Missouri woman's tiny house was reported stolen, then found days later 30 miles away

[Demovictory9]

Missouri woman's tiny house was reported stolen, then found days later 30 miles away
Meghan Panu had said her tiny house on wheels was stolen over the weekend. It was found Wednesday morning.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/missouri-woman-s-tiny-house-was-reported-stolen-then-found-n949866

Home for the holidays.

A tiny house reported stolen by a Missouri woman will be returned after the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office tracked down the missing residence Wednesday morning.

Sheriff Dave Marshak said in a tweet that Meghan Panu's home, which was built on wheels, was found parked on a dirt road in a wooded area in House Springs, Missouri, about 30 miles away from where it had been nabbed in St. Louis.


Panu, of St. Louis, said in an Instagram post that she thinks the house was stolen between Friday night and Saturday morning.

She told NBC-affiliate KSDK that the owner of a building supply store in the area had let her park the house there until she could move it to a lot she had picked out. But she said that over the weekend she received a call from the store's owner that the house was gone.

So far, authorities have not identified who took the house, the sheriff told NBC News.

In a second tweet, Marshak shared some more good news for Panu saying a towing company would bring her house back to her free of charge.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[SunSeeker]

1. I hope Ives Towing gets lots of business out of this. nt

[SWBTATTReg]

2. I am glad to hear that this story came out good for the homeowner. Kudos also to the ...

towing company which is towing the home back to the owner for free. Really nice of them to do this.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. She needs to have her vet chip her house ... nt

[haele]

4. Well, find out who owns property along the road they found it on...

Someone must have seen it at the store lot parking lot, and thought since nobody was in it at the time, it was "for sale" and they needed a camp or fishing lodge more than that store or owner needed to rip people off selling it at twice or three times its worth.

For seven years, I used to have a Libertarian A-Hole neighbor who thought that way, before the cops busted him and his two teenaged boys for "finding", "borrowing" and keeping off-road or camping items that weren't locked down at their East County desert lot for camp-outs and off-road holidays back in the 1990's. And he'd occasionally rent out or sell his "free stuff" out to gang members or meth-makers who needed to hide out in the boonies to do their business. He thought it was a great way to both save money and stick it to "The Man" and a Cruel Society who was keeping him, his rather profitable small business (independent property/real estate inspector), and his family down by forcing them to pay taxes and be part of the community and "all that shit".

A good, church-going family, his kids were linked to neighborhood burglaries going back since they were 11/12 old. The family was well enough off to own their own very nicely kept newish home on an acre lot in the city along with a couple large parcels of minimally developed land out in the County, as well as having new vehicles in the driveway every other year or so, so there was no apparent reason for them to be thieving on their neighbors and local businesses.

No, their last name was not Hunter...

Haele

[Demovictory9]

7. Nice family

[MineralMan]

5. She needs some trailer hitch security hardware for that.

Really, it's too bad they didn't make the hitch A-frame of that tiny house removable for security reasons. I would have made it as a separate assembly that bolted up to the house frame to allow removal. Easy peasy.

Or at least something like this:

[Demovictory9]

6. Agrees. She needs to lock down her house