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A couple of years ago some scumbags cut the lock on the utility trailer/tool box that I usually leave on job sites. They got about $7500 worth of tools and only took the expensive stuff. The Newport cops were actually pretty good about looking for prints and spent a couple hours dusting the trailer, only to determine that the slimeballs wore gloves.
I started checking craigslist and ebay, and sure enough a few days later I was pretty sure that some of the stuff was being sold by someone in Fall River MA (about 20 miles away). Their ebay listing was about 10 pages long and was filled with circular saws, compressors, pneumatic tools, etc. Way too many small expensive tools for anyone to be legitimately selling. I called the detective back and told him about the site, but they never took it any farther, maybe because it was across the state line.
I ended up getting about .50 on the dollar from my insurance co. Luckily for me all of the really expensive Festool stuff was inside the locked project at the time or I really would have been depressed. I'm sure that ebay and craigslist has made it easy for thieves to get rid of the loot.
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