Attempted trailer break in at Maple Grove
 

I can't really believe this happened. I've raced a long time and thought I had seen everything. Once again, I've been proven wrong.

Last night, at about 3am, someone tried to break into one of our trailers. it has a double side entry door with a barn door latch. One of my kids and thank God his dog were sleeping inside. The barn door latch was obviously not engaged as its on the outside. It has a couple of cheese whiz latches on the inside to simply keep the doors closed, not really to stop someone from ripping them open. Some phallus inhaler yanked the door so hard it pulled the self tappers out of the wall and left the latch and hardware on the ground. Thank goodness, the dog freaked out and scared said pos off before any theft or vandalism occurred.

I guess the point of my post is to let everyone know, including myself, that no segment of the world is safe from assholes, even the race track in the middle of the night. I always used to lock my trailer and motor home at night, but frankly have grown a little lax with doing so in the last few years. Not no more, and I'd recommend everyone else do the same. I have my concealed carry permit, but don't take my weapon out of state as its illegal to do so. I'm thinking I'll be taking my chances with the law until I get the appropriate out of state permits asap.

I can't remotely wrap my head around a racer or crew person doing something like this, but who in the **** else is still here in the middle of the night...

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I have no words right now but I for one will go back to locking mine up after reading this. I thought we were past this crap after they caught the one guy a few years ago but obviously not....

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Dan There is a list of states that honor other states CCW permits, just google it.
It is hard to believe that some one who races with fellow racers would do something like this but its like you said we just get relaxed and go back to taking it for granted that everybody is a nice guy !!!

Jerry

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Thanks for the heads up Dan. Hope you guys find the asshole!!!!!

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X2 what Denny said. I am having a hard time believing, but other than security(or lack there of) there is no one else in the pits.
Glad the dog was there to assist, before it got ugly.

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Unbelievable! As mentioned check reciprocity laws and give that dog a cheeseburger tonight.

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Florida permit will get me a lot, have been going to get it for a while, this just escalates the urgency. And PA is an easy one, just have to stop into the town offices and its a rubber stamp.

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A lot of things happen in the pits at night when NORMAL people are sleeping.

On Tuesday night at Indy, I was parked in my pit spot and sleeping very soundly. I was pitted between the Hall brothers from Texas (really nice folks) and Joe Martens (who is also a nice guy) was pitted on the other side. At around midnight, my motor home shook so hard, I thought it was an earthquake. I didn't have a clue what had happened til the next morning. Some "low life" (trying to keep it clean) ran into the driver side slide rear corner of my motor home. I assume the damage was done with a golf cart, with green paint still showing on the slide. The reason they ran into the motor home was that in between me and the Hall's trailer, was a cast iron storm sewer/man hole cover sticking out of the ground about 5 to 6 inches. Obviously, at midnight it is rather dark, so the dumb a** didn't see it when he or she went between the two trailers. There was a scrape mark on top of the sewer cover, so I assume, they hit that, and then lost control and got thrown into the corner of the slide. Did anyone come to see me in the next five days and tell me that they were the responsible party? NOPE!!!!

So if you know someone that has a green golf cart with damage on the right side, I think I know what caused the damage and if your kids or a friend of yours that borrowed the golf cart gave you some BS story, don't believe it.

The damage was minimal to the motor home, but that is not the point, if you do something wrong, grow a set and OWN up to it.

Gary Merrick
3522 Stock

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It is hard to believe that a fellow racer or crew member would do something like this, but there are lowlifes everywhere I guess. The perpetrator should have his b**ls cut off.

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