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Camera’s Stolen & Airtags

@Silvio - I’ve placed many cell cams on public land but I always have them in a CamLockBox secured to the tree. I place them high enough that they’re out of reach without use of a climbing step or stick, and I haven’t had one stolen yet. (Of course, there are a lot of folks who say that the lock box just keeps HONEST people honest, and they may be right).

I’m curious - did the thief have to do any work to steal your cell cams? (i.e., climb a tree, or defeat a lock?)

Your placement of your replacement cams with an AirTag is really clever - it seems like you did everything right - it really stinks that the police won’t get a search warrant and do more to help you recover your stolen cams - you did all the investigative work and made their job easy! What a shame. Thanks for posting your story about this.

@BuffaloBill - When you activate the Reveal cell cams, they become associated with your Reveal user account. Unless you remove the cams from your account, a thief won’t be able to register them with a different account, so they’re effectively useless (as a cell cam) to anyone but the owner. I suppose the thief could still use them as a non-cell cam … pulling the SD card from time to time … but if the thief places them outdoors on public property, you can use the AirTag location data to retrieve the cams yourself.

@Silvio - I would report the serial numbers of the stolen cams as “STOLEN” to the Reveal Customer Support team and ask them to make sure that no one else will be able to register them to another user account, no matter what story they tell about how they came into possession of them and why they’re registered to another user account.
 
Ckwilli said:
Biggest issue here is county prosecutors won’t prosecute game related charges. We had a local that was indicted in several states and Canada and walked every time a case came up in our county. LEO’s worked their butts off making a case just to have it ignored because it was game related. They finally busted the guy on a felon in possession of a firearm law, after he was convicted in another state.. the prosecutor couldn’t ignore that one.
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We live in difficult times…I’m saddened at this age to realize how far we have drifted from knowing right and wrong…I will say and believe our establishment agencies dislike
outdoorsmen and lifestyle. Always remember if they had their way non of us would enjoy the outdoor life style. I’m a prudent and kind person at heart…so life will go forward and I’ll chalk this one up as another experience…I’m so looking forward to bow season which is more important
 
Silvio said:
We live in difficult times…I’m saddened at this age to realize how far we have drifted from knowing right and wrong…I will say and believe our establishment agencies dislike
outdoorsmen and lifestyle. Always remember if they had their way non of us would enjoy the outdoor life style. I’m a prudent and kind person at heart…so life will go forward and I’ll chalk this one up as another experience…I’m so looking forward to bow season which is more important
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Well said!
 
Seems obvious since you have Air Tags in them, but did you etch them with your name, initials, etc? @LoadedLimbs had a good idea with watching them until you can simply “steal” them back. I like the idea of suing in civil court as well, especially with pics of the inside of his truck/garage. Be kind of hard to deny that on and I can’t imagine that a judge would be too sympathetic with the perp. Certainly tempting to get some payback on that individual, but you prolly have more to lose than he does so its really not worth it to put yourself in jeopardy. Like you have done to this point, work within the law or just let it go and move on. Sure sucks though…. Good luck.
 
This is why I saw the law and cops are dumb, in this instance. If there’s a problem solve it yourself then call the cops to clean up the mess since they didn’t want to work to avoid such things. Now main question is are cell cameras worth it for all that? I’d say definitely not. Property isn’t human life. Charge it to the game and move on and know now cops are never the first answer. And it’s crap like this why people have lost all reason and hope with cops. May be a location thing bc I know here in LA DNR would retrieve the camera with that kind of proof. Either way if the law perpetuates criminals to be criminals then they shouldn’t be surprised when good citizens take the law into their own hands.
 
Silvio said:
I’m a prudent and kind person at heart…so life will go forward and I’ll chalk this one up as another experience…I’m so looking forward to bow season which is more important
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Sage approach - at this stage in your life
it’s not worth further aggravation. Enjoy your time outdoors this season, and best of luck on all your hunts!
 
Ckwilli said:
Biggest issue here is county prosecutors won’t prosecute game related charges. We had a local that was indicted in several states and Canada and walked every time a case came up in our county. LEO’s worked their butts off making a case just to have it ignored because it was game related. They finally busted the guy on a felon in possession of a firearm law, after he was convicted in another state.. the prosecutor couldn’t ignore that one.
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This is more of the issue. I know locally people have forgot that the DA is elected. The DA usually follows what the public wants from the noise they hear. People are loud when their criminal son or daughter have police interaction but then never get loud when bad decisions affect the masses. Help us all and make the DA know they suck.
 
Wow, I'm sorry about that.

I'd like to believe this varies and that the police in my area (small town WV) would be different. A guy had a ton of firework debris land in my folks' yard (guy actually works for a fireworks distributor), and a young city cop walked the neighbor onto their property and lectured him about neighborliness and why this won't happen again. Guy cleaned it up and knocked on the door to apologize.
 
That’s a Ford pickup bed, I do believe.

I know me well enough to know that I would probably have just went on about my business of making that guy rue the f’n day he stole my cameras and his luck shifted to little things going wrong that drain his bank account……

ETA: I just went out and looked at my Ford and it is NOT like that. Sorry.
 
I work at a archery shop and one of our regulars that comes in is a police officer and the guys were laughing about how the guy is sending me daily pictures of his garage door going up/down…he says that they won’t write up search warrants for these types of issues…he says hardly nobody gets arrested anymore they just issue tickets
 
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