MOBILE, Ala. — An Alabama man is accused of trying to steal stadium bleachers, authorities said.
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According to the Mobile Police Department, McClellan was pulled over at about 12:22 p.m. CST after an officer saw him dragging a set of stadium bleachers behind his car, WALA-TV reported.
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I saw that story. I am sure the bleachers were Aluminum, but I wonder how far he was planning on dragging them? A few years ago I had seven thin-walled cattle gates stolen. I tracked them through the woods to their "base camp" behind an old school bus. They had saw horses set up and a sawzall laying on the ground. I thought I was doing the right thing calling the Sheriff's office. Instead, they went down and got a few names of low-level dealers in exchange for immunity. I caught the "tweekers" out and told if I saw them down there again, they wouldn't hear the 30-.06 that removed their heads from their shoulders. I never had any more trouble although some adjacent neighbors did. It mattered not to the druggies that there were cattle behind those gates. Gates back then were around $90 apiece. Scrap iron was about $8 per hundred pounds. Their gross would have been less than $100 after they drove to the nearest scrap yard forty miles away (not to mention carrying those gates nearly a mile through the woods). Another trait of tweekers is that they will work harder at stealing than simply getting a job.
OK, and to think in my twenties I was a speed addict, yet never stole anything, tried smack and took me years to give up the weed. I love my bourbon but m trying to give that up also. Fuck it's hard.
To Spiro: Keep at it brother. You can do it! I've been clean and sober for six years and as I look back on things, I wonder why I did what I did and I enjoy life now as much as I did when I was all fucked up. Plus I did it myself without meetings etc.
I may come across as dumb, but what is a tweeker?
ReplyDeleteA methamphetamine addict. Those fuckers will steal anything and everything.
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DeleteI saw that story. I am sure the bleachers were Aluminum, but I wonder how far he was planning on dragging them?
A few years ago I had seven thin-walled cattle gates stolen. I tracked them through the woods to their "base camp" behind an old school bus. They had saw horses set up and a sawzall laying on the ground. I thought I was doing the right thing calling the Sheriff's office. Instead, they went down and got a few names of low-level dealers in exchange for immunity. I caught the "tweekers" out and told if I saw them down there again, they wouldn't hear the 30-.06 that removed their heads from their shoulders. I never had any more trouble although some adjacent neighbors did. It mattered not to the druggies that there were cattle behind those gates. Gates back then were around $90 apiece. Scrap iron was about $8 per hundred pounds. Their gross would have been less than $100 after they drove to the nearest scrap yard forty miles away (not to mention carrying those gates nearly a mile through the woods). Another trait of tweekers is that they will work harder at stealing than simply getting a job.
OK, and to think in my twenties I was a speed addict, yet never stole anything, tried smack and took me years to give up the weed. I love my bourbon but m trying to give that up also. Fuck it's hard.
DeleteProbably aluminum bleachers. Chop em up and sell them at the junk yard.
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To Spiro:
DeleteKeep at it brother. You can do it! I've been clean and sober for six years and as I look back on things, I wonder why I did what I did and I enjoy life now as much as I did when I was all fucked up. Plus I did it myself without meetings etc.
Tweeker was lucky the arresting officer wasn't in fear for it's life. Ohio Guy
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