So yes, for those that don't know, my husbands pick up truck was stolen last week, for a second time. At least this time they stole it from his job, not our driveway, so it didn't feel like quite such a violation, but it sucked all the same.
Anyway, after five days we had given up hope, until the cops called today! They found the truck, ditched over in an industrial area by the stadiums. Not that far from his job or our house, but it had been driven 130 miles in five days! More crazy, it had a new steering wheel (we assume to get past the club Joe always used after it was stolen the first time)
Even weirder, it had blown a tire and the jerks that stole it not only put on the spare, they re-attached the original wheel under where the spare was, so we still have the good set of rims. But the steering column is totally locked up and even though it wants to, she won't crank. So after paying $75 to bail it out of the city impound lot, we then had to pay ANOTHER $75 to get it towed home.
Jerks that took it cleaned it completely out. Took Joe's tools, the floor mats, a few camping chairs he had, even the stuffed Grover he had hanging from his rear view. They also took all the paperwork from the glove box, which included our registration with our address. Trying not to stress to much on that, that's why we have big dogs.
Of course the cops are pretty much not interested in helping us. They didn't even finger print the truck. It's license plate is gone and someone else's is in it's place. Do they care? Nope. Whatever. I guess I'm glad it's back, glad to not have it still hanging, but our plan is to put it on the Craig's List ASAP and move on.
Thanks for reading and for all the good wishes :)
