Sad but true (was Re: [SCA-AE] FW: THEFT at Gulf Wars)

[Ruth Morrisson]

Greetings from Myfanwy!
That really sucks.
Unfortunately, thievery is a fact of life, even inside the SCA.  Last 
Pennsic I talked to several jewelry merchants who were robbed, and 
someone apparently even tried to break into the Coopers' store!  :-(
For one of the Pennsic jewelers, a lot of consignment items were taken 
that he hadn't yet paid for.  He's just out that money.  For another, 
the worst part was that she trusted the SCA (it was her first event in 
a decade) -- at a mundane event like a Renn Faire, she said she would 
have taken more precautions.
As a Gulf Wars merchant myself, I had to make sure to have a 
counterfeit-check pen in case someone gave us a $50 bill (we flat out 
refused to take $100s, even on days when we *could* have made change) 
and in theory I probably should have also been checking all the $20s.
Years ago, there was an ad placed in _Pikestaff_ by a lady whose armor 
and weapons were stolen at Pennsic.  Even with her device on everything 
(including the shield and tabard), it disappeared, and, AFAIK, she 
never got anything back.
On Thursday, March 22, 2007, at 09:03  AM, KaziBrionSCA wrote:

> Forwarded by request from Ironrose.  These people lost a lot to 
> premeditated
> theft.  If you think theft in the SCA is "rare", Brion and I lost a few
> things (most marked with name and telephone number) over the years, 
> too,
> including:
>
> - a number of smaller pieces of armor, and weapons
> - stainless steel gauntlets which were custom made and fit perfectly 
> and are
> irreplaceable;  Grettir the Slow no longer produces armor
> - a horn I carved for my lord, decorated with a band of wrought silver
> gifted by a friend as a bardic favor; that friend is now deceased.
> - a gray felt hat with all kinds of silver and pewter bardic favors 
> pinned
> or sewn upon it, including the hand-wrought silver torque (used as a
> hat-band), given by Duke Cariadoc.
>
> Kazi Doubravka Vltavska
> ****************************************
Lady Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon
Ruth Morrisson
myfanwy at nauticom.net