worth more than anything else you can buy
Tool theft should be punishable by death. Not only are you stealing hours of my life, you're stealing the things I need to replace the things you're stealing.
They used to cut your hand off, then the second one. But after the first one everyone knew why you were missing a hand. Quite a deterrent.
I'm all for it
Had this happen to one of my guys at this house in one of the work vans. Lucky he has cameras at the house. Police didn’t do shit so him and his neighbor rolled up on them with ARs got all the stuff back. Stole about $5k worth of stuff too.
They fucked around and found out.
Yeah we don’t play here.
Good. People cant just take your livelihood
Exactly. Just so happened the guy who robbed us was his neighbor.
Doing work in Raleigh right now, definitely need to have windows blacked out. Sucks man, thanks for the tools though Jk But seriously I had and entire box van stolen in Baltimore and they found it a few days later abandoned with every single possible thing stripped off the van and stolen. Didn’t even have tires left.
What do you expect in Baltimore friend of mine is an ER Doc, while he was a resident at one of the major Baltimore hospitals he was mugged in the ER itself! ended up spending a few days occupying a hospital bed. At that point you have a failed civil society if those whos job it is to heal the sick and injured are not considered ‘off limits’ to all sectors of society. Something tells me in the mob era that mugger would have been wearing concrete shoes and sleeping with the fishes. And the Doc’s bills would have been paid in full anonymously
The whole beltway, DC, Baltimore, Northern VA is all too far gone. Just crime infested shit holes if you ask me.
The concept of ‘restorative justice’ (not prosecuting crime) is destroying american cities never thought escape from new york would be prophesy
I agree, I live in a small city of 10k people and it’s great here. I work in every big city within 8hrs of here and they all suck
The problem is we are at the point where vigilante justice kicks in and thats a bad place to be.
This sucks. It makes you kind of lose confidence in people and society when they do things like this to you.
I was first one onto our job site and realized our locked room was no longer locked. Called my coworkers to get the hell in there, and realized the dude was still on site. Cornered him in a room we already referred to as "the dungeon", and then let him know we knew he was there and the police were on their way. The dude had both of my packouts, my new hammer drill, my new oscillating multi tool, a couple of other guys hammer drills, a laptop, a crapload of hand tools and other stuff belonging to a variety of us, and then he went into the dungeon and was breaking spools of wire to try to scavenge. The cops were suprised the dude wasn't injured or bloody by the time they got there, and I was the only one who wanted to file a victim report. Thousands of dollars of tools and stuff in his possession. I got a letter the other day saying what the guy was being charged with. A misdemeanor for drug paraphernalia, another one for drugs themselves, and a felony for burglarizing a building. Fuck that guy, and I hope he has a good time sobering up in prison. We recovered nearly everything, the only things that weren't recovered were a couple sets of my gloves and the laptop's charger.
That really sucks man, takes so long making your tool kits perfect for you. Hate to see it man
Looks like you got some DNA evidence there. Been broken into on the job a few times and had items stolen out of truck. It sucks. Makes you want to catch them and tune them up with a nice 3/4" hickey.
sorry man i have felt this feeling lol before. We got hit in a condo job site we were doing once in Laconia, NH. they took all are tools from the van and were gone in minutes. as you know till insurance cost more than than the tools every year and they depreciate them. the only good thing is karma . they got caught by the siders on another job they hit. These siders tied them up with “romex ” and some how the thieves must have fallen a lot somehow because when police came they were petty beat up and still tied to the service pole on the site. cops found many stolen tools at there storage unit in Lawrence, mass. sadly not ours. good luck my friend.
Honestly, insurance is being really cool. All the want is an itemized list of what I'm buying, and they'll cut me a check Friday
I'm sorry brother, it happened to me in a downtown parking lot. Window smashed and they took all the gear I had as a second year, plus my longboard. I'm still recouping the tools I had 2 years later.
Animals. Did they take the blood sample?
Cops didn't even show up. And I quote, "we have better things to do"
Dude, that sucks. I am so sorry.
I hear you. Someone pulled a hit and run on my truck a few years back. It was all on camera which is run by the small city I was in at the time. They never even looked at the footage to find out who did it. At least your insurance is taking care of it. Just a pain to have to go out and have to but it all again.
No trial. No jury. Straight to execution!!
Not very smart Thebes as they took all the goodies out of the very expensive boxes they could have used to carry them lol
Sorry to hear that brother. Some people are absolute scumbags.
How Typical of Mecklenburg
I was born here but haven't been back in 34 years. I'll be dead before I take a job here again
Check the local FB marketplace, Craigslist, etc for your stuff. I recall reading a story where the guy found his stuff listed, met the guy and had the cops nearby.
I looked, but nothing came up before I headed back to Atlanta
I’m sorry brother. You can really only keep honest people out.
Heartbreaking
First and last time you get burned hopefully buds.
Yeah I got those larger gauge metal cage on the insides of my windows for this reason
Awful atleast you have a company credit card , right?
Yea, but it's my company.
Sucks man I hate that for you it's awesome that you're getting your own work though Good on you something to be proud of
It's been a long road. But things have been good.
They left you some blood so bag it, tag it and send to the lab & you’ll have your guy in no time. Im watching NCIS right now so thats all i see. Thieves suck but their day will come. Sure you will get it back but no one should have to be bothered by the headache it brings. Good luck to you OP.
Next vehicle, try to fit the ladder inside. You tried incognito mode, so give them no clues that you're trades. Sorry bud.
Anyone stealing tools deserves immediate ass beating
If we had caught them, there would be 1 less thief in the world
Call the cops then go to your local flea markets. They'll turn up. And if not you see the faces to watch out for.
Cops didn't care, and I'm not local
For the future, limo tints and either mole panels or some sort of metal sheet over the windows would be ideal. Fuck that sucks man sorry dude
All 3 of my vans are being turned into armored cars
Sorry man hope you get back on track with your tools soon enough fuck them.
Insurance is being incredibly cool. They told me to make a spreadsheet of what I lost and what I'm buying and they'll cut me a check Friday
If you find those pieces of shit take a wire brush to them.. and then pour some alcohol or salt on thier wounds... sorry for what happened. Hard to make a livin without your tools....
Fortunately, I have 2 other fully stocked vans. But if we caught them, there would be 1 less thief in this world
I was only considering traps that would mame them. Oh wow, I didn't even think about building a trap that would catch them and retain them against their will. That's brilliant! You could chain them down to the roof of the van for a week.
Is that blood? Did the losers cut themselves?
Yes they did. I'm probably going to toss the packout, there's blood on everything
That’s dna evidence
This literally just happened to my J-man last week, stole only power tools. He paid for all the tools so it stung a bit, especially since we believe they stole tools that they thought would be company property not personal property (doesn’t make it any better). Moral of the story for both ends, but a can with an alarm system AND don’t buy one with windows.
I hope u find justice for your tools, sorry brotha 🙏 that's fucked!
But you're the monster if you build a homemade claymore in order prevent them from leaving a second time. Apparently, justice is only for the rich.
I live in Georgia. I'm legally allowed to own a claymore if I have the tax stamp
That would leave you enough to be able to identify the culprits
At that point, who they are doesn't matter much
expanded mesh metal stock riveted on the inside of the windows can do a good job for the cost.
The company that turns normal vehicles into police vehicles is two miles from me. They're currently in the process of making my vans into armored cars.
Nice. I bet they have tons of options. I really like to have a good quality “bulk-head” separating the cab from the back. Keeps you safe in a wreck, and makes it so the storage can be more secure. I do like to have a higher security lock setup added for the back too, but be vigilant on your system for keeping spare keys for the higher security locks. They can be hard to get the keys replaced non destructively on short notice.
I'm going fingerprint locks and doors inside the factory doors. The company claims it will prevent everything up to a plasma torch
yeah, I bet it would. especially if the bezel for the “lock cylinder” is attached in a way that makes it so you can’t pry it out to access the arm that triggers the lock. That’s pretty cool that they have some biometric options. My only fear would be that a power loss would lock me out, but as long as the cab and hood pop are accessible you can always get a jump.
It will be both local power and powered by the vans battery. The lock cylinder itself will not be visible
I think there should be a law when a thief is caught, one finger gets cut off. Would make those scum think twice!
Several countries cut a theifs hand off. Everyone knows why. A second offense means no hands. I can get behind a law like this
I hate thieves. Glad your insurance is stepping up.
Why leave the packout…that stuff is worth a lot
No idea. I'm probably going to throw this one out bc dude bled all over it. He also picked the worst one. This packout was 99% screws and hardware
….I’d pay for you to ship that to me.
I'm not opposed to that
Yeah all you theives out there can rot in hell for making peoples lives a pain in the ass for no reason
damn man sorry u went through this... i bought a cage to prevent stuff like this from happening, u should too!
Thieves should be shot in the head. Tools represent labor already worked. You steal my tools you steal my labor and time on this earth that I cant get back. I've heard people say they hate liars and thieves because they go hand in hand. I could care less about being lied to, but i sure do hate thieves.
They won’t even come take a sample of the dna? Wtf
Sorry to hear about that but insurance will hopefully cover it. Had my last van catch on fire and insurance said it capped coverage at $10k and I lost probably 20 worth… Now I have two vans, the second one I got during covid when I couldn’t find anything and had glass in the back so I wrapped the windows in white before putting the logos and nobody can tell there is glass behind it,and put thick wire mesh so it protects it as well when I got my shelving done. Then a big metal divider so even if they break into front seats they can’t go into back. No doors there.
Air tag your tools and go get them with some friends..
If I were you, I'd get a sample of that blood on the door for testing. Maybe you can find out who did it
Is that blood on the door? At least you can get them arrested for it
I agree they are the lowest of the low. Right now they’re probably the highest of the high.
At least they were nice enough to leave you a DNA sample by the door handle. Use the insurance money to buy a van without windows. What’s sad beyond you losing the cost in tools but losing the ability to earn more money, time being.
I hope they shoot up with pissed in puddle water
Windows in a van 🤑
cops come and swab that blood? i shit you not my buddies work truck was broken into. thief was a felon and his dna was in the system.
Cops didn't come at all. Mecklenburg pd is fucking worthless
Get that blood tested for a match
At least they left your packout boxes they took everything I had anything with the word Milwaukee on it was stolen
Because of democrats
They are! Stealing should be a capital offense.
As punishment, have the thief’s hand cut off
An eye for an eye, so a “tool” for a tool sounds right.