I’d like to thank the low life who is lurking around two Nova Scotia ski hills jacking people’s snowboards. My kid lost hers last week in the Valley, it was worth between $300 – $400 including the bindings which she saved up and bought herself. The board was a Christmas present from her boyfriend. I now know (after the fact) that there are boards walking off all the time; there is no such thing as leaving it for a second to pee or get a drink. If your kids snowboard, tell them not to leave their board even for a second, and don’t bother with locks as they are not a deterrent.
I hope this scum of the earth gets caught and rots in hell.
—A Thief Hater
This article appears in Jan 7-13, 2010.
Sorry to hear your daughter lost her board, sucks when shit gets stolen.
I would like to point out thought that it is highly unlikely that it is a single person stealing all of these snowboards…it’s probably other snowboarders that saw and liked that board.
I am not implying that all snowboarders are thieves, that is just not so…but as with every other segment of the population; no matter how you demographically divide them up, there are some that have an extremely liberal interpretation of morals.
All it would take would be a couple of high-profile busts by our extremely competent and over-achieving national police force, the RCMP, to send a message that if you commit this crime, you will be caught and punished.
Step one: Find a couple of spare officers to do the actual surveillence and legwork. This can be tricky, but they can usually be found at donut shops, keeping warm parked in their cruisers or busy at the beach keeping us safe from open wine bottles…
Step two: Using “bait” snowboards left at the ski rack, collect evidence of the theft electronically using hidden cameras at the hill, and a sound-activated sound recorder and a gps tracking device hidden inside the special board. I get my devices like these at http://www.chinavision.com. I could make a bait board that would record the location AND the voices of the thieves as they chuckled, bartered and bragged on the way home for under $1000.00
Step three. Get in cruiser and actually go to the perps house…make arrest.
Step four. Chances aregood that the theives are under 18. Get rid of ridiculous YOA that prevents id’ing these little punks, and sent them to a rehabilitation center that actually rehabilitates. First offence you get 30 days, on weekends, where you take a course on victim impact, and meet victims of crime. Second offence, you will finish your school year in classes while incarcerated.
Third offence, you will be learning a 3-4 year “trade” inside the institution. When you get out, you will have something better to do than steal from me.
Refusal to participate, and be re-tried as an adult when 16, that means orange coveralls and making licence plates for the next 4 years.
I also propose, once a thief has his FOURTH conviction…a mandatory 10 year period wearing a ankle bracelet that will set off security ‘alerts’ in shops, businesses, banks, ski hills and so on …and if I want it…my house as well.
It really IS that simple.
You put far too much thought and effort into that reply.
I agree with BMFrosty on this.
15 weekends for first offence?
hell, only if it’s both full days.. sleeping there as well… and you eat cafeteria food the entire time.
Making the first offense rough will learn ’em that it ain’t pretty getting hauled in a second time.
Sorry to hear, I had a brand new board stolen in 1998 but found some loser riding it the very next week. I approached him with my crew, took it off his feet and went to the bottom of the hill (cleves) to call the cops, the cops showed up and I got my board back with not much hassle. Tell your girl to keep her eyes peeled because some lowlife WILL end up riding it at either Wentworth or Martock, rarely boards are sent out of the province… also check the reg sites like kijiji for some punk trying to unload it… again, sorry to hear…
sorry to hear that some loser stole her snowboard. someone stole my cousins last year so he went and bought a new one from PRO downtown. he ended up getting a call from one of his friends a few weeks later who seen someone with it so he got it back. my boyfriends board just got stolen a few weeks ago as well.
Ten bucks says the thief is some angry teenage richboy whose mommy and daddy could probably buy a snowboard store but who wants to look badass-gangsta in front of his angry richboy friends. The board is probably sitting in a snowbank somewhere – punks like that thieve for sport, not for profit.
…but that’s just a hunch.
“and don’t bother with locks as they are not a deterrent”
$10 says your daughter didn’t have a lock and if she did this bitch wouldn’t be here.
Export….I agree! I don’t have that much time on my hands…..I was just going to suggest a ‘sting op’.
I don’t think it need be nearly as elaborate as the Snowboy’s James Bond approach, but I do think the ski hill should be working with their clientele to eradicate the theft of goods on their land doing harm to their patrons and themselves.
The “tough luck…..it sucks to be you” attitude is irresponsible on their part. This has been going on for too long!
You forgot that when you catch a loser with your board ( I ride Burton ) to beat his head with same said board . Fuckin knobs !!!He’d be riding down the hill on his face !!! Thou they likely didn’t know it was a young chicks board – either way – shitty thing to do that happenned to catch a young person . This happens alot in fernie and banff too – but you don’t want to ride the same mountain with someones stolen board – these boys catch you – you might not be found till spring melt .
Thanks you Davis for pointing out that idiotic remark…
Hmm… lets see, steal locked up board with bolt cutters (pretty obvious), or pick one up and walk away… Yeh, no deterrent there…
something tells me if they had the $10 bucks to bet, they could have spent that on the lock…
Welcome to 2010, year of the thief. Likely it was another youth. Check Kijiji.
I’ve been snowboading at martock for 14 years and I’ve always locked my board up. I value it, it took me a long time to save up the money to get my first one.
If I forgot my lock I fucking slammed it in the snow bank in front of a window and watched that bad boy like a hawk while I ate.