I keep all my photo equipment inventoried in a database and all the gear
that is used outside the house is insured under a special rider to my
home-owners policy. All perils are covered, even my losing or damaging
something. This is not cheap but it gives me a lot of comfort.
I often think about booby-trapping for thieves but am so absent-minded that
I'd surely catch myself. A pet rattlesnake in the bag would be a nice
feature. /jnm
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Volkhart Baumgaertner
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 8:47 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] OM-2S
>
>
> Yo,
>
> on Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:32:29 -0500, Stephen Crouch wrote:
>
> >I have no clue as to where it might show up--if ever, but my OM-2S SN
> >1057954 was stolen on May 26, 2000 from my home in Portland, OR.
>
> I know how you must feel about it - in Aug 99, on the second-last day of a
> 2-week motorcycle trip, my tank bag containing besides some other
> necessities (shaver, maps, toiletries...) my OM-2n, an XA, 3 lenses, a
> winder, flash, several exposed and unexposed films and some smaller
> accessories was stolen in Largs, Scotland, during a tank stop.
> All I could give the police (after returning home and looking it
> up) was the
> serial number of the 2n, for which I still had the sales receipt. I never
> heard from them again.
> As a consequence, I have inventoried my photo equipment and
> recorded all of
> it in a spreadsheet with a brief description and the serial
> number for each
> item. I don't know if it would do much good if anything similar should
> happen to me again, but at least I guess it might make selling the stuff a
> little riskier for the thief.
> I've also been playing with the idea of designing some radio controlled
> gadget to put into the photo bag or tank bag that would be triggered by a
> strong encoded radio impulse and then release the content of a can of CS
> gas. Haven't figured out the best way to secure it against accidentally
> triggering so far, though, which is why it has not proceeded beyond the
> stadium of an idea.
>
>
> MtFbwy,
> Volkhart
>
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