Tablerock. Big Indian Little Indian And Camp Area. Boat Breakins

[Billfo]

All around point 18, docks and boats have been hit EVERY NIGHT SINCE TUESDAY. STEALING ELECTRONICS GEAR and some JETSKIS....... MY NEIGHBORS boat h ad the ignition switch removed in an attempt to steal his entire boat....Suspects are 2 guys on jet skis. One maybe heavily tattoo'd.

Watch out for each other...Sight your rifles in at 60 yards.... This I s getting old.....

[Quillback]

Let's hope these scumbags get caught.

[ryan]

People need to start looking for their gear to possibly show up on Craig's list. Hopefully these guys will be caught!!!

[merc1997 Bo]

sounds like it might be time to do a little sleeping in your boat with a shotgun loaded with rock salt. several years ago, i was having gas drained out of my boat. i spent a few nights sleeping in the floor of the boat with a shotgun. sure enough they showed up again. they got quite a surprise when i popped up out of the floor, and invited them to not come back or else. i feel for those that are losing their property.

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[Pepe]

Security Cameras might be just the thing to catch these vermin. I have been thinking of installing a few on our dock with a 30 day memory drive

[Billfo]

If you see jet skis out in the dark am

OR pm ...... Lead them like a duck ! We have two fulltime neighbors that have a good view of our dock. One is trigger happy and the other is a whack job. Heaven help the crooks if either of my neighbors see them. I don't condone taking pot shots at people but I understand. They have been ripped off in the past. Nothing worse than a theif in the night.

[Bill Babler]

How many times to we have to go over this.

I do not feel their pain. My thoughts is that they did not want anything they were more than stupid enough to leave in a boat or on a dock unattended. Pretty much like leaving your wallet on a street corner and expecting it to be there in the morning.

People that leave stuff in full view unattended perpetuate this type of crime.

You shoot a gun at anyone on or around a dock either stealing trinkets or not and you will go to jail longer than the person stealing your junk.

Folks, please take better care of your equipment. Do not leave it in docks or boats on Table Rock lake unless you don't want it.

Good Luck

[Jerry Rapp]

it sure is a changing society. It used to be, 30 plus or minus years ago, you could pull your boat up on the bank or dock it and not ever have to worry about it.

[troller]

I post very seldom but find it hard to believe one of the most respected guides and prominent posters on this forum "doesn't feel the pain"

of the unfortunate ones that have been stolen from by the thieves on the Rock. A lot of us have docks with slips , lockers etc that are private property and although reminded every year that we should watch our gear by the same poster, who fishes our docks, there are various reasons for leaving things somewhat accessible. Access to some docks are such that removing all items is no minor undertaking....especially after coming in after sunset and going back out at sunrise. All of us aren't loading our boats in our garages or driveways and trailering to Taneycomo one day, Bull Shoals the next and Big M or somewhere else on the Rock the next day.We pay dues, and spend hours maintaining and moving them Spring ,Summer

, Fall and Winter. Docks are the same personal property as homes and your violated if stolen from either.

I hope we don't get to the point in our society where we don't start "not feeling the pain" of those being violated by home invasions next. I can see my dock from every window in my home and a jet ski engine at 300yds is a much bigger target than the vitals on many of the deer and antelope I've taken at that range.

[Champ188]

Troller, thieves have existed since that fateful day in the Garden of Eden when the first sin was committed. It isn't a ,matter of society being tolerant, it's a matter of accepting the fact that people are going to steal things.

Hopefully all of this "testosterone talk" about vigilante justice is just talk. Otherwise, Bill is dead-on right that you are putting your personal freedom at great risk by attempting to kill another human being ... thief or not.

There is a price for the convenience of parking your boat and gear in a dock in full sight of the human vermin that are thieves, and that price is that it might not be there when you get back. That's a simple fact of life.

Bill and the others of us who trailer our boats are not the criminals here. We simply acknowledge the above facts and take steps to protect our belongings.