Miller Park lot thieves

[gypcasino]

Can't just walk off with a full sized grill.

I would've thought the same thing about 7 coolers too. You could easily get away with anything anybody leaves out if you have a waiting vehicle to put it into.

[Schlitz001]

This thread make me think of Trailer Park Boys.? Clip is NSFW!!

 

[BrewerAddiction]

I too was the victim of a stolen little weber grill this year. Usually only use it a few times a year so it was in a good shape. Obviously they aren't too costly, just annoyed me more than anything. I can't imagine anyone stealing one to use and keep for themselves, so I assumed it was some drunken idiot thinking he was funny.

[BrewersSuperCollector]

We had our little Weber grill stolen after todays playoff game. We were parked in the Molitor lot.

[tristarscoop]

I buy the small portable grill from Walmart. It used to be $9.84. This year I think it was $12. Either way, it's cheap and we use it to tailgate probably 10 times a season. That way if it disappears, it's easy to replace. It also has a locking lid and legs that fold in, meaning it fits in the car much easier. I personally love this grill - the little details make it so nice and the cheap price is just a bonus. I would never buy another, more expensive grill. We've gone through like 3 of these over the years - we're huge fans.

 

I HATE the FlameDisc. We also got some free in the parking lot a year or two ago and every one of them was a dud. We even bought one or two more from the store with the coupon to give it another chance. We could never get them to fully light, so our food didn't cook. They were such a waste and left us without food. We will never use them again. Just my two cents.

[NeedMoreFans]

I have found that if you use charcoal, the grills cool off pretty quickly after you dump the coals...maybe 20 minutes or so and it's cool to the touch. Just make sure you dump the coals right after you are done cooking, and it will be cool enough to put in your car before you leave to the game.

[mtrebs]

I have found that if you use charcoal, the grills cool off pretty quickly after you dump the coals...maybe 20 minutes or so and it's cool to the touch. Just make sure you dump the coals right after you are done cooking, and it will be cool enough to put in your car before you leave to the game.

 

 

This is what we do as well. I don't want to tempt the drunks or thieves to damage or steal our grill.

[Mike2k33]

With a little mini Weber you don't even need to wait 20 minutes. Yesterday I had the grill in my car maybe 5 minutes after dumping the coals. The bottom of the grill was warm to the touch but not hot. I don't get why people leave their small grills out in the open.

[RightFieldCoder]

Because we don't get why someone would steal a small grill.

[Mike2k33]

Because we don't get why someone would steal a small grill.

 

 

Doesn't matter if you don't get it. People suck. I don't trust hundreds of random people, some of which are loaded, walking past my car with any of my belongings out in the open. I just think that's, unfortunately, common sense now-a-days.

[gbpdc]

"Bunch of savages in this town"

[pitchleague]

anybody that's have their grill stolen . . . have you looked in some of the near by trash bins/coal bins to see if they dumped it in there? Is it possible that maybe security goes around with their carts and collects them up as "trash"?

 

Just wondering . . . maybe you've already thought of this stuff.

[RockCoCougars]

I just don't understand who would steal a used Smokey Joe/hibachi. Is there any kind of a black market for them in the secondhand variety? Maybe there are smack heads taking these to get a few bits at the recycling center or something. Doesn't seem worth the effort to me.

[tristarscoop]

I don't think it has to be smack heads.

 

There are always people in the lot collecting cans to turn in - it would make sense that turning in grills makes you a lot more money and is less time-consuming and messy.

[RockCoCougars]

I would think that a grill would be cumbersome and very messy. What would it bring you at the recycling center- 87 cents? Perhaps the people who are so tough about clearing the lots after the game should be more stringent in patrolling the lots during the game. Why do they allow derelicts to collect cans and young scam artists to sell candy and other crap for 'charity'? You'd think it would be much easier to crack down on things like that when the game is going on.

[Mike2k33]

I think he's just trolling us now, folks.

 

"Young scam artists"? That's a bit too rich, methinks.

[logan82]

I don't think it has to be smack heads.

 

There are always people in the lot collecting cans to turn in - it would make sense that turning in grills makes you a lot more money and is less time-consuming and messy.

or just drunk people walking back to their car and they pick it up.

 

There really is no effort involved. Just like if somebody left their sweatshirt or jersey laying on the hood of their car when they went into the game. Somebody could just walk by, throw it over their shoulder and keep walking. You shouldn't have to lock up anything but the larger group you get the bigger chance you get one drunk person who will make a bad decision.

[RockCoCougars]

I think he's just trolling us now, folks.

 

"Young scam artists"? That's a bit too rich, methinks.

I take it that you've never gotten the hard sell from a kid selling a $4 box of candy for 'basketball'. I suppose that we should just gladly pay that as well, because the Brewers are in the playoffs.

[PKBadger]

I think he's just trolling us now, folks.

 

"Young scam artists"? That's a bit too rich, methinks.

I take it that you've never gotten the hard sell from a kid selling a $4 box of candy for 'basketball'. I suppose that we should just gladly pay that as well, because the Brewers are in the playoffs.

 

If you don't want the candy, tell the kid to take a hike. Problem solved.

[RockCoCougars]

I think he's just trolling us now, folks.

 

"Young scam artists"? That's a bit too rich, methinks.

I take it that you've never gotten the hard sell from a kid selling a $4 box of candy for 'basketball'. I suppose that we should just gladly pay that as well, because the Brewers are in the playoffs.

 

If you don't want the candy, tell the kid to take a hike. Problem solved.

As I do. I was just clarifying my comments after being called a 'troll'.

[Mike2k33]

I take it that you've never gotten the hard sell from a kid selling a $4 box of candy for 'basketball'. I suppose that we should just gladly pay that as well, because the Brewers are in the playoffs.

 

If you don't want the candy, tell the kid to take a hike. Problem solved.

As I do. I was just clarifying my comments after being called a 'troll'.

 

 

No, i dont buy the candy either and I'm not suggesting you should buy anything. I just think you're being a bit harsh on children doing a fundraiser that allows them to go someplace. Your post made it seem like they just lie and swindle people out of money, which i have never seen personally. There have always been kids and adults walking around the lots selling candy or giving away stupid stickers and such. This is nothing new.

 

I just thought the "young scam artists" bit was funny. Unintentionally so, but still...

[RockCoCougars]

No, i dont buy the candy either and I'm not suggesting you should buy anything. I just think you're being a bit harsh on children doing a fundraiser that allows them to go someplace. Your post made it seem like they just lie and swindle people out of money, which i have never seen personally. There have always been kids and adults walking around the lots selling candy or giving away stupid stickers and such. This is nothing new. I just thought the "young scam artists" bit was funny. Unintentionally so, but still...

 

No hard feelings. Just wanted to clarify. Back in the day, where I lived, a few people were busted for fraudulent candy selling deals, so I assume they all are at this point because the MO is pretty similar to what I've seen at Miller Park. I remember kids coming up to me literally at bar time selling candy. That was very disconcerting.

[MJLiverock]

It isn't just back in the day that kids were used to scam money from donors. I know every year a group of kids goes door to door in our neighborhood trying to raise money for some inner city church group. The kids are usually in pairs and I see them all over the neighborhood walking with their clipboards and stack of receipts for you tax deductible donation. I've probably given them $10 a couple times over the years.

 

Turns out the Milwaukee Restoration Church is a scam. http://host.madison.com/c...0-b4e4-001cc4c002e0.html

 

As far as the thieves being smack head stealing the grills for scrap I wouldn't doubt it a bit. My brother is a contractor and ends up with a lot of scrap from demo work which he sells by the truck load. He said if you really want to see some messed up people go to the salvage yard where they buy the metal. He said there are some pretty strung out people there selling $5 and $10 worth of stuff and they all stare at his truck load of $1000 or more of scrap like a pack of starving dogs just waiting for a piece to fall off. He said the yard usually lets him pull in behind a fenced area because the truck would be scavenged and stripped by the time he got out and went inside the office.

[Patrick425]

What's more bothersome to me is the people that try to get you to enter the free "drawing" as you enter the stadium. They were actually inside the doors at one point, but later this year I noticed that they were outside. This is actually pretty much a 'scam'. Same scam as the free car drawing that you sometimes see in shopping malls. After filling it out, you will get a call from someone telling you that you won a vacation to someplace warm (as long as you are willing to go sit in on their heavy handed time share sale when you are there). I'm not sure there ever is an actual drawing for a car and if there is it's probably once a year from hundreds of millions of entries from all over the country, and in order to get the car you probably have to sit in on a time share sales meeting.

[tristarscoop]

Those drawing folks are MP are PUSHY, too. You're right that at least MP made them move outside. They used to cram into the area just inside the turnstiles and thrust their entry form at you as you tried to pass and get into the stadium. Because of the escalators and the store at home plate, its kind of an enclosed, crowded area and you can really get harassed in the time it takes you to get past and into the flow of traffic past them.