Tuesday, May 03, 2011 at 07:03
I hadn't heard of personal effects cover before. I will have to look into it.
We are at a low-cost
campground for 10 weeks (now will have to do a second block of 10 weeks) for my husband to work on the mines in
Roxby Downs. When I put up the post, we hadn't yet reported it to the police. We have now; my kids are attending the little school here while we are stopped so I made the report to the local policeman at school drop-off time (another parent). As Jarrad (hubby) is the electrician in charge of the electrical side of the new police station in
Roxby Downs, he reported it when he got to work this morning. They seem to think that someone may be planning on keeping it for their own use rather than on-selling it, so we will be trying to let as many people as possible know in case someone sees it.
I've put them on
http://www.stolencamerafinder.com/ Nothing for me on there yet, but maybe with time something will show.
How it happened? I have four kids that go in and out of the van all the time, and the way they leave the door open you would think they were born in a tent. We kept the camera on the TV arm which is near the front door (we've left the TV behind at our parents' house, but we still have the bracket). Both cameras were in the same
bright red bag. Really easy for someone to see from outside. Really lax with security leaving it there, I know, but while I've been at
home so much for a change it's just been in that spot so we could grab it quickly when that moment pops up that we want to take a photo. They couldn't have been inside for more than a minute, because a quick search would have turned up numerous ipods, kindles, ipads, laptop, sat phone ... none of which was hidden (except for the 5 yo's ipod, because she hides that from herself on a regular basis). I guess we are lucky that we didn't lose more. And yes, before anyone tells me, I know that we should be more careful with hiding things and keeping it at the front door is asking for trouble.
Can never be sure but fairly confident it was planned and targetted. Why? We've been here five weeks, and as Jarrad has the car and we are at playground we haven't been leaving. In fact, there is about ten hours in that 4 weeks I haven't been at the caravan (quite happily, catching up on some mummy time - I usually homeschool so this is very unusual to have time to myself). I think it may have been Good Friday as there was a town BBQ that we went to and there were a number of other campers here then, too. As Jarrad has been taking the car to work, I've had no car so they can't judge from a distance if I'm
home by the car being here. It feels like they waited for me to go out.
The door handle and lock was replaced on our caravan two months ago (five year old swung backwards off it when she missed her footing). However, a few days ago my 9yo managed to get himself locked inside the van as he'd locked it and the door jammed. The prisoners from
Port Augusta were up for the day doing supervised community service and they helped at my request to get the door open. They had to jiggle the door around a bit to allow it to release for him to unlock the door. The handle was dinted, so I was annoyed that the caravan company hadn't replaced it when we'd paid for a new one. I guess I now know that they probably had, and it had been slightly damaged when they stole the camera.
Sorry for the long post, and I agree about caravanners only carrying 'essential' or 'special' things; there's not the weight or space limits to have extras 'just in case'.
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