Sunday, August 15, 2021

What a way to start the day.

 I got up this morning about 4:00 for bathroom trip. Got back in bed but woke Bill up. He got up. I tried to go back to sleep. bit a little before 5 a.m i heard the front door open and voices. I got up - just as the living room lights came on and met Bill heading towards me. 
What's going on?"  He answered, "There's a cop at the door saying he recovered our RV." WTH?  Sure enough cop car in street cop walking back to door. "Do you own an RV?"  

"Yes."  
Where is it?   WHAT?  Where do you park it.  Up the street. Exactly where? In The front RV lot, space two.  What does it look like?  Anything special a about the paint job?  Yes, it has eagle, skulls and flames. Okay lets go look at where you park it. 

OH OH. He took Bill up to space and sure enough it was gone. I got dressed and waited. Soon they were back. Policeman explained they'd caught the thieves in the process of stripping the RV. He gave us address where it was and had us follow him there. 

Turned a corner and there it sat surrounded by two more police cars. 

The generator was half out of its cubby on the street.  

They had us look in the thieves car to see if any of the stuff in it was ours. Sure was.

The tire isn't ours, wonder if someone else in RV parking area is missing something. 
One of the empty drawers sitting on drivers seat.  See yellow handled screw driver used to start after ignition was popped. It had a steering wheel lock on it, but policeman says they are easy to disable. 

We went inside the RV and it was a mess - but just a mess, nothing had been damaged or removed. Just all the drawers and cupboards had been emptied and stuff thrown around. Guess they didn't have time to dump these into the car yet. 


The police called a tow truck and waited with us until he showed up. Only problem was he thought he was going to pick up a motorcycle not a motorhome! But he called someone else. While waiting he removed generator and put it in the big back storage compartment that had been emptied. 



The police took all of our stuff out of the thieves car and put it inside the RV for us. So to make long story short. We have the RV, rather we took it to the dealership to have locks and generator repaired, replaced. Have contacted insurance company. Now waiting for call back from them and dealership to open tomorrow morning.  Rather shitty (sorry) way to begin the day.  

We really don't know if anything is missing yet. Have to go through the mess to find out for sure. There is more to the day and the story. But tired now. 

10 comments:

Mark said...

Poor Arvee. Wow luck was on your side to get it back before more damage was done. So sorry you are going thru this.

Jackie McGuinness said...

You guys were certainly lucky!

Ruth's Life is Good said...

Oh my, how terrible. I feel so sorry for you but relived you got it back with minimal damage. Sounds like the police did a great job of being helpful. Always nice to hear positive things about them.

Nancy Kissack said...

Wow!!! How in the world did they open the doors and start the engine? So so lucky they were caught before they disappeared with everything. I would be SO mad!!! Thank God you got it back.

Kathy Tycho said...

Well those thieves should be on TV as the "dumbest crooks!" Who steals a highly visible customized RV and then strips it at the edge of the road where they can be seen! Lucky the cops were on it. Glad it wasn't seriously damaged.

SandyM said...

So, so sorry for the mess you will now have to clean up and put away. So, so thankful you got the RV back without too much damage.

Marla Terry said...

Wow! That is nasty business! Glad it wasn't worse and you are able to get it cleaned up and fixed.

Janet said...

Your right, not a great start to the day. Hopefully it will be a quick fix, and looks like they were unable to sell your things. Lots of work ahead. On a positive note, thieves were caught in the act!

Carol and Bill said...

Mark - we were real lucky that a good neighbor living on that street called the police and that they got there so fast.
Jackie - real lucky! What idiot would steal such a highly recognizable RV?
Ruth - police were amazing as was tow truck driver. Made a bad experience okay.
Nancy - they busted the main door lock - now it doesn't open and popped off the ignition, started it with a screwdriver. Police figured they do it all the time. We just got lucky that some one was good enough to make phone call to police.
Kathy - I know, it is not like it doesn't stand out with the mural on the front.
Sandy - thanks - Yep the putting away, cleaning up and figuring out what is missing will be the pits.
Maria - thanks for comment.
Janet - Thieves are probably already out of jail. Cannot write what I really think.

Grandma on the Road said...

I can't believe these dumb crooks stole a rug and towels, plus wet wipes. What were they going to do with all your stuff? Sell it on a street corner? Other than the generator, this stuff is not really hockable, so maybe they were setting up housekeeping somewhere???

Makes no sense.

Judy