Theft on Oasis

[Langley Cruisers]

Every time I see a post with one of those little crawling bug things in the signature block, I end up swatting at my screen. I don't particularly like them but I guess some people do.

 

Yeah, I don't like them either. Anyone who has one in their signature gets to be on my ignore list. :D (not that they care! LOL)

 

OP, sorry for your loss and yes, it is a good reminder to be more prudent. Theft can and does happen everywhere. :(

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[iheartbda]

While it's trashy it's not stealing to take lost items ... technically. The secret is honestly..only take the bare minimums out on deck. Your room is only a 5 to 10 walk save for the largest ships.

 

Also leave the good stuff at home. I always bring tier two electronics on trips. Never miss them if something bad happens ;)

 

Again i speak of lost item I am not condoning direct theft!

 

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Yes, the secret IS honesty. You may not be condoning direct theft but to think it's ok to keep an item someone lost and not turn it in to guest services? Shaking my head.

 

When our son was about 6-7, he came home from school and said he saw a dollar bill on the sidewalk. I asked him if he picked it up and he said, "no, it wasn't his."

[shirleygallegos60]

That is why I am taking a less expensive pair of prescription sun glasses. The 800.00 Maui Jims are staying home! ! Someone took my husband's....... how could they wear his prescription? They probably chucked them in the trash!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr! !!!

[Viv0828]

We take cheap non prescription sunglasses for other reasons. So far on our four week partial cruise trip, DH has lost two pairs and broken one!

 

 

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Edited August 26, 2014 by Viv0828

[Ocean Boy]

Exactly my point...and if they knew that it wasn't crew, they must have seen it happen, and should have said something right away.

 

But if the OP had mentioned the possibility of a crew member doing it then they would have had to deal with posters jumping all over them saying how a crew member would never put his/her job at risk by doing such a thing. Lets face it, you and I have both been around here long enough to know how it works.

[kevinsgirl88]

Recently a Cruise Critic passenger's 10 year-old kid stole a watch only for her to be made a RCI for treating her kid like a thief. As long as our society tolerates the, "MAH BABY DIDN'T DO NOTHING!" we will have things stolen from under us.

 

I remember that thread and the father was a cop! :eek:

 

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[F27TW]

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Thank you so much for that scoop! And for all the times you have answered my questions in other threads ... youre terrific!

[pspercy]

Yes it is.

 

 

It was called "Stealing on finding" where I grew up.

[shirleygallegos60]

If you believe that a grainy picture will not produce evidence you're sadly mistaken. cameras watch people everyday and people are thrown in jail. I had a job where I had to view photos and video shots all the time. there's a lot that you can find in those photos with the right training, you otherwise would not see.

[Viv0828]

I think that some of these "thefts" are really not thefts - they are just a chain of unfortunate circumstances.

For example, you leave a pair of expensive sunglasses on a table. Some folks come by and want to use the table so they move them, unfortunately near the edge of something. Another group comes by and accidentally knock them to the floor without even noticing. Others come along and someone steps on the glasses. Oops. A crew member sweeps up the pieces and doesn't mention the incident to his supervisor.

You come back looking for your glasses and no one knows anything. You assume the glasses were stolen.

I would bet scenarios not involving theft account for maybe half the cases and sticky fingers the other half.

 

 

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[fishtaco]

If you believe that a grainy picture will not produce evidence you're sadly mistaken. cameras watch people everyday and people are thrown in jail. I had a job where I had to view photos and video shots all the time. there's a lot that you can find in those photos with the right training, you otherwise would not see.

 

But getting those security shots viewed even after a security breach is not easy!

 

After an incident we had to "Demand" security footage was viewed which took over 24 hours to do. We were not allowed to view that footage and was denied a copy even though the breach was discovered so I doubt that anything less than a fairly serious incident would not be reviewed by ships security and especially not a pair of sunglasses that had gone missing:)

[Familygoboston]

Hubby lost his phone on boarding day once....thought it was gone forever, so we called and suspended service, etc.....well, on the last night I told him to go and check lost and found, and there it was! I guess we were lucky someone turned it in...not everyone will.

 

Cb- that sounds like a classic scenario of young person and parent while packing on the last day of the cruise ...

"Where did this phone come from, young man?"

"I found it, isn't it cool?"

"Oh no, it is not, you march yourself down to GS right now and turn that in! " ;)

[lovetocruiserccl]

Thieves are thieves on land and sea. Last week on my Explorer cruise I turned in 2 seapasses and someone's pink and black backpack. Hopefully the got them back. And for that good deed I won 400.00 in the casino that night. Karma does exist.

 

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[ILuvCruisin']

Upon embarkation we went to WJ...ate a good meal and waited for cabins open announcement ...went to cabins and realized had left a 10 inch laptop in WJ...one of us usually checks areas when we leave but sometimes things just happen....we were helping a special needs person that was traveling with our group and ever had done that before and just a lot going on at the time...went back to WJ and laptop was gone...went to guest services and it had been turned in...

 

I really know we were blessed as it had no identification on it at the time (now it does,though I know that may or may make a difference) but thanks to the honest people involved we got it back..

 

Left my coat in Orlando airport bathroom...late flight...very tired and didn't really need it once I got to Orlando so I had taken it off and I guess my mind was just in another mode...got on tram and to the rental car before I realized I had left it....went back to bathroom and it was gone....it was never turned in...even checked on my way back home...

 

As some have said it's know different on a cruise ship than any where else. Some will....some won't

Edited August 29, 2014 by ILuvCruisin'

[Jobeth66]

I'm a risk manager for a financial organization and we deal with the surveillance tapes all the time (though that's a misnomer, I don't think anyone really uses tapes any longer, it's all on DVRs). Yes, a lot is captured - but we don't let the customers view the video, and if they want a copy, it has to be subpoenaed through either the police or they have to hire an attorney to do so. That's protected information and it can also include privacy information, because the person who is claiming an injury or that they had something stolen is NOT the only person in the video, and we can't let one customer see what other customers and employees may be doing without protecting ourselves in the process.

 

My guess is this is the same thing. Absent compelling reason (injury or loss that could affect the ship and/or the company itself), they're not going to let you see the video, they're not going to review the video (for liability reasons) and they're not going to give you a copy. There are a lot of factors at play here.

[BonTexasNY]

Thank you so much for that scoop! And for all the times you have answered my questions in other threads ... youre terrific!

 

DITTO big time. Clarea rocks :)

[FTLcruisers]

guess I was lucky. I left my Kindle sitting on a table in the aqua theater on the Allure and someone turned it into lost & found.

 

Marianne

[HeidiHo]

I guess we have been pretty lucky over the years. I've never had any lost or stolen on a cruise but I have misplaced my purse a couple of times elsewhere and gotten it back. My doughtier recently left her purse on the EL train in Chicago and got it back. My son recently left his back pack with his computer in it at a restaurant in Chicago and got everything back. I did however have my wallet stolen right out of my purse at work a few years ago. The sad part is, it had to be stolen by one of my co workers since it was in an employee area (I work in a restaurant) Every year we are asked to fill out a questionnaire asking what we think could be done to improve the working conditions at the restaurant. I always put down, "add employee lockers." They tell us to leave our purses locked in the trunk of our cars but the problem with that is, the cars get broken into too. I know of at least 2 employee's who have had that happen to them.

 

On my last couple of cruises I worried about leaving my laptop in the cabin. It didn't fit in the safe. Sometimes I put it in a locked suitcase under the bed but that's hassle so most of the time I just kept it out of site in a cabinet when we weren't in the cabin.

[Shak]

The only thing that is know is a pair of sunglasses went missing and were not recovered. Anything else is pure speculation.

 

Did the OP make a claim to their homeowners insurance company.

 

Shak

 

 

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[fishtaco]

The only thing that is know is a pair of sunglasses went missing and were not recovered. Anything else is pure speculation.

 

Did the OP make a claim to their homeowners insurance company.

 

Shak

 

 

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This is very true:) If a person is absent minded enough at the time to leave an important item behind there is a good chance that item may not have been left where they thought they had left it!

 

If the finder of the item is not able to hand it in soon enough then it may well be in lost & Found at a latter date so not necessarily a theft of stealing by finding:)

[Ocean Boy]

This is very true:) If a person is absent minded enough at the time to leave an important item behind there is a good chance that item may not have been left where they thought they had left it!

 

If the finder of the item is not able to hand it in soon enough then it may well be in lost & Found at a latter date so not necessarily a theft of stealing by finding:)

 

I once had a long delay in an airport. When I layed down on a bench to take a nap I took my camera out of my pocket and put it next to me. When it was time to board I got up and walked over to the gate. Once I got on the plane I realized that I didn't have my camera and I new EXACTLY where I left it even in my "absent mindedness". Fortunately, I got the camera back. The OP started the thread just to remind everyone to be careful. But, hey, all of you detectives just keep right on second guessing everything.:rolleyes:

Edited August 30, 2014 by Ocean Boy

[NewSalt]

Unfortunately there are dishonest people everywhere. When you have 6000 passengers on a ship (plus crew) there are bound to be people who feel "finders keepers." But my gut tells me that most people on a cruise ship are there for a great vacation and basically honest. I think that the problem is that you don't hear so much about "gee I lost my ..... and it was turned in by an honest person." You do hear of the dishonest people. So it tends to skew the numbers. In fact if you look at the 12 previous posts only 3 talk of something being lost and not turned in. Anyway, I am always careful on cruises, try not to leave cameras, Kindles, etc. lying around. I can only imagine how discouraging it is to loose something and not have it turned in on a ship. My wife lost a very expensive pair of prescription sunglasses in a parking lot near our house. We went back very quickly, looked where she had been parked, asked at all the stores, no luck. Someone likely found them and kept them. And they were prescription! Oh well, I sort of buy the whole "what goes around comes around" theory. At least makes me feel a little better to think that they will "get theirs."

 

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I now put either a plastic Labelmaker label or one I make by typing on a paper label and affixing to the earpieces, covered with clear nail polish on my prescription sunglasses. It says "Reward if returned," on one side with my cell phone number on the other. So far I've had them returned five times. (I'm not usually an air head, but when it comes to those glasses, I seem to be.)

 

I think people don't realize they're prescription and useless to them and pocket them surreptitiously. When they take them out and realize they're prescription, they just pitch them. This gives them an incentive to behave honorably.

[kiyoko]

Although we have never had anything stolen onboard a ship, except once years ago on the QM2 where my son forgot his new stuffed Cunard Bear in the cabin and it was never to be found again, I've always wondered about the safety of leaving our luggage outside the stateroom the night before disembarkation. We never travel light so self-disembarkation is never an option for us. My son also never wants to leave the ship and so we are always one of the last to disembark. When we get to the terminal, our bags are standing alone very conspicuously and I've always wondered about the possibility of theft in the terminal. I try not to worry about it since we always carry our valuables in our carry on, have insurance and clearly mark our luggage. But it would be a major PITA if anything got stolen.

[shipshape sam]

We were sitting in the WJ on embarkation day and having lunch. It was very busy [no surprise] and someone asked to sit with us. We consolidated our items and a few hours later I realized I had left my camera on the table. but, the person we let sit with us had turned it in. :)

 

The reason I mentioned this is that I had a little trouble getting it back. All I could tell them was that is was square and silver and in a zipped black case. I could not remember the brand. It was the beginning of the cruise and there were no pictures on it I could identify. :confused:

 

So, I now have an address label on everything [media/electronic even my phone]. It will not stop someone from stealing it but you are more likely to get it back.

 

We take a picture of my name and cell phone and email address as my first picture when we head out on vacation that I write on a piece of paper.

[W and W]

Was on th L.O.T.S. Western Med, 14th - 21st Sep. On day 2 we were by the pool taking some pics. Had a cocktail and a lay down for half an hour, then went down to the cabin. About 40 minutes later we realised that our camera wasn't in the pool bag, went back up and it wasn't there either. Checked at the pool bar, with pool staff, and then Guest Relations every day. Nope. Even put a notice on the notice board saying "at least leave the memory card in an envelope at G.R". No luck. There really are some low life inconsiderate thieving scum everywhere you go, so be careful folks. (p.s. we went into Nice the next day and bought a new camera).

Edited September 29, 2014 by W and W