HOLY CRAP!!

[REO]

Just got a call from Karen. The Tractor Trailer full of stuff belonging to Double Diamond tack was just stolen from the Tulsa show grounds! I couldn't hear the cell phone well but she said something else about 7 trailers gone?

LOCK YOUR TRAILERS and watch your stuff!

We are heading up there now with ours and you bet I'll be watching it!

 

[Marty]

Oh my word that's insane!

Sounds to me like this has been pre-planned to have happened so fast. I sure hope the cops are on this and everyone gets their trailers back. They are probably headed right to Mexico!

Be careful Robin!

 

[StarRidgeAcres]

OMG

Totally had to have been planned. The DD trailer is as obvious as can be! What ***** thinks they are going to get away with pulling that thing down the road???

What a bunch of freakin' losers!!!

 

[Miniv]

The thieves probably don't care about the trailer.........They'll just stash it some place and take all of the contents.

Not good.........

 

[cretahillsgal]

We ALWAYS have our trailer locked for this reason. Even at home in our driveway. I have friends who had a trailer stolen at the OKC State Fair. We use a hitch lock and wheel locks. As well as locks on the back and side gate. It takes me longer to get all the locks off of our trailer to hook up to it than it does to actually hook up!

 

[txminipinto]

Unfortunately, trailer theft is extremely common in Tulsa. Every year, at Nationals and Pinto World, I hear about at least one trailer being stolen. People, PLEASE get those hitch locks for your trailers! It won't always stop them, but it will make them move on to an easier victim.

 

[OhHorsePee]

Oh my! I am sorry to hear that for all concerned!! So sad!

Fran

 

[luv2ridesaddleseat]

My GOD, what is this world comming to???? I am so sick of lousy human beings.......

I pray everybody gets everything returned and the Bast***s PAY!

 

[EAD Minis]

Oh my god!!! I hear about this every year, its to bad but some people just have nothing better to do and figure its a great money grab

. Good luck every one stay safe and lock your trailers!!

 

[Nathan Luszcz]

It absolutely amazes me to see so many unlocked trailers at horse shows. At the KY state fair last weekend my roomate and I were "shopping" in the back lot... right next to the highway, little backroad with no traffic, and $100k horse trailers sitting next to the road, no locks anywhere. Please, buy hitch locks! My lock was $80 and it took me a good 45 minutes to cut off when I broke the key off in the lock, lol. Had to unlock the coupler, remove it from the trailer, drive to the hardware store, and watch as he MELTED off the steel lock. The hardened steel pin and lock assembly wasn't hurt, he had to burn off the casing. Took him 25 minutes with an acetyline torch.

Just remember, locking the hitch does ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD if you can just remove the hitch!

If you have a gooseneck you need to lock the coupler too. That lock stays on 24/7 unless you need to adjust the height of the hitch.

 

[topnotchminis]

I hope they catch the loser! I have had a trailer stolen out of my yard, and they never caught the guy.

 

[Leeana]

OH MY GOD

!!! I cannot believe that...i was just reading about theft being a big issue at Nationals, then i read this

.

Was it the tack trailer or their horse trailer? I am shocked!!

 

[bingo]

Lots of people just wait for the horse shows to come in knowing there will be easy pickings. Every year things are stolen from trailers, purses, wallets, dogs, puppies.

Remember there is more then just mini people walking around the showgrounds all day and all night.

 

[Katiean]

I keep my trailer locked even at home. I lock the hitch, both tack doors that are also the escape doors and the rear gate as I do when we are on the road (with or without horses) or at a show. I don't want a door comming open on the road as I have heard of so many times. Everyone in my family has a key so if something is missing I know who took it. I know that some people at the Reno Nor-Cal even slept in their trailers leaving them unlocked. There have been no mis-haps there such as stolen trailers but you never know. I hope they find the missing trailers.

 

[chandab]

Also, make sure you have good secure locks on your tack compartments.

I have a 1986 Circle J 2-horse with tack compartment under manger (with standard camper type locks - that's what I was told they are called). In 1998, it was broke into at the boarding facility I was at. They just stuck a screwdriver in the key hole, hit it with a hammer and the "tail" that locks the door broke off; so they were able to steal two western saddles and a large amount of other tack. My boyfriend at the time was a locksmith, so I now have a huge hasp style closure with huge paddocks on each door.

 

[Katiean]

so I now have a huge hasp style closure with huge paddocks on each door.

My trailer came with the hasp closures and padlocks and a large piece of hair pin shaped metal that has a hole in each side to put the lock on. It slips through the back door latchs and it padlocks on. I know it is not fool proof but It will take someone a bit longer to get into my trailer and hopefully they would be caught.

 

[JMS Miniatures]

OMG I can't believe that already thieving is going on. Does DD have another trailer or are they SOL?

And I was going to buy stuff from them

 

[Michelle@wescofarms]

How very sad for them.

Doesn't Tulsa have some sort of security checking people in and out? My goodness they could take off with a trailer and horses in it if no one is watching.

 

[JMS Miniatures]

How very sad for them.
Doesn't Tulsa have some sort of security checking people in and out? My goodness they could take off with a trailer and horses in it if no one is watching.

They do have security, but the fairgrounds is a big huge parking lot, they just don't have enough security.

 

[Filipowicz Farm]

Sorry to hear this is happening again this year.