JAY – Gerald “Yogi” Hiscock didn’t realize his all-terrain vehicle, which he used to get around his yard, was missing until he backed up his truck Monday and saw it wasn’t in front of the garage where he parked it Sunday night.
The 2002 Honda Rancher made it easier for Hiscock, 27, who has been paralyzed from the chest down since a motorcycle accident nine years ago, to take out the trash and do yard work instead of using his wheelchair, he said Tuesday.
He last used the ATV Sunday night when he parked in front of his garage, 10 feet from his house on East Jay Road.
On Monday afternoon, he said, he noticed it was gone.
“I was upset,” he said. “You don’t understand people sometimes. Some people work for what they get and then people take it away.”
Hiscock called Jay police to report the ATV missing Monday.
He described it as being hunter orange and black in color.
“It’s pretty bright,” he said.
He also installed after-market exhaust pipes that make its exhaust sound louder than normal, he said.
The control panel glass on the ATV is also broken, Jay Police Chief Larry White Sr. said Tuesday. The person who stole it may have the keys to it as well, White said, because they were placed in the area of the ATV.
Hiscock said neither he nor his wife, Barbara, heard the ATV leave the yard either late Sunday or Monday morning.
There are tracks in the driveway, Hiscock said, which make it look as though the ATV was pushed down the driveway without being started.
Hiscock, an active man who modifies his road vehicles with hand controls and races in the sport truck division at Oxford Plains Speedway, said he doesn’t have a clue to who stole his ATV.
“It would be nice to get it back,” he said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Jay Police Department at 897-6766. Jay officer Russell Adams is investigating the theft.
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