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PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 7:56 pm    Post subject: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

Our 72 blue panel with Vespa logo was stolen from our storage garage in Hesperia some time in the last month.
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It has a vertical engine. There is no interior - bare walls. Plates are not current registered.
They also stole an 74 ASI camper, brown tow dolly, an aluminum Triton trailer, and the Red Wagon cycle camp trailer.

If seen please contact the police where ever you are and advise them. For more information email us at [email protected].
Good news is we got the double cab back.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 10:44 pm    Post subject: Re: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

Good news in getting the Double Cab back and, of course it stands to reason
the thieves also took the panel & the camper too.

So, obviously the police just did their job and most likely don't investigate
much further since they are busy with higher crimes and it kinda sucks but,
this is the way these type of cases are looked at nowadays. it's really sad.

Let's hope the assholes are caught soon.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 11:32 am    Post subject: Re: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

Let's also hope they know how to service vintage Vespa scooters too,
or this is going to get awkward.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 12:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

I'm sorry... I hope you get it back in good condition.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 2:42 pm    Post subject: Re: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

The police found our Vespa panel van last week, in pieces, a couple blocks from where it was stolen. Makes us mad they killed a perfectly good bus.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 2:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

WOW. Did they ever kill it! Real sorry to hear of that.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 3:35 pm    Post subject: Re: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

what the fuck Shocked

wow...so sorry for the loss.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:04 pm    Post subject: Re: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

I hope you can press charges, really sorry.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:42 pm    Post subject: Re: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

Shit, that is crazy that they cut it up.

What the hell...
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:55 pm    Post subject: Re: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

Wtf!? I'm speechless. What the hell is with people out there?
Sorry that happened to you and your bus.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 6:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

That is really sick, how sad
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 7:34 pm    Post subject: Re: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

Why steel the bus to cut it up like that? They didn't even part it out. Just chopped it into wired pieces, practiced spay painting, then just threw all the pieces around the yard.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 9:04 am    Post subject: Re: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

Fucking tweekers SUCK!!! Evil or Very Mad
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 10:52 am    Post subject: Re: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

That totally sucks! But lots of busses have been resurrected from less & what remains is at least solid.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 11:23 am    Post subject: Re: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

Put "Humpty Dumpty" back together again---

I would learn how to capture fingerprinting- you know the cops didn't do it.
Then - when all our privacy has eroded- you can find out who they are---

Don't ask me Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes But dig the hole first and save 20 valuable minutes down the road.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 11:43 am    Post subject: Re: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

tolstoy wrote:
Why steel the bus to cut it up like that? They didn't even part it out.


part what out? it's a panel van...not much there to part out...all of the parts are run of the mill...and the "panel only parts" are still there.

well, I dunno what I would do.....call my insurance agent and collect 30K would be a start....
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:05 pm    Post subject: Re: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

Looks like lots of good metal. Doors, Englin hatch, rear hatch etc.....

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 22, 2017 11:11 am    Post subject: Re: Stolen 74 Vespa Panel Reply with quote

Wow, who did you piss off? Sorry for the loss of your panel. That's crazy.
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