Thanks for the info - I will check it out.
The commentary is just so uneeded.
All I know, is some proto-typical Craigslist wierdo is posting a I4 engine from rondo for sale.
That's it.
After almost a year after my car went stolen.
Without some other hard fact this would hardly be the type of investigation the cops would entertain.
They certainly don't go out looking at every Craigslist ad that MIGHT have a VERY LOOSE connection to a certain stolen car in the next county over.
Cmon - use your head.
I'm doing basic investigatory work here.
The odds of this being THE engine from MY car are slim, very slim.
This is hardly taking the law into my own hands.
Taking the law into my own hands would be:
If I went and saw the engine
And if it was actually my engine
Then I put a gun to the back of the low life and tell him to get on his knees.
That's taking the law into my own hands.
But hardly my game plan.
Let me offer you an education on a situation that happened in real life.
I'm a life long Turbo Regal owner / collector
2 years ago, at our national event in Bowling Green, KY; someone had the balls to steal not one, but two full blown towing rigs, trucks / trailers & the Grand Nationals attached to them.
Now Bowling Green, Ky isn't a big town.
And there are basically 2 decent roads in and out.
The crime was reported within one hour of it occuring, so you would think such rigs would have been easy to spot by the KY State Police or other, roadside local yokels.
I mean it's only a dually Pickup, a 18 foot trailer holding a big black Buick Gran National x 2!!!!
But nooooooooooooo...nada...zippo
Take a report, file, nap...clock out.
the Bowling Green police dept couldn't have cared less - in spite that this event draws hundreds of peopel and injects many dollars into the local economy.
Nope - all they thought was cool was to bust people for doing a burnout.
But we have a very close, and tight knit Buick Turbo Regal community.
And within hours came in tips they were spotted on I-75 heading north.
We actually had members stationed along the highways, north south east and west.
"Taking the law into their own hands" I suppose"
Many internet posts and other things were done behind the scenes, to get the word out.
A tipster called within 5 hours reporting someone tried selling him one of the Grand Nationals, but due to the headlining of the story by the TurboBuick family, he knew it was too hot to handle.
Thru the dillgence of the regular ole guys in the group, a sting was put in place to determine the low lifes identities.
Once this was done, and only then, the Michigan State Police Auto Theft Task Force was involved, and the 4 low life perps nailed at their house in Ecorse, MI.
Seems these dirt bags went to Alabama for their dear ole mother's funeral, decided to stop by Bowling Green on the way home since one of them actually onws a 85 GN, and then boost 2 full blown racing rigs.
But it was ONLY due to the efforts of us commmon citizens that resulted in not only nailing these dirtbags, but getting one of the 2 cars back.
The truck was conveneiently dropped off at a local McDonalds within an hour of the scumbag's arrest.
If you think I'm making all this up - Google the details and you'll see the news stories
Moral of the story - the cops are generally stupid, lazy and sit on their ass filing paperwork.
This ain't tv and CSI.
It takes normal people, with above normal intelligence and motivation, to make it happen.
If that's taking the law into your own hands - then someone has to do it.
Don't be like a lamb being led to the slaughter.
