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whitetailfanatic · 03-31-2021, 06:14 PM

Possibly 6 cars near us and maintenance guys work truck

Bowtech38 · 03-31-2021, 06:33 PM

Had our delivery truck hit few weeks ago in temple. Took dpf and the rest of the pipe. Cut all the sensor wiring cost about 8 grand to fix

whitetailfanatic · 03-31-2021, 06:35 PM

Got to be away to stop it I think electrified car alarms!

doghouse · 03-31-2021, 06:56 PM

I'm a dummy about this. What is the value? Something inside the converter? Just curious.

db@100 · 03-31-2021, 06:58 PM

Maybe a good electric fence ******* connected to the bumper?

MONSTERKEN · 03-31-2021, 07:10 PM

There is definitely something in the air, we had some people at work get hit, in broad daylight even. We have cameras (not very good ones) on our pole lights, and they got away scot free. Our new cameras will be here next week.

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Stan R · 03-31-2021, 07:13 PM

It would stop or slow way down if TEXAS made it illegal to sell them.

WHA · 03-31-2021, 07:17 PM

Had 2 stolen from Toyota trucks in our parking lot. Fortunately they weren't customers. We installed extra cameras and have a monitor behind the counter. They seem to go after the tundras.

jimmy o · 03-31-2021, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by doghouse

I'm a dummy about this. What is the value? Something inside the converter? Just curious.

DPS trooper said they make meth with them.

Calrob · 03-31-2021, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by jimmy o

DPS trooper said they make meth with them.

Guy that runs a pawn shop told me it was for whatever type of metal thats in them. Its a quick and lucrative scrap item. I have no clue, they could take mine and I'd never notice.

Strummer · 03-31-2021, 07:27 PM

They have platinum in them .

DirtyDave · 03-31-2021, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by jimmy o

DPS trooper said they make meth with them.

They are scrapping them for the precious metals inside

buckfever12 · 03-31-2021, 07:37 PM

They contain palladium and some platinum. They are stealing them to sell to scrappers for the money.

doghouse · 03-31-2021, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by DirtyDave

They are scrapping them for the precious metals inside

Googled it and this is what I found. Precious metals inside. Meth heads probably stealing them. Worth about 250 dollars per converter.

S-3 Ranch · 03-31-2021, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Stan R

It would stop or slow way down if TEXAS made it illegal to sell them.

I am not for more laws in the books, but scrappers are culpable in the cycle, it ridiculous it’s in the news every day now

SJP51 · 03-31-2021, 08:13 PM

We have enough laws. Get got stealing. Get shot dead. That's all we need.

BTLowry · 03-31-2021, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by SJP51

We have enough laws. Get got stealing. Get shot dead. That's all we need.

I would support this

Resuming public hangings would stop a lot of BS that goes on now

basskicker24 · 03-31-2021, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by jimmy o

DPS trooper said they make meth with them.

Think he meant they are Buying meth with them.

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BeerMe · 03-31-2021, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by buckfever12

They contain palladium and some platinum. They are stealing them to sell to scrappers for the money.

This. Palladium prices have shot up big time this year..

chicken fried · 03-31-2021, 10:45 PM

It’s a huge problem in the Houston area and won’t stop until the law makes it difficult to sell b

Hockley · 03-31-2021, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by SJP51

We have enough laws. Get got stealing. Get shot dead. That's all we need.

This

Kong · 03-31-2021, 11:26 PM

Thieves suck, I sold some from my past diesels this year and they averaged about $750 a truck so that’s why their jacking them. Big quick cash for a tweaker, had a tweaker looking scum try to swipe a set of 24” American Force wheels off a Ram dual a couple weeks ago, the big semi lug lugs really frustrated the poor fella, he was throwing a tantrum over not having a socket to fit the nuts LOL. It was comical yet I still feel he needed to be shot in the face,, he did take a few nut covers as a parting gift..

Leaverrite · 04-01-2021, 12:01 AM

Recent news article in Houston about it. Apparently same # cat theft this past February than all of 2020? Paint it bright colors with high temp paint? Seems like easy detective work to set up a few bait trucks and track the network of parts. Hopefully someone’s on it

https://www.khou.com/mobile/article/...e-6fe5dc3df9f3

Bro. Bill · 04-01-2021, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by SJP51

We have enough laws. Get got stealing. Get shot dead. That's all we need.

That’s what we would like to do.
We work hard every day to have something nice, and have someone who is well able to work stealing our Hard earned property.
Here’s the problem!

With all the liberal laws our lives would be ruined over killing the thief because the thief these days has more rights than you n me!!
Thanks to the liberals..
Nuff said!

DedDuk · 04-01-2021, 06:53 AM

Shame on yall for having items of value in your truck. Shame on you............

Tmag · 04-01-2021, 06:59 AM

Choot em!

M16 · 04-01-2021, 07:01 AM

Aren’t you supposed to take those in with you at night or carry it with you when you go in a store? Or is that just guns?

FLASH_OUTDOORS · 04-01-2021, 07:07 AM

I can see killing someone to save a life.

All you people saying you would kill a thief....would you really?

I feel like I wold live with guilt my entire life if I killed someone period. I could justify the guilt if I could honestly say to myself “it was their life or mine” but over a personal item???? Not sure I could justify that.

I know a very good friend of mine that took someone’s life and he was justified. He still lives with guilt about it daily.

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Drycreek3189 · 04-01-2021, 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by FLASH_OUTDOORS

I can see killing someone to save a life.

All you people saying you would kill a thief....would you really?

I feel like I wold live with guilt my entire life if I killed someone period. I could justify the guilt if I could honestly say to myself “it was their life or mine” but over a personal item???? Not sure I could justify that.

I know a very good friend of mine that took someone’s life and he was justified. He still lives with guilt about it daily.

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I would never take a life unless mine or my loved ones’ were in danger, but that’s because I don’t want to end up in jail over something that isn’t worth my life. Simple to me. I don’t give a **** about a thief’s life, but I’m not the arbiter of his punishment unless he threatens me or mine with bodily harm, then he better be quicker and better than me.

HoustonHunter94 · 04-01-2021, 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Drycreek3189

I would never take a life unless mine or my loved ones’ were in danger, but that’s because I don’t want to end up in jail over something that isn’t worth my life. Simple to me. I don’t give a **** about a thief’s life, but I’m not the arbiter of his punishment unless he threatens me or mine with bodily harm, then he better be quicker and better than me.

I’m gonna agree with this. Thieves don’t care about me or my stuff or my hard work to support my family by working for a living. I don’t feel bad when I see that one gets killed in the act of stealing someone’s stuff. I feel bad for the person that shot them knowing what they will have to go through now. I don’t care about a **** thief getting shot. I just would not because of the jail time and other BS involved with it. The guilt associated with it is way down on the list. Maybe that makes me a horrible person, I dunno.

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FVR JR · 04-01-2021, 07:51 AM

As soon as someone decides to be a thief, their life no longer has any value to me. I've worked hard for what I have, and will not accept someone taking it from me. I wouldn't shoot someone over a muffler, but not because I'd feel any guilt over taking out the trash. The legal repercussions in our "but he was a good boy" litigious society just ain't worth it. I think most on here think the same and are just disgusted at having to deal with all the human excrement we have walking around.

toledo · 04-01-2021, 08:15 AM

How are they getting them off? Seems they'd make so much noise, they'd end up busted.

DUKFVR · 04-01-2021, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by toledo

How are they getting them off? Seems they'd make so much noise, they'd end up busted.

Sawzall

SaintBlaise · 04-01-2021, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by doghouse

Googled it and this is what I found. Precious metals inside. Meth heads probably stealing them. Worth about 250 dollars per converter.

One of the guys on the lease has a tow company. A few years ago he was telling me about the tow business. I thought he said the converters were worth $1000, and the vehicle was worth $2,500-$3,500 for scrap metal.

jaime1982 · 04-01-2021, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by jimmy o

DPS trooper said they make meth with them.

Wow lol.

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sharpstick35 · 04-01-2021, 08:49 AM

lifted trucks make it too easy for them to steal

FLASH_OUTDOORS · 04-07-2021, 12:11 PM

Just came up with an idea! An alarm for your exhaust! The exhaust is grounded thru the motor and frame, but the end of the exhaust is just suspended from a rubber hanger. If you wire a siren to the end of the exhaust so that a relay will open once ground is lost, once they make one cut on the exhaust, the end from the cats back will lose ground and trigger a siren mounted under the truck. They will still get one cut on you but the chance that they hang around to finish the job is slim to none. Way easier to get a cut welded up than the entire exhaust replaced.

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wickll · 04-07-2021, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by FLASH_OUTDOORS

Just came up with an idea! An alarm for your exhaust! The exhaust is grounded thru the motor and frame, but the end of the exhaust is just suspended from a rubber hanger. If you wire a siren to the end of the exhaust so that a relay will open once ground is lost, once they make one cut on the exhaust, the end from the cats back will lose ground and trigger a siren mounted under the truck. They will still get one cut on you but the chance that they hang around to finish the job is slim to none. Way easier to get a cut welded up than the entire exhaust replaced.

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Great idea.

gumbl3 · 04-07-2021, 12:14 PM

They should value their life as much as we value our property we've worked hard for

chicken fried · 04-07-2021, 07:43 PM

These guys get $200-$400 per CAT. Some of these thieves have made over $100K selling the CATs. The bad thing in Harris County they are given low bonds because it’s a property crime. Some of them had started carrying pistols and confronting the truck owners.

Greenheadless · 04-07-2021, 07:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FLASH_OUTDOORS

Just came up with an idea! An alarm for your exhaust! The exhaust is grounded thru the motor and frame, but the end of the exhaust is just suspended from a rubber hanger. If you wire a siren to the end of the exhaust so that a relay will open once ground is lost, once they make one cut on the exhaust, the end from the cats back will lose ground and trigger a siren mounted under the truck. They will still get one cut on you but the chance that they hang around to finish the job is slim to none. Way easier to get a cut welded up than the entire exhaust replaced.

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If the cut the exhaust end first, the alarm would sound until the fully cut the cat out. By then, I think it would be too late.

bryan sandlin · 04-07-2021, 07:50 PM

the only way to stop this is with yet another law. this time a better one than normal. show proof of ownership of the vehicle, before you can sell.

kmitchl · 04-07-2021, 08:14 PM

I thought we got the copper thefts under control by requiring that the seller present a photo id that is recorded. The folks buying them are just as much of the problem as the thiefs.

gatorgrizz27 · 04-07-2021, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FVR JR

As soon as someone decides to be a thief, their life no longer has any value to me. I've worked hard for what I have, and will not accept someone taking it from me. I wouldn't shoot someone over a muffler, but not because I'd feel any guilt over taking out the trash. The legal repercussions in our "but he was a good boy" litigious society just ain't worth it. I think most on here think the same and are just disgusted at having to deal with all the human excrement we have walking around.

Pretty much. This isn’t a case of a single mom stealing food from the grocery store to feed her kids.

FLASH_OUTDOORS · 04-07-2021, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Greenheadless

If the cut the exhaust end first, the alarm would sound until the fully cut the cat out. By then, I think it would be too late.

Any cut in the exhaust period will break ground if done correctly. The only place exhaust is grounded is header. If you connect the wire I’m referring to directly behind the exhaust tip, any cut anywhere will trigger alarm. It will also rigger alarm if you cut the wire. There is a way around it but takes time and preparation. All of which these crackheads ain’t doing.

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Derrik · 04-08-2021, 08:36 AM

They hit my Tundra this weekend. Vintage Park off of 249 around 2-3 pm in a very busy parking lot. Must not be any consequences for these thieves since they are doing this in the middle of the day. May have to look into one of the under carriage plates.

breederbuck33 · 04-08-2021, 08:56 AM

A friend of mine I do business with got his stolen off his Toyota in his office parking lot. He parked just a few spots away from the front door and they hit him in broad daylight. In and out in less than 2 mins.

tps7742 · 04-08-2021, 09:22 AM

The people buying the converters aren’t any better than the low lifes stealing them.

Johnny Dangerr · 04-08-2021, 09:26 AM

Painting mine today................

S-3 Ranch · 04-08-2021, 02:36 PM

Wish the state would still let them be removed for farm exemption vehicles, as crude gets hung up when driving around the pasture and needs to be cleaned out before they catch fire

03-31-2021, 06:14 PM	#1
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03-31-2021, 06:33 PM	#2
Bowtech38 Pope & Young Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Belton	Had our delivery truck hit few weeks ago in temple. Took dpf and the rest of the pipe. Cut all the sensor wiring cost about 8 grand to fix

03-31-2021, 06:35 PM	#3
whitetailfanatic Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: USA	Got to be away to stop it I think electrified car alarms!

03-31-2021, 06:56 PM	#4
doghouse Pope & Young Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Goldthwaite Hunt In: Mills County	I'm a dummy about this. What is the value? Something inside the converter? Just curious.

03-31-2021, 06:58 PM	#5
db@100 Ten Point Join Date: Sep 2009	Maybe a good electric fence ******* connected to the bumper?

03-31-2021, 07:10 PM	#6
MONSTERKEN Ten Point Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: McKinney Hunt In: Apparently where the deer ARE NOT	There is definitely something in the air, we had some people at work get hit, in broad daylight even. We have cameras (not very good ones) on our pole lights, and they got away scot free. Our new cameras will be here next week. Sent from my SM-N976U using Tapatalk

03-31-2021, 07:13 PM	#7
Stan R Pope & Young Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Madisonville Hunt In: Madison and Colorado County	It would stop or slow way down if TEXAS made it illegal to sell them.

03-31-2021, 07:17 PM	#8
WHA Four Point Join Date: Sep 2015	Had 2 stolen from Toyota trucks in our parking lot. Fortunately they weren't customers. We installed extra cameras and have a monitor behind the counter. They seem to go after the tundras.

03-31-2021, 07:27 PM	#11
Strummer Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Edna Tx Hunt In: At Gary's place ,and the backyard	They have platinum in them .

03-31-2021, 07:37 PM	#13
buckfever12 Six Point Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Caldwell, TX Hunt In: Burleson, Milam, Robertson Counties	They contain palladium and some platinum. They are stealing them to sell to scrappers for the money.

03-31-2021, 08:13 PM	#16
SJP51 Four Point Join Date: Jan 2021 Location: Nacogdoches Hunt In: Menard, Nacogdoches, Bryan	We have enough laws. Get got stealing. Get shot dead. That's all we need.

03-31-2021, 10:45 PM	#20
chicken fried Eight Point Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: God’s country Hunt In: Anywhere I can	It’s a huge problem in the Houston area and won’t stop until the law makes it difficult to sell b

03-31-2021, 11:26 PM	#22
Kong Spike Join Date: Mar 2021 Location: Powderly Tx Hunt In: Oklahoma Texas	Thieves suck, I sold some from my past diesels this year and they averaged about $750 a truck so that’s why their jacking them. Big quick cash for a tweaker, had a tweaker looking scum try to swipe a set of 24” American Force wheels off a Ram dual a couple weeks ago, the big semi lug lugs really frustrated the poor fella, he was throwing a tantrum over not having a socket to fit the nuts LOL. It was comical yet I still feel he needed to be shot in the face,, he did take a few nut covers as a parting gift..

04-01-2021, 12:01 AM	#23
Leaverrite Six Point Join Date: May 2016 Location: Houston, Tx Hunt In: Hill Country	Recent news article in Houston about it. Apparently same # cat theft this past February than all of 2020? Paint it bright colors with high temp paint? Seems like easy detective work to set up a few bait trucks and track the network of parts. Hopefully someone’s on it https://www.khou.com/mobile/article/...e-6fe5dc3df9f3

04-01-2021, 06:53 AM	#25
DedDuk Six Point Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: Onalaska Hunt In: East and West TX	Shame on yall for having items of value in your truck. Shame on you............

04-01-2021, 06:59 AM	#26
Tmag Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Tarkington Prairie, TX Hunt In: Depends on the TPWD draw results!	Choot em!

04-01-2021, 07:01 AM	#27
M16 Pope & Young Join Date: Dec 2009 Hunt In: Colorado, LaSalle, ,Menard Counties	Aren’t you supposed to take those in with you at night or carry it with you when you go in a store? Or is that just guns?

04-01-2021, 07:07 AM	#28
FLASH_OUTDOORS Pope & Young Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Tomball Hunt In: Davy Crockett National Forest	I can see killing someone to save a life. All you people saying you would kill a thief....would you really? I feel like I wold live with guilt my entire life if I killed someone period. I could justify the guilt if I could honestly say to myself “it was their life or mine” but over a personal item???? Not sure I could justify that. I know a very good friend of mine that took someone’s life and he was justified. He still lives with guilt about it daily. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

04-01-2021, 07:51 AM	#31
FVR JR Eight Point Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Houston Hunt In: Classified	As soon as someone decides to be a thief, their life no longer has any value to me. I've worked hard for what I have, and will not accept someone taking it from me. I wouldn't shoot someone over a muffler, but not because I'd feel any guilt over taking out the trash. The legal repercussions in our "but he was a good boy" litigious society just ain't worth it. I think most on here think the same and are just disgusted at having to deal with all the human excrement we have walking around.

04-01-2021, 08:15 AM	#32
toledo Ten Point Join Date: May 2010 Location: College Station Hunt In: the road by your lease	How are they getting them off? Seems they'd make so much noise, they'd end up busted.

04-01-2021, 08:49 AM	#36
sharpstick35 Ten Point Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: odessa tx Hunt In: rocksprings tx	lifted trucks make it too easy for them to steal

04-07-2021, 12:11 PM	#37
FLASH_OUTDOORS Pope & Young Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Tomball Hunt In: Davy Crockett National Forest	Just came up with an idea! An alarm for your exhaust! The exhaust is grounded thru the motor and frame, but the end of the exhaust is just suspended from a rubber hanger. If you wire a siren to the end of the exhaust so that a relay will open once ground is lost, once they make one cut on the exhaust, the end from the cats back will lose ground and trigger a siren mounted under the truck. They will still get one cut on you but the chance that they hang around to finish the job is slim to none. Way easier to get a cut welded up than the entire exhaust replaced. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

04-07-2021, 12:14 PM	#39
gumbl3 Ten Point Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: anna Hunt In: muenster	They should value their life as much as we value our property we've worked hard for

04-07-2021, 07:43 PM	#40
chicken fried Eight Point Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: God’s country Hunt In: Anywhere I can	These guys get $200-$400 per CAT. Some of these thieves have made over $100K selling the CATs. The bad thing in Harris County they are given low bonds because it’s a property crime. Some of them had started carrying pistols and confronting the truck owners.

04-07-2021, 07:50 PM	#42
bryan sandlin Ten Point Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: northwest houston Hunt In: old u.s.m.c. camys	the only way to stop this is with yet another law. this time a better one than normal. show proof of ownership of the vehicle, before you can sell.

04-07-2021, 08:14 PM	#43
kmitchl Ten Point Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Montgomery, TX Hunt In: Eldorado	I thought we got the copper thefts under control by requiring that the seller present a photo id that is recorded. The folks buying them are just as much of the problem as the thiefs.

04-08-2021, 08:36 AM	#46
Derrik Ten Point Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Magnolia, Texas Hunt In: Zavala County	They hit my Tundra this weekend. Vintage Park off of 249 around 2-3 pm in a very busy parking lot. Must not be any consequences for these thieves since they are doing this in the middle of the day. May have to look into one of the under carriage plates.

04-08-2021, 08:56 AM	#47
breederbuck33 Ten Point Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Beaumont	A friend of mine I do business with got his stolen off his Toyota in his office parking lot. He parked just a few spots away from the front door and they hit him in broad daylight. In and out in less than 2 mins.

04-08-2021, 09:22 AM	#48
tps7742 Ten Point Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Texas Hunt In: East tx	The people buying the converters aren’t any better than the low lifes stealing them.

04-08-2021, 09:26 AM	#49
Johnny Dangerr Pope & Young Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Houston Hunt In: Killing Stuff These Days	Painting mine today................

04-08-2021, 02:36 PM	#50
S-3 Ranch Pope & Young Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: Sisterdale Hunt In: Sisterdale and el dorado , Jeff Davis, refugio/sinton , San perlita	Wish the state would still let them be removed for farm exemption vehicles, as crude gets hung up when driving around the pasture and needs to be cleaned out before they catch fire