A true story-
I may have told this story before so I will abbreviate it here.
My wife had a yard sale and showed pictures of some items that we owned and others of items that we were trying to purchase to an interested gentleman . She explained what we collected and that we bought/sold/traded similar items. One photo was a Mobil Oil Pegasus curb sign that had been painted over and was being used at a local business. The owner refused to sell it. That week it disappeared. I expressed my disappointment to the owner for getting rid of the sign and she told me that she had not and that she did not know what I was talking about. We walked to her driveway and looked at the spot where it had sat for 20+ years. She did not know what to say, but assured me that she had not sold it.
I went home and looked up the guy's address in the phone book(he had given my wife his card as he was a respected local antiques dealer).
We drove over to his house and the sign was in his back yard. He also had several items that had vanished at my wife's yard sale.
I phone the cops and they came and questioned the "gentleman". He stated that he had purchased it from an African American and that he did not know his name. The owner did not wish to press charges and just wanted her sign back.
My point...many thieves cloak themselves in respectability and professionalism. This cloak allows them to go unnoticed and operate right out in the open. Dave
Last edited by Catauladave; Sun Sep 29 2013 03:42 PM.
