They stole my PSK, my BOB, and my F1!

Damn Andy, that's the second time. :mad: You should make your BOB where you can take it with you and not leave it in the vehicle. Maybe you should puts some fiddlebacks in the bag. :D
Scott
 
Man bag -- a bag carried by a man for the same reason that a woman carries a purse. Sometimes called a murse.

http://www.purseuing.com/bags/man-bags/

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Damn Andy, that's the second time. :mad: You should make your BOB where you can take it with you and not leave it in the vehicle. Maybe you should puts some fiddlebacks in the bag. :D
Scott

Yep. They got my last bit of Gossman goodness. The one I put FR4 scales on. One of a kind.

Yea, my manbag was a proteus. It had my asthmatha meds, some first aid, a swiss army knife, my Gossman PSK, my pictures of my kids, a gameboy, and several nice flashlights in there.
 
I'm really sorry to hear that.

I've been there too; lost a seriously expensive multimode handheld transceiver a few years ago from the glove box. Only left the car for a few minutes! I've been hit a few times over the years and lost quite a lot of good kit. Including the whole car from outside my front door once. I've always been careful, never left anything in view, no high-end stereos etc., even paranoid about not putting things in the car when anyone is watching. Makes no difference. Mostly it's older teenage thugs around here who'll break into anything and everything just for the hell of it. I would love to catch one, on a quiet, dark night! Trouble is they tend to come in well-armed packs, as cowards always do.

Seriously man, I feel for you. But it's just kit; it can be replaced. Like mine, expensive as it might be (it took me a year to save up for the radio) and occasionally sentimentally valuable too (posh fountain pen that was an 18th birthday present); it's still just kit.

Don't let them get you down, they're not worth it. Just set some interesting traps...

Best wishes,
Rick.
 
Scott Ridgeway's idea of keeping stuff in a cutesy diaper bag is a good one.

I've had to give some thought to bugout bags in my family's cars. I drive a boring little sedan, which means I can keep pretty much everything out of sight, but I have still made a point of keeping things that stay in the cars cheap and at least semi-disposable.

Other thoughts: just because YOU know it doesn't contain anything valuable doesn't mean that a would-be thief will know that whatever's in that backpack on the floorboards isn't valuable. So, even a backpack full of used textbooks may get your window broken by some crook who hopes it's full of treasures. A Bible in a Bible cover might look like a small laptop, and the fact that your prospective thief wouldn't break in to steal a Bible might not be enough to keep you from a broken window.

One thing I've done is to scatter gear, rather than keeping it in one bag. Rather than keeping pup tents in a bag, where they'd look potentially worth stealing, I usually just keep them folded up, with the poles tied together but otherwise in the open. While a bag might look like it's worth stealing, I doubt a couple of pieces of canvas and some wooden rods would. While there's a lot to be said for keeping one's gear in a single bag, for your mobility's sake, perhaps a good compromise might be to keep an empty backpack stowed away out of sight--say, with the spare tire, or under a seat--so that you can fill it up with the various essentials you've got scattered around the car in case you want to hoof it somewhere. Also can't hurt to have some redundancy--a couple of canteens here and there, maybe two or three cheap Mora knives tucked a little out of sight.

One more thing I have to consider is temperature variation. Anything in my car is going to have to withstand temperatures that will almost guaranteedly range between freezing and 170 degrees Fahrenheit (given that cars get a lot hotter than the outside air) over the course of a year. Thus, I try to keep things like leather to a minimum, and keep it well treated with oil, etc., to keep it from turning to powder; similarly, I keep Nalgene canteens in opaque pouches so that the sun passing through them can't get concentrated on the floor and start things smoldering.
 
Another trick can be to hide stuff under a layer of trash. If your luggage absolutely, positively has to live in your car, it might as well do so under a layer of crumpled newspapers and McDonald's wrappers.
 
Sorry to hear that, Andy. One of a kind stuff is not easy to replace, if at all, but maybe will help to pinpoint the culprit if gets caught. I hope the %#@*! gets caught.
I wish you better luck with your next BOB and PSK.
 
Sorry to hear that, Andy. One of a kind stuff is not easy to replace, if at all, but maybe will help to pinpoint the culprit if gets caught. I hope the %#@*! gets caught.
I wish you better luck with your next BOB and PSK.

No chance of them getting cought. I'm not exaggerating. There is literally no chance at all. I didn't even file a police report this time. They don't come out to the house. They don't do anything at all. They even sigh heavily when they ask if you "even want me to file a report."

Oh well. All the pics of my knives were on a flash drive in there. I have the small copies. But the originals are gone.
 
No chance of them getting cought. I'm not exaggerating. There is literally no chance at all. I didn't even file a police report this time. They don't come out to the house. They don't do anything at all. They even sigh heavily when they ask if you "even want me to file a report."

Oh well. All the pics of my knives were on a flash drive in there. I have the small copies. But the originals are gone.

man I'm really glad I don't live in a place like that. I hope it makes up for it in other ways.
 
I'm sorry for your loss, but I agree with the two points made. Namely, low cost gear is better for that sort of situation and move somewhere else. I'm not kidding. I've lived in some semi-large cities and have no intention of going back. The costs (housing, commuting, crime, lack of law enforcement, judges who could care less about criminal activity, poor education systems and on and on and on) outweigh the benefits IMHO. These also are poor locations to be in if there would be a disaster or other survival scenario. If these vermin steal and commit other crimes now, imagine what will happen when the pressure of a disaster or the temptation of lack of law enforcement occurs. Places like New Orleans, Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia etc are known for illegal activity and ineffective or corrupt govt. They are Katrinas waiting to happen.

It is your homeowners (or renters) insurance that would cover the loss. Not the auto. Good luck because they are generally pains in the arse to deal with on this sort of thing. Hold out and demand full payment. You may be waiting quite a while.
 
I used to work in Atlanta (lived in Gwinnett)...., 1993 several people took my Cherokee, which had my Sig 228, $300 of cash, and a bunch of other things. Boy..., I STILL want to kill those people!!! :mad:

Atlanta has a BUNCH of criminals, and they LOVE cars.
 
Another trick can be to hide stuff under a layer of trash. If your luggage absolutely, positively has to live in your car, it might as well do so under a layer of crumpled newspapers and McDonald's wrappers.

Thanks for this one J.D. - New rationalization on why not to clean up the truck :)

Really sorry to hear about your loss. Strange thing is for me, I often keep a bunch of stuff in the open box when around town. Never had anything lifted from the box, even when kids scammed the coins out of the organizer tray in the front cab at night.
 
My SUV BOB only contains cheap knives, a Kabar and a Gerber hatchet. I learned my lesson once when I came home late from camping and left my FJ 40 loaded in front of my house. Two walking dirt bags broke my vent window and carried off on foot my loaded backpack, other gear and a Randall #1 5 in. The old lady across the street watched the whole thing at 3:00 in the morning and was afraid to call the cops. She told me about the robbery three days later. No matter what time of night I would pull in I could always see her peeking through her drapes. So much for block watch.
 
Man, I get so incensed when I read about this that I drift off into a fantasy where I deal harshly with the criminal vermin using my martial arts skills obtained from reading comic books for 40 years. Then I realize that I´m making sound effects and that the new teacher in the teacher´s lounge is looking at me with raised eyebrows! Quickly realizing that I´ve drunk too much coffee again, I sheepishly smile at her and sink lower into my chair in front of the computer. Tim
 
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