Someone stole my sticks

[RadioGaGa 162]

...so, there is a bar above the rink. There is a foyer outside the bar entrance where you can leave your gear. We all do it every week and it has never been a problem. Been playing at this rink since Dec.

Come out tonight... my sticks are gone. A TPS Rubber (that thankfully I only paid $20 bucks for cause the guy I bought it from didn't likw the curve), and a really cheap Easton Carbon with a wood Spezza blade.

I know, it's my own fault for leaving them there, but still...c'mon...steal my sticks. C'MON!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm hoping one of the guys that left before me took them as a joke, but I doubt it....

Crap!

Anyone have a TPS Rubber (Morrow) that they want to sell for $20...I need a new one

j/k

[lecavalier 0]

Wow bud that sucks.Personally I've never gotten anything of value stolen from me (except a bunch of pokemon cards in grade 4 lol) so I can't say how it feels to be you.Hopefully your luck will turn around and you'll win some free sticks or something..Good thing it wasn't some expensive sticks.

[Chadd 916]

I had that happen to me once a few years ago but I was just getting changed when they were swiped. One of the rink employees had a very similar stick the next time I saw him but I guess there are quite a few Cale Hulse TPS Responses in this area that have my number on the back side.

[Jason Harris 31]

Wow, that stinks.

The older I get, the more it bothers me that people don't earn their way through this world. I was opening a brand new DVD yesterday, and I literally tore the plastic on the case, because the adhesive on the security tape was so strong the plastic ripped first. And I thought, "If people didn't steal, we wouldn't have to deal with this -- plus we could save a couple of pennies on our purchases."

I know we're all bombarded by advertising that really makes us want stuff, but....

[supahdon 0]

Sorry to hear man.

I had a friend leave his gear in the bed of his truck while he was visiting somebody. 20 minutes later, he comes back to his car to discover his gear is missing. He had a game the next night, so he went to the Play It Again Sports to buy new gear (this is where I ran into him), and he discovers his bag there. Turns out whoever stole it, sold it to the store.........but luckily the store had all of the guy's information, and they called the cops.

[Sven 1]

Im sorry for you, thats just dingy.

[Eazy_b97 1]

That sucks Radio. Any chance you could talk to someone at the rink and inquire about some cage lockers? They have them in a similar set-up in a London rink and it would hopefully solve alot of similar problems. I'll definately mention it to a few guys when I sign up for a league there in the fall.

[RadioGaGa 162]

You'd need a lot of guys to inquire before they do anything, I'm sure.

I'm just gonna bring my stuff to the car from now on.

Bright side....they didnt' take everything. That REALLY would have sucked.

It'll be interesting to see if someones got my stick with them next week. But like Chadd said, your word against theirs right?

[flashgordon 0]

I'm paranoid by nature, so I always bring my stuff to the car first. I don't even leave my sticks outside the rink pro shop when I go in, even though there's a sign that says "Please Leave All Equipment Outside Pro Shop". If it makes you feel any better, I have not however been left unscathed. Last summer, we were playing in our beer league championship game (we won to our surprise). After the game, we go to the bar to celebrate. When it's time to pay, we all reach for our cash and guess what - NO CASH. Someone had come in during the game through the shared bathroom and took everyone's $$$. No cards, just cash. I've now heard of at least 3 subsequent similar roberies at the same rink. Moral of the story: LOCK THE BATHROOM TOO!

[RadioGaGa 162]

False alarm. Guy came into the office this morning with a big S**t eating grin on his face.

He had his kids with him last night at the pickup (which is cool, vecause they turn on the clock and keep score). Anyways, they thought it would be funny.

[Icedog03 0]

Sorry to hear man.

I had a friend leave his gear in the bed of his truck while he was visiting somebody. 20 minutes later, he comes back to his car to discover his gear is missing. He had a game the next night, so he went to the Play It Again Sports to buy new gear (this is where I ran into him), and he discovers his bag there. Turns out whoever stole it, sold it to the store.........but luckily the store had all of the guy's information, and they called the cops.

Someone stole my bag once out of my garage one night. They got all my pads, my old XX skates and an extra Bauer 5000 helmet. The next day I found half of my stuff at play it again but because they didnt give him more the $50 they didnt take any information so I got screwd.

[lecavalier 0]

I had that happen to me once a few years ago but I was just getting changed when they were swiped. One of the rink employees had a very similar stick the next time I saw him but I guess there are quite a few Cale Hulse TPS Responses in this area that have my number on the back side.

Did you do anything Chadd?

Oh and good thing it wasn't actually stolen Radio.Those kinds of jokes are harsh though...

[Chadd 916]

I had that happen to me once a few years ago but I was just getting changed when they were swiped. One of the rink employees had a very similar stick the next time I saw him but I guess there are quite a few Cale Hulse TPS Responses in this area that have my number on the back side.

Did you do anything Chadd?

Oh and good thing it wasn't actually stolen Radio.Those kinds of jokes are harsh though...

I spoke to the rink manager and he couldn't care less. The kid said he bought it from a friend of his who happened to be at the rink the night it was stolen. I haven't been in that rink in nearly a year.

[chippa13 1844]

I'm paranoid by nature, so I always bring my stuff to the car first. I don't even leave my sticks outside the rink pro shop when I go in, even though there's a sign that says "Please Leave All Equipment Outside Pro Shop". If it makes you feel any better, I have not however been left unscathed. Last summer, we were playing in our beer league championship game (we won to our surprise). After the game, we go to the bar to celebrate. When it's time to pay, we all reach for our cash and guess what - NO CASH. Someone had come in during the game through the shared bathroom and took everyone's $$$. No cards, just cash. I've now heard of at least 3 subsequent similar roberies at the same rink. Moral of the story: LOCK THE BATHROOM TOO!

I've said it in another thread, never leave anything valuable in a lockerroom, even if it is locked. There were a few instances where a locked room got ripped off at one of the rinks around me. Suspicions were it was a former employee who kept a master key. We have a bag which we use to bring wallets, keys, and phones out to the bench with us.

[Megamandan 0]

Glad to hear you got your sticks back. I had my old 02' Synergy stolen about a year and a half ago. My bother was right next to it and never even noticed someone had swiped it while running out the door.

[Grinder 2]

Having had enough stuff stolen for one lifetime, I usually put a strip of coloured tape around the bottom end of my stick, and I also make sure that I have an identifying mark somewhere that's not obvious: I use a felt pen and put a signature on the wood plug at the top of my stick before I tape it. It actually paid off a couple of years ago at a tournament in Vancouver, when my stick went missing. I saw a guy from the other team getting ready to walk off with my stick, (the coloured tape was gone, but there was an obvious ring around where it had been) and he did the whole "Hey, lots of green Eastons around here, buddy. Sucks to be you" thing. I told him to unwrap the tape, or I'd call the cops (I also said if I was wrong I'd give him $20). 30 seconds later the truth was out, and I had my stick back. Freakin' loser.

[ponty 0]

Overall I have been lucky. Back in my high school days some JR high kid watching practice stole one of my woodies.

The temper back then use to be ... well in a word ... high. My team mates and cought him on the way out.

Short story I asked him why he was taking my stick. He shrugged at which point I grabbed my stick cracked it two on the side of the building and handed it to him.

Ahhh those were the days. <_<

[flashgordon 0]

Glad to hear you got your sticks back. I had my old 02' Synergy stolen about a year and a half ago. My bother was right next to it and never even noticed someone had swiped it while running out the door.

Reminds me of another example of my paranoia - it paid off this time. After a pick-up skate last fall, I put my sticks (a Synergy and an Inno) up against the wall of the dressing room with all the others. I'm slow at getting my gear off (catching my breath) and am ususally one of the last to leave. I see a guy near the door staring a little too long at the sticks on the wall as he's getting dressed. Finally, he gets up to leave, and on the way out grabs one of his sticks and my Synergy (which were not next to eachother mind you) and leaves. I stop him in the hall with a "WHOA BUDDY!". He looks at the Synergy and says "oops, sorry grabbed the wrong one" and hands it to me. The best I could come back with in return was "let's just make sure that kind of 'mistake' doesn't happen again, $&@#". Let's just say I keep an even closer eye on him (and my sticks) now.

[Sniper407 0]

Wow bud that sucks.Personally I've never gotten anything of value stolen from me (except a bunch of pokemon cards in grade 4 lol) so I can't say how it feels to be you.Hopefully your luck will turn around and you'll win some free sticks or something..Good thing it wasn't some expensive sticks.

Sorry... that was a long time ago but I still feel bad about those cards

[notorious#29 0]

Short story I asked him why he was taking my stick.  He shrugged at which point I grabbed my stick cracked it two on the side of the building and handed it to him.

Ahhh those were the days. <_<

That it badass.

(Long read here, but funny) I remember one time, after a good street hockey game in a parking lot that backed up to a subdivison, me and a few other guys stuck around and continued to shoot and mess around. Well after awhile we got hungry and me and and a buddy decided to make a food run to a Mc'Donalds which was about 2 minutes up the road. We asked the two other kids that were playing there (they lived the the neighbor hood nearby) if they were going to play for awhile longer, they said yes, and that they would watch our stuff, so we would'nt have to pack it up and take it with us. They say ok. So we take off and come back about 10 minutes later. Well the two kids were nowhere to be seen, and neither where my sticks (a crappy outdoor stick that I honestly wasn't sad to see go, my other stick though, was my brand new Inno that I stuck an outdoor blade in to try out). My buddie's skates were also gone. So we knew where these two kids lived and we figured (1) they were either trying to joke around with us, and were holding our sticks hostage in exchage for our Mc'Donalds food, or (2) they really tried to take our stuff and they were in for a beating. Well after alot of "heavy talking", and some "Are you sure you guys aren't joking," we came to the conclusion they diddn't have our stuff, and they said they just left the parking lot becuase they were thirsty. Well my friends skates turn up about a week later right where he left them, turns out whoever took them in the first place brought them back becuase they were to small (you could see whoever took them unlaced the skates all the way to try and fit them on)

One thing people seem to forget is that, when you steal a piece of hockey gear, chances are you are interested in the sport and you plan to use it, and chances are the person you took it from is the same way. So about a week later some guy shows up at one of our parking lot games with none other then a brand new Inno, with the same used outdoor Easton blade I had in mine. I go up to him and say "Hey sweet stick man how much did it cost" he said "Oh I have had this for awhile" then I say "Oh I thought that was a brand new stick?" he replies " No it has been out for awhile" Then I ask "Where did you get it," he then replies with a name of an LHS that does not carry Inno, I knew I had him then, I then jump into more questions "How much was it?" "Whats the flex" and so on. He then gets every question wrong, just to make sure I look down at his feet and notice he has some huge feet and he wouldn't fit in my buddies skates. I tell him, "I know you stole the sticks and the skates last week" he freezes, this is guy about my size though, and it make a pretty even fight. I then point to my friend who is about 6'3, 250 pounds (much bigger then me and him) and I whisper to him "Those were his skates and stick and he is still mad about it, Im going to call him over here, and see what he thinks about it, then after he is done kicking your ass I am going to, unless you just give me the stick now" He then hands it over and I say "you can keep my other stick though" Never saw him again.

[lecavalier 0]

Wow bud that sucks.Personally I've never gotten anything of value stolen from me (except a bunch of pokemon cards in grade 4 lol) so I can't say how it feels to be you.Hopefully your luck will turn around and you'll win some free sticks or something..Good thing it wasn't some expensive sticks.

Sorry... that was a long time ago but I still feel bad about those cards

Lol it was my whole deck the bastard took..he moved after it happened.

And Notorious lol that was nice great job.

[Chesterfield12 0]

notorious...that is amazing....personally i have never had nething stolen but my dads jersey was stolen when he was a kid, and my little brothers sticks were stolen about 4 years ago. we even asked the rink if someone had accidently taken it and returned it, becuz alot of times a high school coach sill grab all of the sticks on a rack. but no such luck for us.....

[twiztidwrista10 3]

I hate people like that. Ive had a USA hockey hat and sandals stolen. Nothing like a stick or anything. But people that steal stuff like that should just have the living piss beat out of them IMO.

[Sticks of Fury 0]

I had something similiar and I think it counts as stolen. I lent my shoulder pads to a friend and he used them until his car was broken into and his hockey equipment with my shoulder pads were stolen. He later claimed the car insurance...got new stuff like way better than his old stuff and wouldn't acknowledge repaying me for the used shoulder pads. What kind of friend is that eh!

I guess his hockey is more important than anything else.

[hockechamp14 0]

Sophomore year on JV, kent stole all of our team's back up sticks. Thier managers apparently walked with all of them off of our bench after the game, while our POS managers let them walk out. Lost an int. z-bub and a z-carb only though.