Someone stole some of my firewood.

bmblank said:

See, I see it the other way around. 200k is quite a bit for a house around here. Most are probably in the 50k range. I guess meth does a of job of lowering prices.

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Watching the Detroit news, in some areas you could buy a half a city block for $200K these days. Its really sad. I sure hope the folks there and elsewhere can turn it around.

Back to the OP - I wonder - sure this wood thief has lots of $$$, but that isn't worth crap on a cold night with a yard full of wet wood and nobody willing to sell him any good fuel. In a sense, he's poorer than the guy he stole from - with the nice dry stacks - the victim. I'm not excusing his approach (a knock on the door would have been a thousand times better) but I agree with preventing his house from burning down. If I knew I could stop it and I didn't it would haunt me forever. Especially if there was a life lost. Even if the guy is an a$$-bag. Just my 2c....

Ram 1500 with an axe... said:

If you know he has issues with creosote dripping, consider doing the right thing and tell him about it, your not 100 percent sure that it is him and even if it is, he only took 20 pieces, maybe experimenting and trying to learn from you...
Atleast consider it.... He is a burner just like you me and all the rest... Stealing wood is more like someone taking half a pile or so, not a neighbor needing 20 splits.....

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Stealing is stealing. No matter how much it is. You ask before you take or you don't take. Pretty sure some countries still take your hand for doing something like that. I'd just tell him that you don't know who it is but you can guarantee it won't happen again

There would be a lot less stealing if you lost your hand here. But taxes would be 1o fold for all the people now on disability. Lose, lose.

I can sympathize with the O.P. as I just had to deal with the same situation. I could see the tracks in the snow and the tarp was not fastened correctly. Probably not the smartest thing to leave tracks from MY wood stacks to YOUR back door. After recording the tracks for evidence I contacted the local p.d. who came out looked around and then went to visit my neighbor. The story he gave was that he MEANT to say something to me about BORROWING some wood. This guy just moved in a month ago and has never spoken to me at all. Ended up taking $50 for the wood that he took,showed him where his property corners are, and two standing dead trees that I would help him cut up.

flatlandr said:

I can sympathize with the O.P. as I just had to deal with the same situation. I could see the tracks in the snow and the tarp was not fastened correctly. Probably not the smartest thing to leave tracks from MY wood stacks to YOUR back door. After recording the tracks for evidence I contacted the local p.d. who came out looked around and then went to visit my neighbor. The story he gave was that he MEANT to say something to me about BORROWING some wood. This guy just moved in a month ago and has never spoken to me at all. Ended up taking $50 for the wood that he took,showed him where his property corners are, and two standing dead trees that I would help him cut up.

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Dam, now that's what I call beig caught "red footed" but I don't know if I would take the 50 from my neighbor, the embarresment of the PD showing up would be more than enough for me....

Ram 1500 with an axe... said:

I don't know if I would take the 50 from my neighbor, the embarresment of the PD showing up would be more than enough for me....

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Sounds to me as if the $50 was a way to make things right between neighbors without triggering lasting animosity. That, combined with helping the guy out with the standing dead trees, seems a rather classy way to handle the situation.

I'm extremely surprised at the few who are making excuses for the thief. Stealing is stealing, period. I've given away some wood a few times, to help someone out. If someone needs wood I expect they come ask me for it. Promise to mow my lawn a few times the coming summer...or help stack some wood sometime. Lots of ways to pay for something without digging in your pocket for money. No excuse for stealing.

for a neighbor I would trade some wet for my dry, lucky for me nobody around here burns wood, (city with natural gas) not far from here somebody has been stealing wood piles in broad daylight. best the cops can figure they are selling it. Being NH shooting is legal and many are armed. this guy has some guts...

parthy said:

I guess I should put the fire deparment on my speed dial.

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Dial "9-1," and just wait.

razerface said:

if there are kids there I would go educated him. If it is just him,,,,shrug,,,,,he is a thief

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Kids or pets.

Ants and grasshoppers. Steal someone's wood that they were relying on for the big ice storm and that's pretty serious business. One step below horse-thievery.

Tough winter:

Firewood thefts reported in Candia
Many residents rely on firewood for main source of heating


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