Burglary

Had the dastardly happen a couple nights ago. Garmin 196, two David
Clarks, eyeglasses. In my hangar, too.
Looks like a pro job. No vandalism apparent. Plane was unlocked with
key in ignition. And left that way by perp(s).
The question: Would any of you have an A&P do a thorough check of the
bird or would do as I think I might and just do a more than usual
preflight?

On 5/9/2007 11:15:56 AM, NVArt wrote:

Had the dastardly happen a couple nights ago. Garmin 196, two David
Clarks, eyeglasses. In my hangar, too.
Looks like a pro job. No vandalism apparent. Plane was unlocked with
key in ignition. And left that way by perp(s).

Regarding the above, I would recommend immediately creating an eBay "Favorite
Search" that emails you when auctions appear with the above items.

The time it takes to do this is worth the potential payoff of finding your
goods and perhaps the perps who did this.

See this Smoking Gun link for a story about a teacher who stole an elementary
student's coat and the mother who just happened to stumble upon the auction
for it out on eBay that resulted in the teacher being arrested:


http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...l?link=rssfeed

--
Peter

stealing a coat from a kid...

How low can one go?


"Peter R." wrote in message
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On 5/9/2007 11:15:56 AM, NVArt wrote:

Had the dastardly happen a couple nights ago. Garmin 196, two David
Clarks, eyeglasses. In my hangar, too.
Looks like a pro job. No vandalism apparent. Plane was unlocked with
key in ignition. And left that way by perp(s).

Regarding the above, I would recommend immediately creating an eBay
"Favorite
Search" that emails you when auctions appear with the above items.

The time it takes to do this is worth the potential payoff of finding your
goods and perhaps the perps who did this.

See this Smoking Gun link for a story about a teacher who stole an
elementary
student's coat and the mother who just happened to stumble upon the
auction
for it out on eBay that resulted in the teacher being arrested:



http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...l?link=rssfeed

--
Peter

On May 9, 8:54 am, "Peter R." wrote:
On 5/9/2007 11:15:56 AM, NVArt wrote:

Had the dastardly happen a couple nights ago. Garmin 196, two David
Clarks, eyeglasses. In my hangar, too.
Looks like a pro job. No vandalism apparent. Plane was unlocked with
key in ignition. And left that way by perp(s).

Regarding the above, I would recommend immediately creating an eBay "Favorite
Search" that emails you when auctions appear with the above items.

The time it takes to do this is worth the potential payoff of finding your
goods and perhaps the perps who did this.

See this Smoking Gun link for a story about a teacher who stole an elementary
student's coat and the mother who just happened to stumble upon the auction
for it out on eBay that resulted in the teacher being arrested:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...coat1.html?lin...

--
Peter

The story sounds fishy. The seller is still an active seller, still
selling clothes. Either she's still selling stuff kids leave in class
or there is something wrong with the story.

-Robert

On 5/15/2007 2:14:47 PM, "Robert M. Gary" wrote:

The story sounds fishy. The seller is still an active seller, still
selling clothes. Either she's still selling stuff kids leave in class
or there is something wrong with the story.

eBay has been showing her ID as "Not a registered user" now since that story
first broke. It looks as if eBay suspended her when they learned of this.

--
Peter

On May 15, 11:45 am, "Peter R." wrote:
On 5/15/2007 2:14:47 PM, "Robert M. Gary" wrote:

The story sounds fishy. The seller is still an active seller, still
selling clothes. Either she's still selling stuff kids leave in class
or there is something wrong with the story.

eBay has been showing her ID as "Not a registered user" now since that story
first broke. It looks as if eBay suspended her when they learned of this.

--
Peter

Yet the user has numous active auctions. Odd. She appears to sell lots
and lots of clothes. You wonder if they call came from the school's
lost-and-found.

-robert

On 5/18/2007 6:03:44 PM, "Robert M. Gary" wrote:

She appears to sell lots
and lots of clothes. You wonder if they call came from the school's
lost-and-found.

I agree. Makes you go "hmmmm..."

--
Peter

On May 15, 11:45 am, "Peter R." wrote:
On 5/15/2007 2:14:47 PM, "Robert M. Gary" wrote:

The story sounds fishy. The seller is still an active seller, still
selling clothes. Either she's still selling stuff kids leave in class
or there is something wrong with the story.

eBay has been showing her ID as "Not a registered user" now since that story
first broke. It looks as if eBay suspended her when they learned of this.

--
Peter

Well, now her items appear to be down. Maybe eBay just took some time
to delist the actual items. She was selling lots and lots of stuff,
she must have been running some sort of a business to have access to
that many clothes.

-Robert

NVArt wrote:
Had the dastardly happen a couple nights ago. Garmin 196, two David
Clarks, eyeglasses. In my hangar, too.
Looks like a pro job. No vandalism apparent. Plane was unlocked with
key in ignition. And left that way by perp(s).
The question: Would any of you have an A&P do a thorough check of the
bird or would do as I think I might and just do a more than usual
preflight?


Several years ago we had breakins at our local airport. The FBO stayed
at the airport one night and caught the guys in the act. Young kids with
a prower nut driver taking out the sheet metal screws, gettting in the
hangar and then putting it back together. One kid was already out on
probation for breakins. They all got more probation. Love the legal system.

--

Regards, Ross
C-172F 180HP
KSWI

First question is: has this happened at other hangers or to other owners at
your airport recently? If so, then was this only theft or did the culprits
damage anything?

Sounds like kids since they didn't pull any avionics out of the panel.

I would tend to do a real thorough preflight under the pretense that
aircraft in open hangers could be violated all the time and if the culprit
didn't steal anything the owner probably wouldn't even suspect the bird had
been touched.

If this is not the first event like this in recent history at your airport
then you can probably judge your risk by reviewing previous break-ins.

--
Jim Carter
Rogers, Arkansas
"NVArt" wrote in message
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Had the dastardly happen a couple nights ago. Garmin 196, two David
Clarks, eyeglasses. In my hangar, too.
Looks like a pro job. No vandalism apparent. Plane was unlocked with
key in ignition. And left that way by perp(s).
The question: Would any of you have an A&P do a thorough check of the
bird or would do as I think I might and just do a more than usual
preflight?