SEP 7, 22 .. DATED TODAY BUT ABOUT YESTERDAY .. WE GOT HIT WITH A SUCKER PUNCH
Tuesday, September 6th 2022.
If you have noticed the above sub-headings (Criminals Strike Us Again, Does Anyone Care?, When Does It Get Easy) then you may want to just skip this post because nothing seems to be changing in terms of local criminal activity. Oh YES !! Yes indeed!! This is going on all over the greater Anchorage metro area and possibly where YOU live as well.
At 7am this morning, in the ever getting darker mornings, with a light rain falling, our front door buzzer sounded.
I sleeply thought to myself, “Who in the world could that be at our front door?” BUT since we are expecting an overdue United Parcel Service Urgent Overnight packet, I struggled to our front door audio speaker telephone and, picking it up I mumbled, “Hello. Is this UPS?”
“Do you own the White Chevrolet Surburban with the license plate xxx parked outside?” said an ‘authoritative’ voice.
“Yes.”
“Your vehicle has been vandalized Sir!”
So out our Condo front door and up the stairs I went in my night clothes, and there, standing at our front door were two of the Anchorage Police Departments finest officers.
“Did you give permission to anyone to siphon gasoline from your vehicle Sir?”
“NO!!” I said.
“One of your neighbors called us to report someone (who had successfuly left the scene at this point in time) was siphoning gasoline from your truck!”
The criminals had forceably removed our locking-gasoline-cap. We did the police report paperwork and the two officers drove away in their two police cars. So we lost about $75 worth of gasoline and had to purchase a new gas cap ($21) but the hassle involved just gets boring.
A bad way to begin one’s day.
When does it end I ask each and all of you?
This is the fifth or sixth criminal attack upon our poor, Anchorage based, Chevrolet Surburban. In 2017, as Patti was leaving for Russia to join me the truck itself was stolen (and later recovered). Our third gasoline theft experience that has cost us over $2,000. Twice windows were shattered by criminals to ransack the interior.
Call it a wrap.
Cap and Patti
“Yes Mrs Lincoln! We know! BUT did you like the play?” Translation : The rest of our day went fairly well, it only cost $100 and no one died, but the above drama just took us down moodwise. And now I’m actually laughing out loud just a tad! Captain!! Illegitimi non carborundum (don’t let the bastards get you down!).
- SEP 6, 22 .. MY 86TH BIRTHDAY WAS LOW KEY AND RELAXED FROM START TO FINISH
- SEP 8, 22 .. ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?? THE NFL SEASON BEGINS TODAY!!
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Yes, it’s happening all over town. During the gas crisis of the 1970s when theft of fuel was of great concern, I purchased an anti-theft device that was a tapered coil of metal, like a large spring coil several inches long. It was brilliant! Easy to install because the smaller end inserted first and the wider end was at the top next to the gas cap where it did not interfere with a nozzle, but no one could insert a siphon hose through all those loops.
But then, they could drill your gas tank, as you well know. So sorry you had this happen. That is a sketchy part of town but you’d think with all the neighbors around you’d be safe from this.
Thanks Gullible. Brilliant idea a tapered coil of metal (and I had thought of one myself) to stop them from easily siphoning gasoline and then .. YOU said it .. They then drill your gas tank and a new gas tank with the installatiion is over $800 as we found out last April of this year. You CAN run, you CAN’T hide. Cap