>From talking to a Sheriff deputy and one of the victims (a very pleasant
Porsche driver), there were a number of thefts in the paddock. We met the
Porsche driver at the gas pumps and he'd been relieved of his money and
credit cards while out on track. And no, I didn't ask him if he'd pawned
his gold chains to buy the gas. Apparently this has been going on for
several events and they brought in both uniformed and plain clothes cops to
try to catch them. Actually, we used the Deputy to call a locksmith to
"break" into Bob's truck after he locked the keys in it. Very helpful, I
thought. Cheers, Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
To: <Gt6steve@aol.com>
Cc: <Rikrock@aol.com>; <FOT@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 13:56
Subject: Re: Ohio picture needed
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 Gt6steve@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Since the Mid-Ohio Gestapo has come to be mentioned...
> > Was anybody but myself offended to see a public employee on full duty on
> > private property and did anybody else think the Security at Mid-Ohio was
> > somewhat heavy-handed? I respect that they are trained to deal with
full
> > scale professional events with thousands of spectators but they struck
me as
> > way beyond appropriate for a club event. Just my opinion...
> > Steve Smith
>
> Rumor had it on Friday AM that there were reports of pilfering in the
> paddock. I have no idea what was taken, but the internal security people
> were really busy all morning on Friday warning people to lock things up.
>
> But as far as the Sherriff thing goes... I never saw that before at
> Mid-Ohio. As long as nobody got hurt or stuffed in the can, I'm okay with
> a bit of presence.
>
> Besides, maybe the local sherriff department had budget cutbacks and they
> were looking for a little spending money for their own race cars...
> hehehehe
>
> C ya,
> rml
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