westdave <WESTDAVE@...> wrote:
mike and the davester were at the TRW ham swap meet last sat...
[some guy stole] fat lovely xmitter tubes ... worth about $250
each times four! ... caught ... with the goods on him by
Redondo PD, this guy was going for a ride and to night being
in the pokey might bring on a new dimension.
A whole new dimension requiring Preparation-H. There's a reason they call it the pokey.
That was just bizarre. I could see petty shoplifting of items sought after by 'normal' people (computer & cellphone parts and accessories). I could see a couple of geeks arguing over a rare find, and who spotted it, and claimed it 1st. But outright theft of these large items, that would have been (and were) quickly noticed is something I did not expect. This guy either had no brains, or had a pair of big ones (key word HAD). He was an older an smaller fellow, so I don't know how he fared amongst Redondo PD's normal clients.
