While it is definitely sub-optimal for donations to be stolen, one thing that having the donations not-locked-up gives us is that people can make change when they cannot afford to donate an entire $20 bill.<br><br>[picture of a change-making donations machine that could be marketed to various charities forms in head.]<br>
<br>-Leah<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:29 PM, jim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@well.com">jim@well.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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which donation box?<br>
� �if the orange plastic square padlocked general donation<br>
box, this has to be fixed.<br>
� �if the donation jar in the kitchen/tastebridge area, i<br>
like the idea that it, too, is not robbable.<br>
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On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 08:37 -0800, Robert Chu wrote:<br>
> Hello Noisebridge community.<br>
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> About an hour and a half ago, I was walking through the space and<br>
> chatting with Josh. In the conversation I pointed out that there was<br>
> $30 dollars in the donation bin so that he can note it as well, if it<br>
> came up missing later on this morning. We then continued back to the<br>
> Turing classroom to hack.<br>
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> After getting ready to leave, I checked the donation bin and saw that<br>
> the $30 was gone. I then stated clearly that the money was missing to<br>
> the rest of the people at Noisebridge. The only three people who were<br>
> in the front area were Larent (who was taking a nap at the front<br>
> wall), Lilly, and Stripes.<br>
><br>
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> I then yelled it out and looked directly at Stripes, who asked "Do you<br>
> think it was me?", which I replied yes too. He then said "That hurts."<br>
> And his tone was nervous and tense. He then grabbed his bag and headed<br>
> straight for the door. As he was leaving asked him if he would like to<br>
> talk about this (as I wanted to get more info about his view on the<br>
> timing of things).<br>
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> Stripes has been living here consistently for about two weeks (right<br>
> after the Occupy Camp was raided). In addition I've kept pretty close<br>
> watch when I've been here in the past couple days, and $3 went missing<br>
> as well, during the same time that Stripes was here.<br>
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> I can't say Stripes has stolen the money since I have not seen him do<br>
> it, yet the circumstances are very slim IMHO to say he didn't.<br>
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> To help curb this I am going to secure the donation box so this<br>
> doesn't happen again.<br>
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> Thank you and good morning Noisebridge<br>
> --<br>
> Rayc<br>
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