"Dwight Stewart" wrote in message
nk.net...
"Kim W5TIT" wrote:

heh heh...yeah, I know. There's been one reason or
another for not having the equipment connected. Right
now, it's been for the last (nearly) two years because
of the new truck, having to find where I want the
equipment; then having to pause all that while I have
some work done, etc.


All petty excuses. Anyway, speaking of trucks, mine was almost stolen
last
night. I was up late and just happened to look out the door as a guy
approached the truck. I watched him as he looked in the window for several
seconds and then raised a rock over his head to break the glass. At that
point, I shouted for him to get away from the truck. He then ran to a
waiting pickup where his friend sped off. Sadly, the tailgate was down on
the pickup, so I couldn't see the license plate. Since there has been a
string of vehicle thefts around here lately, I called the police and gave
them the best description of the vehicle I could. Of course, by the time
they got here, the guys were long gone.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/



Oh man.... Well, I've thought about how I would "handle" the robbery of my
truck--it literally took me a lifetime of dreaming to get one; and I really
never thought I would be able to do it. BUT, if it was stolen I would hope
it was totally destroyed beyond being able to be returned and then I would
hope that the extra coverage I am carrying on it would hook me back up.
Kind of like when the house caught on fire...man the insurance company was
10X worse than the damned fire! I'm scared to death of fire again for fear
of what I'll have to go through with the insurance company!!

I told my neighbor that if he ever gets over here with a garden hose to put
the thing out again, I'll choke him. First he took serious risks standing
at an outside window that had blown, not to mention that the "smoke"
(actually fumes as you know) had reached that greenish-yellow phase, where
they can flash-fire at any point and he was standing right in the middle of
it as it war barreling out the window!! He just doesn't realize what could
have happened to him...and nothing in my home is worth the life of anyone,
nothing.

Kim W5TIT