Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
well i live about 6 miles from the closest town of around 300 pop.
last night we had a tremendous thunder storm roll through around 12AM. about 1:30 we hear a knock at our door and go to investigate. this nice looking clean cut young man was there soaking wet and cold. he proclaimed to have fallen asleep and ran his truck in the ditch. well i go get dressed, while my wife invited him in to warm up and started getting him towels and offered him an old shirt to have.
i get dressed and come down, got my carhardt and Aussie style rain coat. (oiled cotton knee length) this coat and my old warn out cowboy hat have seen our share of rain and storms, let me tell you. i told him to walk around the covered porch and meet me at the side door and we'd go get him out. we hopped in the truck and headed down the road. i pulled up on his truck and got out to have a look see. it was beat up pretty bad. two flat tires and three corners were a bit more rounded than before
that thing was buried so deep the TOP of the back tire was level with the ground. i hooked him up and started to pull and the chain shed the hook. i backed up and re hooked him better and pulled again. i drug that thing silly for about 100 yards before it came up out of the ditch. now it wouldnt move due to the flats. so i pushed him back on the shoulder and he gets in. he then starts changing his story 
he tells me the truck is not his and might even be stolen he was just going to ditch it and "clean the keys and get rid of them" at that point i told him to get in and i would take him home (in town) about half way in to town his buddy was walking down the middle of the oncoming traffic lane. we stopped and he jumped in the back and i ran them to the buddies house. at one point the first guy had told me the truck was his buddies (the one walking) they were thanking me and the like and really had no interest in the truck at all. i called the buddy over and told him we got the truck out and it was on the shoulder and needed two tires. he says thanks and runs to the house.
I just drove off and went straight to the police station and told them the whole story. a few minutes after i got back home the cops show up and towed it off. one of them came to the house and we let him in to talk. he told us the first guy had just got out of jail four days ago. and the second one has been in and out of jail several times. they knew who they were just from the street and discription of the house i dropped him off at.
Jeesh, you try to help people out and it turns out you wish they never knew where you lived. i slept with one eye open the rest of the night
i had my small 4x4 loader tractor parked out in front of the garage. i bet if i hadnt answered the door it would have been down the road at the scene of the crime this morning
oh and the truck WAS stolen. we were told the first kid was in jail for stealing a car and burning it out in the country.
THAT is why i own firearms. i had my 3D maglite in my lap off to the left the whole time we were driving. i figured if i had to fight him, he was not going without a few lUmPs.
last night we had a tremendous thunder storm roll through around 12AM. about 1:30 we hear a knock at our door and go to investigate. this nice looking clean cut young man was there soaking wet and cold. he proclaimed to have fallen asleep and ran his truck in the ditch. well i go get dressed, while my wife invited him in to warm up and started getting him towels and offered him an old shirt to have.
i get dressed and come down, got my carhardt and Aussie style rain coat. (oiled cotton knee length) this coat and my old warn out cowboy hat have seen our share of rain and storms, let me tell you. i told him to walk around the covered porch and meet me at the side door and we'd go get him out. we hopped in the truck and headed down the road. i pulled up on his truck and got out to have a look see. it was beat up pretty bad. two flat tires and three corners were a bit more rounded than before
that thing was buried so deep the TOP of the back tire was level with the ground. i hooked him up and started to pull and the chain shed the hook. i backed up and re hooked him better and pulled again. i drug that thing silly for about 100 yards before it came up out of the ditch. now it wouldnt move due to the flats. so i pushed him back on the shoulder and he gets in. he then starts changing his story he tells me the truck is not his and might even be stolen he was just going to ditch it and "clean the keys and get rid of them" at that point i told him to get in and i would take him home (in town) about half way in to town his buddy was walking down the middle of the oncoming traffic lane. we stopped and he jumped in the back and i ran them to the buddies house. at one point the first guy had told me the truck was his buddies (the one walking) they were thanking me and the like and really had no interest in the truck at all. i called the buddy over and told him we got the truck out and it was on the shoulder and needed two tires. he says thanks and runs to the house.
I just drove off and went straight to the police station and told them the whole story. a few minutes after i got back home the cops show up and towed it off. one of them came to the house and we let him in to talk. he told us the first guy had just got out of jail four days ago. and the second one has been in and out of jail several times. they knew who they were just from the street and discription of the house i dropped him off at.
Jeesh, you try to help people out and it turns out you wish they never knew where you lived. i slept with one eye open the rest of the night
i had my small 4x4 loader tractor parked out in front of the garage. i bet if i hadnt answered the door it would have been down the road at the scene of the crime this morning
oh and the truck WAS stolen. we were told the first kid was in jail for stealing a car and burning it out in the country.
THAT is why i own firearms. i had my 3D maglite in my lap off to the left the whole time we were driving. i figured if i had to fight him, he was not going without a few lUmPs.
Seems he would case a place for a day or two, then in broad daylight knock the front door in with a sledge and grab what he could carry. 
and he saw JAKE(pistol) and wanted to know what I was going to do with that. I said if you do not leave I'm going to shoot you. So he glared at me and then left. I would of shot him if he would of come at me cause my head
was still messed up from the wreck. End of story
