Family's Swimming Pool Stolen Including The 1,000 Gallons Of Water In It

[matcom]

<snip>

PATERSON -- Someone stole 1,000 gallons of water from Daisy Valdivia's backyard. And they didn't spill a drop.

Valdivia woke Wednesday morning to find that her family's inflatable pool, hip high and 10 feet in diameter and filled with water, was stolen from her backyard in the middle of the night. There is no evidence that the water was poured out, pumped out, evaporated or drunk.

"I've never heard of a pool being stolen, let alone one with water in it," Valdivia said.

According to Valdivia, the theft must have occurred between 1 a.m., the time her husband went to bed, and 5 a.m., the time she woke to put out the recycling.

"For them to do something that fast, that's what amazes me," she said.

Valdivia, a lifelong city resident, moved into her home on McBride Avenue just five weeks ago. She and her husband purchased the bright blue pool for their three children less than a month ago. They never expected that it would be stolen in a neighborhood Valdivia described as "a nice, quiet area."

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[Hugin]

1. "...or drunk."

Nice touch there, I thought. :)

[VenusRising]

2. Aliens.

It could only be aliens. :scared:










:P

[Hugin]

5. They had to have had a Freeze Ray...

and GIANT ICE TONGS! :tinfoilhat:

It's the only way.

:scared:

[VenusRising]

7. Not GIANT ICE TONGS!!

We're all DOOMED!! :scared::scared:

:hide:

[Hugin]

9. *screams and panics*

AAAAAAAAA1!!!!1!!



*runs around in swiming pool sized circles holding head*







:hide:

[Omphaloskepsis]

3. "Lindsay Lohan thought it was vodka."

From a comment on Digg.
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Swimming_Pool_with_1000_gallons_water_stolen_without_a_drop_spilled?t=8079938#c8079938

I thought it was funny..

[lost-in-nj]

4. This was in my paper this morning

a real WTF moment before
the coffee


lost

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Black helicopters

Quiet ones. With hooks. Or tractor beams.

[Hugin]

8. Suction cups...

Quadruple 'D'... I'm telling you. HUGH SUCTION CUPS!

[MysticalChicken]

10. What amazes me...

...is how they moved it at all, if it were still filled with water. If you've never tried to pick up a large bucket of water (I had to do this almost every day as a kid when feeding our chickens), it is incredibly heavy stuff. They wouldn't have been able to pick it up if it was an inflatable pool, and dragging it would surely have sloshed water out the sides.

[trof]

11. That only leaves the alien theory. Incredibility thirsty aliens.

They probably took the pool thinking they could get the container deposit back.

[ruiner4u]

13. Or ducks....

could have been ducks...

[Hugin]

14. OMG!!1! or... or... ALIEN DUCKS!

Good lord!

I had heard of such things, but, never for a moment did I expect THIS!



:hide:

[lost-in-nj]

15. Alien Ducks

with ICE TONGS



:scared: :scared:

this was only about 10 miles from my house!!!!!
I have a pool......


lost

[ruiner4u]

16. Your next.....

Never mind, I got screen names mixed up...

:yoiks:

[Hugin]

17. Maybe there's some kind of a Alien Duck repellent you can get...

or a very large Bug Zapper!

:hide:

[trof]

19. Alien Ducks with a Freeze-Ray

They froze their feet in the pool and then flew away with it.
Now what movie was that in...?

[Hugin]

21. No idea...

I don't watch horror movies!
















:rofl:

[trof]

22. No, I think it was in 'Fried Green Tomatos'.

[Hugin]

24. Wasn't that one of Paul Newman's first movies?

I love the part where the Tomatos roll down the main street gobbling up people and causing general mayhem.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[trof]

27. Steve McQueen...'The Blob'.

You're thinking of 'The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes'.
;-)

[Hugin]

31. They were very similar...

You have to admit. :)

[Initech]

12. How big of a truck would you need to be able to pull off THAT heist?

:wow:

[Lars39]

18. Easy peasey!

They used a Stinky Pinky truck(septic tank).

[Hugin]

20. Oh, a Honey Wagon...

Ah, interesting theory!

But, why would Alien Ducks have a Pooper Trooper?

[Lars39]

23. Screw up in Requisition.

[pitohui]

25. contractors stole it, it's already installed at somebody else's house

talk about organized crimes, they will also go to people's residences or places of business and steal the landscaping and i am talking about LARGE trees

this is not an amateur job, these contractors save big bux by stealing things like this instead of picking them up legally

imagine quoting a job where you install a pool, the trees around it, and maybe even the flowers, shrubs, and sod with NO costs except the labor

but that labor had better be well paid so they don't rat you out about business practices

i can't believe the jobs around here that require BIG industrial equipment to pull off the theft, yet somehow no one ever figures out that it's organized crime and organized efforts, my husband's boss was hit TWICE at his new location for his landscaping trees

after katrina, entire neighborhoods were stripped of their architectural details and no one can say where these items vanished to

[Deja Q]

26. Do they have the serial number of the pool?!

Do they HAVE serial numbers for pools?!

[MissB]

29. I seriously doubt it.

Damn, it would suck to have to file a claim with my insurance company for a pool that vanished. :rofl:

[Bjornsdotter]

28. It was raptured

...I thought those were to be raptured were fools....must have been a misprint, they meant pools.


Cheers

[Hugin]

30. Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

:rofl:

[texanwitch]

32. They must be sound sleepers.

I would notice someone at night stealing my water and pool.

[Beetwasher]

33. POLICE HAVE A SUSPECT!!! PICTURE RELEASED!!

[trof]

34. BUSTED!

I like the way your mind works, too.
:thumbsup: