Well brother Larry, when they steal from you they've stole from me as well....
I have had thieves steal from me at my jobsites on several occasions, I always have felt so violated, but the worse was when the no good thievin (add your own expletive here folks) broke into my sons house while we were building it and stole his jacuzzi tub, all his plumbing and electrical fixtures and accessories....then YOU become more of a victim because of your deductible on your insurance....they steal from you twice.
Officers wouldn't even come to one of my jobsites, gave me the the paperwork number over the phone and said there wasn't anything they could do unless they caught them in the act....even the footprints were of no help (he said) so I said....I get it officer, what you want me to do is stay here at night with a loaded gun and take care of bizznezz huh?.....he said Oh No, we can't have any of that kind of stuff going on....
Makes NO sense to me at all, they don't want to do squat to even have a look to see what evidence might be there that would help.
Sorry to hear ole Betsy is remiss, I got some high powered flat trajectory iron with hubble telescopes mounted on top that can peck off a grasshopper at 300 yards if you'd like one on loan...in fact since I load all my own ammo, you can have a bunch of that to....jest fer practicin
Hope they catch the lowlifes....and the reason they didn't want the handplanes?...well that might look too much like work for them scoundrels.