[UPDATE 4:05 p.m.] Equipment Needed to Repair Shelter Cove Road Stolen!
Dear Residents of Shelter Cove,
It pains me to report that at some unknown time last night and/or early this morning an individual or individuals stole construction equipment from McCullough Construction at their Shelter Cove Road slide repair project location. This act is a crime against us all. If you have any potential information about this crime, please contact the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office.
Please continue to report suspicious and/or criminal activity to our Sheriff’s Office. The Garberville sub-station can be reached at 707-923-2761. The Eureka main station can be reached at 707-445-7251.
You can also make online reports at: https://humboldtgov.org/1380/Online-Reporting
Frustrated and still committed to our District and our community,
Justin R Robbins
General Manager
We have a request in for a description of the missing equipment.
UPDATE 4:05 p.m. The stolen items include two stolen Honda pumps. One was a 2″ pump, the other a 3″. There was also fall harnesses, boxes of striping paint, a Milwaukee angle drill, a spill kit, and a yellow grease bucket.
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Wld be more helpful to mention the type/make of equipment.
Hi Justin!!
When the sheriffs Dept allows known tweeker thieves to squat on property that’s not theirs this will happen, and continue to happen. Do your job. These people are not residents, there criminals.My guess is that it’s still out here, along with the people who stole it.
If the property isn’t being used then they should absolutely use itm shame on you for being a terrible person.
Sarcasm?
GOOD YOU TAKE THEM HOME WITH YOU and then you can pay to deal with all the trash when and if they leave
Amen
2″ and 3″Pumps ? Good for dope gardens.
Probably out in some out of the way plot or on Forest Service/BLM land.
🕯🌳I was thinking the same thing. And they couldn’t afford at least one security camera?🕯🐸🖖
Dope growers. Pumping water from a stream uphill to a storage tank above the garden then gravity flow back to plants..
Not with this type of pump. Doesn’t pump uphill well at all. Nice try though [Edit]
Local farmer,
These type of pumps move water just fine. Not the highest pressure, but adequate. They are centrifugal pumps.
You might be thinking of diaphragm pumps, commonly known as trash pumps, designed to move water with debris at high volumes with low head.
Hey Farmer, ever heard of the Dunning Kruger Effect?
Chuckle.
Not nice for hard working folks to show up to work and see their tools gone. Totally unfortunate, no matter how you look at it.
These are trash pumps. They don’t move water uphill well at all.
Some jealous types tried to disparage you cause they didn’t like that you outed the haters as know nothings.
Someone’s a sesquipedalian
You’re a childish moron.
2 and 3 inch pumps? That’s a lot of water under any kind of pressure. Very big farm or pulp mill. Maybe a rice field in the Valley. Wonder why two such pumps would be needed for the road. Is there that much water coming off the hill? Maybe to de-water the ditch while replacing the culvert.
We do have squads of thieves roaming our area, awaiting incarceration, entombment, or other payment for their community service.
3-in “trash pump” will displace about 400 gallons a minute, or about 72,000 in three hours, give or take capacity. These things you would not find at a pawnshop. They’re heavy for one. You use these to get rid of a lot of water in a hurry, or to fill a basin. In a hurry.
If left in the open, wasn’t this entirely predictable?
I was wondering the same thing. What were they thinking? The supply of truly evil entities in temporary human form grows all the time. Very sad.
In this day and age it’s not safe to leave any equipment unattended over night, especially in tweeked out rural Humboldt. SMH
Hope they locate it but it’s highly unlikely.
Hope they learned a lesson from this. It’s the Wild West out here, and anyone leaving valuable equipment unattended like this overnight should expect it to be stolen.
Frustrating, but true.
does it cost you more to drive yo shit home (back to the shop) or offer it up to whoever sees it
It has always been this way. At least the 45 yrs I’ve lived in these mountains. Do not leave your broken down rig over night either.
Sarcastism ‘Good Citizen’????
This is why southern Humboldt can’t have nice things; they shit on EVERYTHING that’s GOOD.
They have insurance on there equipment .
OK, that makes it just fine.
This is terrible. I’m so sorry this happened, and hope you recover your equipment
so you can start work on this important project.
Inside job?
Who leaves portable equipment like that (which is listed) in an area known for lack of LE patrol services and roaming opportuinists.
Padding the county bill?
That equipment would have all fit in the trunk of a sports car. I think calling it stolen is misleading. It was left out in the open on public property? Over night? No identification markings? Then I would say it was left by the construction crew and picked up by someone else. No crime here. But a lesson learned in common sense by the construction crew I would imagine.
My father would say “You only need to know one thing. Is it yours? If not, leave it the hell alone”.
When did it change to “I had to take it, if not somebody else would have”.
This is just an experiment in socialism. Wealth distribution at the grass roots.
More like unfettered Capitalism: profit before people, always!
The key difference is in a capitalist economy the exchange is on mutal terms: both parties agree to the arrangement. Granted that often people are bamboozled by one side but that’s their responsibility.
A socialist economy is driven by one side (government ) and it doesn’t matter if one side doesn’t agree to the terms.
Ironically we are living in a socialist state rover. Being told to stay home, drink and collect free money. Just do as your told, and everyone lives. Asleep at the wheel, just the way they want us. Revolt? No soup for you!
You ever heard of democratic socialism?
Hey sparkle, your allowed to profit too you know? It’s called free market in a free country. One has to apply risk though to get rewards. Nothing is free, not even freedom it self.
Your Father was correct certainly. But, I not ready to label the one who picked it up a criminal.
So basically they took everything that wasn’t nailed down. Scum.
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Private Pyle, if there is one thing in this world that I hate, it is an unlocked footlocker! You know that, don’t you?
Private Gomer Pyle: Sir, yes, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: If it wasn’t for dickheads like you, there wouldn’t be any thievery in this world, would there?
Shazam!
I wouldn’t leave anything like that in my front yard no less along a road. Why would easily portable equipment like that be left unattended for more than 5 minutes?
I wonder if the thieves get hurt while stealing the pumps will they sue the construction company for leaving them out?
Justin is right. This is an affront to all of us in the local communities that use this road.
I see a lot of assuming going on here. Just how is it you know this gear was left out in the open? The construction company could have had a locked shed that was broken into. Or some other scenario. Still amazed that so many of you seem to have inside info on so many posts.
They don’t need inside info when they can make an ASS of U and ME
Finders Keepers bitches
Finder keepers? Bitches? Wow dennis is it? Selling swollen property is a crime and im gunna guess u have priors.
I noticed a vehicle that seemed out.of place in the area. Later found out it was a stolen truck driven by dennis dean hicks. Now that ive been noticing i see him around redway alot always towing something.
Get career ciminals like this one out of our neighborhoods especially southern humboldt and.maybe.we.can slow the collapsing infastructure of.our community.
Signed annonymous