[Noisebridge-discuss] Theft at Noisebbridge

[Leah Klearman]

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.

[picture of a change-making donations machine that could be marketed to
various charities forms in head.]

-Leah

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:29 PM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:

>
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> which donation box?
>    if the orange plastic square padlocked general donation
> box, this has to be fixed.
>    if the donation jar in the kitchen/tastebridge area, i
> like the idea that it, too, is not robbable.
>
>
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> On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 08:37 -0800, Robert Chu wrote:
> > Hello Noisebridge community.
> >
> >
> > About an hour and a half ago, I was walking through the space and
> > chatting with Josh. In the conversation I pointed out that there was
> > $30 dollars in the donation bin so that he can note it as well, if it
> > came up missing later on this morning. We then continued back to the
> > Turing classroom to hack.
> >
> >
> > After getting ready to leave, I checked the donation bin and saw that
> > the $30 was gone. I then stated clearly that the money was missing to
> > the rest of the people at Noisebridge. The only three people who were
> > in the front area were Larent (who was taking a nap at the front
> > wall), Lilly, and Stripes.
> >
> >
> > I then yelled it out and looked directly at Stripes, who asked "Do you
> > think it was me?", which I replied yes too. He then said "That hurts."
> > And his tone was nervous and tense. He then grabbed his bag and headed
> > straight for the door. As he was leaving asked him if he would like to
> > talk about this (as I wanted to get more info about his view on the
> > timing of things).
> >
> >
> > Stripes has been living here consistently for about two weeks (right
> > after the Occupy Camp was raided). In addition I've kept pretty close
> > watch when I've been here in the past couple days, and $3 went missing
> > as well, during the same time that Stripes was here.
> >
> >
> > I can't say Stripes has stolen the money since I have not seen him do
> > it, yet the circumstances are very slim IMHO to say he didn't.
> >
> >
> > To help curb this I am going to secure the donation box so this
> > doesn't happen again.
> >
> >
> > Thank you and good morning Noisebridge
> > --
> > Rayc
> >
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