I tell ya it takes cohones to walk up and steal stuff right under someone's nose. My Finis Alignment Kickboard is gone! Pool was packed so no way to tell where it went and we were all busy doing a chunk of 200's. There were a lot of non-swimmers there i.e. kids horsing around so I can guess where it went. Oh well, while I'm ticked I guess if someone really needs something that badly I hope they truly enjoy it and get what they need. I can envision the kid who took it gloating: "That guy is such a moron he is using that water frisbee incorrectly."
Argh!
I tell ya it takes cohones to walk up and steal stuff right under someone's nose. My Finis Alignment Kickboard is gone! Pool was packed so no way to tell where it went and we were all busy doing a chunk of 200's. There were a lot of non-swimmers there i.e. kids horsing around so I can guess where it went. Oh well, while I'm ticked I guess if someone really needs something that badly I hope they truly enjoy it and get what they need. I can envision the kid who took it gloating: "That guy is such a moron he is using that water frisbee incorrectly."
Argh!
Sorry about your board, I have one of those too and Id be pretty bummed if someone took it.
I was ticked about someone taking my orange nalgene bottle at atlanta nationals a few years ago. I dont understand why someone would be interested in stealing an old, beat up USED water bottle. I loved that thing and I frequently checked the lost and found and always came up empty. I guess Im lucky that it wasnt something more expensive.
Im very careful now about where I put my stuff at meets. People will always be stealin'
We have an issue with workout theft. We used to have 8 laminated sheets with 8 workouts on each sheet. When the workout was over, we put the the workout back in a box by the pool. About a year ago, most of them vanished... likely due to an after season box purge by the swim team. We printed them back out on paper and kept them in the same area. Those too started vanishing... but only one at a time. For a while we jokingly accused each other about carelessly leaving the workouts on the pool deck after practice. But when they still disappeared despite multiple people witnessing proper refiling after the workout, we realized we had a workout bandit on our hands. The real puzzle is: who would run off with 4K-5K yard IM based workouts that are a little heavy on the fly sauce? I'm pretty sure triathletes would want nothing to do with these. The age groupers do this kind of stuff but their coaches have their own workouts. Maybe one of them is using ours for extra training? Don't know who it is but if they are an adult and they like our workouts, we'd like to know who it is so we can ask them to swim on our team.
I think thefts of things that have little value to anyone other than their legitimate owner may actually be worse than thefts of expensive things, emotionally. Someone stole my iPod in grad school and while I wasn't happy about it, I could see why someone wanted it. I've been lucky with pool stuff so far but I have had other stuff taken in the past.
A friend of mine put a new bottle of expensive French name-brand shower gel on the bench. 2 minutes later it's gone.
Not that long ago I accidentally left my shower bag at the Rec and was sure it was gone forever. I was really bummed because a) I made the bag and b) I use special curly hair stuff that's not super cheap. When I found it at lost and found I almost hugged the guy. Thanks, honest person! She must have had straight hair.
We have had to carry everything on deck for the last 2 months of the season. Someone breaks into the lockers with our locks on & steals wallets,watches & $$$ . I'd like to catch then & give them a free swim lesson!!!
Well, I have a positive note to add here. A while back (QUITE a while back) I "lost" my wedding ring - it had become loose, and so I tied it into my gear bag. Amazingly enough, it wasn't there at the end of practice. Then, to add insult to injury, my flat iron was somehow removed from my locker. I was so cross! I told the lifeguards - not that I actually expected them to do anything about it. Over the next few days, first, I noticed my flat iron re-appearing. IN my locker. And then my wedding ring. The guard who found them went to the trouble to find out my locker number & sweetly returned them & locked them up where I could find them again. I've had people find my stuff before, leave it at the guard station & it somehow mysteriously would disappear before I ever was able to get back, but this one girl went the extra step. Restores your faith in mankind, it does!
