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Keith Baker

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I lost 2 pit grates today sometime between 8:30 in the morning and 6:30 tonight. I've heard of other washes losing them recently in the Omaha area also.

Keith
 

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The thieves were stealing mine so often I welded them all together and welded some 1/4 inch plates on them. Now there so heavy they are almost to heavy to remove to clean the pits but I still have them.
 

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I lost 2 pit grates today sometime between 8:30 in the morning and 6:30 tonight. I've heard of other washes losing them recently in the Omaha area also.

Keith
Keith,

Kind of makes for even better argument for more & better sensors & cameras!

MJ
 

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You are lucky if you lost only the pit grates. The meth addicts in our area are stealing anything they can carry. Park benches for the metal frames; guard rails from highway barriers.

Car wash related, they cut the chain locking our gate and drove a pickup up to our dock and took all of the 4" x 6" aluminum legs of a used car wash system we had in storage; the conveyor chain and rollers; a UNIMAC Extractor and most of the aluminum parts of a Stripper Air Dryer.

As for cameras, we had security cameras at our exterior wash and on two occasions caught the people red-handed on camera:

a. He stole an aluminum door off our pay terminal. Police caught him, he admitted the theft and the district attorney never prosecuted him.

b. In another case, a man was caught on camera assaulting my partner (hitting him and knocking him down) and again the distrist attorney never prosecuted.

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It's sad to note that so many officials don't arrest and prosecute these jerks. That's why I have a concealed carry permit.
 

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Mac

The problem with carrying a concealed weapon is that in today's court system the "offenders" have more rights than the victims.

You shoot an offender and they will probably throw you in jail.

Bud Abraham
 

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The offenders can only sue you if they're alive.
 
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