Stolen Valve Stem Caps - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

tattoobob · 08-18-2006, 08:42 PM

I went out and bought crome sleeves and crome caps for my Explorer
last Sunday, probably 6 bucks total, now I haven't gone anywhere all
week, the truck has sat in the driveway I came out this morning and
they are all gone, when my wife got home I went out to greet her and
3 of her 4 are gone. Probably kids is all I can think of. stuff like this
really pisses me off.

thefishingfreak · 08-18-2006, 08:58 PM

probly the teenagers again
least they didn't slash the tires.

Skitterpop · 08-18-2006, 09:26 PM

Maybe that Coyote got a ATV ?

numbskull · 08-19-2006, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Skitterpop

Maybe that Coyote got a ATV ?

LOL!

justplugit · 08-19-2006, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by tattoobob

Probably kids is all I can think of. stuff like this
really pisses me off.

Don't blame ya Bob, it's like they have nothing better to think of, or do.

MAC · 08-19-2006, 07:30 PM

last year a friend bought a new Chevy pick up. He also bought a set of the chrome valve caps with the bowtie on the top. I saw them and told him he would only have them for a week or two. Well I was wrong, they lasted 3 weeks before some puke took them.

Karl F · 08-19-2006, 08:10 PM

I like the metal caps, only 'cause they are gasketed, and if you have a valve issue on the beach, you can usually get a tight enuf closure with the cap at low pressure to get you off the sand.. even tho I carry a valve tool and extra valves, I like the added insurance of the metal caps with the gasket.. I just wish I could get the plain jane ones I usta buy, now they are all shiny, chrome or SS.. bright stuff on a beach ride, don't stay that way... little (very little) naval jelly on the threads keep them from getting permantly attach too..

I always keep an extr set in the glove box, just in case some kid likes the shiny bright ones.. take comfort in the fact that the puke that took them will have them stolen in turn by another puke, and so on, and so on...

justplugit · 08-19-2006, 08:33 PM

That's why you need Flows Karl, if one gets stolen ya still have another.

Swimmer · 08-20-2006, 09:05 AM

Coyote

Backbeach Jake · 08-20-2006, 11:11 AM

Glue thumbtacks on them!

justplugit · 08-20-2006, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake

Glue thumbtacks on them!

Forgot that trick Fred.

member back in the old hub cap stealing days,

when they could just pull off the spinners and full moons by hand and

guys would weld razor blades around the edges.

taJon · 08-21-2006, 08:27 AM

Thats just rediculous. I've never heard of such a thing.

justplugit · 08-21-2006, 04:30 PM

Your right t J, it was rediculous. But ,to put things in perspective, back then a guy would make $1 an hour and a good set of spinners cost plus $100. To put it in todays $ it would be like someone stealin 3 or 4 Van Staals outa your truck.

Gotta admit, people learned to keep their hands off things that didn't belong to them.

Then in the old,old days, guys would use the 12 gauge trip wire cannon rigs to protect their cabins. Attached to the door knob, as an intruder would enter, it would trigger a load of double odd buck at your legs or higher.

Wouldn't want to use or see the reults of either one.

Karl F · 08-21-2006, 04:40 PM

Yep JPI, the shotgun fulla buckshot pointing at the door with the trip wire.. 50's burglar alarm for the fishin or gunnin camp..
Full Moons, spinners, Half Moon and trim rings.. My older brothers 49 chopped and dropped ford with the shaved heads.. he had the razor blades welded in and on a few things. .as he went to voke tech in beautifull downtown Hartford CT... course this was the late fiftys early sixtys...that and trip wires and kill switches..
I came up a little later in life.. but my Tempest.. ya had to push the cigarette lighter in to make the connection, so it would start.. every generation has it's tricks of the trade

Backbeach Jake · 08-21-2006, 04:42 PM

Here's another you may never have heard; Back 30 odd years ago, when Jenn and I were first married, some a-hole decided that it would be a good idea to steal my tools. And keep coming back for more. I gave him a hot wired electric drill. I just know that he plugged that thing in and pissed all over himself! He NEVER came back.

justplugit · 08-21-2006, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Karl F

.as he went to voke tech in beautifull downtown Hartford CT...

Ya, like Robert said to Raymond when he had his yellow blazer on. "ya gotta come down to the hood and spend some time with me, my brotha".

Fred, waaay too funnie.

labrax · 08-21-2006, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake

... I gave him a hot wired electric drill. I just know that he plugged that thing in and pissed all over himself! He NEVER came back.

I just love this forum for stuff like this and other posts in this thread....priceless

tattoobob · 08-21-2006, 09:13 PM

Me to, I just put my old caps on seeing they leave them alone,
I should have known better than to think I could have something nice.
I would love to buy new ones and watch to see who steals them.

One Sunday I came outside and my boat was pushed out into the
middle of the street, someone realiezed the tounge was locked after they moved it.

Jenn · 08-22-2006, 06:02 PM

I am so happy I am not alone! About 4 years ago the caps were missing from car, the truck, the bronco, the camper, the snowmobile trailer, the company truck......ALL OF THEM! My hubby was so mad because he has to buy the fancy ones too....

Little while later they found some kids in the neigborhood with coffe cans full of them. Them made the kids go around to return them and apologize....of course there is no chance of getting back the ones that were actually taken from you...