Stolen Equipment found in New Hampshire

[Digdug]

There is pics and list of stolen equipment here. Wondering if anyones missing this stuff?
http://www.wmur.com/news/15866931/detail.html

[bobcat_ron]

Authorities and Police officials must be very laid back there is that stuff has been missing for 10 years!

[mrsops]

Authorities and Police officials must be very laid back there is that stuff has been missing for 10 years!

that is crazy 10 years!! i hope they find more maybe they will find my 763 that was lifted off a job site 5 years ago. true skum do this. just recently a few machines were stolen in my area its getting out of control

[coopers]

Authorities and Police officials must be very laid back there is that stuff has been missing for 10 years!

Stolen equipment is hard to track, especially since we don't go around looking at the serial numbers on equipment and running them like we do license plates so the chance of us coming across a stolen backhoe is not as high as coming across a stolen vehicle. It's also very difficult to lift prints on a dirty greasy piece of equipment. Even when a stolen car is dumped we don't always get the people. Lots go undetected until we find them in the car itself.

[stuvecorp]

Hopefully they can get the mastermind behind it. I think Case had/has an option to get a custom color for the skidsteers. I didn't think it was that much, would you go with a custom color if you could? Would that deter someone from stealing it?

[mrsops]

Hopefully they can get the mastermind behind it. I think Case had/has an option to get a custom color for the skidsteers. I didn't think it was that much, would you go with a custom color if you could? Would that deter someone from stealing it?

my bobcat salesman told me there's an option now to put a tracker in your machine..

[stuvecorp]

Thats probably smart, I'll have to ask my insurance agent if they offer any discounts if you have something like that.

[ksss]

Stolen equipment is hard to track, especially since we don't go around looking at the serial numbers on equipment and running them like we do license plates so the chance of us coming across a stolen backhoe is not as high as coming across a stolen vehicle. It's also very difficult to lift prints on a dirty greasy piece of equipment. Even when a stolen car is dumped we don't always get the people. Lots go undetected until we find them in the car itself.



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Yea it would be tough to identifiy equipment that is hot. Heck most owners couldn't identify their own machines if you put in a row of similiar machines.

[BIGBEN2004]

When I have the extra money I am having Low Jack installed on my machine. It cost $750.00 but is money well spent.

[Green Team Landscaping]

that is crazy 10 years!! i hope they find more maybe they will find my 763 that was lifted off a job site 5 years ago. true skum do this. just recently a few machines were stolen in my area its getting out of control
how do you steal a huge@$$ thing like that. who isnt gonna see that going down the street on a tractor trailer

[Scag48]

how do you steal a huge@$$ thing like that. who isnt gonna see that going down the street on a tractor trailer

They steal them in broad daylight all the time. It's actually the chosen way to do it. Have a truck with a bogus business name on the sign, pretend to be legit, who's going to question you? What's more suspicious, a truck with a machine going down the road during the day or at 2 AM?

[ken gustafson]

If you asked the law enforcement people about how hard do they actually look for stolen equipment or trailers.....you would be in for a newer experience. Very important issues are going on besides stolen equipment and trailers. They barely had time to take a report on my stolen trailer and I know they had no time to look for it. They took the report and left...asked almost mo questions. Left me with the impression that more important things are going on....right now and if things did not cool down would never get around to actually looking for my trailer. Just ask someone you know in Law Enforcement....you shall know the truth...no time and for sure not enough people to hunt down stolen items unless someone was hurt. AND with budgets so tight shall not get any better any time in the distant future. Ken

[Junior M]

how do you steal a huge@$$ thing like that. who isnt gonna see that going down the street on a tractor trailer
why would you have to put a 763 on a tractor trailer?

it is just a little bobcat that wieghts around seven or eight thousand.....