2046 robot stolen

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

It's unlikely that another team was the perpetrators here. It was much more likely that it was a common criminal looking to steal their trailer, without knowing the contents.

Yea and any good team would know to steal the talons why they were at it.

[The other Gabe]

Originally Posted by NathanStro

Even though team 5980 is a rookie team we are sad to see that the idea of gracious professionalism could be stomped on by a team that is jealous of your success. Stealing a large item like that is not a single handed effort and that is disappointing to see that groups of people would conspire to do such acts. We wish you the best of luck finding and fixing your robot.

I highly doubt it was another team.

the robot was returned, I'll leave it to a current member of the team to post something more detailed if they wish to do so. thank you all for the outpouring of support and sharing - without the publicity, I doubt it would have been returned

[ctt956]

Originally Posted by Dale

I'm sure 2046 will write more but they just posted on Facebook that their robot, less the RoboRIO was dumped off in front of their high school!!!! https://www.facebook.com/FRC2046/pos...426665757745:0

Glad you got at least the robot back! Doesn't look too bad, with the exception of the missing roboRIO and the condensation... It will probably be repairable, I've seen a flooded robot come back to life after sitting for a few months. Don't power it up until you're sure everything is dry.

Even though team 5980 is a rookie team we are sad to see that the idea of gracious professionalism could be stomped on by a team that is jealous of your success. Stealing a large item like that is not a single handed effort and that is disappointing to see that groups of people would conspire to do such acts. We wish you the best of luck finding and fixing your robot.

I also highly doubt that another team stole it. As Lil' Lavery and Sperkowsky said, it was probably someone who didn't know(completely) what was in it. They had no use for the robot, so they returned it. You could probably get their fingerprints off of the 'bot; maybe also check the surveillance video of when they dropped it off.

[ratdude747]

Whoever stole it also stole the tools too... Sounds like a common thief. A foolish one too, as I doubt the condensation washed off fingerprints (although there's probably too many on the bot to get anything useful).

[Type]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

It's unlikely that another team was the perpetrators here. It was much more likely that it was a common criminal looking to steal their trailer, without knowing the contents.

I agree with you. I remember hearing a Nascar driver (one of the lower cups) in the past few years was staying at a hotel and they had a fairly nice truck outside with an enclosed trailer. The trailer was stolen and it contained a complete race car and a spare engine. I can't remember if the trailer was ever found but the car was found on the side of a road, still intact. People just steal things and when they actually get it somewhere and find whats inside, they flip because they don't realize what they actually stole. It's kinda hard to hide a stolen race car, cause what are you going to do with it besides scraping it out piece by piece. I believe the same thing happened with the robot, I'm just surprised they found the trailer and the person kept the robot. These robots are expensive but it seems like a trailer would be more useful, just switch plates, where a robot, what can you truly do with for personal use.

[The other Gabe]

Originally Posted by Type

I'm just surprised they found the trailer and the person kept the robot. These robots are expensive but it seems like a trailer would be more useful, just switch plates, where a robot, what can you truly do with for personal use.

might be a bit hard to conceal

[D_Price]

I am glad to hear that the robot is back albeit the stolen RoboRio and such. Hope you guys get it up and running and I'm sure there will be alot of lending hands this weekend!

[Type]

Originally Posted by The other Gabe

might be a bit hard to conceal

Never mind, Im use to my team's trailer. We are a small team so we use a sponsor's trailer. It like 16ft long so it's still a nicer trailer than we could ever afford to buy, but it's unmarked. I see why your trailer was returned before the robot, and they probably thought about it and realized they wouldn't be able to part out the robot without getting caught.

[HolyLandBrand]

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

Yea and any good team would know to steal the talons why they were at it.

I think I know what you meant to say here, but any "good" teams wouldn't steal at all.

[Dr. Robot]

Hearing that this team got their incredible-looking & regional-winning robot BACK just made my day.

Team 5924 has been following the sordid tale of Xcalibear quite closely, and we've had more than one conversation about how devastating it would be to have our robot stolen. So many hundreds of hours spent. I'm pretty sure most teams would want a thief to steal anything else but the robot...

Extremely happy for the Bear Metal team. Can't wait to meet you in St. Louis and behold the reclaimed Xcalibear. Good luck the rest of the way.

[anishde]

Happy to hear that you guys got Xcalibur back and all the best for Auburn!

[*Rachelle*]

Originally Posted by The other Gabe

might be a bit hard to conceal

For those of us that have marked trailers there is a pro and a con

Pro: Your trailer is easily spotted and you gain recognition
Con: Your trailer is easily spotted and people can guess what's inside

P.S. I don't know what kind of locks you guys had on your trailer, but if you didn't have puck locks, it'd probably be a good investment.

Anyways, glad you got Xcalibear back and healthy again, good luck this weekend!