Trailer Stolen in Atlanta

[Drivencrazy]

Today, Thursday April 15th, Team Driven FRC #1730 was at the Championship event in the Georgia Dome and left our trailer locked up at our hotel.

Well, when we returned to the hotel it was noticed by my father (it's actually his trailer that our team uses) that the trailer was not where we had parked. Well we asked the hotel staff if they had to move it and eventually came to the conclusion that it was stolen.

Much of the evening was filled with discussions with the police and with hotel staff looking at security video. We discussed what we believed to be in the trailer and came to the conclusion that it was two Home Depot carts that we borrowed (Yes we asked to use them) an air compressor, some of our totes (empty), and some tie-down straps. While the contents of the trailer were not so valuable, the trailer was pretty nice and even had a vinyl sticker with our team logo on it.

We were initially un-aware of where the trailer was and assumed that it was lost forever and was probably already torn up. Much to our surprise, some of the great people from team 1305 from North Bay, Ontario happened to have spotted the trailer in a run-down parking lot on their way back to our hotel.

Well they told the police officer and then came and told us. We were told by some people at the police station to head to the parking lot and positively identify the trailer. So, not knowing where it was, we asked a couple members of the team if they could take us to where it was. Alex Wilcox and Kim Stahl from team 1305 were nice and gracious enough to miss their team meeting and help us out.

I on behalf of Team Driven would like to formally thank Alex and Kim for their incredible gracious proffesionalism and kind spirit. It is great to know that the FIRST community is so willing to go out of their way and help out a team in need.

Good luck the rest of this weekend.

Clint Ott