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To: DUMBGRUNT
In 1974 the steel processing company my dad ran had a fire from a neighboring structure. That occurred on a Friday night. Saturday afternoon me and my dad went to see the damage to the equipment and begin contacting millwrights, electricians, and vendors, to keep operational.

When we pulled up there were three flatbed semi's, a crane, and several cop cars, which chastised us for trying to gain access. The cops were actually removing the cold drawing machines, lathes, shearing tables, punch press, etc....

My dad announced he was the General Manager of the mill and they needed to put it all back immediately. The cops refused and said they were doing so at the request of the insurance company.

My dad got out the Polaroid and began snapping pictures of officers, tag numbers, and equipment on the trucks.

My dad called the state police who showed up an hour or so later. The machines were just lifted off the trucks and left out in the parking lot. The local and state police refused to act on any of the attempted theft.

Never-ever trust the police. There may be good ones, yes, but they can't have any effect on the bad ones to do any good.

11 posted on 05/30/2023 9:52:16 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: blackdog

—”The cops were actually removing the cold drawing machines, lathes, shearing tables, punch press, etc....”

Not that bad but almost felt like it!

Pulled up in the morning and cops everywhere???
Many tire tracks in the snow on the parking lot.

The building has kind of sort of 24 hr people at the front desk, I had a key but would wave and they would buzz me in for off-hours... But not over Christmas.

There had been talk of small items missing and many would bring their laptop home with them or hide them in the old building

I had a brand new Carhartt Arctic Suit hanging on the wall for extreme weather going home.
It was gone when I got there... but later was on the police report, but DISAPPEARED FROM THE POLICE LOCK UP!!!

CHICAGO!


12 posted on 05/30/2023 10:25:58 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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To: blackdog

The least corrupt place in human activity should be among the police themselves, everyone around them, above them, below them, sitting beside them in the car, and standing beside them on-site during work, the friends they socialize with and who are visiting each other’s homes and know each other’s lifestyles and personal lives and see each other drunk, it is all ‘police’, you are living in a police world, yet corruption and breaking laws, and bad behavior are routine and almost normal.

If they wanted to not allow it, they wouldn’t, the cops run themselves and this is what they want.


13 posted on 05/30/2023 10:31:20 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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