APISON, Tenn. (AP) — The crooks walked up to Kenneth Carter's tornado-damaged property with the purposeful air of relief workers in need of an all-terrain vehicle like the one he had parked out back.

“They said, 'Excuse us, we've got to get this four-wheeler out of here,'” said the 74-year-old Apison resident. “I said, 'I don't think so — that four-wheeler belongs to me!”

Carter avoided becoming a victim, but authorities say the South has been plagued by a variety of swindles since the twister outbreak last week that ripped apart houses and killed 329 people in seven states.

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