With the housing market rising, someone took it upon themselves to steal an entire home by hooking it up to their truck and driving away. And they’re on the run.
“It’s crazy,” Eric Ward, Zion Tiny Homes co-owner, said. “Ballsy is the only word that keeps coming to mind.”
Ward said the entire property in Apple Valley where the tiny home was is gated with only one way in and one way out. The tiny home had a ball hitch lock on it, he said, and there was no evidence that the perpetrator tried to grind it off. He suspects they chained the home and transported it to a place where they could work on it more before officially hauling it away.
“And now it’s been seen — I think up close to Idaho — on Saturday night in this tiny truck that should not be pulling that tiny home,” he said. “Everyone said it’s going slow.”
He called a rancher who had seen the home and asked if he had camera footage. The man said he didn’t, but thought it was extremely polite that the driver pulled over on the dirt road to let him by, unaware they were hauling stolen property.
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