Customers anecdote

[landroverfanatic]

Thought this would amuse you arbtalkers.

 

Was working for a guy the other day who had an amusing story about his vet. Apparently the vet had some land and needed a tractor. He heard of a local farm sale with two tractors for sale. When he turned up apparently the yard had be broken into the night before and the batteries had been stolen from the tractors. He bid anyway and won one. He trailered it home and started to look it over. When he looked in the toolbox he found £20000 in cash. He rang the auction company and explained but they just said he got what he bid for so could keep it. He did some probing and found that the previous owner kept his savings in the toolbox.

 

So the scumbags stole two knackered batteries and there was £20000 cash sitting there in an unlocked toolbox. I suppose you don't expect that sort of thing in an unlocked toolbox, particularly on a tractor where tools often go walk about.

[Mark Bolam]

Thought this would amuse you arbtalkers.

 

Was working for a guy the other day who had an amusing story about his vet. Apparently the vet had some land and needed a tractor. He heard of a local farm sale with two tractors for sale. When he turned up apparently the yard had be broken into the night before and the batteries had been stolen from the tractors. He bid anyway and won one. He trailered it home and started to look it over. When he looked in the toolbox he found £20000 in cash. He rang the auction company and explained but they just said he got what he bid for so could keep it. He did some probing and found that the previous owner kept his savings in the toolbox.

 

So the scumbags stole two knackered batteries and there was £20000 cash sitting there in an unlocked toolbox. I suppose you don't expect that sort of thing in an unlocked toolbox, particularly on a tractor where tools often go walk about.

 

I'm presuming the previous owner was dead?

[MR TREEBUS]

Im sure that must be my old tractor!!

[Graham]

Never really sure how much truth there is in these anecdotes. I've heard several recently: dead farmer's friend finding much dosh under his floorboards and a recently deceased gardener to a big house stashing all his dosh in the well in his garden. I suppose most of these stories rely on us wanting to believe they're true:001_smile:

[treequip]

It's a nice story and I wish it were true but I can't immagine for a moment that there was a tractor in a farm sale and no one opend the tool box.

[kev7937]

Never really sure how much truth there is in these anecdotes. I've heard several recently: dead farmer's friend finding much dosh under his floorboards and a recently deceased gardener to a big house stashing all his dosh in the well in his garden. I suppose most of these stories rely on us wanting to believe they're true:001_smile:

 

I worked with a fella who was told he could help himself to any of the belongings of a recently deceased neighbour, after having a root around he found the guys savings about £600 I think, so rather than do the honourable thing and offer it back to the fellas kids he went down the pub and spunked the lot over the weekend

 

Scumbag in my books

 

 

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[woodland dweller]

Hi all, years ago i was friendly with a local action house who would let me take any bits of unsold furniture from house clearances, i would break it up for firewood, took an axe to a large wardrobe when an old purse dropped out stuffed full of notes about £300. As the wardrobe would of only gone to the dump i kept it. Only happend the once.

[skyhuck]

Friend of mine who was a sawing machine dealer bought a an old Singer of a young woman who was clearing her deceased fathers home.

 

He removed the machine from the treadle table to get it into his van and found an envelop stuffed with cash, he took it back to the woman (although it was technically his, as he bought it with the machine) the woman broke down in tears, they knew her father had some savings (to pay for his funeral) but had looked allover the house, but had been unable to find it.