Source4Spike
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Last week before our Spring Dance Concert, I left my backpack in the house while I worked on some last minute details (like our screwed up cyc lights). About 20 minutes before the house opened, I remembered my backpack, and went to move into the booth. It was gone. I asked around and found out that it had been moved across the house by the Dance Director. By now, the house had just been opened, so I went to were they said she put it, and it was gone.
After the show I spent a half hour looking for my backpack, and couldnt find it anywhere. It pisses me off that someone would do this. The backpack contained two wrenches (a C-Wrench, and an Altman), two schoolbooks, a lighting design book, and all my schoolwork from the past year. Normally I would care about dissapearing schoolwork, but finals ARE coming up VERY soon.
So I came to school today very disgruntled about my missing (stolen!) backpack. Now think, what could be worse then not having the comforting security that your theatre is safe from thievery? What I discovered when I got to school gave me a perfect answer:
Over this past weekend, some dipsh!t broke into the Prop Bin that sits next to our theatre. Its contents comprised mostly costumes, but also many props, and tech stuff (A few Pars, Fresnals and S4s, some old Striplights, a few curtains, and 5 miniMacs, which we never use because of their crapiness, but which are still valuable). Anyway, It was lit on fire. Everything came out burnt or (in the case of the lighting instruments) greatly deformed. The way the damage is done, it seems that the fire was started in either the middle or the back of the bin. Our TD thinks it was probably some crackheads that were responsable.
Luckily, we do have insurance, so this incident may not be that bad in the long run, because at least we will get new stuff, but it still is a major inconvenience, especially because next week we have our year-end Gala, which is basically a superfancy talent show, where 5000 dollar scholorships are awarded. For this, everyone does their best, including Tech. Fortunately, the majority of our Pars and Source 4s were rigged on stage from last week's dance concert, but we lost nearly all our fresnals, and all the rest of our S4s and Pars. We also lost almost all our cable, which is going to mean that we will be forced to rent tons of cable for next week.
Sucks for us eh?
-Nick
After the show I spent a half hour looking for my backpack, and couldnt find it anywhere. It pisses me off that someone would do this. The backpack contained two wrenches (a C-Wrench, and an Altman), two schoolbooks, a lighting design book, and all my schoolwork from the past year. Normally I would care about dissapearing schoolwork, but finals ARE coming up VERY soon.
So I came to school today very disgruntled about my missing (stolen!) backpack. Now think, what could be worse then not having the comforting security that your theatre is safe from thievery? What I discovered when I got to school gave me a perfect answer:
Over this past weekend, some dipsh!t broke into the Prop Bin that sits next to our theatre. Its contents comprised mostly costumes, but also many props, and tech stuff (A few Pars, Fresnals and S4s, some old Striplights, a few curtains, and 5 miniMacs, which we never use because of their crapiness, but which are still valuable). Anyway, It was lit on fire. Everything came out burnt or (in the case of the lighting instruments) greatly deformed. The way the damage is done, it seems that the fire was started in either the middle or the back of the bin. Our TD thinks it was probably some crackheads that were responsable.
Luckily, we do have insurance, so this incident may not be that bad in the long run, because at least we will get new stuff, but it still is a major inconvenience, especially because next week we have our year-end Gala, which is basically a superfancy talent show, where 5000 dollar scholorships are awarded. For this, everyone does their best, including Tech. Fortunately, the majority of our Pars and Source 4s were rigged on stage from last week's dance concert, but we lost nearly all our fresnals, and all the rest of our S4s and Pars. We also lost almost all our cable, which is going to mean that we will be forced to rent tons of cable for next week.
Sucks for us eh?
-Nick