So I just moved into my house a month ago and bought a new lawnmower. I used it once and then like an idiot I left the garage door open one night and in the morning it was gone! Our brand-new mower was stolen! Luckily, nothing else was stolen.
Posted by JenniK (Member # 3939) on :
Look for kids in the area with a really fast, newer go-cart. Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :
Welcome to the neighborhood!
Sorry to hear about your luck
Posted by Angiomorphism (Member # 8184) on :
jay did it! Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote: would you steal a lawnmower?
Uh, I guess so. Just let me know whose mower you want me to steal, and how much you'll give to me to do the job. Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
No, I would never do such a thing. Stealing is disgusting. It absolutely was not me. Please don't look in my garage.
Posted by citadel (Member # 8367) on :
I will give you 50 pesos to look in the garage of Verily the Younger. Looking for kids around the neighborhood with a newer gocart is actually a good idea.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
<peeks into the Verily garage>
<spies a new go-cart>
<reports to citadel to collect the 50 pesos>
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
Was it a riding lawnmower or a push one?
Cause those riding ones are frickin' awesome.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
Curses! You are too clever for us. Posted by citadel (Member # 8367) on :
It was just a $300 push mower, but hey that's money that could be used for other things like buying more books that I don't have room for. Thanks for looking in the garage! Your 50 pesos should arrive in the mail in 4-14 weeks.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
You are putting on a 37 cent stamp to mail me 50 pesos?
I hope that you are not expecting me to pay for shipping and handling.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Would I steal a lawn mower? No. Thats lame. The people who stole the lawn mower from you are lame. It probably is someone who wanted to set up a go-kart, or destroy it and put it on video- both cases are extremely lame. Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
This thread is getting mower and mower silly all the time!
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
Ugh. That was really bad.
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
Indeed. There is no need to digrass from the topic of discussion.
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
I know someone who once had a hammock stolen from their yard...
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
I had a dress stolen from my yard.
From the clothesline.
And it was a really nice dress.
I still miss that dress.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
My ex lives in a bad neighborhood. He has had lawn mowers stolen three different times! He doesn't have a garage/shed, so he chains them, with lock to the front porch. People actually come up on his front porch at night and will cut the chain! Stupid thieves.
Two of them were ones I gave him to use temporarily. Now I just bring my mower in and have him cut his tiny plot of grass, and I take it home the same day.
FG
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
quote:Originally posted by kaioshin00: Indeed. There is no need to digrass from the topic of discussion.
So glad you agree. This silliness on hatrack has gone on too lawn!
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
When I first moved to my new neighborhood, I had a hard time.
Then I got myself a paramour. Life is good!
It is so much easier than cutting grass with the old manual reel mower.
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
It's really unfortunate that people will steal just about anything that isn't tied down (and in some cases, even that won't deter them).
I learned when I was quite young not to leave my garage door open unless I was in/around the garage (our next door neighbor had all his tools stolen from his open garage).
Posted by citadel (Member # 8367) on :
quote: You are putting on a 37 cent stamp to mail me 50 pesos?
Oh I am deducting the 37 cents from the 50 pesos to be sent. So the money enclosed will be worth less than the envelope it's coming in.
[ July 16, 2005, 06:57 PM: Message edited by: citadel ]
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
That reminds me of the weirdest wedding present my husband and I got. It was a card with a check enclosed for $47.39.
There was a note inside that it was a fifty dollar gift, and the $47.39 was what was left after he deducted the price of the card and stamp.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by Belle: That reminds me of the weirdest wedding present my husband and I got. It was a card with a check enclosed for $47.39.
There was a note inside that it was a fifty dollar gift, and the $47.39 was what was left after he deducted the price of the card and stamp.
That is hysterical. Pity the poor one who marries that catch! And thank your lucky stars that it wasn't you.
Posted by foundling (Member # 6348) on :
"Then I got myself a paramour. Life is good!
It is so much easier than cutting grass with the old manual reel mower."
If thats a pun, it deserves some props. If it's not a pun, it deserves 50 points for use of the word paramour. Sweet!
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Props to the Shvester!
Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
I'm really sorry, but... that is kinda funny.
We had that happen to us in VA.
This was the kind of neighborhood where you could leave a couple hundred dollars worth of Craftsman tools out on the porch, and they would not be taken. However, if you have a broken and a working lawnmower....they will steal the working one . Sure wish they took the other one .
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
citadel, it I saw my stolen lawn mower, I might steal it back. Posted by BunnV (Member # 6816) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tatiana: This thread is getting mower and mower silly all the time!
Your lawn-awaited puns are grassiously entrimtaining.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Now cut that out.
Posted by zgator (Member # 3833) on :
I can't take mulch more of this.
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
does anybody remember that Kids in the Hall sketch where these kids steal their neighbor's gazebo?
Posted by Liz B (Member # 8238) on :
We left out a couple of grills for weeks in hopes that someone would steal them. No such luck.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
You can't just leave stuff out for people to steal if you want to get rid of it! Everyone knows that if you want stuff stolen away in the dead of night, you need to put a sign with the price on it. The higher the asking price, the sooner it will be gone. If you need it gone before nightfall, leave it with not only the price tag, but also some sort of security device. A bike lock will do.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
This morning, as I mowed and the heat index here shot up to 97, I was hoping that someone would come by and steal my mower.
Gotta go back out and mow again tomorrow. So, if anyone's in the neighborhood... the mowers in the unlocked shed and I'll leave the back porch light off...
Posted by Liz B (Member # 8238) on :
quote:You can't just leave stuff out for people to steal if you want to get rid of it! Everyone knows that if you want stuff stolen away in the dead of night, you need to put a sign with the price on it. The higher the asking price, the sooner it will be gone. If you need it gone before nightfall, leave it with not only the price tag, but also some sort of security device. A bike lock will do.
*furiously scribbling notes*
(We have lots of junk in our backyard)
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Sopwith, Why do you need to mow every day? In New Jersey, the Garden State, once a week suffices. Does the grass grow so much faster where you are from? Or is your estate so large that it is impossible to mow the whole thing in one day? Or is it an obsessive/compulsive thing?
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Now I just bring my mower in and have him cut his tiny plot of grass, and I take it home the same day.![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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. Sure wish they took the other one ![[Smile]](smile.gif)