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- Thieves in parties...
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- Copyparties are events of fun having,
- meeting friends and getting new ones.
- But unfortunately there are some people
- who don't think the same. There are
- people, who STEAL things from other
- party-goers. What is this about?
- In Finnish parties it hasn't been too
- bad a trouble - YET -. At DDG-digiparty
- someone stole from DDG several of their
- cartridges and in Byterapers-party I
- was stolen two cartridges. Several of
- Those small things have been stolen in
- numerous parties, because they fit into
- one's pocket easily.
- But at Triangle's party there were
- experts working. While everybody was
- watching the demo competition there was
- someone working and a lot of equipment
- was stolen.
- - 4 (four!) Amiga 500s
- - 8 (eight!) external drives
- - 1 picture digitizer (Triangle's)
- Is this how one should act in parties
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- instead of having just fun? Also more
- thieving happened:Ydex/Hitech lost over
- 50 disks, which had for example all
- their sources on them.
- Why do some people such? Why do they
- waste everybody else's party fun? Is
- there a real need for doing so?
- What can we do to avoid robbings? Not
- much. Best way is to bring nothing with
- you to parties, but it is impossible.Of
- course you can always have someone at
- your stand keeping an eye on your stuff
- so there's no chance for thieves.And if
- all of you have to go,ask your neighbor
- to watch so that no one takes them.
- Is there a way to get things back? It
- is very difficult. In fact, one's only
- chance is to catch the thief when it's
- doing its job. After that,it's veryvery
- hard, actually impossible.Maybe you see
- familiar things later, at another party
- but can you be sure it was that guy who
- stole them? He can have sold them to
- other guys as well.
- There's no final cure to thieves.
- As long as there is private property,
- there will be thieves. Just be careful.
- <Grendel>
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