I've got a story on the board about this one already. Caught someone stealing mine!
https://sprinter-source.com/forums/showpost.php?p=173150&postcount=6
Little story bout meth heads...
From 4 years ago or so.
I was sleeping in "generation one" of my truck conversions. Currently, I have a converted Sprinter that is like a RoadTrek. Previously, for "generation one" I had a box truck I converted to an RV.
My wife and I were asleep in a "Park and Ride" (commuter lot) with the wood stove going. It was around 2AM. I awoke to the strangest scraping sounds. Couldn't figure it out, but soon figured it almost sounded like a hacksaw.
I tiptoed up to the front of the RV and got in the driver's seat. Could still hear the scraping. So, I started the truck. It was very loud and growly.
A very VERY frightened thief jumped up from under the truck and stopped for a brief second to look in my window. He saw me and started running, but he couldn't run directly out of the parking lot because this was in Maine. Snow banks were higher than your head. He had to run up to the top of the parking lot, so I tried running him down - kind of.
He ran for his life for a good 1/4 mile with a box truck nipping at his heels.
At the last moment, when I got very close, he scrambled up and over one of the snowbanks, then ran as fast as he could through the woods to another parking lot (for a car dealership) where he was apparently parked, or maybe was just hiding.
He wasn't running so fast through the woods because it was that kind of snow that is all powder below, but has about a 1/4" thick sheet of ice on the top. You know... the kind you step on and you can almost stand on, but then you fall through and it cuts your shin? Yeah, he had hundreds of very *very* fast steps through that stuff, falling down several times along the way to his hands and knees while he scrambled to get away.
I drove up to the car dealer parking lot to try and find him. It didn't work out. I never found him.
He did about $1000 worth of damage to my exhaust because he had already destroyed the longest exhaust pipe and catalytic converter by the time I got him to stop cutting.
$1000 in exhaust damage trying to get $75 for his meth habit. Should have ran him right over, in retrospect.