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So last week we had a crew of about 15 people putting up our lawn and garden department outside (2 from my store and the rest from other stores in our district, this is so everything can be set up in one day). We have a big black shade cloth that is put up like a canopy and our shade plants go underneath it.
Turned out we could not put this canopy up because some dry-pool diving team member stole the stakes we use to mount the poles holding up the canopy into the ground. All our lawn and garden supplies, racks and shelves are kept outside next to the building because we have noplace else to put them.
Then later on, they found out half of our plastic plant racks got jacked too! We think they can be found easy enough--we suspect somebody took them with the intent of using them to display stuff at the Farmers Market in town.
Lastly, our pallets we keep outside have been disappearing also. I've heard that people take them to waysides and rest stops and sell them to truckers for $9 apiece. There is also a place south of town that grinds up old pallets into mulch, but they aren't paying nearly so much for them.
These thefts have all been reported to the police--I think eventually there are going to have to be cameras outside. The police patrol the area and stop by every so often during summer, but that isn't enough.
Turned out we could not put this canopy up because some dry-pool diving team member stole the stakes we use to mount the poles holding up the canopy into the ground. All our lawn and garden supplies, racks and shelves are kept outside next to the building because we have noplace else to put them.
Then later on, they found out half of our plastic plant racks got jacked too! We think they can be found easy enough--we suspect somebody took them with the intent of using them to display stuff at the Farmers Market in town.
Lastly, our pallets we keep outside have been disappearing also. I've heard that people take them to waysides and rest stops and sell them to truckers for $9 apiece. There is also a place south of town that grinds up old pallets into mulch, but they aren't paying nearly so much for them.
These thefts have all been reported to the police--I think eventually there are going to have to be cameras outside. The police patrol the area and stop by every so often during summer, but that isn't enough.
a bunch of the the university computer lab computers started to run really really slow - started out with a few, then more and more slowed down. Turned out that someone was swiping the math coprocessors and installing coprocessor emulator software.
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