[Noisebridge-discuss] no actual theftiness and not from the donation bins

[Martin Bogomolni]

... AND one of my macbooks (one was returned, eventually)
... AND a sled of chips
... AND a small miniITX machine.  Old, but serviceable

The fact is, if it's valuable and on a member shelf .. these days
there's a good chance it's gone.

I thought about bringing one of those plastic storage bins with a
lockable top and putting it on my shelf space.   I'm still thinking
about that solution.

-M

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
> Actually, there has been theft.  Maybe not of the donations bins (i disagree
> that presence of proper collection precludes the possibility that people are
> sticking their hands into an unmonitored unlocked box of cash by the door)
> but of laptops.
>
> Laptops have been disappearing from the member shelves and elsewhere.
>
> Everyone knows about the lasercutter laptop that was stolen by some tweaker.
> Not everyone realizes that the CNC machine laptop has been stolen THREE
> TIMES.
>
> The first one was the one we took to toorcamp - it had been donated by
> Carlos just before toorcamp.  It was stolen a few weeks after toorcamp, i
> believe.
>
> Then I gave Hao another laptop to use as the CNC laptop, and he put it on
> his member shelf.  Before he got it set up and running, I gave him another
> laptop to use as CNC machine (to use whichever worked better) but then both
> were stolen, from his shelf.
>
> That, coupled with the disappearance of a lot of valuable and useful
> materials from the hack shelves, is plenty of proof to me that theft is
> happening.
>
> -jake
>
>
> Danny / O'Brien wrote:
> Oh, as you were then. I checked the black bin, and it was in there. Mea
> culpa.
>
> No-one will, of course, remember this email when they tell each other
> enthusiastically how money is going from the bins.
>
> Anyway, all my other points are EXCELLENT, and we should probably be more
> organized about this. I will defer doing anything about this until somebody
> harasses me though.
>
> d.
>
> On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Mitchel McAllister <xonimmortal at
> yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>
>> I have been taking the money out of the pink box and putting it in the
>> metal box, as was requested by a member, after I expressed concern that
>
> the
>>
>> hasp on the pink box was broken.
>>
>> I haven't seen people taking things from the bins, but I have seen
>
> people
>>
>> tossing things from bin to bin.
>>
>> - Reverend Mik ------------------------------ www.prismandink.com
>
>
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