Watch your hottub closely

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Bloomington Police Department Reports
Hot tub stolen while residents were home
$4,500 water-filled tub vanishes within 24 hours
By Audrie Garrison  | Indiana Daily Student | Tuesday, March 07, 2006

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A male resident of a house on the 600 block of South Washington Street reported Saturday that his four-person hot tub, full of water, had been stolen from his backyard, said Bloomington Police Department Detective Sgt. David Drake, reading from the police report.

The complainant said in the report that residents of the house had last seen the hot tub, which was valued at $4,500, at about midnight the night before. He said they first noticed it missing at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, and that people had been in the house the entire time. He said no one had heard or seen anyone the entire time.

Drake said there were no indications that anyone had drained the water before taking it, and officers did not find any footprints or tire marks near the hot tub's original location.

[wmccall]

Sounds like the work of a collection agency to me

[cooltoy2000]

Or aliens.

[NE-Phil]

I found the full article here: http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.php?id=34488. The article is in a student newspaper so how believable is it?
Using Google, I didn't see any other references to it.  

Phil

[Steve]

Keep an eye on the interent...Chances are it'll show up with some tin foil and a fan in the inside and be selling for $12,000. from a Mr. Gruver!

[Dr. Spa™ Ret.]

My first thought was dait and ebay........... I guess great minds think alike  

Keep an eye on the interent...Chances are it'll show up with some tin foil and a fan in the inside and be selling for $12,000. from a Mr. Gruver!

[Spiderman]

Definitely sounds like BS to me.  If someone can take my Jetsetter out of the yard, which is only around 2200lbs filled, then more power to 'em!!   A 4-person tub must be around 2 tons filled so I don't believe the story.  Maybe the owners reported it stolen so they could get a new hot tub.

[Chas]

I have one customer who I would like to have done that to. Didn't pay his balance. We had it all planned out: we were going to send him coupons for free dinner at a local place, find out the time and date he and the family would be gone, and go with five guys, the high-speed pool drainer pump and the spa dolly.

We would have had it outa there in minutes, but I sure don't think we could have been quiet enough if there was somebody home.

The flake ended up declaring bk and I'll not see the spa nor my money in this lifetime.... oh well. One in twenty years of biz isn't bad I guess.

[Han Solo]

In California they stole a truck full of Viagra. Now the police are on the lookout for a gang of hardened criminals.  

[Webini]

In California they stole a truck full of Viagra. Now the police are on the lookout for a gang of hardened criminals.  

 

[cooltoy2000]

Are thiefs that hard up in California?

[TN__HOT_TUB]

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The flake ended up declaring bk and I'll not see the spa nor my money in this lifetime.... oh well. One in twenty years of biz isn't bad I guess.

Does bankruptcy prevent you from recovering your hot tub?  I thought that was the whole purpose of securing the loan with the collateral?   Interesting.

[hottub.pool_boy]

Sounds like an inside job. We've repoed two in over twenty years. 5 gallon buckets work faster than a pump. Also had a lovely young lady buy a Prodigy. See lived with this boyfriend who was a real jerk. She moved out, we went to get the tub---he says "that's my tub." I had a copy of her invoice and said, "would you like call the COPS or should I?" He backed down.

About Chas' unpaid balance, we all make mistakes--- ONCE.


Most spa financing is an unsecured loan.