Has anybody seen one slightly used 140 year old farmhouse? Mine's missing

[Trisha_McMillan]

@bluethree

I’d be as indignant as hell if it happened to me.
Take some time and think about whether you want to pursue it.

I read this as ‘I’d be as *indigent * as hell…’ which seemed really quite appropriate.

[Count_Blucher]

Sampiro, please do the police report. On the phone, say the home was ‘broken into’. (It’s not a lie and it will get a patrol car out there w/o a lot of phone time.) Once the police respond, they’ll write up the extent of what was stolen.

“Missing: One North wall. One South wall. One East wall. One West wall. Eighteen interior walls. One staircase…”

Also, please reconsider the value of the logs stolen. Certain old-growth wood logs are no longer available for any price because outside of protected areas where logging is severely restricted, they no longer exist. There was an article a few years back about a man who made himself a millionaire raising old growth logs from the bottom of the Great Lakes for resale to developers (and no, I can’t find the link, darn it) .

Also, don’t give up if a drive-by doesn’t turn up the missing logs. Just because the Dr. might not have used them himself doesn’t mean he didn’t arrange to steal/ profit from them (and the truck/equipment rental had to be on somebody’s credit card).

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Sunspace

Dang. Missed opurtunity.

Credulity is dangerous–it makes the job of conmen and tyrants easier. We ought to disturb the credulous at every oppurtunity, and provoke them to think.

This looks like a good place for my sig.

[kifler]

I’m interested to see if your brother actually gave him permission to take the logs…

The suspense is killing me!

[saoirse]

@featherlou

I haven’t. Sod is freakin’ heavy - who steals sod?

Gang members, mostly. They’re always looking to expand their turf.

[Squink]

Sodding gang members. Cops ought to RoundUp the lot of them.

[Count_Blucher]

@Squink

Sodding gang members. Cops ought to RoundUp the lot of them.

…and their leader, Peat.

[Rhubarb]

@Count Blucher

Also, please reconsider the value of the logs stolen. Certain old-growth wood logs are no longer available for any price because outside of protected areas where logging is severely restricted, they no longer exist. There was an article a few years back about a man who made himself a millionaire raising old growth logs from the bottom of the Great Lakes for resale to developers (and no, I can’t find the link, darn it) .

Here you go. I read about it in the Wall Street Journal about 12 years ago.

[DrDeth]

@Sampiro

I mentioned this and he told me that he’d had a phone call about the logs “back around Christmas” from a doctor who wanted to buy them to build a fence around his house in the suburbs. He had gotten my brother’s name and number from a neighbor/distant-relative up there who had no idea which of us currently owned the house (and at Christmas it was still in “estate of” my father). My brother said he had given the doctor my name and number, though I’ve changed phone numbers since then so perhaps he tried to call and couldn’t. He gave me the doctor’s name.
I don’t know it’s the doctor who got the logs, he’s just the only suspect. I am MAJORLY pissed off at the notion of somebody feeling they can help themselves to something that’s in the country and abandoned, which this is far from the first time that’s happened and I’m far from the only rural landowner to have this complaint. (Christmas trees, contents of old barns, pieces of abandoned houses, you name it- people help themselves from it if it’s outside of city limits as if private property is only for inside city limits.)

I’m trying to decide on how or whether to pursue the matter. Should I call the doctor and say “Pardon me, do you have my family’s homeplace around your pool or your begonia beds by any chance?” and if he says he does then follow up with "You do? Great! Now please pay me $3000 per log!

1. Call the Police.

2. Drive by the Doc’s house and look for the logs.