What has been stolen at your store???

[partsgirl43]

Gms are a usless breed

[cville1987]

Once we had a rash of Cavalier wheels being stolen, they'd come in on transport and next morning sitting on cinder blocks. Then we had an old wholesale truck stolen from out back one night, then they hooked it up to our car trailer we just had coated and used them to steal every set of 20's on the lot. Had a break in one night and they were after the safe so they brkoe into parts and stole a quart of Mobil1 to lube the drill bit they were using to try and drill into the safe door. They were unsuccessful. Had a counter guy that would make credit memos and take the cash out the drawer since he was also the cashier. Then he would make a ticket to himself and employee charge the part. His way of keeping inventoy straight and his conscience clear. Until he got caught. LOL

[greenthumb-38]

Lately... my motivation.

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Seriously, "the best stolen story" dates back about twenty years. A parts driver never returned from a delivery run with one of our parts trucks.

The next morning, I went to his place and found his girl friend at home. She was really worried about the driver. We'll call him George. She said that George had a history of up and disappearing on her for days or weeks at a time. At first she thought I was a cop, but I told her I just wanted my parts truck back. It was a 1988 or 1989 C1500 plain jane pick-up truck.

I filed a stolen vehicle report with the local PD. Gave them all the vitals on the truck and the driver. They didn't seem worried at all.

He finally showed up about a week later, all apologetic and such. George broke down and cried and sobbed and all that. He was really good about it. He had a bizarre story about how he saw a hooker he knew while on his deliveries, and they went to her room at a sleeze-ball motel in the trashy part of town. George said he was jumped by two guys hiding inside the motel room. He said the hooker and the two guys roughed him up (he did have bruises all over his face and torso). Then they stole all the money from his deliveries and the keys to the parts truck. And they dumped him about twenty miles away. He sobbed on about how he walked the whole twenty miles back.

According to George, he then spent the next four or five days looking for the hooker, the guys, and the truck. He said he seen the guys before, but didn't know who they were. This story was getting more weird by the sentence... So, I told him that we had filed a police report and that he would have to go downtown and make a statement.

Somehow, the detective convinced Geroge to take a lie detector test and he promptly failed that test. However, there was no evidence to arrest him on grand theft auto. The detective said he knew all the girls on that bouldevard and his description matched none of them. He added that his story is so amazing, he doesn't know what is truth and what is fiction...

The detective figured that George used the cash from the parts deliveries to buy some dope, and then he likely parked the truck somewhere and doesnt remember where he left it. Mr. Detective thought that the entire ambush and hooker story was made up...

George was released by the police and I then released him from employment. The good news is that the truck was found about two weeks later. The manager of a furniture store in a nearby town called and asked why my truck was sitting in his parking lot for a few weeks (I put my business card in with the vehicle registration).

When I went to pick it up, it was in pretty bad shape... both fenders were damaged, the grille and bumper were smashed, two windows broke, and the right front tire had been severely introduced to a curb. The aroma inside the truck was beyond description, but we got our truck back...

Those were the good old days... I can't even imagine that happening today.

~gt

[texaslp]

The most bizarre part of that story is that it appears that "George" thought that telling you he stopped on his route to dally with a hooker was okey-doke.

[dropdeaddart]

I wasn't here at the time, but a late 90's Viper was taken right out of the showroom, never to be seen again.

[Ironchild]

Had some yo-yo try and steal the catalytic converters off a new VW Touareg on our lot one night. Sales went to move it and the exhaust was loud. Looked under the vehicle and saw exhaust missing and 6 sawzall blades laying on the ground. Funny thing is he only cut the front resonators out and missed the cats which were futher up near the manifolds. He turned in the parts he cut off and only got 7 bucks for scrap metal......probably spent 30 bucks on the sawzall blades...karma's a bitch He got caught and we recouped our money.

[MIKEGRNWD]

We had a key machine in the back of my department. It was in the shipping area and our back door was open. Some clown came inside and cut the cord to the machine that was only plugged in and stole it. They could have just unplugged it but they cut the cord.....

[scott2112]

My belief in humanity.....

[DWoodward]

had a customer once years ago come in and test drive a new truck,took the spare key off the key ring came back to the parts dept. had a copy made, put the spare back on the key ring and turned the original keys in. came back a few days later "after hours" and stole the truck. we had no ideal that we had played a roll in it when it was all said and done thank god we didn't get arrested or anything......food for thought for next time someone comes in and asks you to copy a key.

[WOCwoods]

30 years ago before I came to work for a GM store, I worked managing a Napa store. For those of you who are old enough to remember the locking knobs at the rear of the door trim panel, the aftermarket used to sell replacement knobs that were straight, with out the bulge at the top, so by replacing them thieves were not able to use a bent coathanger to open your car door and steal your car or your stuff. These sold for maybe 2 bucks. So one day while straightening the store shelves, I came across an empty blister pack of these straight lock knobs. I stopped for a few seconds to contemplate that someone had stolen these from my store so some other criminal couldn't steal from them. Ok for me, he thinks, not for the other guy. Scary if you think too long on this...