Thieves Among Us

[Hoosier]

That story was a little sketchy though!

I think two guys were arrested, and the empty safe recovered.

[TTS_JF]

It's sad that this happens, but thinking about it there are lots of times where all of our guys are gone from the trailer to watch a race. We usually park beside a couple guys who run other classes, and they try to keep an eye on things.
It sucks that you would have to do this, but it's the world we live in.

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Vchild thought had his teeth stolen until he relised he left them in the mens port a jon

[ptown]

Vchild thought had his teeth stolen until he relised he left them in the mens port a jon

Vchild or blackie using his 34th different user name. hahahaha

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Hijacking threads again I see. Smh

What you do best! Back to thread topic

[Clayton_Wetter]

Brian Gray, someone really stooped that low and put metals in your engine oil fill? I feel really bad for you, that is really upsetting to hear someone would be that despicable.

[flagone]

The Golden Isles safe thing was for real. They eventually caught the thieves and found what was left of the safe with some checks and things still in it. But the thieves had apparently used all the money for gambling. I will see if I can find the link to the story of them being caught.

[W2Racing09]

I'm ALWAYS accused by everyone of being way too cautious about most things. I live in a small, quiet town but I have security cameras around my house. I have GPS trackers for my important stuff (Trailer, Toolbox, Race Car) and after the Brian Brown situation I'm looking into Black Friday sales for wireless battery operated cameras for the trailer while at the track/in the pit area. Its sad that is what its coming to but it is what it is. We have thousands of dollars in tools and equipment left unattended in the pit area, and losing that is more than enough to cripple any low budget team.

[zach51]

When I raced, it got to a point where when I went out on the track, I had my dad (or whoever I had there) flip up the back of the trailer and lock it and the side door before he came up to watch. Quick, easy. Sad you have to do it. Tulsa shootout is one of the worst, and Chili Bowl. There is so much stuff in there. So many people, cars, parts coming and going. My trailer was broken into while at a storage facility back in 2011 and I never ran again after that, couldn't afford to replace it all. Lost all my wheels, tires, helmet, hans, parts, everything but my 2 cars which thank God were at home in my garage.

[Illtsate32]

Stealing for gain is one thing but someone must really not like you to drop washers in ur motor...

[PRCKartRacer9]

We race karts at a private club track. It costs adults $5 to get in and racers $5 to race, unlimited classes. We had a fellow Racer suffer a stroke so we did a benefit for him and someone stole all the money out of the donation box. There's one in every crowd. Even when everyone proclaims to be friends

[a25rjr]

The Golden Isles safe thing was for real. They eventually caught the thieves and found what was left of the safe with some checks and things still in it. But the thieves had apparently used all the money for gambling. I will see if I can find the link to the story of them being caught.

Most people don't know that the office was a mobile home that many family members and friends stayed in during race weekends. A lot of the track workers were family and friends. That's the fishy part, knowing someone was able to steal the whole safe without someone seeing them.

[flagone]

Actually the office was a block building that is still in place to this day. No one stayed in it. All payouts were done from this building. The safe was stolen from that block building. The thieves that took it had no tie to anyone in the office or at the track - other than they knew that it was there and that this was a big race weekend. There was no insurance collected by the Lloyds. This was a significant loss for them and they still paid everyone that weekend - including me who was working the event.

[Barbecueboy]

I'm a Frankie fan........

One of the best long weekend racing trips I ever took was to golden isles for one of the early Super Bowls.......cool place.

[a25rjr]

Actually the office was a block building that is still in place to this day. No one stayed in it. All payouts were done from this building. The safe was stolen from that block building. The thieves that took it had no tie to anyone in the office or at the track - other than they knew that it was there and that this was a big race weekend. There was no insurance collected by the Lloyds. This was a significant loss for them and they still paid everyone that weekend - including me who was working the event.

Take it from someone that is owed several thousand dollars from them. No disrespect to you or them, but they aren't squeaky clean.