Michael Pancier
02-04-2009, 06:54 PM
As Monty Python would always have us look on the bright side of life, dig this:
I attend a meeting today for a charity I am assisting with a fundraiser; not in the best part of town, but not the worst.
I'm in there for about 45 minutes and parked in a gated parking area. I had planned on meeting with these folks for my brief meeting and then try to get some shooting in.
In that short time span, some deviant scumbags decide to break into my car and rip out my stereo/nav system (which they can't use since it is a factory system that will only work on my car and cannot be activated without a factory code that is given from the factory itself; only dealers can activate this thing), they steal an old iPod, my cables and chargers, loose change, a flashlight, a bluetooth earpiece (that they cannot use since I have the charger at home), and my son's old digital camera (Canon S-50) ... with images he took at Wako a week ago.
I have insurance of course, and while the damage is in the thousands of dollars, eventually it will be fixed and I will get new system via insurance company. I'm also out some dough.
But I am lucky that these dolts did not get into my trunk that had my 5d Mark II, 24-105L, 15mm fisheye, 24mm t/s, and 70-200 2.8L lenses and a gitzo 1227 tripod especially since they are going with me to Utah in 14 days.
Even though the items are insured, the headache in getting equipment replaced would have been a nightmare in time for my trip. So I guess that was the lucky part of my day. Go figure.
I attend a meeting today for a charity I am assisting with a fundraiser; not in the best part of town, but not the worst.
I'm in there for about 45 minutes and parked in a gated parking area. I had planned on meeting with these folks for my brief meeting and then try to get some shooting in.
In that short time span, some deviant scumbags decide to break into my car and rip out my stereo/nav system (which they can't use since it is a factory system that will only work on my car and cannot be activated without a factory code that is given from the factory itself; only dealers can activate this thing), they steal an old iPod, my cables and chargers, loose change, a flashlight, a bluetooth earpiece (that they cannot use since I have the charger at home), and my son's old digital camera (Canon S-50) ... with images he took at Wako a week ago.
I have insurance of course, and while the damage is in the thousands of dollars, eventually it will be fixed and I will get new system via insurance company. I'm also out some dough.
But I am lucky that these dolts did not get into my trunk that had my 5d Mark II, 24-105L, 15mm fisheye, 24mm t/s, and 70-200 2.8L lenses and a gitzo 1227 tripod especially since they are going with me to Utah in 14 days.
Even though the items are insured, the headache in getting equipment replaced would have been a nightmare in time for my trip. So I guess that was the lucky part of my day. Go figure.