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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.
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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. Posts: 10397 | Registered: Jun 2005
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No, I would never do such a thing. Stealing is disgusting. It absolutely was not me. Please don't look in my garage.
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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.
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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.
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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. Posts: 9754 | Registered: Jul 2002
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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"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!
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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 .
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does anybody remember that Kids in the Hall sketch where these kids steal their neighbor's gazebo?
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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.
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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...
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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)
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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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