Not necessarily stolen, but……..
Here’s a good one. I have a GPS base station set up on a hill here in Nome. Happens to be in the cemetery. Been leaving a tripod setup over the rebar for the last 3 years. Then, AkDOT started a new bridge over the Snake River last year, so their surveyor started using a point on the hill at the cemetery as well.
Jim, my crew chief, comes in last Thursday, “Hey, the tripod at the cemetery is gone” about then I get a call from DOT’s surveyor…”Hey, did you pick up my tripod at the cemetery?”
Umm, No….
Filed the police report and all that jazz, not even thinking I would see my good Dutch Hill tripod again.Posted it as missing on “Nome Announce” (sort of a local Craig’s List)and got a response from the lady that looks after the cemetery. So sorry, I thought they were abandoned … she gave them to another surveyor! Fortunately, he knows me and I got it back, DOT got theirs back also. Sigh!
-JD-
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