Cedric
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River Rats also means The Red River Valley Fighter Pilots Association.
Stolen Flag Pole
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KillerFord1977
SAINT
Same here
Bassbob
Emissary
When I was a kid there was a couple roads right on the river that is the boundary between my county and St. Louis county. Hollywood Beach/Bradley Beach roads. Little ramshackle places. I had a lot of friends down there. Poor kids. We all raced BMX together and did dumb kid shite together. They were known as "River Rats". My mom was a bus driver. And she had that route for several years. Sometimes I would ride her bus and just go home with her after her route. The River Rats were the last stop so after all the other kids were dropped off and it was just me and the river kids my mom would let us all smoke.
Old_Me
SAINT
thing is, even if the flagpole is reset into concrete with long bolts drilled in cross pattern, to prevent pulling it up, the iceholes will most likely have a sawzall, and just cut it down.
even if a tall concrete column planted into a hole in the ground, and the pole mounted into that...they will saw it off.
determined thieves will not give up.
cameras (day/night), high and low mounted, to catch plate numbers, faces, vehicle, may help...otherwise, maybe a wooden or fiberglass pole..????
even if a tall concrete column planted into a hole in the ground, and the pole mounted into that...they will saw it off.
determined thieves will not give up.
cameras (day/night), high and low mounted, to catch plate numbers, faces, vehicle, may help...otherwise, maybe a wooden or fiberglass pole..????
Bassbob
Emissary
Ok, but the same can be said about your gun safe. I can get into it with a circular saw in about 15 minutes. That is unless you have a really expensive one.
Nothing will keep a determined thief out. All you can do is make it as hard on them as possible. The kind of people that steal small flagpoles for scrap are generally not the kind of people who are prepared and determined. If they were they wouldn’t be wasting their time for $7 worth of scrap.
Bassbob
Emissary
You “ Could” electrify it pretty easily.
Old_Me
SAINT
You “ Could” electrify it pretty easily.
Jfal
Professional
My dad electrified one of his birdfeeders to keep squirrels away. Wired it in series with his front porch lights. Then one day he forgot to turn the lights off, it started raining pretty hard, and a squirrel jumped up soaking wet with the bird feeder wet....that poor squirrel got fried something fierce (so my mother complained to me). He was "forced" to "unelectrify" the feeder. 115V killed and cooked that squirrel. I wonder about the charge and lawsuit involved if that would happen with the criminals that our government so loves today (and hates us). Personally I would love for such a thing to happen without liability. We know how our Soros-funded DA's would view such a thing.You “ Could” electrify it pretty easily.
KillerFord1977
SAINT
I was walking thru a horse pasture stalking a hog at night with a thermal and .308.
Mis judged the distance to the elec fence.
Made contact with my elbow while looking thru the thermal pushing to close the distance
Knocked me on my a$$ !!
The black line center of photo is the hot insulated wire.. doesnt glow in a thermal
Jfal
Professional
Imagine if you were wet, and wire was (were?) wet. Yikes. I got in line with a bunch of little-league dopes to touch an aluminum bat on an electric fence that surrounded the field in which we were playing. It smacked all of us hard...but I was ten, and we were all stupid.I was walking thru a horse pasture stalking a hog at night with a thermal and .308.
Mis judged the distance to the elec fence.
Made contact with my elbow while looking thru the thermal pushing to close the distance
Knocked me on my a$$ !!
The black line center of photo is the hot insulated wire.. doesnt glow in a thermal
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