why do we get so attached???? my brother SCRAPPED my first hot rod!!!

Sounds familiar. My wife's first car was a low-mileage '61 Tempest that she bought with her own money from a little old lady. It was impeccably cared for which made it cool and unusual even in 1978. She washed it once per week and cleaned the interior at the same time. I never got to see it because when she went away to college her parents gave it to her little brother without asking because he totalled his car. Then he totalled her car. She never got a dime out of it. Pretty much the story of his life, cheating one person after another. Still hurts when she things about it, 25 hears later. He's virtually out of our lives and apt to stay that way. My advice is for you to do the same. If there's any good in him he'll eventually try to make amends. If not you don't need him.

 

life is just a series of shitty events. i left for college and my parents had my dog that i'd had since i was 6 years old put to sleep the next day and then didn't tell me until i showed up at home a month later. i still love my parents don't get me wrong but it's been 5 years and i still don't think ill ever forgive them completely. just do the best you can with what you've got and if somebody doesn't like it break their legs hahahahaha

 

It sounds like the total take was around 3-400 in scrap. I'd consider it a cheap price to find out how my brother really is. I'd go get my trailer..[don't ask him to return it, go get it yourself] and tell him to never contact you again. He no longer exists.
Leave it at that. If you beat his ass, you may go to jail and if you accidently got too carried away with the ass beatin?.....I don't even wanna think about that.
Don't take his belongings. That puts you right down there at his level. You wanna be like him? Besides, they could be stolen from someone else.
Be glad he's outta your life this cheaply. If you stay in contact with him, I guarantee things will get worse. He has no respect for you or your belongings and prolly doesn't have any respect for anybody or their things either. Distance yourself from him. Be glad it wasnt' any worse and don't give him the opportunity to ever steal from you again.
Make it crystal clear to him you will prosecute if he ever takes so much as a toothpick from you again. He's shown he's no longer your brother. He's just a common thief. Real brother's don't steal from each other.

 

Bingo.

That is the key to not losing your stuff.

Hell, just last week my Mom and her man scrapped one of my cars. (of course I didn't care as I HAD abandoned that one)

But Mom scrapped my first car after I went to college....and it was a RUNNING DRIVING VEHICLE. Gone...POOF!

I wouldn't trust my only brother with ANY of my possessions. Its not that he's disrespectful....he's just full of hate and violence. Anything left with him is likely to get destroyed in a spectacular fashion.



I haven't spoken to my dad for 22 years. No contact, no nothing. The asshole just abandoned me and my little bro.



So man, your family could be WORSE......

But I'm like these other guys. I'd show your bro NO respect. Just cut him off.

The end.

 

Take the high road??? Taking the high road would be not fighting, but you aren't doing anything wrong by living within your legal rights. You have the right to have the legal system enter into this situation.

If some stranger stoll all your stuff, would you say, "I'll be the better man and take the high road and not call the cops?" nope.

he needs to learn responsibility, and all his life he's gotten the message of, "hey... people will just huff and puff, but nothing is going to happen to me." bout time something happened to him that is larger than his family just saying, "you dummy!" Leave the "calling your family members dumb" up to Archie Bunker and Fred Sanford. Call the popo.

 

give him the gift that keeps on giving.

Set him up with a whore with herpes.

That sucks man - big time!! I could just imagine the feeling of your stomach dropping and blood boiling.

herpes man - herpes.

 

When I was about 13 my brother smashed a couple of my cars and I remember how bad that made me feel. and they were only models and it was an accident! Your brother must be some kind of tweaker!

 

This may prove my point that babies get mixed up at the hospital. Get a DNA test done because when you find out he is not really your brother you won't be sad when you manually adjust his compass and send him off in a new direction! Gary 4T950 Chevy Guy

 

Im sorry to hear that man, I would be pissed off too.

 

hmmm.....is this why they call you "Thumper"?
yeah,I think we've all gone through something like this at one time or another. USED to have a friend that pulled the same crap on me. A whole bunch of stuff went missing when he "cleaned up" MY garage so he could work on HIS "f----g" car. He aint around no more! thankfully!
R.R.