Thief admits stealing stuff on Yotatech

[mastacox]

This thread is full of WIN :ban:

http://www.yotatech.com/f5/i-am-thief-toyota-21r-u-209579/

[troyboy162]

thankfully all that info was reported. also refreshing to know the majority at yotatech understood that was wrong.

[wifesaysimadumbass]

what a friggin genius
good post dude!!!!

[MTL_4runner]

There's usually a reason why people steal......
In this case it is obvious stupidity played a role.

[Okie81]

http://www.yotatech.com/f5/i-am-thief-toyota-21r-u-209579/

That thread got intense reeeaall fast

[Obi..]

I just want to salute you, T.B. of Reno, NV, you are a winner, in so many ways. It must be cool to have a name so unique and an I.P. that's readily tracable. Heck, I even found out what high school the guy attends..I'm thinking of asking a buddy to see how many priors might be on the books.

http://images.usatoday.com/money/_photos/2006/06/21/cannes-bud-radio.jpg

[Blood_runner]

Hell yea, all I gotta say is wat a dumb ass who goes and steals shit off and abandon truck that's un cool. Like the one bro said wat if that was ur truck. What's the world coming too.

[corax]

at least it looks like the squid learned a lesson


I got a phone call from the officer handling this this case.. He has been in contact with both the kid as well as his mother. The officer has visited the abandoned vehicle and told me that the truck is in an illegal dump site, not saying it right what the kid did, but he said he can understand why the kid was excited about finding it. the officer talked to a guy who lives at a house near the dump site and was told the truck has been there for at least 2 years. again, not saying the kid was right to do what he did, but its understandable why he could think he was actually helping by cleaning an illegal dump site. the officer told me the kid has returned the items in question to the truck and is willing to have the officer come out to his house to look at the other items he has/is trying to sell to verify that are not stolen. both the mother and the kid have been very active and cooperative in the investigation.

since this thread started the kid has received death threats as a result, so what started at a vehicle tampering case is starting to turn into an internet threat case which is why the officer requested the personal information be removed. i guess someone sent him a message on myspace saying they were going to "hunt him down and gut him like a pig" that was not my intentions of bringing awareness to this kid by any means. I did not mean to cause anything of the sort i wanted justice to be served but not making a kids mother panic that her son is going to be killed.

The officer said that he was in the process of getting it set up to clean the area and removed the vehicles that have been dumped up there, and that most likely no charges will be pressed against the kid. needless to say the kid has admitted this has been a very good learning experience and has learned from it.

[Obi..]

I still think to a degree the kid is just covering his tracks. That level of stupidity doesn't just happen and I'm sorry but i am now reading into C.T.'s post you clipped in above and seeing there is a potential lack of supervision as there is not a specific mention of "Parents". I have seen this kind of thing in the Youth Counseling I have done for Oakland where there is one parent M.I.A. most of the time, one trying just to make things work and the kid's M.I.A. parent is a thief, associates with bad people, or both know or suspect their kid is like this and do nothing. The best thing that can happen here is the kid is likely to be monitored through at the very least High School and hopefully has learned a valuable lesson and will hopefully do a complete 180 and be a straight arrow from here on in.

[troyboy162]

well that sure turned out odd. im picturing myself finding a 3rd gen out in the desert with a blown motor or something else disabling. if i called the police and i found out it wasn't stolen, and was actually abandoned... i guess i might grab a part i need if i knew it had already been there for 2 years. of course that does not sound like what the kid did. sounds like it was just dumb luck that he wasnt striping a freshly stolen truck

i wonder if that story is just a cover so some pirate 4x4 guy wont tie his dead body to the hood of his truck and drive him around.

[Obi..]

Maybe it's all a ruse so they can sue somebody for harassment like the guy from the Prius issue in San Diego?

Kind of like how something along the lines of 75-82% of reported vehicle thefts are owner's trying to cash in and making a false report?

[MTL_4runner]

Hopefully this kid really did learn his lesson.

[Bob98SR5]

for a minute i thought this was a thread about Corky...

[4x4mike]

for a minute i thought this was a thread about Corky...



ZING!

[Seanz0rz]

:shrek:

[fustercluck]

I think the kid acted like a kid. I don't know him, so I can't make an appropriate character assessment. Human nature would suggest that if he thought he had done something truly dishonest, he would conceal his behavior from the public. For instance, I doubt if he had stripped a vehicle parked on the street, he would ever expose himself as the perp.

Kids are kids because they are not fully developed in mind, body nor perceptions. He likely did not consider all of the possibilities relative to the truck or it's owner and assumed a vehicle that appears abandoned was actually abandoned by the owner...and hey, free stuff!

He did declare himself a thief, but given his immaturity, I think that was a braggadocio moment that struck reality. Ultimately, it was dumb. It's the kind of thing that adults examine and conclude that kids have no brain and little self control.

I glad he was ridiculed. Uncomfortable consequences teach us valuable life lessons. I'm also content that my misspent youth was not filleted on teh interwebs for all generations of man to see. I think we all feel that wind blow.

[mastacox]

He didn't declare himself a thief, the thread was renamed by a mod. Everything worked out in the end, I'm surprised the police dept. was able to act on the case so quickly!

[Obi..]

@Brian, with a string of break-ins and thefts lately both Washoe and Douglass County Sheriffs have been on their staffs to get active and make arrests if need be. It's nice to see IMHO.