i don't know his address but the road behind Stan Houston Equipment. it would be 14th street. and then 3 blocks west of that corner of 14th and marion. His house is between Jackie Ave and Dodge Ave.... He told me that a neighbor came over after the cops came and asked what was going on. he explained and said that a year or so ago Stan Houston had some bobcats on a trailer and they had gotten stolen. They found the trailer i believe in Iowa but not a trace of the bobcats..
Crappy deal, that’s kinda a secluded area too, no thru traffic or businesses (unless I am thinking wrong area, could you see the sleds from 12th street?) so whoever stole them most likely either drove around for something to steal until they found what they wanted….or has been down that road a few times before. I don’t like to point fingers at Law Enforcement since they have a thankless job and put their life on the line everyday….but it seems like SF police could care less about theft and vandalism. Unless you can provide identity on who stole or vandalized, you’re SOL. They will not do any investigation or questioning, they don’t even take the time to compare your details to others around town.
I have 2 guys from work that have been hit with the recent car vandalism going around town, and the help they have gotten from law enforcement is moot. This last weekend, my wife and I went to a movie, on our way home around 49th street and Sertoma when we met a white Honda CRV that threw something at our car. I quickly turned around to chase them down, after hearing about the savvy police work my co-working received. The CRV already had a 4 block head start and as I turned around a car pulled out between us and drove 25 until 41st. By the time I got on 41st he was 6 blocks ahead and knew I was coming for him. After doing 70 on 41st and getting within a few blocks they turned down some residential streets I couldn’t keep up because my car couldn’t hit the dips and low spots as fast…plus after awhile I figured it was not worth killing someone over something thrown at my car. Got home, and sure enough, they threw an egg, but to my surprise it left a huge dent and took the paint off in an egg shaped mark on the door.
I called the PD and got an officer to come by and give me a incident #, the guy was a dick and honestly spoke to me like I was wasting his time, quoting “I don’t know why you got me evolved, it just an egg, wash it off and get over it” I replied I got him involved because it f*cked up my door and if they are doing this chit all night maybe someone else will get a license plate and catch the little SOBs so they can pay for my repairs. Called just today and no one else reported an incident like that, and sure enough, got another call from the body shop with the $550 estimate to pull the dent out and repaint the door.
I was so pizzed after I got home and after the PO stopped by I couldn’t sleep and decided to take my Yukon out as a bait car and drive around the area hoping to see the little SOBs so I could take matters into my own hands. On my drive I stopped into the gas station on the corner as its my regular stop and talked to the guys working the counter and asked if any rowdy teens came in buying eggs. Sure enough, a white CRV with 4-5 high schoolers came in, being obnoxious, and loaded up on Taco Johns, Monster, and….you guessed it…EGGs. He remembered them pretty vividy because of how noisy they were, they also opened the eggs and were throwing them back and forth in the store until one of them dropped one and it broke. They left it and paid for there stuff and left. The guys also said there was a few more cars running through the wash than normal. I asked if he could pull the plates up on the security camera and he said no prob but it would have to be a manager’s decision unless law enforcement requested. I called the PD back up and told them what I found….did they follow up with it?? Of course not! I stopped in the next day to talk to the manager, but he would not pull the tapes stating company policy is to pull for PD only.
What makes it frustrating is the whole time I was doing this; the cop that stopped at my house was pulled up next to another cruiser in the Roosevelt parking lot BS’ing and were there for a good 30-40 minutes that night. The PO also stated right before telling me not to waste his time that it was a slow night and he had no other reports of “this type of thing”. All he needed to do was review the tape, get a plate number and question the kids….easy as that. But instead, he BS’ed with a friend and I’m out $550.
Sorry to high jack your thread, but it I feel this city’s PO is lacking in some areas, and this is one. I also know a guy in construction that had a trailer stolen in SF and had NO cooperation from the SFPD. He ended up finding his trailer by getting the word out with the pawn shops and friends and found about half his tools at pawn shops within a month, but because there was no follow through with the PD, he only recovered those tools…..I think you will need to take matters into your own hands on this one…GOOD LUCK.
