They broke into my garage by slipping a coat hanger or something rigid with a hook on the end under the door and use that to pull down the cable that's attach to the latch to open it up. They then took it and these highly intelligent turds actually started it up right I front of the house, which is what woke me up. I heard it start, idle for a few seconds and then stall. I got out of bed grab my keys my shoes and my Rottweiler and went right to the garage, unlocked it and looked to see no go kart. They left my power tools, hand tools, mini bike frame and engine, and the other go kart frame. They even left the Yamaha kt100 and vintage brigs flat head. The race kart was singled out.
I then go inside wake my girl and tell her that we have been robbed. I did get into my car and started driving around with my spot light looking and listening for her. Nothing. Went home and called 5o to make a report. That night, Saturday March 12, I posted to FB explaining what happened and asked people to share. And that worked.
Got a message this morning from a guy who said "I know what that kart is right now."
Where was my reply. He responded asking I call him, so I did and he told me a story.
Said that a kid he knew that used to live a few houses down from him called and asked a favor. He asked if he could help him get his "new" kart home do to the rain we had last night. This guy, not knowing the background of the kart, said ok. After he did this favor is when he saw my post on FB. He called the police but they never showed up, that's when he sent me the message.
So this dude and myself drive over to where he said he dropped this kid off and I called the police and explained what was up, gave my report number from the initial report and they had a cruiser there in about an hour and a half. They got some more info from me and this dude and proceeded to knock on the door of the house and entered after a few minutes of talking at the door. They came out about 15 minutes later and started to check out another pace. That's when they found this kid and my kart.
They had me come over and confirm it was my kart and it was. Checked the serial number and the confirmed that from the initial report. They booked this kid, not a kid some 20 year old, for RSP. Not sure if this kid gave up who he got it from or if he was involved. Waiting to hear back from some detectives.
Now she is back home and secure.
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