Thieves Beware
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Forum Name: Lost \ Found \ Stolen
Forum Discription: Lost gear and Found Gear, Post it Here - Got something stolen, let everyone know
URL: http://www.professorpaddle.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4621
Printed Date: 19 Apr 2024 at 1:42am
Topic: Thieves Beware
Posted By: James
Subject: Thieves Beware
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2007 at 11:18pm
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I know this is pretty sick... I mean do we really need a special forum for thefts and such. I think we do. Here is why. We have a ton of thefts I can think of at least 4 or 5 per year with my friends alone. So if we start documenting these we might recover the gear better and maybe we could establish some type of pattern. I dunno ... I just want to keep track of these because they are important and should have a separate place for discussion. |
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Posted By: Chuck e fresh
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2007 at 11:23am
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James,
My Idea and maybey you know some body that knows somebody. With all the high tech- camera's and solar power packs and batteries and such. What about camera's at some of the put in's and take out's. You know like the steven's pass cam or the highway cam's. Isn't there white water of america or some co. willing to start keeping track of put in'n and take out's. It might seem big bro. But if I could afford it i'd f-n install them myself. Maybey a camera or too on the drop or some place exciting like that as well . The f-n meth and crack heads out there need to either get locked up or beat down. And scence the cop's don't care unless the get in on the beat down portion of the idea there too buisy getting paid for traffic violation's. How can we stop the maddness??? ------------- There's no such word as can't!so stop making excuses!!!! |
Posted By: Ryan
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2007 at 11:34am
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They might get stolen too! I know, not funny. Didn't we have a similar convesation about the parks around the Green? I'm waiting for Wiggins to jump on this one! Kyle, do you like to get in on the beat downs? haha j/k I haven't done any research on American Whitewater if they have anything like this but it couldn't hurt contacting them about it. It has to be a problem everywhere. How sweet would a Split Rock wave or Paradise Ledge cam be! ...until the next flood. |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2007 at 11:40am
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Yea the bonus is that if you pipe an internet connection out to one of these locations you could easily run multiple cameras.... The issue is getting an internet connection where the camera is located. That and power. You don't want battery operated camera's even though it would crudly do the job. ------------- |
Posted By: Chuck e fresh
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2007 at 12:09pm
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Yeah, that would be bad ass. How about camera's like the security ones were you just get the footage right from the camera. I dunno either I just really really Hate meth heads. And I use hate with not only intent and passion but strongly as well. I had an advanced elements stolen from my back yard when I first moved into gold bar. It was a wicked awsome I.K. And don't get me wronge not all cops are egotistical power hungry abusive inhumaine self lowthing vain ignoriant .... hole eater's. ( Doughnut whole eater's ) I've known at least three that actualled cared about there fellow man! oops did I say cared... I wouldn't want to offend anyone. But I know Everyone as well as me, Love cop's. ------------- There's no such word as can't!so stop making excuses!!!! |
Posted By: tradguy2
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2007 at 1:18pm
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It would not be hard to power a camera with a solar panel. I would be expensive and not functional at night but that should not be a problem for this purpose. ------------- ... preparing for a river beating! |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2007 at 1:24pm
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The connection is the costly part of this equation. ------------- |
Posted By: joshcrossman
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2007 at 1:47pm
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use some sort of 3G or edge network card?
------------- i like it when it rains |
Posted By: arnobarno
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2007 at 2:39pm
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To me it seems like there are two options here depending on what problem you are trying to solve. If the problem you are trying to solve is the theft/meth-head problem, a camera that collects evidence that can be used in a forensic analysis is a (relatively) cheap solution. You don't need a great deal of power and you don't need a live connection to the internet. You could take a statistical approach and post signs at a number of put-ins/take-outs that state that the area is under surveillance (even though, in reality, only a subset of places have cameras) and have a deterrent effect across a larger set of sites. Now then, if what you want is to solve the theft/meth-head problem *AND* have an ability to see what the river looks like in real-time, you are looking at a different and more expensive solution. Or maybe we could just pay the meth-heads to watch the cars. ![]("smileys/smiley13.gif") ------------- arn9schaeffer@gmail.com (remove 9 for my real email address) |
Posted By: Chuck e fresh
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2007 at 2:55pm
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Hmmm , I think you might have something there. With the camera and sighn set up. Stillthe crackzombie's would just take your money and your car. I say we just hang um...no, we kill um... no we stab em''' no we burrie em.! No wait we stab um, then we hang em ,then we kill um ,then we barrie em. Or we just let em go!!!!! ------------- There's no such word as can't!so stop making excuses!!!! |
Posted By: Ronin
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2007 at 10:07pm
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Don't bother with the video camera. It's a waste of time. If you catch a clear image of the perpetrator committing the crime, the police won't do anything.
A friend's motorcycle was stolen and his car broken into while it was parked in his apartment's garage. The apartment had video security cameras throughout the place so it caught the perp's vehicle and their faces. I saw the video tape and the images were very clear. The cop took the video tapes as evidence. Months past without any news. My friend called the Everett police to find out if they apprehended anyone. They stalled and stalled. Finally a police officer admitted that they hadn't done anything with the video tapes since the tapes had to be analyzed by their forensic video expert so that an arrest warrant could be issued. Unfortunately, their forensic video expert was so overwhelmed by video tapes from other crimes that property crimes ended up in "it'll never see daylight" file. There was a similar case in Tacoma a few months ago. In that case, the police wouldn't even take the video tape into evidence. The business owner was so upset that he contacted the TV news media who showed it on TV. The images of the perp committing car prowling was very clear. The Tacoma Police reluctantly had to go back to the business owner to pick up the video tape, but I bet it ended up in the "it'll never see daylight" file. I've been told that the police have now instructed their officers to collect all video tapes as evidence so that the video tapes can go immediately and directly into their "it'll never see daylight" file and not be a possible source of embarassment to them as a "do nothing" law enforcment agency. |
Posted By: water wacko
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2007 at 7:21am
you guys are missing the obvious option... we start beating up random people so the meth heads and crack monkeys think we're more loco than they are. they'll be paranoid just by being near a river. ![]("smileys/smiley8.gif") ------------- "Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive." ~Howard Thurman |
Posted By: Chuck e fresh
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2007 at 9:34am
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that was the anw. I was searching for. Nice... I forgot though all the security cam's arn't to protect people it's to protect the insurance agencies. I keep forgetting our society so funked up! I mean America rules! Whole E Crap i need to go paddle! ------------- There's no such word as can't!so stop making excuses!!!! |
Posted By: SupaSta
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2007 at 1:06pm
Why is it that we have no shortage of "law enforcement resources" to screw otherwise honest people for going 65 in a 55, but we can't do anything about a criminal cought red-handed on video!?! ![]("http://www.professorpaddle.com/forum/smileys/smiley35.gif")
I can litereally count on one hand the number of cops I've met that don't suck.
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Posted By: Weide
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2007 at 4:25pm
| When I was a kid, my buddies and I would just drop a baggie of dog food when a mean dog chased us. Maybe we should just tie little bags of meth to our antennas so the meth heads get so distracted they forget rob us. I wonder if Wiggins can get us some from the evidence locker. |
Posted By: Larry
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2007 at 12:25am
| Hey Dan, if your still trying to count "cops that don't suck", and your hand is anything like mine, your making a fist. |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2007 at 7:16am
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What about wiggins...I have my middle finger up now!!!! Just Kidding. or am I.... ![]("smileys/smiley32.gif") ------------- |
Posted By: SupaSta
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2007 at 1:03pm
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Posted By: jP
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2008 at 1:31pm
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Just checking this thread out due to my recently stolen boat. Here's my 2 cents about the "all cops suck" rhetoric: while I'm instinctively inclined to agree with many of your points that continually get espoused, I can't go so far as to make BLANKET statements. Cops are human beings in a profession like anyone else. I do think the profession in question is fundementally flawed on very many serious levels, But so is the health care system. It's flawed to the core. But that doesn't mean there aren't individuals within the system sincerely working out of a sense of duty, and trying to change things for the better. You can't say ALL nurses and ALL doctors are bad just because the institution they work in is FUNDEMENTALLY FUCKED. ------------- 🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋 |
Posted By: Will
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2008 at 8:45pm
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Check this out, mostly Sea Kayaks and a few Whitewater boats but it is updated regularly. I know there have been at least a few boats recovered through this list.
Just click the Stolen Kayaks link on the left nav bar.
Pretty impressive really. ------------- What could possibly go wrong? |
Posted By: Wiggins
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2008 at 11:44pm
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Cameras won't do crap. The reason is not that the cops won't do anything with the footage (most places that we use to get on the river are slow enough the cops don't have a ton to do, and they would probably know who tweak was), but that any electronics left out will get stolen.
The best option would be to use a bait car to lure the thieves and get them busted red handed. When word gets out that there is a kayaking bait car tweakers will start hitting the trailheads more and the river accesses less.
My favorite idea is to borrow one of the K9's and put him in a SUV or van with all our valubles in the middle of the floor.
Anyone paddling Pilchuck Creek, the Skagit, the Cascade River, or anything in Skagit County let me know and if I am working I'll check cars and wave the flag in the area.
Kyle ------------- I smell bacon |
Posted By: Carter_M
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2008 at 9:34am
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What are they going to do with a stolen boat? Exactly! Try to sell it to one of us! It seems like the stolen kayak website is a good idea to me. I mean I bought a yellow liquid logic Jefe a couple of years ago from a guy in the Seattle area who had NO IDEA about this boat. I was excited to see float bags in the boat and he asked what they were for. His story was that he had bought if from a good friend who kayaked a lot but "he had just never gotten into it." AND the most fishy thing about the deal was that one of the grab handles was missing a bolt (ie. it was locked up somewhere and he removed a handle to 'liberate it'). Anyway, it would have been nice if there was someplace I could check to see if it was stolen. If it was, it probably came from Colorado or back east somewhere as I'm assuming even the dumbest kayak thieves would know better than to post a boat stolen in the Northwest for sale on Seattle Craigslist. Here's hoping that the guy was honest and I'm not paddling somebody's stolen Jefe! Talk about bad river karma... |
Posted By: Capt. Bill
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2008 at 11:46am
| I saw a great ad on TV the other night for anti drug abuse blah blah blah... it showed the picture of a nice looking couple while playing the actual 911 call of the two reporting that they were lost and freezing to death. The sub title told us that they were also high on meth and were later found dead. Fantastic I thought! Two less folks out stealing my stuff to support their habits, and it didn't require me getting any camera gear or hungry bass with lasers! Perfect. Now, make it legal cheap and affordable and I won't have to worry about the next meth head busting into my vehicle for my stuff again. Together we'll solve the drug problem- one dead meth head at a time. |
Posted By: matta
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2008 at 5:43pm
| Wow. That's pretty shitty. One person with a drug problem dead is worth not getting a boat stolen. |
Posted By: H2Ohta
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2008 at 6:55pm
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I cannot believe some of the shit that some people post and believe that it is okay. Captain Bill, I understand your point but you have made your self sound like such an ignorant $%#*. I agree that stealing of gear sucks but how the hell do you even relate that some one dying? If your point was to sound cool, you most certainly do not. I do not know you, but I cannot believe that you would even post that. Have some respect for yourself.
Chris Ohta ------------- H2Ohta |
Posted By: erikSANDSTROM
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2008 at 9:12pm
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Looks like we've got ourselves a tweaker lover! ------------- This river don't go to Aintry. You done taken a wrong turn. |
Posted By: jP
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2008 at 12:34pm
yeah, well, welcome to the fussion of whitewater paddling culture, Myspace, and Jerry Springer. The larger Sociologic issues surrounding Meth use, Theft, and the Economy = a Pretty convoluted equation if you ask me, with no simple answers that will satisfy everyone. same with all of Societies' other large scale problems. It's easy to sit behind a computer and rant. It's the natural evolutionary step forward from pacively watching TV, if you can really call it a step forward, or "evolution". ![]("http://www.professorpaddle.com/forum/smileys/smiley19.gif") ,![]("http://www.professorpaddle.com/forum/smileys/smiley11.gif") , or![]("http://www.professorpaddle.com/forum/smileys/smiley12.gif") whatever works.
And, yes, I consider myself guilty. Let's all shut up and go boating. Anyone got one I can borrow for the moment?
Actually, I may not hit the water again till next sunday april 6th. Keep me in mind though. thanks. And I promise not to bring any Meth. ------------- 🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋 |
Posted By: Travisimo
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2008 at 11:17am
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Wow, a lot of argueing on this thread! If anybody is serious about the Camera thing, here is a solution for less than 100 bucks:
There are lots of types out there, hunters use them to scout out big bucks and such, they put them on a deer trail and can see if any deer worth hunting pass by.
You put the camera up, and it snaps pics whenever it sees movement. Could be positioned at some takeouts to get a pic of potential thieves... This model will even do video clips, records on up to 4Mb SD card.
------------- H2O please |
Posted By: jP
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2008 at 6:14pm
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Yeah. I'm sure you could hide it in the trees. Most people are too stupid to assume they are under survielance. When I work in really high end homes in Medina, ect. I pretty much automaticly assume every movement of mine is on video.
It's a survielance society and we're living in the Matrix. Might as well get used to it and be cognisant of it. ------------- 🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋 |