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Sunday: 6 cars, 3 climber's cars at the lode/drive by + 3 tourists' cars on State Park land

Monday: None

Tuesday: 3 cars at drive by/lode

Wednesday: 1 car and a near miss at Roadside

Total: 10 cars, 4 days.

Also, I was told by Miguel and Sarah that a car was broken into at the Muir Valley parking lot, can this be verified by anyone? If this is true, that's really fucked up.

Today (Wednesday) a Van from Texas was broken into and my van was being approached by one of the guys with a slim jim but sketched out, probably because they saw JR in the woods watching. Sarah Ventura, Roger, and JR watched the first car get broken into and got the liscense plate of the car (it's a Probe so beware) and have since called the cops but none has shown up yet. We'll see if them watching the first breakin will be enough to do something with...

Moved to hidden forum to keep what we are up to kinda quiet.

Hey all. Definately interested in a resolution to this problem, mainly cause I'm really paranoid about leaving my Pathfinder down there now...I've always thought the alarm would keep it safe, but I guess not.

I remember when I was in Kauai, they had a similar problem (worse) there. Picture hundreds of tourists on an economically depressed island (since the sugarcane went out, work is hard to come by), driving rental convertibles with luggage and other valuables inside.

I seem to remember that they had a good solution to the problem, but obviously in an area like that, tourism is really important, so I think the government or businesses paid to have a "break-in task force". Eventually, if this were to get bad enough, I would imagine local RRG businesses would want something like that...though I know money is tight all around there.

I'll research what they did in Kauai some more, in case we could do that here too.

By the way, for those of you who know me, I used to go by "CincySam" on here.

haas wrote:Also, I was told by Miguel and Sarah that a car was broken into at the Muir Valley parking lot, can this be verified by anyone? If this is true, that's really fucked up.

Please do verify this as the Webers would really like to know if this happens in Muir. Thanks.

haas wrote:Sarah Ventura, Roger, and JR watched the first car get broken into and got the liscense plate of the car (it's a Probe so beware) and have since called the cops but none has shown up yet. We'll see if them watching the first breakin will be enough to do something with...

dark blue probe? i was at the motherlode parking lot yesterday while the lurkist was dispensing of the vehicle and a dark blue probe pulled up to me, asked me if i needed help, then pulled off. sounds normal, but it was quite weird. big guy in the passenger seat with a beard. maybe a girl? driving? didn't get a good look.

haas wrote:(it's a Probe so beware)

those bastards!! i saw them drive by me at the lode!! i could identify them if the time came and could probably give a description of the car and family. just so you guys know, i'll describe them for you:

blue ford probe.. one of the newer models before it was discontinued
white male, late thirties, early forties, brown hair
white female, a little younger, yellow blonde hair
kid in the back

they waved as they passed.. they had a kid so i thought they were locals.. with a kid!!

that's them, I also saw them when I took the back way into Jailhouse. We saw them come barreling down the road and then took off when we got back to the car. Fuckers in a blue probe

if anyone sees them.. don't do anything! don't let them know we're on to them or they'll just walk off and nothing will really happen

Dont get me wrong but this plan is kinda dangerous. What happens if they break into a car? Do you stop them or just let it happen? Letting them take off with more stufff doesn't really make that much sense. Sneaking around the woods of Eastern Kentucky also has a tendency to get you shot at. I believe that the most effective means of security would be a road block. You can still video tape and photograph whoever you want but it would be safer. All you need is someone who has a jeep or a large truck to block the road. If the criminals see that people are looking for them, they wont come around. You also need to find a way to have the police on the scene so the criminals cannot escape. Unfortunately, all of this is useless, unless you have a judge that will convict these people and make them serve the time they are sentenced to.

how would you roadblock roadside if it came to that?

i think the idea is to still let them get away with the stuff but once you have evidence of them doing it on video then you have a means by which to legally prosecute.

this is a path of non-confrontation. we aren't just randomly trompin' through the woods that climbers wouldn't tromp through anyway.