Need to vent...

[Adjam5]

We have a thief that lives where we do.

Our trail cam was stolen from off a tree in OUR backyard!

3 weeks ago county parks employees were posting the county land and one of the park workers was acting like Sherlock Holmes and questioning us about why we have a trail cam. I told him having a trail cam on my land is NOT illegal. Our yard backs up to county land. He didn't like that.

Now the cam is missing. Hmmmmm....

I called the Parks dept and placed a complaint. The boss called me back and told me his workers know of the cam, confirmed it was on my land and left it alone.

I has to be someone who knows what it is. Kids would not mess with it. They got the battery box too, but no card was in the cam.

I am fuming here ...The police just came. I filed a report. The responding officer was one who lives on my street. I hope he takes a personal interest in the trespassers that did this. His yard backs up to the same woods.

It was on the tree last Weds when the ECO was here sealing the fisher pelt. I showed her the cam on the tree from the window of Joes room.

I am soo fit to be tied it ain't funny.

Nothing I hate more than a THIEF.

[wtnhunt]

Man that would have me fuming too Anthony. Hope the thief gets caught and you get your cam back.

[davetucker]

not to beat you up or anything but why did you show people!! i am sure the people you showed are not theifs but hey they tell joe blow you got a cam and joe blow tells jane doe and jane doe tells chief thief and boom your camera is stolen!! I have had stands stolen and 3 cameras so now i tell not even my wife!!!

[Adjam5]

not to beat you up or anything but why did you show people!! i am sure the people you showed are not theifs but hey they tell joe blow you got a cam and joe blow tells jane doe and jane doe tells chief thief and boom your camera is stolen!! I have had stands stolen and 3 cameras so now i tell not even my wife!!!

I did not show PEOPLE. I showed the Environmental Conservation officer who came to my house to seal a pelt. She asked how far my property goes back into the woods while we were discussing bowhunting back there. I said the trail cam on the tree is my border.

I know about folks spreading the word. I also have a neighbor who has complained about the flash from the cam at night. I have yet to speak to him.

We know about keeping things quiet.

[ruttinbuc]

I'd be on the warpath too Anthony. I was fit to be tied when these scum stole my 3D deer targets and raided my boat out back of my place. I am afraid for what I'd do if I ever caught them.

These thieves when caught need to be dealt with in ways that will make them think twice. The problem is getting really bad. Cameras and stands being ripped off everywhere. I hope they catch this lowlife...

[camoman1]

That would have my blood pressure up too!! Hope you get to the bottom of things...I cant stand thieves either!

[AaronS]

That would have my blood pressure up too!! Hope you get to the bottom of things...I cant stand thieves either!

My sentiments exactly.....good luck.

[redkneck]

That would have me fuming mad too Anthony, especially in my own back yard! Now you have to wonder what else got scoped out as well. I hope you get to the bottom of it and find the scum that took it. :angry:

[Mooresville Rocket]

How to answer this post without inflaming someone.

Back in the day, when hunting was nothing more then a old pair of camo clothes - bought at the Army and Navy surplus store and a 30/06 rifle and a box of Remington Core lockt ammo. All a man had to do to hunt deer was take a couple of 2 x 4's out in the woods and nail them to a tree and make a small platform and nail some boards to the tree for steps and you thought you were set for life.

We didn't need any trail cam's, Mossy Oak camo clothes, a bow that cost more then our rifle or a $35,000 pick up truck to haul it home in.

Now a days, people have too much free money lying around and nothing to spend it on and they feel the need to spend all kinds of money on such non sense as trail cams.

The Posted signs, which first came out in Texas 40 years ago has migrated to Pennsylvania and now everyone thinks that a free roaming deer is theirs and greed has taken over and paid hunts and lease ground is the norm.

What started out in the purest sense as a sport which could be enjoyed by everyone has turned into a obsession where everyone thinks that they have to know everything and they want to see everything that comes on their property.

If you didn't want someone to steal your camera, you would have put it 12 feet up into the tree where most people couldn't reach it.

As I have said in one of my previous posts, I don't need all that technology to shoot one little stupid deer. I would rather sit on a stump and hunt like the Indians did 300 years ago. If I get a deer, all is well, if I don't, then I suck as a hunter and I need to find a new place to hunt!

I don't know when all this bragging started or why people are so obsessed with deer and antlers and the number of points. I would rather shoot 3 button bucks and have edible meat in the freezer then shoot a 23 point buck and then have everyone and his brother hounding me for directions to where my deer stand is at and asking for permission to hunt on my property.

Just because you got one deer there, doesn't mean there will be more. Every once in a blue moon, one gets lost and ends up in my sights. I cannot say for sure that he lived there all of his life or that he just chased some does the wrong way and he ended up under my stand.

I would take the loss of a deer camera pretty hard if I owned one. Especially since I have not had a income in the last 3 years. But I would never spend good money on something that does nothing but take pictures of silly old deer. Maybe someone thought that it was some type of security camera and that you were watching to see who went on your property. Maybe they didn't want to get caught and the easiest way for them to sneak on your property was to get rid of the trail camera.

Maybe they sold it for dope money, or maybe they kept it for themselves.

If I had a camera, I would paint and scribe my name all over it. Make sure that no one could steal it or sell it or use it without being caught.

I am a honest person, but I would be really tempted to steal a camera if I found it on State Game Lands. Finders Keepers - is what the police said to me when someone stole my wallet in a grocery store one day. If it lands on the floor and someone picks it up - they didn't steal it, they found it.

Before my wallet was stolen with all my identification and all the money I had in the world, I wouldn't even think of stealing someone else's property. But since it has been stolen, I see the world in different eye's.

My bible in the New Testament says - Do unto others as you would have done to you. But in the old Testament it says - A Eye for a Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth!

If you knew the story of my life and how I came from nothing and am fortunate enough not to be a homeless person right now, you wouldn't even care about the loss of a trail camera, compared to all the set backs I have endured.

The loss of my sight, the loss of my hearing, the loss of my good health, the loss of my ability to go to work and earn a living and the disability not being bad enough to collect Social Security Disability or Public Assistance.

If it was not for the food pantry, I wouldn't even be able to eat more then the most basic foods, which is all I buy in the stores. Day old bread, milk, egg's, butter, and a special treat of cookies or jelly or potato chips is all the more that is on my weekly grocery list.

When you have no money coming in, you learn to do without.

In the grand scheme of things, what is it going to matter in 100 years - who stole your trail cam or what happened to it.

Just be glad that you have a job and a home and a family that cares about you and food on the table and money in your pocket and your good health.

There are a lot of people in this world, and even in your neighborhood that does not have it as good as you do!

Take the couple hundred dollars you spent on the camera and put it in the Salvation Army bucket and see how much good a couple hundred dollars can do to change the lives of someone who has nothing and quit worrying about how many deer are on your property or if someone is trespassing.

I have nothing, yet I am willing to share what little I have with everyone around me and I give from the heart and not from my surplus - like what you read in the bible from the story of the Widow's Mite. Read that story sometime - along with the Book of Ruth and maybe it will change your life as it did mine - when I was a homeless person and had absolutely nothing.

Store your treasures in heaven, there no thief can steal, nor fire destroy.

All this information is coming from a person that isn't even religious... If there is a god in this world, the person that stole your camera will get his in the end. If this is all there is to life and if when we die, we are nothing more then something for the worms to eat, then I guess I ought to be out robbing and stealing to get what I don't have - just like everyone else is doing. Stepping all over the little people, trying to be a big shot. Screwing everyone along the way, thinking that they are getting ahead - when all the time they are putting blemishes on their immortal soul - with no hope of ever getting into heaven.

[Guest bowhunter56]

How to answer this post without inflaming someone.

Back in the day, when hunting was nothing more then a old pair of camo clothes - bought at the Army and Navy surplus store and a 30/06 rifle and a box of Remington Core lockt ammo. All a man had to do to hunt deer was take a couple of 2 x 4's out in the woods and nail them to a tree and make a small platform and nail some boards to the tree for steps and you thought you were set for life.

We didn't need any trail cam's, Mossy Oak camo clothes, a bow that cost more then our rifle or a $35,000 pick up truck to haul it home in.

Now a days, people have too much free money lying around and nothing to spend it on and they feel the need to spend all kinds of money on such non sense as trail cams.

The Posted signs, which first came out in Texas 40 years ago has migrated to Pennsylvania and now everyone thinks that a free roaming deer is theirs and greed has taken over and paid hunts and lease ground is the norm.

What started out in the purest sense as a sport which could be enjoyed by everyone has turned into a obsession where everyone thinks that they have to know everything and they want to see everything that comes on their property.

If you didn't want someone to steal your camera, you would have put it 12 feet up into the tree where most people couldn't reach it.

As I have said in one of my previous posts, I don't need all that technology to shoot one little stupid deer. I would rather sit on a stump and hunt like the Indians did 300 years ago. If I get a deer, all is well, if I don't, then I suck as a hunter and I need to find a new place to hunt!

I don't know when all this bragging started or why people are so obsessed with deer and antlers and the number of points. I would rather shoot 3 button bucks and have edible meat in the freezer then shoot a 23 point buck and then have everyone and his brother hounding me for directions to where my deer stand is at and asking for permission to hunt on my property.

Just because you got one deer there, doesn't mean there will be more. Every once in a blue moon, one gets lost and ends up in my sights. I cannot say for sure that he lived there all of his life or that he just chased some does the wrong way and he ended up under my stand.

I would take the loss of a deer camera pretty hard if I owned one. Especially since I have not had a income in the last 3 years. But I would never spend good money on something that does nothing but take pictures of silly old deer. Maybe someone thought that it was some type of security camera and that you were watching to see who went on your property. Maybe they didn't want to get caught and the easiest way for them to sneak on your property was to get rid of the trail camera.

Maybe they sold it for dope money, or maybe they kept it for themselves.

If I had a camera, I would paint and scribe my name all over it. Make sure that no one could steal it or sell it or use it without being caught.

I am a honest person, but I would be really tempted to steal a camera if I found it on State Game Lands. Finders Keepers - is what the police said to me when someone stole my wallet in a grocery store one day. If it lands on the floor and someone picks it up - they didn't steal it, they found it.

Before my wallet was stolen with all my identification and all the money I had in the world, I wouldn't even think of stealing someone else's property. But since it has been stolen, I see the world in different eye's.

My bible in the New Testament says - Do unto others as you would have done to you. But in the old Testament it says - A Eye for a Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth!

If you knew the story of my life and how I came from nothing and am fortunate enough not to be a homeless person right now, you wouldn't even care about the loss of a trail camera, compared to all the set backs I have endured.

The loss of my sight, the loss of my hearing, the loss of my good health, the loss of my ability to go to work and earn a living and the disability not being bad enough to collect Social Security Disability or Public Assistance.

If it was not for the food pantry, I wouldn't even be able to eat more then the most basic foods, which is all I buy in the stores. Day old bread, milk, egg's, butter, and a special treat of cookies or jelly or potato chips is all the more that is on my weekly grocery list.

When you have no money coming in, you learn to do without.

In the grand scheme of things, what is it going to matter in 100 years - who stole your trail cam or what happened to it.

Just be glad that you have a job and a home and a family that cares about you and food on the table and money in your pocket and your good health.

There are a lot of people in this world, and even in your neighborhood that does not have it as good as you do!

Take the couple hundred dollars you spent on the camera and put it in the Salvation Army bucket and see how much good a couple hundred dollars can do to change the lives of someone who has nothing and quit worrying about how many deer are on your property or if someone is trespassing.

I have nothing, yet I am willing to share what little I have with everyone around me and I give from the heart and not from my surplus - like what you read in the bible from the story of the Widow's Mite. Read that story sometime - along with the Book of Ruth and maybe it will change your life as it did mine - when I was a homeless person and had absolutely nothing.

Store your treasures in heaven, there no thief can steal, nor fire destroy.

All this information is coming from a person that isn't even religious... If there is a god in this world, the person that stole your camera will get his in the end. If this is all there is to life and if when we die, we are nothing more then something for the worms to eat, then I guess I ought to be out robbing and stealing to get what I don't have - just like everyone else is doing. Stepping all over the little people, trying to be a big shot. Screwing everyone along the way, thinking that they are getting ahead - when all the time they are putting blemishes on their immortal soul - with no hope of ever getting into heaven.

I guess that says it all, and very well..

[Adjam5]

How to answer this post without inflaming someone.

Back in the day, when hunting was nothing more then a old pair of camo clothes - bought at the Army and Navy surplus store and a 30/06 rifle and a box of Remington Core lockt ammo. All a man had to do to hunt deer was take a couple of 2 x 4's out in the woods and nail them to a tree and make a small platform and nail some boards to the tree for steps and you thought you were set for life.

We didn't need any trail cam's, Mossy Oak camo clothes, a bow that cost more then our rifle or a $35,000 pick up truck to haul it home in.

Now a days, people have too much free money lying around and nothing to spend it on and they feel the need to spend all kinds of money on such non sense as trail cams.

The Posted signs, which first came out in Texas 40 years ago has migrated to Pennsylvania and now everyone thinks that a free roaming deer is theirs and greed has taken over and paid hunts and lease ground is the norm.

What started out in the purest sense as a sport which could be enjoyed by everyone has turned into a obsession where everyone thinks that they have to know everything and they want to see everything that comes on their property.

If you didn't want someone to steal your camera, you would have put it 12 feet up into the tree where most people couldn't reach it.

As I have said in one of my previous posts, I don't need all that technology to shoot one little stupid deer. I would rather sit on a stump and hunt like the Indians did 300 years ago. If I get a deer, all is well, if I don't, then I suck as a hunter and I need to find a new place to hunt!

I don't know when all this bragging started or why people are so obsessed with deer and antlers and the number of points. I would rather shoot 3 button bucks and have edible meat in the freezer then shoot a 23 point buck and then have everyone and his brother hounding me for directions to where my deer stand is at and asking for permission to hunt on my property.

Just because you got one deer there, doesn't mean there will be more. Every once in a blue moon, one gets lost and ends up in my sights. I cannot say for sure that he lived there all of his life or that he just chased some does the wrong way and he ended up under my stand.

I would take the loss of a deer camera pretty hard if I owned one. Especially since I have not had a income in the last 3 years. But I would never spend good money on something that does nothing but take pictures of silly old deer. Maybe someone thought that it was some type of security camera and that you were watching to see who went on your property. Maybe they didn't want to get caught and the easiest way for them to sneak on your property was to get rid of the trail camera.

Maybe they sold it for dope money, or maybe they kept it for themselves.

If I had a camera, I would paint and scribe my name all over it. Make sure that no one could steal it or sell it or use it without being caught.

I am a honest person, but I would be really tempted to steal a camera if I found it on State Game Lands. Finders Keepers - is what the police said to me when someone stole my wallet in a grocery store one day. If it lands on the floor and someone picks it up - they didn't steal it, they found it.

Before my wallet was stolen with all my identification and all the money I had in the world, I wouldn't even think of stealing someone else's property. But since it has been stolen, I see the world in different eye's.

My bible in the New Testament says - Do unto others as you would have done to you. But in the old Testament it says - A Eye for a Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth!

If you knew the story of my life and how I came from nothing and am fortunate enough not to be a homeless person right now, you wouldn't even care about the loss of a trail camera, compared to all the set backs I have endured.

The loss of my sight, the loss of my hearing, the loss of my good health, the loss of my ability to go to work and earn a living and the disability not being bad enough to collect Social Security Disability or Public Assistance.

If it was not for the food pantry, I wouldn't even be able to eat more then the most basic foods, which is all I buy in the stores. Day old bread, milk, egg's, butter, and a special treat of cookies or jelly or potato chips is all the more that is on my weekly grocery list.

When you have no money coming in, you learn to do without.

In the grand scheme of things, what is it going to matter in 100 years - who stole your trail cam or what happened to it.

Just be glad that you have a job and a home and a family that cares about you and food on the table and money in your pocket and your good health.

There are a lot of people in this world, and even in your neighborhood that does not have it as good as you do!

Take the couple hundred dollars you spent on the camera and put it in the Salvation Army bucket and see how much good a couple hundred dollars can do to change the lives of someone who has nothing and quit worrying about how many deer are on your property or if someone is trespassing.

I have nothing, yet I am willing to share what little I have with everyone around me and I give from the heart and not from my surplus - like what you read in the bible from the story of the Widow's Mite. Read that story sometime - along with the Book of Ruth and maybe it will change your life as it did mine - when I was a homeless person and had absolutely nothing.

Store your treasures in heaven, there no thief can steal, nor fire destroy.

All this information is coming from a person that isn't even religious... If there is a god in this world, the person that stole your camera will get his in the end. If this is all there is to life and if when we die, we are nothing more then something for the worms to eat, then I guess I ought to be out robbing and stealing to get what I don't have - just like everyone else is doing. Stepping all over the little people, trying to be a big shot. Screwing everyone along the way, thinking that they are getting ahead - when all the time they are putting blemishes on their immortal soul - with no hope of ever getting into heaven.

God has my faith...someone stole my trail cam.

I have been living here 13 years and no one has ever stole anything from my yard. I have had a few different cams back there for over 10 years and no one has ever stole it. We have taken OVER 25 deer from the woods behind our home. We know deer are there, but we want to know the quality of the bucks, and I have the luxury of doing that. I am entitled to do that. I work for what I have and no one has the right to interfere with how I live as long it does not bother anyone else. Your take on things are NOT as simple as you present.

Sure there are things to be grateful for and on a larger scale, this will not matter in a hundred years. You are right about that. But I will not stop living because there are things others cannot do that I can. I am fortunate enough to have what I have because I earned them. I am sorry for your situation and I will send prayers your way, but don't criticize the way I and others prep for our hunts and they way we hunt.

This post is not about you.

[jesse8953]

How to answer this post without inflaming someone.

Back in the day, when hunting was nothing more then a old pair of camo clothes - bought at the Army and Navy surplus store and a 30/06 rifle and a box of Remington Core lockt ammo. All a man had to do to hunt deer was take a couple of 2 x 4's out in the woods and nail them to a tree and make a small platform and nail some boards to the tree for steps and you thought you were set for life.

We didn't need any trail cam's, Mossy Oak camo clothes, a bow that cost more then our rifle or a $35,000 pick up truck to haul it home in.

Now a days, people have too much free money lying around and nothing to spend it on and they feel the need to spend all kinds of money on such non sense as trail cams.

The Posted signs, which first came out in Texas 40 years ago has migrated to Pennsylvania and now everyone thinks that a free roaming deer is theirs and greed has taken over and paid hunts and lease ground is the norm.

What started out in the purest sense as a sport which could be enjoyed by everyone has turned into a obsession where everyone thinks that they have to know everything and they want to see everything that comes on their property.

If you didn't want someone to steal your camera, you would have put it 12 feet up into the tree where most people couldn't reach it.

As I have said in one of my previous posts, I don't need all that technology to shoot one little stupid deer. I would rather sit on a stump and hunt like the Indians did 300 years ago. If I get a deer, all is well, if I don't, then I suck as a hunter and I need to find a new place to hunt!

I don't know when all this bragging started or why people are so obsessed with deer and antlers and the number of points. I would rather shoot 3 button bucks and have edible meat in the freezer then shoot a 23 point buck and then have everyone and his brother hounding me for directions to where my deer stand is at and asking for permission to hunt on my property.

Just because you got one deer there, doesn't mean there will be more. Every once in a blue moon, one gets lost and ends up in my sights. I cannot say for sure that he lived there all of his life or that he just chased some does the wrong way and he ended up under my stand.

I would take the loss of a deer camera pretty hard if I owned one. Especially since I have not had a income in the last 3 years. But I would never spend good money on something that does nothing but take pictures of silly old deer. Maybe someone thought that it was some type of security camera and that you were watching to see who went on your property. Maybe they didn't want to get caught and the easiest way for them to sneak on your property was to get rid of the trail camera.

Maybe they sold it for dope money, or maybe they kept it for themselves.

If I had a camera, I would paint and scribe my name all over it. Make sure that no one could steal it or sell it or use it without being caught.

I am a honest person, but I would be really tempted to steal a camera if I found it on State Game Lands. Finders Keepers - is what the police said to me when someone stole my wallet in a grocery store one day. If it lands on the floor and someone picks it up - they didn't steal it, they found it.

Before my wallet was stolen with all my identification and all the money I had in the world, I wouldn't even think of stealing someone else's property. But since it has been stolen, I see the world in different eye's.

My bible in the New Testament says - Do unto others as you would have done to you. But in the old Testament it says - A Eye for a Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth!

If you knew the story of my life and how I came from nothing and am fortunate enough not to be a homeless person right now, you wouldn't even care about the loss of a trail camera, compared to all the set backs I have endured.

The loss of my sight, the loss of my hearing, the loss of my good health, the loss of my ability to go to work and earn a living and the disability not being bad enough to collect Social Security Disability or Public Assistance.

If it was not for the food pantry, I wouldn't even be able to eat more then the most basic foods, which is all I buy in the stores. Day old bread, milk, egg's, butter, and a special treat of cookies or jelly or potato chips is all the more that is on my weekly grocery list.

When you have no money coming in, you learn to do without.

In the grand scheme of things, what is it going to matter in 100 years - who stole your trail cam or what happened to it.

Just be glad that you have a job and a home and a family that cares about you and food on the table and money in your pocket and your good health.

There are a lot of people in this world, and even in your neighborhood that does not have it as good as you do!

Take the couple hundred dollars you spent on the camera and put it in the Salvation Army bucket and see how much good a couple hundred dollars can do to change the lives of someone who has nothing and quit worrying about how many deer are on your property or if someone is trespassing.

I have nothing, yet I am willing to share what little I have with everyone around me and I give from the heart and not from my surplus - like what you read in the bible from the story of the Widow's Mite. Read that story sometime - along with the Book of Ruth and maybe it will change your life as it did mine - when I was a homeless person and had absolutely nothing.

Store your treasures in heaven, there no thief can steal, nor fire destroy.

All this information is coming from a person that isn't even religious... If there is a god in this world, the person that stole your camera will get his in the end. If this is all there is to life and if when we die, we are nothing more then something for the worms to eat, then I guess I ought to be out robbing and stealing to get what I don't have - just like everyone else is doing. Stepping all over the little people, trying to be a big shot. Screwing everyone along the way, thinking that they are getting ahead - when all the time they are putting blemishes on their immortal soul - with no hope of ever getting into heaven.

:offtopic:This is not about you and your life.It is about a honest person wanting to rant a little about a theif.Make your own thread about what you believe in. You stated "I am a honest person, but I would be really tempted to steal a camera if I found it on State Game Lands. Honest people don't think like that and it was not on state hunting land it was on private property. Edited December 15, 2009 by jesse8953

[wtnhunt]

How to answer this post without inflaming someone.

Back in the day, when hunting was nothing more then a old pair of camo clothes - bought at the Army and Navy surplus store and a 30/06 rifle and a box of Remington Core lockt ammo. All a man had to do to hunt deer was take a couple of 2 x 4's out in the woods and nail them to a tree and make a small platform and nail some boards to the tree for steps and you thought you were set for life.

We didn't need any trail cam's, Mossy Oak camo clothes, a bow that cost more then our rifle or a $35,000 pick up truck to haul it home in.

Now a days, people have too much free money lying around and nothing to spend it on and they feel the need to spend all kinds of money on such non sense as trail cams.

The Posted signs, which first came out in Texas 40 years ago has migrated to Pennsylvania and now everyone thinks that a free roaming deer is theirs and greed has taken over and paid hunts and lease ground is the norm.

What started out in the purest sense as a sport which could be enjoyed by everyone has turned into a obsession where everyone thinks that they have to know everything and they want to see everything that comes on their property.

If you didn't want someone to steal your camera, you would have put it 12 feet up into the tree where most people couldn't reach it.

As I have said in one of my previous posts, I don't need all that technology to shoot one little stupid deer. I would rather sit on a stump and hunt like the Indians did 300 years ago. If I get a deer, all is well, if I don't, then I suck as a hunter and I need to find a new place to hunt!

I don't know when all this bragging started or why people are so obsessed with deer and antlers and the number of points. I would rather shoot 3 button bucks and have edible meat in the freezer then shoot a 23 point buck and then have everyone and his brother hounding me for directions to where my deer stand is at and asking for permission to hunt on my property.

Just because you got one deer there, doesn't mean there will be more. Every once in a blue moon, one gets lost and ends up in my sights. I cannot say for sure that he lived there all of his life or that he just chased some does the wrong way and he ended up under my stand.

I would take the loss of a deer camera pretty hard if I owned one. Especially since I have not had a income in the last 3 years. But I would never spend good money on something that does nothing but take pictures of silly old deer. Maybe someone thought that it was some type of security camera and that you were watching to see who went on your property. Maybe they didn't want to get caught and the easiest way for them to sneak on your property was to get rid of the trail camera.

Maybe they sold it for dope money, or maybe they kept it for themselves.

If I had a camera, I would paint and scribe my name all over it. Make sure that no one could steal it or sell it or use it without being caught.

I am a honest person, but I would be really tempted to steal a camera if I found it on State Game Lands. Finders Keepers - is what the police said to me when someone stole my wallet in a grocery store one day. If it lands on the floor and someone picks it up - they didn't steal it, they found it.

Before my wallet was stolen with all my identification and all the money I had in the world, I wouldn't even think of stealing someone else's property. But since it has been stolen, I see the world in different eye's.

My bible in the New Testament says - Do unto others as you would have done to you. But in the old Testament it says - A Eye for a Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth!

If you knew the story of my life and how I came from nothing and am fortunate enough not to be a homeless person right now, you wouldn't even care about the loss of a trail camera, compared to all the set backs I have endured.

The loss of my sight, the loss of my hearing, the loss of my good health, the loss of my ability to go to work and earn a living and the disability not being bad enough to collect Social Security Disability or Public Assistance.

If it was not for the food pantry, I wouldn't even be able to eat more then the most basic foods, which is all I buy in the stores. Day old bread, milk, egg's, butter, and a special treat of cookies or jelly or potato chips is all the more that is on my weekly grocery list.

When you have no money coming in, you learn to do without.

In the grand scheme of things, what is it going to matter in 100 years - who stole your trail cam or what happened to it.

Just be glad that you have a job and a home and a family that cares about you and food on the table and money in your pocket and your good health.

There are a lot of people in this world, and even in your neighborhood that does not have it as good as you do!

Take the couple hundred dollars you spent on the camera and put it in the Salvation Army bucket and see how much good a couple hundred dollars can do to change the lives of someone who has nothing and quit worrying about how many deer are on your property or if someone is trespassing.

I have nothing, yet I am willing to share what little I have with everyone around me and I give from the heart and not from my surplus - like what you read in the bible from the story of the Widow's Mite. Read that story sometime - along with the Book of Ruth and maybe it will change your life as it did mine - when I was a homeless person and had absolutely nothing.

Store your treasures in heaven, there no thief can steal, nor fire destroy.

All this information is coming from a person that isn't even religious... If there is a god in this world, the person that stole your camera will get his in the end. If this is all there is to life and if when we die, we are nothing more then something for the worms to eat, then I guess I ought to be out robbing and stealing to get what I don't have - just like everyone else is doing. Stepping all over the little people, trying to be a big shot. Screwing everyone along the way, thinking that they are getting ahead - when all the time they are putting blemishes on their immortal soul - with no hope of ever getting into heaven.

All this because you don't agree with using trail cams? That has to be the longest argumentative post that I think I can remember ever reading on use of trail cams. Too bad about your situation, but think those who use trail cams would agree that they are a fun and useful tool.

God has my faith...someone stole my trail cam.

I have been living here 13 years and no one has ever stole anything from my yard. I have had a few different cams back there for over 10 years and no one has ever stole it. We have taken OVER 25 deer from the woods behind our home. We know deer are there, but we want to know the quality of the bucks, and I have the luxury of doing that. I am entitled to do that. I work for what I have and no one has the right to interfere with how I live as long it does not bother anyone else. Your take on things are NOT as simple as you present.

Sure there are things to be grateful for and on a larger scale, this will not matter in a hundred years. You are right about that. But I will not stop living because there are things others cannot do that I can. I am fortunate enough to have what I have because I earned them. I am sorry for your situation and I will send prayers your way, but don't criticize the way I and others prep for our hunts and they way we hunt.

This post is not about you.

Well said Anthony.

[Mooresville Rocket]

God has my faith...someone stole my trail cam.

I have been living here 13 years and no one has ever stole anything from my yard. I have had a few different cams back there for over 10 years and no one has ever stole it. We have taken OVER 25 deer from the woods behind our home. We know deer are there, but we want to know the quality of the bucks, and I have the luxury of doing that. I am entitled to do that. I work for what I have and no one has the right to interfere with how I live as long it does not bother anyone else. Your take on things are NOT as simple as you present.

Sure there are things to be grateful for and on a larger scale, this will not matter in a hundred years. You are right about that. But I will not stop living because there are things others cannot do that I can. I am fortunate enough to have what I have because I earned them. I am sorry for your situation and I will send prayers your way, but don't criticize the way I and others prep for our hunts and they way we hunt.

This post is not about you.

How did you earn them?

If you want a model for a self made man, you can look at me. I practically came from nothing. My parents didn't even have indoor plumbing until I was 6 years old. I didn't get my first job until I was 20 years old. I walked to work every day - 3 miles each way and my occupation was a delivery driver. I managed to save $1000 in 4 months making $3 a hour at my job, and that was how I earned the money to buy my first vehicle and be able to go out further into the world and find better employment. I also used that vehicle as a home when I was homeless for a year!

My guess is your mom and dad was rich and gave you everything. Your first job was due to having connections, a good family name and mom and dad giving you the family vehicle to get to and from work, and you might even have a education which your parents or the government sponsored you.

You didn't earn it - it was given to you and you are too blind to realize that without god on your side and the luck of the Irish that you were born to your family and not mine - you could very well be in my situation.

When you loose your house, your car, your girlfriend, your 6 year old daughter and your job and your health and your savings, your dog's - all in a span of 10 years, then you will know what suffering is all about.

I quite literally have nothing and yet there are people who would like to be like me and other people who has more then me, that blows all their money and then comes to me for a loan when times gets tough.

What I am telling you is from years of experience, and for some reason - you just don't see the big picture.

I had 4 dogs stole out of my yard. They were all hunting dogs, two Beagles and two Springer Spaniels. People knew my routine and when I was home and when I was not and when I was awake and when I was asleep and they came when I was not watching and took what was mine.

I had nothing, and yet someone wanted what little I had.

One dog was a birthday present to me and one dog was a birthday present for my 4 year old daughter. One dog was only 6 weeks old! One dog was stole out of it's pen, while I was in Church on a Saturday night at mass, not 300 feet from my back door - in a matter of 45 minutes they had my dog and was long gone.

I even offered a $1000 reward and never got my dog back.

Just be glad that it was just one of your possessions, an inanimate object and not one of your animals or your children or your wife or that they burned down your house. Wake up and smell the coffee!

Edited December 15, 2009 by Mooresville Rocket

[RangerClay]

How did you earn them?

If you want a model for a self made man, you can look at me. I practically came from nothing. My parents didn't even have indoor plumbing until I was 6 years old. I didn't get my first job until I was 20 years old. I walked to work every day - 3 miles each way and my occupation was a delivery driver. I managed to save $1000 in 4 months making $3 a hour at my job.

My guess is your mom and dad was rich and gave you everything. Your first job was due to having connections and you probably even have a education which your parents or the government sponsored.

You didn't earn it - it was given to you and you are too blind to realize that without god on your side and the luck of the Irish that you were born to your family and not mine - you could very well be in my situation.

When you loose your house, your car, your girlfriend, your 6 year old daughter and your job and your health and your savings - all in a span of 10 years, you will know what suffering is all about.

I quite literally have nothing and yet there are people who would like to be like me and other people who has more then me, but blows all their money and then comes to me for a loan when times gets tough.

What I am telling you is from years of experience, and for some reason - you just don't see the big picture.

I had 4 dogs stole out of my yard. They were all hunting dogs, two Beagles and two Springer Spaniels. People knew my routine and when I was home and when I was not and when I was awake and when I was asleep and they came when I was not watching and took what was mine.

I had nothing, and yet someone wanted what little I had.

One dog was a birthday present to me and one dog was a birthday present for my 4 year old daughter. One dog was only 6 weeks old! One dog was stole out of it's pen, while I was sitting in a Roman Catholic Church on a Saturday night at mass, not 300 feet from my back door - in a matter of 45 minutes they had my dog and was long gone.

I even offered a $1000 reward and never got my dog back.

Just be glad that it was just one of your possessions, an inanimate object and not one of your animals or your children or that they burned down your house. Wake up and smell the coffee!

:bang::offtopic::ban:

[ruttinbuc]

Certainly the wrong place for a Back in the day post Mooresville Rocket. A whole lot of life has changed since those days. A thief was a thief then as he is now. No one cares about why or how you do or did things. This is about the theft of someone's personal property and your long winded post about you has nothing to do with it. All fine and good to count your blessings and give to those who need it. Everybody has a story of their life . Fortunately, most know the right time and place to tell it. Mine don't belong on this thread. Neither does yours.

Seems you are still looking back in the day to make up for your pitfalls...

[Tominator]

Certainly the wrong place for a Back in the day post Mooresville Rocket. A whole lot of life has changed since those days. A thief was a thief then as he is now. No one cares about why or how you do or did things. This is about the theft of someone's personal property and your long winded post about you has nothing to do with it. All fine and good to count your blessings and give to those who need it. Everybody has a story of their life . Fortunately, most know the right time and place to tell it. Mine don't belong on this thread. Neither does yours.

Seems you are still looking back in the day to make up for your pitfalls...

Yup.

Thump your chest a little louder Mooresville, we're all ears.

[wtnhunt]

How did you earn them?

If you want a model for a self made man, you can look at me. I practically came from nothing. My parents didn't even have indoor plumbing until I was 6 years old. I didn't get my first job until I was 20 years old. I walked to work every day - 3 miles each way and my occupation was a delivery driver. I managed to save $1000 in 4 months making $3 a hour at my job.

My guess is your mom and dad was rich and gave you everything. Your first job was due to having connections and you probably even have a education which your parents or the government sponsored.

You didn't earn it - it was given to you and you are too blind to realize that without god on your side and the luck of the Irish that you were born to your family and not mine - you could very well be in my situation.

............................................................

Wake up and smell the coffee!

You are making some very broad assumptions there and would suggest you take a step back and do just what you suggest there.

My guess is that Anthony like many others here probably worked long before he was 20 years old to EARN what he got, but that is besides the point. No one here asked for guesses about what you are assuming. This topic is about someone stealing his property, not how he has gotten to where he is or how you have gotten to where you are which by the tone of your posts is not a place that seems to be making you very happy.

[ruttinbuc]

How long have you been on the pity pot, Mooresville? :crutch:

[Dawg]

Sorry to hear about your loss Anthony. Theives are scum. I hope you can get your trail camera back.

As for the other guy..........get off your soap box, this thread isn't about you.

[buckee]

Mooresville Rocket,

In my 8 years of being on this forum, I've never heard such a narcissistic (bordering on psychopathic), me, me, me response to another man's misfortune. You don't seem to have any problem using today's technology to voice your twisted opinion of how someone should respond to a wrong done to them. Apparently we should all be poor like you because you have nothing! How dare you insinuate that Anthony or any one else for that matter hasn't worked hard and earned the things they have.

You are morally retarded if you think that "finders keepers, losers weepers" apply to anything that belongs to anyone else nevermind where it's found.

If you would like to start a thread on bitterness..... then fly at it! Just don't use someone else's bad luck to gain what.... pity??

I do feel sorry for you, but not for the reasons you stated so far.

[AaronS]

I call B.S. I think someone is enjoying stirring the pot and then sitting back and laughing about it. :hammer1:

[buckee]

I call B.S. I think someone is enjoying stirring the pot and then sitting back and laughing about it. :hammer1:

I doubt it very much. I think this person is actually serious.... which is the sad part.

[Ohiobucks]

........

One dog was a birthday present to me and one dog was a birthday present for my 4 year old daughter. One dog was only 6 weeks old! One dog was stole out of it's pen, while I was in Church on a Saturday night at mass, not 300 feet from my back door - in a matter of 45 minutes they had my dog and was long gone.

I even offered a $1000 reward and never got my dog back................

My guess is your dog had 6 weeks of your nonsense and ran away. :yes:

[Tominator]

My guess is your dog had 6 weeks of your nonsense and ran away. :yes:

LMAO

Tom's my friend.