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Originally Posted by jswirs
Not what I hear on social media. Many folks in the villages have told stories of cars being broken into, some folks have said they can't leave any garden tools out on their lawn for fear of them being taken. One story was that someone in TV was working on their lawn, left the tools out on the lawn, (not by the curb), only to find the tools missing when he came back after finishing his lunch. Just what I have read.....
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In our neighborhood it is relatively common, if you have some stuff that is still usable but you don't want to go through the rigmarole of advertising and selling it, to leave it on your lawn by the edge of the street, usually the afternoon before the garbage is picked up. Apparently there are people who drive around and look for that sort of thing. My new printer gets here on Wednesday so I plan on doing that very thing with the old one.
My thought is that thieves as a rule probably don't steal things like lawn and garden tools, though I am sure there are exceptions. Hand lawn and gardening tools aren't worth much unless you plan on using them and my thought is that thieves steal things so they DON'T have to work. Maybe the tools were seen and the assumption was made that they were left out there free for the taking.