kparker
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ATCSDav's story reminds me of what happened to an acquaintance of mine.
Scene 1: Some years ago he lived in the greater Portland area. His house was broken into and a bunch of his rifles stolen. IIRC, not much else was taken, so somehow somebody knew about his gunsafe and targeted it.
Scene 2: He files a report on the breakin.
Scene 3: He sells his house, moves to the Puget Sound area, and spends 5 or 6 years here.
Scene 4: He moves back to the Portland area, renting at first.
Scene 5: Having decided the move back is going to be a long-term thing, he buys a house.
Scene 6: Portland PD calls or mails him (I forget which) saying he needs to come pick up his rifle as it's been in their property room forever and they're just about to get rid of it.
Turns out that, sometime after Scene 3 (the move to WA) one of the stolen rifles is recovered from a pawnshop. But for some reason (and this makes sense to neither him or me) they can't seem to follow up the now-dead Portland address and find him in his new location. Maybe they just didn't try that hard. So the rifle just sits in their property room. Finally, after he once again becomes a local property owner, Portland PD is doing some kind of annual or final about-to-go-off-to-auction check, and this time his name turns up.
Morris, dude: surely you're on the same side as the rest of us!
ATCSDav's story reminds me of what happened to an acquaintance of mine.
Scene 1: Some years ago he lived in the greater Portland area. His house was broken into and a bunch of his rifles stolen. IIRC, not much else was taken, so somehow somebody knew about his gunsafe and targeted it.
Scene 2: He files a report on the breakin.
Scene 3: He sells his house, moves to the Puget Sound area, and spends 5 or 6 years here.
Scene 4: He moves back to the Portland area, renting at first.
Scene 5: Having decided the move back is going to be a long-term thing, he buys a house.
Scene 6: Portland PD calls or mails him (I forget which) saying he needs to come pick up his rifle as it's been in their property room forever and they're just about to get rid of it.
Turns out that, sometime after Scene 3 (the move to WA) one of the stolen rifles is recovered from a pawnshop. But for some reason (and this makes sense to neither him or me) they can't seem to follow up the now-dead Portland address and find him in his new location. Maybe they just didn't try that hard. So the rifle just sits in their property room. Finally, after he once again becomes a local property owner, Portland PD is doing some kind of annual or final about-to-go-off-to-auction check, and this time his name turns up.
Morris, dude: surely you're on the same side as the rest of us!
