Caught my tack box thief!!!

UPDATE.....
Went to yard at 6 pm to put some carrots in feed bin, she was washing Gray mare again!!! Apparently poor animal has had 4 neck baths since wens.... Good job weather better... There is a lovely 8 to 10 inch purple mark halfway down the neck and some in the mane. I stood there watching and feeding carrots to my horses, she was muttering away, wouldn't look me in face, I stood there for few minutes, she finally said " it's not just me that borrows your stuff you know"
I said back " well stuff started disappearing just after you came to the yard"
I told her in no uncertain terms if I ever caught her again I would be complaining to YO. And as I walked away I said " make sure you clear away after you have washed that horse to death, that spray will be there for weeks"
Her face was a picture... Mix between hatred and resignation at being caught..
I feel so so good and wicked, good job the horse don't care what it looks like. She has a dressage thing week sat... !!!!!!
 
Haha brilliant!

I did a similar thing when someone took to stealing my lunch at school - filled my sandwiches with chilli powder :p found them left with a bite missing in the playground haha needless to say it didn't happen again! :D
 
The culprit will probably avoid you like the plague if she can:D

Great idea and good to hear tha someone has actually caught someone at it.

I know how annoying light fingers can be . I am a YO and I have to disable, or lock everything. Sad eh? Tools get borrowed, I am not talking hammers etc but expensive power tools, rivets, nails etc vanish by the handful. A ladder went walkabout for a weekend, my quad has been taken without permission, my rabbit hutches have to be locked, even my MADE UP stables have been used. A very expensive compressor has been damaged by being dragged out. I am sick to death of it all.
 
Haha its even funnier knowing she's off dressaging too :D

Now we just need one of us to see a purple necked horse out & about next week ;)
 
Irishlassie said:
Oh and I've took my chalk rub home, well it's in car so she can't use that to hide purple mark when she goes to dressage next week!!!! !
Arnt I horrid!!!!
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You are sooooooooo wicked!!! :D:D:D:D

Can you imagine if anyone on here who has read this thread sees this horse out at the dressage next weekend!

Now that would be so embarrassing for her!
 
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Similar to the sandwich story I gained revenge on a thief by refilling all the sherbet straws I had with salt.... Didn't nick them again!
 
well done! That must be soooo satisfying to see!

This is why I had a big 6ft tack locker with strong lock on it. I told everyone it was for insurance reasons, it wasn't......it was for greedy yard kids!
 
Irishlassie said:
wouldn't look me in face, I stood there for few minutes, she finally said " it's not just me that borrows your stuff you know"
I said back " well stuff started disappearing just after you came to the yard"
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Cheeky cow! Deflecting the attention is hardly going to work! :mad: How would that make it better?! I hope the YO is going to have severe words!
 
Years ago I did a similar thing although I didn't hide my marking, I simply wrote my name on the bottom of a new pot of hoof balsam then when it disappeared I waited for the kids mum to come up the yard and asked her why my new balsam was in her daughters tack locker with my name on it....... slightly embarrassing turned out the kid was a kleptomaniac and had been doing it all the time with friends clothes and they only found out when mum did the washing whilst friends were round and asked why she was washing their clothes.....
 
~We had a thief on our yard who was constantly not only using stuff without permission, but also claiming that others were stealing HER stuff. She was also a pathological liar.

The funniest lie we caught her in was the time that a horse on our yard lost his fly mask in the field. His name "Ed" (name changed to protect the innocent) was written in indelible ink on it. One day, the thieving livery's pony "Bertie" (again, name changed) was wearing a fly mask with the name "Ed" on it, and someone mentioned to her that it was the other horses, and that he'd lost it the week before. She claimed that no, it was hers. When the name was pointed out on it written in magic marker, she then claimed she bought it new from the tack shop like that. REallYYY???

When she was in the middle of moving, she'd left her tack trunk open so we had a peek - and imagine the surprise that we all had when we found several items that had gone "missing" were in that box. Silly items that had other people's names on them so easily identifiable - we'd never seen her using any of these things - but she seemed to like hoarding them!
 
Another one that's worked for me in the past against the ShowSheen thieves. Dissolve a load of sugar in a little boiling water, top up with cold and fill old Show Sheen container. So instead of the silky soft tail they're hoping for - the exact opposite, a lovely sticky one. Pahaha. No harm to horse - just needs a tail wash to remove.
 
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