Cannon stolen- please keep an eye out for it!!!!!!!

[mladair]

Re: Cannon stolen- please keep an eye out for it!!!!!!!

Here is a copy of the email with the "official" notice that the cannon was found...

Great News! Got this update this evening. Thanks everyone for putting out the word.
Well Boys,
We're back in business. Got an anonymous phone call from a couple of"good Samaritans" in Detroit who was really scared of finding a stolen trailer in his neighborhood with a cannon in it after watching the news today. He offered to bring it to me anonymously and he did so around 5pm today. Ole number 5 is back home minus the winch and battery and with a broken side door handle Cursory look thru the inventory in the dark is that all the important stuff is there and I will do a daylight check tomorrow. Have to go back tonight with another padlock for the tongue. Good news is Good news and thanks for all the help the Batty mates put out. Got a call from a fellow cannoneer in Richmond Va this am and he notified the entire east coast about the theft. This afternoon got a call from a fellow in Dallas Tx and he notified the entire southwest of the US. Great Lakes region was notified. What an amazing network of fellow reenactors we have. Description of No. 5 went cross country in a half day..
Thanks all,
Col. Bill

-Matt

[English Doc]

Re: Cannon stolen- please keep an eye out for it!!!!!!!

Hallo!

As a modern day aside...

Here in a large midwestern city, there is an on-going issue of scrap metal dealers, and attempts at regulation or licensing to get them to have to record and account for their purchases.

Which is wishful thinking as the very problem is that the purchasing of stolen goods is already illegal, and trying to legislate a process and paper trail
(other than in enfrocement sting operations) can be futile.

Yes, many of the scrap dealers hereabouts have horrendous records (when caught) of smelting stolen stuff that one should question.

While aluminum siding can be from a condemned or salvaged house, or cooper wiring oir plumbing, homeless men and druggies have been caught stripping it from houses with the people still inside or out of the house.

Plus, scrap dealers have been caught with the copper roofing from churches that they did not question.

And even biggies such as the giant bronze heads sawed off of statues in memorial gardens. Or, a popular one hereabouts, street man-hole covers.

I guess at the end of the day for some folks, a crucible of bronze or iron is just a profit whether it is legit or came from say a cannon.

Curt

Plus ca change...We obviously have more in common than the same (?) language. The same issues are rife on this side of the 'pond' too! - Church roofs are a favourite, followed by manhole covers from both public and private property, copper from LIVE railways, bronze public statues....

[Gary of CA]

Re: Cannon stolen- please keep an eye out for it!!!!!!!

I opened this thread and feared for the worse. Instead, I read the happy news that the cannon has been returned. Huzzah!

[Beaner]

Re: Cannon stolen- please keep an eye out for it!!!!!!!

To add to the comments on theft. I recently toured Chick and I can't tell you how many brass plates were missing from the monuments. It was easier to count the ones that were still there. Ranger stated that they were stole for their scrap value. What a shame!!!

Dave Prince