ATTN CMP teams: Lock up your stuff!

[trilogy2826]

Last night, Jeff Pahl, 12 yr mentor of 2530, Inconceivable and Division LRI at CMP since 2009 had a significant amount of his personal belongings stolen from a hiding spot under the Hopper inspection table. IPAD, other electronics and most importantly car keys were taken.

If you are interested in helping with a small donation to help Jeff out, please stop by the 2530 pit in Hopper.

And this has been said many times in the past: Lock up your stuff! This happened later last night, so you can make your own opinions on the likely culprits.

[KelliV]

Let this be a lesson that there are no "hiding spots" at public venues. Please take your personal belongings with you.

You can also ask venue management (through the proper channels of pit admin etc) if someone picked it up. At my venue our contractors will pick up valuables and bring them to security at the end of the evening even if they are hiding.

[Jeff Pahl]

I can say with 100% certainty that my loss was not due to any FIRST participant. I want to make it entirely clear that I do not suspect anyone associated with the program for my loss.

The inspection area was staffed by the inspection team up until the time the pits were closed and cleared for the opening ceremonies. The room was supposedly "secured" by venue security, I know they gave me and others a hard time after the opening when we wanted to return to collect coats, etc. Normally I would have taken the backpack with me, but I had to go to a meeting and did not get back before it was time to go to the opening.

Upon return, the room had been "cleaned" by the venue. Apparently the cleaning crew does a really "good" job, as there was more than one police report filed on Friday morning.

Again, let me state that I am certain that no FIRST participants were involved. And that I was absolutely unimpressed with the total lack of interest even shown by the venue security office in what was obviously a theft by one of their employees. Can't wait to never have to deal with the America's Center again.

[Jardanium]

Our team reported a stolen drive computer on Friday morning. It was told to us that it wasn't the attendees of the Championship weren't under suspicion, but the event staff.

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by Jardanium

Our team reported a stolen drive computer on Friday morning. It was told to us that it wasn't the attendees of the Championship weren't under suspicion, but the event staff.

You were not the only team to have their driver station laptop stolen at this event either. This type of experience is something that no team should ever have to go through, but by the same token, welcome to the world as we know it. You have to look out for your stuff and your belongings, because not everyone (even the folks we trust with security) is a trustworthy individual.

[waialua359]

Our team was very fortunate to have decided very late each evening to lock up and/or take our valuables with us daily.
A notable HOF team had their laptop stolen and borrowed one from our elim alliance partner, right before eliminations started!
They had conveyed that they stayed until very late Friday evening as one of the last groups of people to leave the stadium, only to find it missing the next morning.

[mrgoldtech]

This is not the only example of event staff being extremely unprofessional. In a personal experience, a security guard had intentionally tripped me while I was entering the building and running towards the stands. I was not only dumbstruck, but disgusted by how unprofessional the guards were.