Basket Thieves!

[Mike Oatley]

Some ahole just stole basket #14 at Davis Forest in Brooklyn. The course isn't even open yet! If you see some questionable scrapping or selling of an innova pro, it's probably from Brooklyn.

[Rob Breckenridge]

Damn, that sucks hard, I'm sorry to hear that Mike, I am just waiting for the day that happens on our course, hope you get the sh*t heels that did this.

[Mike Oatley]

I went back to the park tonight to investigate some more because I think that the area that it was stolen from is only accessible by four wheelers and tractors. Sure enough I found the basket off in the woods a ways away from the hole. Someone put a chain on it and dragged it out of the ground, which badly bent the top, and then tossed it in the woods after dragging it for a while. Mother effin little bstrds ticked me off so I carried the thing back to the hole, cement and all, and put it back in the ground. We need to get people out on the course so that the vandals and thieves have less opportunity to strike.

[Dave Jackson]

People stink.

Walk tall and carry a big stick buddy.
Start with the biggest.

[Mike Oatley]

This evening I carried my machete.

[Jeff Wiechowski]

Another solution is MORE concrete. Make that sucker so heavy it'll take a train to move it.

[Matt DeAngelis]

Tm dyer has a good system in place to prevent this, i think it was him anyway. I think it involved putting rebar through the post, and burying with concrete. After Borderland had one basket stolen and another almost, we came in with extra concrete. Now each basket has about 300lbs of weight in addition to the metal.

[Jeff Prendergast]

So do you imagine this is a case of the basket getting in the way of the four wheelers and their fun, so they decided to move it?

Who has the proverbial "right of way" at that park?

[Mike Oatley]

No the baskets are out of the way of the trails and four wheelers are not allowed on the property anyway. No motorized vehicles allowed at all. They are definitely in the wrong on all counts.

[Jeff Prendergast]

Gotcha. That's flat out assholery on all counts. Best of luck.

[Titan_Bariloni]

Yes tm maty
I have one at my house will try to post pic later

[Karl Molitoris]

No the baskets are out of the way of the trails and four wheelers are not allowed on the property anyway. No motorized vehicles allowed at all. They are definitely in the wrong on all counts.

Not to pick on 4-wheelers, but a LOT of groups think they OWN the world and ANY other person is trespassing on THEIR turf! A lot of parents have NOT done a good job on teaching their kids to "share" .

[Rob Walker]

T.M.'s sleeves are great. They are three feet vs. the usual two feet, so you have to dig deeper and wider because of the "X" of rebar, but it is worth it.

[Matt DeAngelis]

T.M.'s sleeves are great. They are three feet vs. the usual two feet, so you have to dig deeper and wider because of the "X" of rebar, but it is worth it.

I didn't realize that they were 3 ft. I wonder if you could still use the standard sleeve and modify it with the rebar, or if you have to go custom the whole way.

[Andrew McManus]

Not to pick on 4-wheelers, but a LOT of groups think they OWN the world and ANY other person is trespassing on THEIR turf! A lot of parents have NOT done a good job on teaching their kids to "share" .

Nor have some parents bothered to find out the rules of various properties or who even owns them and then inform their kids...instead they just buy them the ORV and let them go wherever they please. Out of sight, out of mind I guess