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Ari Nordström
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Posts: 283
From: Göteborg, Sweden
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 09-03-2000 05:02 PM
Had a nasty discovery earlier tonight. Someone had visited the booth sometime after I last left the theatre on thursday night (we don't have shows every day), turned it upside down in search of anything valuable, and destroyed a perfectly good door leading down to the lobby (only to discover that the lobby actually does have a burglar alarm).Which in a rather sad way proves me right about getting a burglar alarm to the booth, too, something I've discussed with the theatre management on more than one occasion. They've promised me one, but nothing has happened so far. I wonder if I'll get one now. Luckily, the only items missing were a bottle of whisky that was presented to me as an appreciation of a film festival show well screened, a large screwdriver, and an old, unused anamorpic lens. I can understand why the burglar took the bottle, and I now know what he used to destroy the door, but the disappearance of that lens beats me... He left the (rest of the) projection equipment alone, surprisingly (and thankfully) enough. So how many of you have booths without burglar alarms, while the lobby is well guarded? And why do you suppose the burglar decided he needed that lens?
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Ari Nordström
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From: Göteborg, Sweden
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 09-04-2000 02:30 PM
The time lapse VCR system is a wonderful idea, but the management probably won't buy it. Surveillance cameras in Sweden are a VERY delicate issue right now, for reasons best left outside this forum.Aaron wrote: >>"If they were serious/'pros' they would have cleaned us out of close to $750,000 of sound equipment and stage lighting gear..."<< This is a bit strange, actually. I talked to a projectionist friend just now, and he said the same thing. He's seen many incidents like this one through the years, but no one has, to his knowledge, stolen power amps or other valuable sound. Not once. Whisky bottles, sure; cheap CD players, yes; but power amps worth $2000 a piece, no. BTW, my friend told me that these booth break-ins are something of an epidemic right now. Two other booths have been visited during the past week.
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John Walsh
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From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted 09-05-2000 11:11 AM
Ken has mention something that has happened to us: No one has stolen booth stuff from us while open; but several times, stuff was swiped while we were closing or renovating. Remember those old Cinemascope RCA speakers? Someone swiped the drivers. At another place they took some lenses and a small rack complete with amps, monitor, exciter supply, and CP55. At a third place (a D150 theater we closed), someone took all five A4's; I know that was an inside job! A manager used to leave the change money in the safe, and hide the box office and candy money in a crack in the wall (to deposit on Monday.) One Sunday night, thiefs broke in to the safe and got $300 in change, but didn't know there was $15,000 right above their heads. In a typical "big company" move, the DM thanked the manager for not letting the money get stolen- then wrote him up for not following company procedures (which stated that all money be placed in the safe.)
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