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How a fed up carpenter found his stolen power tools — and 15,000 others
(www.washingtonpost.com)
this post was submitted on 31 May 2024
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The most surprising part of this is they contacted the police department who obtained a warrant and actually helped them!!!
The value of the items was either high enough to meet whatever internal threshold they have for opening an investigation or they were already aware of organized tool theft rings in the area.
That, or they were bored and said "Fuck it, let's do it".
I wish they'd do that instead of stupid speed traps.
Just this morning on my way to work, I was behind a cop, and they went 30-35mph in a 25 (everyone goes 35-ish on that road, it's very wide). I know because I was following their speed, noticed I was over, then slowed down. They pulled over, then in my rear view mirror I saw their lights go on and they pulled someone over like 3 cars behind me who couldn't have been going more than 35mph.
How does that benefit anyone? I'd much prefer they "waste" time tracking down theft like this instead of taking down hardened speeding criminals on roads where the speed limit should probably be adjusted (it's residential, but it's one of the few connector roads and has tons of space).
But.... Theft is hard!
Speed traps I can sit on my ass, get up every 20 minutes and get a bonus for how much revenue I brought in...