Often, our daily Facebook and Twitter feeds are filled with bad news from around the world. Thanks to you, something good came from regular people getting together with a common goal.

On Dec 2nd, 2014, two male thieves in a dark blue or black lowered Honda Civic 2Dr stole our entire carwash coin box entrance system. Knowing the machine is built like a safe, with no care for the cost of the machine or the interruption to our services, the thieves removed the entire thing from it’s concrete base. Stuffing it into their trunk they drove off to open the box and steal the cash. After what appears to be many broken drill bits they finally beat and bent the machine so badly it opened. And,  I take some satisfaction knowing these two must have spent hours trying to obtain a few hundred dollars in coins from within the machine. Once finished, they discarded the $20,000 machine in the corner of a parking lot, destroyed beyond repair.

But, the powers of Social Media and the Facebook community, in particular, prov
ed to be truly outstanding. Thanks to so many shares our story reached nearly 30,000 people. One of those, a complete stranger, saw our picture and noticed a piece of equipment matching our description near to where he works, in Surrey.

Thanks to him, and you, we have it back and we hope to retrieve our sales reports and car wash info from the badly beaten memory cards.

Please consider sharing this story one more time so people may realize the power they possess.

Good can come from the click of a mouse.

THANKS From Splashes!