I have been out of town for two weeks and did not find any time to blog while I was on the road. Sorry about that. But the last two weeks have given me a nice chunk of life to blog about. Let me start with yesterday afternoon. My lovely wife picked me up from the airport and we headed to a coffee shop to catch up. As we waited in line to order a young woman came running up to us, frantically she asked, ” Did you just park your car outside?”
That is an odd question, “Yes we did.”
She continued, “Well, someone just broke in and took off down the street with your things, I think he is still out there!”
Deborah and I took off out the door, Deborah yelled, “Hey!” and then I noticed the man in a brown plaid shirt running down the sidewalk with my video camera bag over one shoulder and my digital camera over the other. I took off running after him, he was about 100 yards ahead. I yelled louder than I ever had in public, “Hey!” Immediately he dropped both bags and  a few steps later he dropped my harddrive, I had not noticed that he had it until I saw it slam into the concrete. I was calling 911 before I reached my bags. They put me on hold. My heart was thundering fueled with adrenaline as I waiting on the phone watching the thief run down the sidewalk and out of sight.

Lessons Learned:
1) Insure your equipment
2) Don’t trust 911 in California
3) Hard drives can take a real beating and still work
4) Good Samaritans  and miracles just might exsist

Posted by csbaron on Friday, February 9th, 2007 at 6:09 pm.